New Britain herald., 1917-09-21
STITCHED HURT BY
 PRO-GERMAN VOTE
Primary Fight Ends With Bennett
 Only 1,119 Behind

New York, Sept. 21.-The figure, 1,119, Mayor MitcheIs scant majority over William M. Bennett, his oppon- ent in the Republican primaries, was indited yesterday in the Fusion cam paign records in silence, and with re- spectful deliberation.
 In the minds of the political anal yStS, it stood for more than an unSat- isfactory margin. It stood for an eX- pression of a feeling akin to that man. ifested by the Socialist-Pacifists and German propagandists. Some called it a play into the hands of the Tam many-Hearst outfit. which has been charged with having pro-German sym pathieS.
 The danger loomed even larger in the announcement of Bennett yester- day that he had been "counted out' and would demand a recount and his further itimatiOn that if he could not win that way he might enter the run ming as an independent candidate.
 Mayor Mitchell himself sounded the warning yesterday in Ks speech to the Women's Committee of 100 when he proclaimed Americanism as the most important of all the issues of the com-
  his speech as a campaign utterance, he said:
 "If I were to discuss with you the issues of the campaign, I should be- gin with the most important of them all the maintenance of a stable, se- cure, strong and an aggressive pro- American government in the city Of New York, a government that may De relied upon to support the hands or President Wilson and the government of the United States in the prescott ton of this war, in every phrase.' Out of the eighteen Brooklyn as- sembly districts, in a total of 23, which MT. Bennett carried against the mayor, the Mitchell vote in the strong ly German districts was noticeably small. Tn the 18th district, where 1,016 votes were cast, Mayor Mitchell received only 9S. This is the strong est German district in Brooklyn and has always been strongly republican. The 20th district in Williamsburg, another strongly German and strong ly republican district, gave Mitchell only 535 votes, as against 2,2SO for Bennett.
 The 22d District in East New York, which is part German and part Jewish, gave Bennett 1,593 votes and Mitchell 602. The districts in Queens, where Germans predominate and the vote is normally republican, voted overw h elmingly for Bennett. It was also noted that the strong Jewish dis tricts in Brownsville and other Brooklyn sections gave Bennett a sub- stantial majority.
 In political circles generally the large Bennett vote was interpreted as a personal slap at Mayor Mitchell. It was pointed out that it was not so much a Bennett vote as an anti Mitchell vote. This opinion was sup ported by the fact that Controller Prendergast and Robert Adamson, the president of the board of aldermen, a thousand ahead of the mayor of Brooklyn, as well as most of the other borOughs. The large Prendergast vote in Brooklyn particularly was surprising, as the controller and the mayor were supposed to have in cured about an equal amount of en- mitv in that borough.
 The fact that Adamson ran far ahead of any of the other candidates on the Fusion ticket was credited by some of the leaders to the ten-day campaign which the fire commissioner made on his own account prior to the primaries. He was the only Fusion candidate who pretended to make any pre-primary campaign. He made speeches in all parts of the city, some times two or three in a night