The sun., 1919-09-04


clearly the lack of interest on Tuesday.
Instead OF Increasing the percentage of
enrolled voters participating in pri-
nieries the addition OF the women
seemed TO have had just the opposite ef-
feet
Richmond shows Well.
In.past years the average vote on pri-
mary day has been about 80 to 80 per
cent. of the enrolment. 1t was consid-
erably lower than that Tuesday every
where except in the Democratic fight in
Richmond. where there was 46 per
cent. attendance at the polls.
In the Republican primaries the vote
for President of the Board of Aldermen
showed total vote that was less than
is per cent. of the total Republican
enrolment in the city In Manhattan
II was about IL per cent. in The Bronx
about IL. in Brooklyn little over 20,
In Queens about 81 and in Richmond
about IL.
Judging by the vote for the nominees
for the Supreme Court the enrolled Dem
ocrats In Manhattan and The Bronx
turned out not more than about IA per
cent Of their strength. Taking the vote
In the Democratic contest for the Su-
preme. Court nom nation in Queens.
Kings and Richmond as a criterion, II
shows that the Democrats came out
about % per cent strong in Brooklyn,
about 80 per cent. strong in Queens and
10 per cent. in Richmond, as already
stated.
With nine election districts missing In
Nassau county and seventeen in Suffolk
George J. s. Bowling. the anti-organiza-
ton candidate for the Democratic noni-
nation for the Supreme Court in the Sec
ond district, was seen to have defeated
Capt John J. Kuhn by about 5000 votes.
Kuhn carried only one county. Queens.
The opposition to the selection of the
hirty-three-year-old son of Samuel In
teTmyer for one of the Democratic NOM
nations in the Supreme Court in the
First district was indicated by the COM
plete returns Justice Robert L. Luce
got 2S.325, while Mr.. Untermyer got only
23,S23. Stephen J. Madigan, an I'M
known in Tammany Hall, got 1862
votes. He and his friends claim that
great deal of his vote came from the
anti-prohibition element.
Complete returns only confirm the de-
cisive defeat of the Finegan anti-Mc-
Cooey ticket in the Democratic primaries
in Brooklyn and the Curley anti-Tiernan
Democratic ticket
veterans' showing PUSHES.
Those who analysed the results noted
officers in the war did not have remark
able success at the polls. They pointed
to the poor showing of Major La Guar
dia, the defeat of Capt. Kuhn and the
small vote of Brighten George A. Win
gate, the Democratic candidate for Sur
rogate, compared with the other Nc,
Cooey designations There was much
speculation among political leaders as
TO whether this might be taken as an
indication that officers would not make
popular candidates. in spite of what had
been supposed TO, be the case. 80
After comforting with his friends dur
ing the day William NJ. Bennett last
night issued the, following statement:
IT do not concede the election of Mr..
La Guardia. On the contrary, am con-
vinced. as 1 was the day after primary
day in 1917, that have been robbed of
the nomination.. The circumstances in
both are the same. 1t is history repeat
ing itself. 49,
1.-THE crime against the ballot box of
1919 has been perpetrated by the same
criminals who stole the 1917 primary
but who were forced by the courts to
place my name on the ballot as the Re-
publican nominee for Mayor 1 am also
convinced that, as in 1917, some of the
election thieves-well paid, by the way
will soon be on their way to jail.
Two years ago ninety of these ballot
box thieves who tried to rob the en-
rolled voters of the Republican party,
as well as myself, were sent to prison
Sixty of these were from Manhattan
Balf of that number were followers of
Charles f. Murphy, the other half were
followers of Samuel s. Koenig.
II have had numerous offers or aid,
financial and otherwise, from prominent
Republicans, who believe that another
crime has been committed against the
sanctity OF the ballot. and who are
urging me to ask the courts for a re-
count.
II shall inspect the returns tomorrow
morning and thereafter shall ask that
the ballot boxes and the ballots voted
and unvoted, be impounded by the Board
OF Elections. / shall also ask District
Attorney Swami to institute criminal
proceedings.
my primary object in 40 doing is
not personal, but have made up my
mind to see that the Republican organi-
cation in the city of New York shall
recognize the fundamental principle of
our Government, that every man and
every woman Is entitled 10 one vote and
that one vote shall be counted and shall
not be trafficked IN. And In this, with
the aid OF the decent mon and women
In the party. 1 shall succeed"
Bennett Starts Inquiry.
Mr.. Bennett telephoned to the Board
OF Elections yesterday afternoon and
was told that every opportunity would
sheets as sent in TO them by the various
election boards. II Mr., Bennett should
ask for an inspection OF ballots, which
would fnyolve the onenin0 NJ the ho~n.