New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
lican. Siegel wos elected Two years
ago, with Hillquit as o 10 OF his OPP

ago. with Hillquit as ole OF his OPP
roncnts.
In the Yorkville section .ne vote was
very light until after sumo own, ana the
same thing was true all over the CITY.
Both men and women VOTE RS took 1t for
granted that there would De time after
dinner to go to the poll
With women voting Tor the first
tina in the state primar es and $4,000
soldiers in uniform and most OF them
out of the state political leaders were
at sea as to the possible outcome Of
the race for many Of the oIninat'ons.
Whenever the men politic' ms thought
of the possibilities with CT .61s women
enrolled, they admitted the. could not
tell thing about the OUT ome--they
could only hope that things would go
their way.
1t was practically a lightless night
the political parties. The workers at
the Whitman and Lewis headquarters
dimmed their lights early--the Lewis
forces stealing silently away. Tam
many Hall closed its doors before 10
O'clock. and the few district leaders
who had dropped in" went home salts
fed with the big complimentary vote
that had been recorded for Gal" Smith.
The Whitman supporters did not
need to wait for the final returns to
see that it was two-to-one victory
eral Lewis. The organization steam
roller had flattened out the Lewis hopes
in Brooklyn, and deeply buried the At
torney Generals aspirations for the
nomination in all the other four bor-
oughs.
The writing on the wall could be read
easily before half the election districts
out of the 2,067 in the greater city we're
heard from. The Whitman vote was
moro than two to one at that time.
Later returns increased the Lewis vote
brought it up to the least expectations
the Lewis forces had entertained.
The whole Whitman ticket swept
through the city, from borough to hor-
ough. with unexpected majorities.
Deputy Attorney General Alfred l..
Becker, who opposed the Whitman cam
didate for Attorney General, Charles
D. Newton, of Geneseo, ran closer in
the city vote to his opponent than any
Of the other contestants on the Re-
publican ticket. He polled a particu-
larly large vote against Newton in
Brooklyn.
Some of the Brooklyn district leaders
who had originally followed Jacob
L|i' ING cIoI, CIc hlHSS ItcpuOllCdIi
leader into the Lewis camp, were ready
crossed them. With only few dis
tricts missing, the Whitman vote
across the East River was 20,s58, while
Lewis received only 1880. At the
same time William M. Bennett, who op-
posed Lieutenant Governor Schoeneck,
beat the latter in Brooklyn by a small
margin.
Ehc total vote for Governor in the
greater city was much under what the
two organizations expected to poll.
President Smith of the Board of AL
dermen received fairly large Tam
many organization vote, but it was not
AS large rs some of the Tammany lead
ers had predicted. Both the Repub-
lican and Democratic primary votes in
the city were not greatly in excess of
those cast at the primaries two years
ago, when the women did not vote.
The Whitman vote in the five Dor
oughs was surprisingly sman, consid-
ering the enrolment Of 96,749 women
in the party this year. In the Septem-
Der primaries in 1915 Governor Whit
man received 50,364 votes, and William
M. Bennett, his opponent for the Re-
publican nomination, got 1898. The
fairly complete city returns early this
morning indicated that the Governor
would not get more than 1000 or 5000
primary votes than he did in 1916.
This meant to the leaders that men
Republicans had failed to turn out in
anything like the numbers they did at
sion could be reached in view of the
fact that the Republican women voters
went to the primary polls in large
numbers.