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contests for Assembly nominations and
two for Aidermanic. They have one for
the Board OF Aldermen In Queens, but
none In The Bronx or Richmond.
The hight In the Democratic ranks In
Richmond is centred largely In the fight
for the nomination for District Attorney.
Assemblyman Thomas #. Curley had
coveted this prize, but the organization
leaders turned him down. He organized
Thomas #. Curley Citisens Committee
and started the cry that he had been
had voted in Albany against the Carson
Martin bill to permit the Public Service
Commissions to increase trolley fares.
He has charged County Judge J. Harry
Tiernan with being the real Democratic
boss and trying to induce him by threats
to withdraw his candidacy.
/, The organization candidate for Dis
trict Attorney Is Joseph Maloy, private
secretary to Judge Herman. In add
ton to Assemblyman Curley, Frank III.
Innes also lie a candidate 1t is charged
that he has been put in the race by the
Maloy forces IN order to beat Curley.
CurIey Campaign Red Hot.
The Curley ticket has candidates for
the Assembly nomination in the First
District, the Aldermanic nominations In
the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-siyth and for
Municipal court In the Second. Although
there has been q red hot campaign. per-
haps because of the fact that the issues
have been 30 mixed, Il is hard to predict
the result In the contest.
As for the night on the county ticket
Of McCooey, the Democratic boss In
Kings county, the insurgents themselves
have not the slightest hope OF winning
outside Of their canned statements.
The fight 10 led by James Il. Finegan,
who has been "lnsurging' for some years
now. He Is a candidate for the nomi-
nation for Surrogate against Surrogate
George A. wingate and has made the
fact that McCooey gets $4,000 a year as
Chief Clerk OF the Surrogates office
the Issue in the campaign. he has
asked Surrogate wingate to demand the
resignation Of McCooey. He has inti-
mated that politics are furthered In
the conduct OF the clerks office, but he
has failed to get any action.
r. Percy Chittenden, former Assistant
Corporation Counsel. Ia running for the
nomination for District Attorney on the
Finegan ticket. 1t also has insurgent
candidates for the County Court, Sheriff.
County Clerk and Register nominations.
In Queens county outside OF the Mu-
niCtpal Court the DefnOCrAllO lHsurBohts
have put no one In the primary. Arthur
z. Heating. who hopes in course of time
to take the organization away from
Borough President Connolly, has formed
an arrangement with the Republicans
and will run an Independent ticket In
the general election with regular Re-
publicans and independent Democrats
indorsed by Republicans.
There are no district leadership lights
of consequence in the entire city. In
the Eighth, Bronx, district. an insurgent
Is trying to break into the Republican
leadership. In Manhattan, on the Demo
cratic side Of the house. Meyer Green
berg Is trying to wrest the leadership
away from Solomon Goldencranz in the
Eighth district. In the Ninth, Thomas
A. williams is out for the scalp OF Ross
williams. It is said that neither IN
surgent has q chance. Outside OF these
there are no leadership fights In Man
haitian or The Bronx.
In Kings county the State committee
mon are the district leaders, and they
are not chosen until April. But In the
First district, John ]. McGinnis and the
-Ralston group are fighting
for control Of the county committee dele
CATION. In Democratic circles there Is O
night to weaken the influence OF Ken.
meth Sutherland in the Coney Island
district