New-York tribune., 1919-09-04
Association Opposed to Ma.
tional Prohibition Proph-
estes the Annihilation of
the Anti-Saloon League
Campaign Was Unique
Only Political Candidacy
in Which Opponents of
Restriction Took Part

The victory of Representative Reuben
l.. Haskell over Frederick S. Martyr
tor one of the two Republican nomina-
t'ons for County Judge in the Brooklyn
primaries was hailed yesterday by the
vets as an indication of reaction to the
prohibition sentiment.
"An anti-prohibition victory" was
the way the Association Opposed to Ma
tional Prohibitions characterized Has
kell's success.
Haskell, although not candidate in
the Democratic primaries, was also
voted for by some vets in the Demo
cratic party, who wrote his name on
the ballot.
Haskell said his victory was an in
dorsemcnt by the Republicans of
Brooklyn of his stand on prohibition.
"The Anti-Saloon League should
profit by the lesson and 60 into retire
ment," Haskell said "This Anti Saloon
League, which if allowed to continue
would destroy representative govern
ment. is now scheduled for annihila.
tlon in the United States"
The vote was: Haskell. 19.5Oo: Mar
tyn, 90; Judge Norman S. Dixie.
VINO, like Martyn, was an organization
desi gnce, 21 ,O24.
"A statement on the Haskell fight
issued by the Association Opposed to
National Prohibition, was in part us
follows: p'
ut was the first political fight that
the association has engaged in and the
only primary contest that it has on
gagged in or will engage in. For that
reason the members OF the association
all over the country ought to be highly
gratified with the result.
II the Brooklyn bosses could be
bluffed by the Anti-Saloon League
Haskell couldn't. He accepted the
challenge unreservcdly and campaigncd
klngs County on the one issue, with
the association opposed to national
prohibition solidly behind him. The
result was that he beat Martyn easily
and ran very close to Judge Norman S.
Dixie. who has been on the bench Of
Brooklyn many years and is one of the
licans in Kings County. An this N
spite of the fact that the Anti Saloon
League, by circular letter, appealed to
the members of practically every
church in Brooklyn to defeat Haskell
at all costs.
"Thc result of the primaries suff
GENTLY upholds the contention that
-prohibtionists have long made
that if the anti-Saloon League will get
out in the open and let the people deal
with it at the polls the people will see
to it that that organization, partner of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union in its anti-tobacco campaign, is
sufficiently and satisfactorily lam
bastcd.
"The issue was for or against
straight~out constitutional prohi ibition
And on that issue the Anti Saloon
League scored as clean-cut defeat as
was ever administered at the polls"
The only other big surprise in the
primaries was the victory of George
j. S. Bowling, independent candidate
for the Democratic nom ination for Su-
preme Court Justice in the I'd Judicial
District He defeated Leader John II.
McCooey's candidate, Captain John J.
Kuhn, world war veteran, 361S9 to
%, ,435. Dowling's opponent will be
Arnon l.. Squiers, Republican.
Other insurgents in the two major
parties for important nominations made
an unexpectedly good showing, but
with the exception of few candidates
for the Assembly and Board of Alder
men lost out. Among the Democratic
insurgents in Richmond, Queens and
Kings, whore there were complete indie
pendent tickets, there is talk of carry
ing the fight into the general election.
The Socialist Right Wings won over
the Left Wings in all the districts re-
ported.
The vote in all parties was unusually
light, the total vote in the Republican
party being almost half that of last
year and about two-thirds that of
two years ago, when women were not
voting. This was attributed to the
weather, the fact that neither Bennett
nor La Guardia made a campaign, and
Primary Day followed Labor Day, when
many voters were away from home.