The sun., 1919-09-02
LIGHT VOTE IS SEEN
.NPRIMARIES TO-DAY
Only Citywide Contest Is for
President of the Board Of
Aldermen.
PROHIBITION TEST, KINGS
Hard Fights Are Likely Over
a Number of County Court
Tickets.
This Is primary day.

The polls are open in this city between
8 and 9 P. M
All enrolled voters may go to theiI
places and vote for their party's candi'
dates for public offices to pc filled at the
general election in November.
Indications are that the vote at the
primaries will be lighter to-day than al
any time since the direct primary law
was put on the statute books in 1918.
The only citywide Office to be filled
this fall is that of President of the
Board of Aldermen. President Robert
L. Moran is the unopposed candidate fol
the Democratic nomination to succeed
himself. Representative r. II. La
Guardia has been recommended to the
enrolled Republicans by the party or
ganization as their candidate for Alder
manic President William M. Bennett
whose speciality is running in the pri'
maries. is candidate against him. He
has made no campaign, however, and
the Republican leaders say his vote will
be negligible.
A fair criterion as to just how seri-
ously this contest is regarded even by
Mr.. Bennett himself may lie in the fact
that he spent most of the day playing
golf yesterday and Representative La
Guardia was not even in town. At Mr.
Benefits office it was said that he spent
forty-five minutes there in the morning
At his home they said he was playing
golf in the afternoon.
At the Hotel Brevoort where Uepre-
sentative La Guardia makes his home, II
was stated that he had come from
Washington on Saturday and gone away
n lin,
back before Thursday, they said. The
Campaign" against Bennett has not
kept Mr.. La Guardia away from his
duties in Washington. Mr.. Bennett
started out to speak in every Republican
district clubhouse in the city, and asked
the leaders to arrange meetings where
he and his opponent could speak in OPP
position. The meetings were not ar
ranged and he did not press the matter.
McCooey Ticket Strong.
There has been considerable oratory
and flood Of statements on the part of
the followers of James E. Finegan, who
is leading a complete insurgent county
ticket in Brooklyn against one picked by
John Fl. McCooey for his Democratic, pri-
maries. But 1t is stated by politicians
familiar with the conditions that there is
not chance of the McCooey selections
being overthrown in any instance.
In Richmond county the Democrats
have had spectacular fight, but the or
ganization heads said last night that the
insur gents, led by Assembiyman Thomas
F. Curley, would be showed under in
spite of the bitter fight they have made
The one fight which has attracted
general interest outside of those vitality
interested is that of Representative Reu-
ben l.. Haskell for a Republican nominal
ton to the County Court in Kings against
Judge Norman s. Dyke and f. s. Martyrs
Endorsed by the organization. Haskell
has made prohibition his issue. Having
taken a stand against the Federal con-
stitutional amendment and having intro
duced a resolution for a national refer
endum on it's repeal. Mr. Haskell has
frankly stated that he expects hic vote
will be clear test of the anti-prohibi-
ton sentiment in the Republican ranks
in Kings county.
Representative Haskell has charged
that the Republican leaders turned him
down because Of his prohibition views.
The prohibition interests have been
fighting him, of course, but his friends
say he has good chance of nomination.
Some Of the leaders say he might have
had except for the fact that he drew
'Hi" pi"Ne vi tHe pallot' winch, IN past
years, has been proved to be a handicap.
Friends of Joseph Sheehan, insurgent.
who is making a fight for one of the
three Democratic nominations for Mu-
nicipal Court Justice in the First dis
trict, Manhattan, said last night he had
an excellent chance. 1t is known that
the organization has spent more money
here than in any other place in Man
haitian. The organization candidates are
Justices John Hoyer and William ].
Moore, for denomination, and w. J. A.
Caffrey, Assistant District Attorney, for
the place now occupied by Justice Wav.
hope Lynn.