New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-21
Bennett's Showing Regard
ed as Blow at Mayors
War Activities
Defeated Candidate
To Demand Recount
Fusion, Alarmed by Re-
suit, Starts Energetic
Campaign


The figure. 1.119, Mayor Mitchels
,.,n, majority over William NJ. Ben
net, his opponent in the Republican
,,inar;es. was indited yesterday in the
Fusion campaign records in silence and
With respectful deliberation.
In The minds Of the political anal
v,ts Il stood for more than an unsstis-
;.,tory margin. 1t stood for an ex-
r-s.s;on Of feeling akin to that mani
t.,tsd by the Socislist-Pacifists and
German propsgandists. Some called II
play into the hands of the Iammany-
u.srst outfit. which has been charged
With having pro-German symPathies.
The danger loomed even larger in the
announcement Of Bennett yesterday
hat he had been counted out and
would demand a recount, and his fur
tber intimation that if he could not
win that way he might enter the run
ming as an independent candidate.
Il WAS stated unoficially last night
that petitions for the nomination OF
R.nDett as an independent candidate
for MAYOR had already been sent to the
printers and would be circulated to-day.
II was said that the petitions we're
being printed without Bennett's kno~i-
sdoe. bv some Of his most ardent sup
Dorters. in the hope that he could be
persuaded later to make the run inde-
pendently.
Mayor Issues Warning
Mayor Mitchell himself sounded the
warning Yesterday in his speech to the
Women's Committee OF 100 when he
proclaimed Americanism as the most
importaut Of all the issues OF the
coming campaign. While not regarding
his speech as a campaign utterance, he
,a.d
IF ! we're to discuss with you the
issues Of the campaign, l should begin
with the most important Of them ALL
the maintenance of a stable, secure
strong and an aggressive pro-hmeri-
can government in the City of New
York. government that may be relied
upon to support the hands Of President
Wilson and the government Of the
United States in the prosecution OF
this way, in every phase
Out Of the eighteen Brooklyn Assem-
bly districts, in a total of twenty-three,
which Mr. Bennett carried against the
Mayor. the Mitchell vote in the strongly
German districts was noticeably small.
In Ahe 18th District, where 1915 votes
we're cast, Mayor Mitchell received only
ss. This is the strongest German dis
trict in Brooklyn and has always been
strongly Republican. The goth District
in Williamsburg. another strongly Ger
man and strongly Republican district
gave Mitchell only 535 votes, as against
-,2S0 for Bennett.
The ED District in East New forh,
which is part German and part jewish
gave Bennett / ,593 votes and Mitchell
sO2 The districts in Queens, where
Germans predominate and the vote Is
normally Republican, voted overwhelm-
inrly for Bennett. 1t was also noted
- -. ro,,.;sb d;s.ricts in
'"d' 'nt sHo"s -..-.
Brownsville and other brOohISh Il se'''o"'
gave Bennett a substantial majority.
VT, A.; Mitchell Vote
viewed IS A"''-."'''"''
In political circles generally the large
Bennett vote was interpreted as per
soral slap At Mayor Mitche" IL was
pointed ont that it was not so much
D.. ..,.o ~. on ant;- Mitchell vote.
ne"i'''' 'o'' 40 II foo.
ms opinion was supported "S '"e
that Controller Preude~gest and Kop-
~. Aa.,,.o, tho Fuston candidates for
'''o,'''''' ,'' -. = A. poord
controller ana ]resiuenI o. '"o
Of Aldermen. ran thousands ahead OF
Tho >,.,.,,. e., prooLIyp as we'll as most
,.r.o pro,-
OF the otner boroGghs' ne Iai s,,,,a,j,,
aergast vote IN bfooh'IIl paiio pal III r'@i y
vas surprising, as the NpnVtoLI,ti anu ;n
me Mayor were supposed u nav m
CURED about an equal amount OF gu
NIFTY IN that borough,
me TACT that Aoaiuso' I;a,toa I"i; TO-
Snead OF any or the other I:iI cauulu" L,,
on the Fusion ucket was Cfeui''u ny
some Of the leaders TO the ten-oak
campaign which the Fire Comm'ssloner
made on his own account PRIOR 10 tne