The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-24
LA GUARDIA PICKED
TO HEAD ALDERMEN
Republican Organization Backs
Him for Nomination for
Boards Presidency.
HE ACCEPTS BY PHONE
Major McCook Named for Su-
preme Court Justiceship
Now Held by Luce.

Major Fiorello H. la Guardla, Rep
resentative In Congress from the Four
teenth District, Manhattan, is the Re
publican organization choice for tn
nomination for President of the Boar
OF Aldermen this fall.
He was suggested first by Senate
Calder and other Brooklyn leaders. TIL
New York county organization fell int
line yesterday. when 1t formally place.
him on its slate for that nomination
He will be formally Endorsed by tn
Kings county organization at its unofii
cal convention tonight. Tho Bronx
Queens and Richmond organizations alst
are In favor of his nomination.
Representative La Guardia, who ha
been doing some good work in Con
gress, does not covet the nomination
but Samuel S, Koenig, chairman of tn,
New York County Committee, talked
with him in Washington on the lont
distance telephone yesterday and secured
his consent to accept the nomination.
Others on the Slate.
The remainder of the slate picked b.
the New York County Republican Elk
ecutive Committee yesterday afternoon
which will be recommended to the voters
in the primaries as the choice of tn,
organization, Is as follows:
For Justice Of the Supreme Court,
to succeed Justice Joseph e. New
burger, Justice Newburger.
For Justice OF the Supreme, Court,
TO succeed Justice Robert L. Luce,
Major Philip j. McCook.
For Surrogate, to succeed Surro-
gate Robert L. Fowler, James O'Mal-
ley.
For Justice OF the City Court. to
succeed Justice Richard II. Smith,
Justice Smith.
For Justice OF the City Court to
succeed Justice James A. Allen,
Henry K. Davis.
For Justice Of the City Court. to
succeed Justice Lorenz Zeller. Will
lam H. Chorosh
The ticket named by the executive
committee was selected by a subcommit.
tee, of which Samuel S. Koenig wat
chairman. The other members were An.
tonic Dalassandro Of the west side of the
Second district: Charles b. Largy of the
north side OF the Eighteenth John J
Lyons of the Nineteenth; Collin II
Woodward of the Twenty-third Rober
Oppenheim of the Seventeenth; Charles
Z. Heydt of the Ninth: Herman w
Boyer OF the south side of the Fifth. anc
John s. Shea of the middle part OF the
Twelfth.
The primary petitions for the ticke
will bear all the names selected by the
executive committee and will carry the
following committee on vacancies
George w. Nickersham, former United
States Attorney General: Clarence H
Fay, Charles E. Heydt. William H. Ter
Eyck and Thomas w. Whittle.
Major La Guardia Is a lawyer His
father was veteran of the civil wal
and he was born In the old Ninth Ware
in Greenwich Village. He has served
in the diplomatic service OF the United
States in Trieste and the Balkans. Fol-
time he was connected with the Immi
grafton Service.
In 1914 he ran for Congress in what
was considered then a rock-ribbed Dem
ocratic district-the Fourteenth. He wal
defeated by 1000. At once he started
in to win two years later, and win hi
did In 1918 the Democrats Endorsed
him for reelection in order to secure
the defeat of Scott Nearing. the Social
list candidate. In 1915 Major La Guardia
was a Deputy Attorney-General.
At that time jor La Guardia wa:
in the American aviation service H,
was at the head of a squadron OF 50(
men in the air service on the Italian
front. He did good work among tn,
Italians in the way OF propaganda, anC
also engaged to some extent in dropping
ally propa ganda over the Austrian lines
Justice Newburger is a Democrat, anc
Is indorsed by the Republicans for re
election under the unwritten law that 6
Justice OF the higher courts with a gooC
record shall be renominated regardless!
OF party. He was a Judge OF Genera.
Sessions when he was elected to thu
Supreme Court fourteen years ago.
McCook a wounded Veteran.
Major McCook was spoken of as gooC
timber for President of the Board o
Aldermen, but the judicial nomination
appealed to him more. He is connected
with the Fighting McCooks, the mos
distinguished member OF which wa,
Arson C. McCook. friend of president
Mckinley. The Major was educated a
Trinity College. For some years he ha,
taken an active part in independent Re.
publican movements. For two terms hi
was president OF the New York Young
Republican Club.
A member of Mayor Mitchel's Commit
tee on National Defence, Major McCool
was its active director for more than g
year. For a time at the beginning ht
handled the draft for the United State:
Army in New York city. Then, securing
commission in the army, he went tC
Governors Island on the Adjptant-Gen
erals staff. From there he went Il
France and later was transferred to the
line In the Argonne he was severely
wounded and still has to use cane.
The Republicans were to have in
dorsed Charles o. Mas, a Major on tn
stan of the American Embassy in Paris
and the executive committee was mucl
shocked on learning just as It started
it's meeting that he had died. Mr.
O'Malley, the man named, lives in tn
Eleventh Assembly district. He Is
brother OF Edward r. OMalley o
Buffalo. who was Acknowledgement Il
the second Hughes administration. Fo
four years he was secretary 4
Justice Frank c. Laughlin OF the Appel
late Division. He was an assistan
under District Attorney whitman. VIII,
as Governor named him as a specla
Attorney General TO prosecute the muir
derers of Barnet Baff.
Justice Smith, who is a Democrat. wa
Endorsed for denomination because h,
was originally elected on the Republican
ticket in 1909. At that time he was {
member OF the so-called Cleveland
Democracy, conceived by William +
Schneider. who with his half dozen fol
lowers supported fusion that year II
return for nominations and have lonl
since returned to the Tammany fold
Another reason for advocating his re
nomination Is the non-partisan idei
about Judges who have served a full
term with credit.
Henry X. Davis is a prominent lawye
in Tho Bronx. He has been active IL