New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-07
Socialist Party
Rejoices Over Vote
,Polled by Hillquit
Declares Total Is Almost
Five Times as Large as
Four Years Ago
Charge Discrimination
canS date Asserts Many Bal
lotsOmitted Names of Eel
: low Nominees
Charge Discrimination

Morris Hillquit's big vote in New York
tig As compared with the $4,000 votes
r,.-les Edward Russell received four
-..-s ago-did not come as a surprise
- his Socialist followers. for many
coined honestly to believe that, If he
,rs-e not elected, he would at least run
.,sad OF Michel His appeal for votes
=, an anti-war platform had, moreover.
Nee, REGARDED as affording something
IA test OF public opinion. Yet 1t was
.l.e- q. q o'clock that he was defeated.
7, none Of the FIVE boroughs did he
...sivs a vote sufficient to give him
s-.. Mace. Only In The Bronx did ne
..-s resr getting second place. There
:. .,,esred 70 be ahead Of Mitchell. In
-. ether boroughs be came third, fall
;,- behind Hylan and Mitchell, but
head OF Bennett
Nevertheless, socialism, long herald
4 &c being in the ascendancy in New
T,rk City. made good its promise Of
LING great gains over former years
- Incomplete returns showed the
e..;.iis- vote was at least four times
..sr shan il was four years ago,
80 Indications that il would show a
-.a.s- increase as the returns came
In lao election districts out OF
0eo the total vote for Hillquit was
% 06n and this figure at midnight haG
topped $4,000.
Headquarters Concede Defeat
Socialist headquarters conceded Hill
,-;.'s defeat early in the evening, but
gsciinsa % concede that he would take
.E;rd Mace. explaining that returns
t-or the districts where the Sociallst
vnte vas heavy were coming in slowly.
{ Joh- Block, Socialist candidate for
Attorney General, charged that the
raval reserve voters at Pelham FarS
5ss received ballots on which were the
rares OF Mitchell and Hylan only. de
.s;d a. Camp Upton the spaces tor the
Soeialst candidates were left blank.
whatever vote the Socialists got from
.bsir strongholds in the East Side was
ovsreo-1e by the heavy Hylan and
Vtchel votes in other sections OF Man
sattar. But in The Bronx, Socialist
stronghold, 200 out Of PSI election as
tricrs returned a vote in which Hill
or;t and Mitchell were almost tied, with
HTiouit slightly in the lead.
Tsrlv returns did not indicate
vbether any Socialist candidates for
The Assembly or other minor Offices had
beer elected.
Members Of the rank and file Of The
Socialist party last night regarded the
result Of the election as a SoclaIlst
Tictorv. They so interpret II in insist
M that ten Socialist Assemblymen, ten
Aldermen and two municipal court
;uSges had been swept into office, and
40 In the unprecedentedly large vote
fo~ he party. All we're overJoyed with
The aosrent victory for suffrage, and
took teen satisfaction in Mayor Mitch
Usber Solomon, che state secretary
II the Socialist party, said: This Is
one OF the Socialist party's greatest
victories The results indicate that we
vii elect five Congressman next year
To-day's election has transformed the
Socialist party into q major party.
NJ. Solomon claimed the election OF
Philio Saitrs as judge in the Munich
"a Court in Brownsville and Of Jacob
Pznken az Judge Of the same court IN
tie lower East Side Of Manhattan tine