New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
Several Bitter Contests
Expected to Mark
Tuesdays Vote.
BOTH PARTIES SEEK
PROGRESSIVE AID
l.436,7l0 Eligible TO Cast
Ballot-Whitman Has 2
Fights on Hands.

Or tuesday every enrolled voter i'm
,ac state will have an opportunity to
exercise his prcrogative Of going 10
the polls to help select his party's nom
s.ecs for state and local Offices. Tues
Eav IS primary day. Each party has
about $50 candidates 20 dominate in
View York the city and state. Designa-
,ions Oh the several tickets have been
made by petition only. and from the
icp OF the ticket 90 the bottom there
arc ample chances Tor the exercise Of
ones personal preference.
The Offices 90 be filled here this year
are Governor. Lieutenant Governor,
secretary of state Controller, Treas
.rer. Attorney General. State Engineer
and Surveyor. Chief Judge and Asso-
cate Judge of the Court OF Appeals,
United States Senator. county Offices IN
many parts of the state. President of
the Board Of Aldermen in this city and
members of Congress, state Senate and
Assembly.
Every citizen who enrolled under 4
party emblem when he registered last
.car Is entitled TO vote IN Tuesday :
primary All the parties choose then
candidates az the same time.
Furthermore. 10 prom. eS 20 be one
tf the most intensely fought primary
1o.'les in the state history. and a
record prediction vote is anticipated
The total enrolment in the three
leading partic~ Republican. Demo
cratic and Progressive only 10000
sr.s shan the total vote cast for Gov
tuor two years AGO. The Republicans
enrolment is 3s.63l. the Democratic
.111. S1S. the Progressive 46,2O6; max
-nc "a total for the three parties o:
r .I2C.7lO enrolled voters who may cast
ballots Tuesday. The total vote for
Governor In 1914 was l,4S6,6l7.
-Four contests I'm both parties MAKE
.trc election q spirited affair The Re
1ub.lcaus have three big fights and the
Democrats on TO absorb their attention.
Abe most interesting of these arc those
Between Governor Charles =. Whitman
md tX-1udgc Samuel Seaburv for the
Progressive nomination for Governor,
.nd between eX-Ambassador Robert
Bacon and former Representative Will
Gam ". Calder Tor the Republican nom
tuation for United States Senator.
Governor Whitman. head Of the Re
publican state ticket, was induced 20
enter the Progressive primaries TO ge,
ane Bull Moose Endorsement, which eX-
ludCe SeaOury. the Tammany candi-
date for Governor. is trying to capture.
$4,000 Votes At Stake.
Approximately $4,000 votes are at
stake. Governor Whitman does not
want TO lose the moral force of the
Progressive primary vote. He has been
Endorsed and recommended by George
W. Perkins-to the Progressives and
other leading Bull Moose. Colonel
Roosevelt added 10 the Whitman
strength among the PrOgressives by
.his recent statement urging Progress
.sives not 10 vote for eX-Judge Seabury,
on the ground that every such vote was
ore for President Wilson.
Governor Whitman has another fight
tor his hands in his own party, but he
lis almost certain to win il. State Sem
ator William VI. Bennett, capitalizine
the anti-W hitman sentiment through
cut the state. is contesting the Repub-
mean nomination for Governor. Senator
Bennett has considerable support up
state, marsnalled by ex-senator Edgar
T. Bracket, OF Saratoga. Bennett, how
ever. has never been popular with the
Organization and little that 1t likes
Whitman. il likes Bennett less.
The Bacon-C Calder fracas has assumed
amazing proportions In the last week
ar. Calder fought Senator James "
WadswOrth for the Senatorial nomina
tion two years ago, and when heater
turned about and worked Ike a Trojan
for Wadsworth's election. Now he j:
striving again for the toga, and mos
OF the organization is backing him.
Bacon Making Inroads.
Mr.. Bacon, however, who entered III,
fight for an ideal-to take the stunt
for compulsory military training
been making remarkable inrosds upoi
the Calder strength. lie also has thu
support Of William Barnes, who il
rounding up Bacon cotes all over th'
state. Impartial observers have beer
predicting Mr. Calder's victory as GER
tain, but Mr.. Bacon may surprise then
on Tuesday.
The only fight OF any consequence OF
tine Democratic ticket is that for thu
nomination for United States Senator
William r. McCombs, former nationa
chairman, IS opposed for the place b,
.eX-Lioutenant Governor Thomas
Conway McCOmbs has the Tamman,
upport and Conway the backing Of tn,
Independent Democrats. Owing 10 thu
feeling between President Wilson anC