The sun., 1919-07-15
KOENIG ASSAILED AT
HARMONY MEETING
G.. 0. P. County Leader Ac-
cused Of Picking Man to Beat
Socialist in Second.
TWO BIG PARTIES UNITE
Hoffman and Elder Also In
dorsed for Municipal
Court Justices.

Verbal fireworks, in which Samuel 8.
Koenig. Republican leader ef New York
county. was accused of directing the
vote. enlivened the first unofficial con-
venion ever held in this county when
william Blau was selected last night as
the Republican candidate for one Of the
three Municipal Court Justices to be
elected in the Second Municipal Court
district this fall. The convention was
held in the Republican headquarters of
the district in Second avenue.
The Socialists are SO strong In the
district that there was fear they might
have been able to elect all three Justices
In three cornered fight. SO the Repuh-
licans have arranged fusion with the
Democrats or these two parties, tie
Democrats, having the larger vote, are to
have two OF the three nominations. They
will renominate Justice Benjamin Uoff-
man. whose term Is expiring, and JUS
tice Morris Eder, recently appointed by
Mayor Hylan to take the place OF Justice
Leonard Snitkin.
The Republican convention indprsed
these two in addition to selecting Mr..
Blau, who in turn will be Endorsed by
the Democrats. But the prospect that
the Blau nomination would go smoothly
through the convention was shattered al.
most as soon as the convention got I'M
Ger way. Among the candidates who
turned up just before the balloting be-
gan was Alexander Wolf Republican
leader of the Fourth Assembly District
lie got lot of electioneerinG among
the 230 delegates, one for each member
q the county committee, and then no.
ticed that Mr.. Koenig was in the meet
ing place.
Wolf walked over to where the county
leader was talking to Antonio d'Ales-
sandro and Louis jacobson. cooked his
ear for a moment in their direction and
then strolled away with the remark
loud enough so that those seated near
b. might hear, that Koenig was giving
directions on how the vote SHOULD be
conducted. Apparently the remark went
unnoticed as the balloting went on
Finally. on the fifteenth ballot MIR. Blau
corraled 147 votes Wolf got only A.
re other votes were scattered among
several candidates.
Wolf Resents Unanimity.
Then some one moved that the nomi-
ration OF Mr. Blau be made unanimous
and Mr.. Wolf climbed to the platform
and objected. He said he would do no
such thing. since he had been led to
enter the convention with the under
Standing that it was TO be fair one
and that every candidate would have a
run for his money. That had not hap
pened at all. he said. but he said he
realized he was hot headed" when he
said Mr.. Koeniy had been directing the
vote and was sorry he had made the
accusation FINALLY
able confusion. the Blau nomination was
made unanimous.
In the election districts making up
the Municipal Court district the com
hined Republican and Democratic vote
for their candidates for the Assembly
last fall was 200 more than the So
cial!st party polled. sH
As soon as 1t was learned that fusion
would make the election of the Repub-
lican nominee virtually certain candi-
dates began to spring up like buckle
berries. Some off the candidates de-
clared they would go into the primaries
regardless OF who was picked by the
party leaders. 1t was then. that Mr.
Koenig, leader OF the Sixth Assembly
District, also one of those involved in
the fight, decided to smooth things out
by holding an unofficial convention.
In addition to Mr.. Blau the following
were placed in nomination. Louis Jacob
son. co-leader of the Second District
Harry A. Goidel of the Sixth District
Gustave Hartman of the Sixth who
served as Justice in that Municipal Court
District from 1918 to 1918; Alexander
Wolf. leader of the Fourth District, who
served as Justice there for few months
in 1913; Lester Friedman of the First
District Assemblyman Herman Weiss
of the Eighth District and Joseph Z
Siegel OF the Second District.
Candidates of Socialists.
The Socialists already have designated
as their candidates for the MuIhclpa
Court in the Second district S. Johr
Block, president of the New York Cal
Publishing Company and counsel for the
Rand School William Karlin. who was
the Assemblyman from the Fourth dis
trict in 1918, and Alexander Kahn, &
lawyer of 800 Broadway. The last cleo
ton of Justice in the Second distric
was in 1917. when Justice Jacob Pan
ken the Socialist candidate, won, get
| ting about as many votes at his Demo
| cratic and Republican opponents com
bfned, His vote was about $4,000, thu
| Democratic nominee got 5000 and thu
| Republican candidate 5000.
Since 1917 some territory has beer
| added to the district on the west Slde
which is not so strongly Socialist, so tina
| now a combination of Republicans ant
| Democrats should poll about 1000 NOR
votes than the Socialists.
The Republicans and Democrats hav
decided also to fuse against the So
| cialists IN the Assembly and Aldermani
| districts. in which there was fusion oil
the Assembly last fall The Socialist
have already selected Assemblyman FL
mer Rosenberg. who represented the dis
trict in the Assembly In 1918, to run 70
| that office In the Sixth district. Assem-
biyman Sol Ullman. Republican, will b
renominated by the Republicans an
| Democrats.
| To oppose Abraham Beckerman, VIII
| the Socialists have redesignated for tn
| Board OF Aldermen, the Republicans vii
| indorse the Democratic nominee.
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