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seven Judges to He Elected.

Engineer and Surveyor.
seven Judges to he Elected.
IN New York county and The Bronx.
comprising the first Judicial District,
candidates for three Justices OF the Su-
preme Court are to be voted for. In
Kings. Queens and Richmond counties
candidates for two places on the Su-
preme Court bench are to be selected.
In Kings two candidates for County
Judge are to be chosen.
Throughout the State candidates for
Congress, the State Senate and. the AS
sembly are to be designated. as are
members Of the various State and
county committees.
In Queens and Richmond counties
candidates for Sheriff are to be chosen
In Manhattan candidate for the
Board of Aldermen to represent the
Ninth district is to be selected as well
as two candidates for the Board of
Aldermen in Brooklyn, in the Thirty
seventh and Fifty-eighth districts.
In addition to the contests for places
on the State and Congress tickets there
are two Assembly fights among the
Democrats and one in the Republican
ranks In New York. Hyman Pouker is
contesting the Republican nomination
with John c. Hawkins In the Twenty
FIRST On the Democratic side of the
house John j. Cronin and William NJ
Marley are seeking the nomination in
The Thirteenth and Assemblyman Earl
A. Smith and Thomas F. Kane in the
Twenty-second.
The latter contest is part of a fight
for the Tammany leadership of the
Twenty-second Assembly district be-
tween John J. Mulcahy. who was put
in the leadership by Thomas r. McAvoy,
the former leader. and James J. McCor-
mick, who Is seeking control. Mulcahy
turned down Assemblyman Smith and
he Is running on the Mccormick ticket
Mccormick Is a candidate for the State
committee, while Mulcahy's candidate is
William J.. O'Sullivan.
Fight for State Committeeman.
The Democrats in New York county
have another contest for the State COM
nhttee in the Twelfth Assembly district
the rival candidates being John H.
OConnell and Charles NJ. Havican
In the Bronx Peter Abeles and Morris
&. Schector are both seeking the Re-
second Senate district. NJ. N. Fertig
and Anna Kraft are rivals for the As
sembiy nomination in the Fourth Bronx
district.
In the Democratic ranks in Brooklyn
there are three candidates for two Su-
preme Court nominations: r. II. Roy.
Maurice Z. Connolly and q. J. s. Dow
ling. Tho Republicans have three can
didates for two County Court nomina-
tions: Marcus B. Campbell. Frederic S.
Martyr and Alfred J. Gilchrist.
m Kings the Republicans have two
fights for Assembly nominations and
the Democrats four.
There are a number OF contests. for
leadership in Kings. the Republicans
having ave and the Democrats eight.
The only other contest for leadership in
Manhattan outside the Democratic row
in the Twenty-second Is the hopeless at
tempt OF William NJ. Bennett to defeat
Samuel 8. Koenig for the Republican
leadership Of the Sixth Assembly dis
trict.
In Queens there is a general fight for
control of the Democratic organization
between Borough President Maurice F.
Connolly, who now holds the reins, and
Arthur E. Heating. -"
Women Rivals for senate.
There Is considerable interest in Rich
mond in the contest for the Republican
nomination for the Senate between two
women in the Twenty-fourth district
The rivals are Mrs Helen G. Brewer,
the candidate of the Richmond organiza-
ton, and Mrs Helen T. McKelvey, who
has been put in the race by the Repub-
licans in Rockland county which is part
of the Senate district.
NO activity was discernlPle at any Of
the campaign headquarters yesterday.
The Whitman suite in the Manhattan
Hotel was closed most Of the day The
Governor went from the st. Regis early
in the morning to keep a speaking date
at Ellenville, returning in the evening
10 vote in the primary to-day.
Acknowledgement Lewis was in
Rochester and William Church Osborn
contesting the Democratic nomination
for Governor with Alfred E. Smith, was
at his home in Garrison. Dwight Bra
man, president of the Law and Order
Union of New York. drifted into the
Lewis headquarters late in the after
noon to say he had travelled 700 miles
20 vote for the Attorney General.