The sun., 1919-09-01
DRAWN
FOR PRIMARY FIGHTS
Many County Issues to Be De.
termined, Few District and
No State Contests.
NO PROHIBITION TICKETS
Socialists Split With the Left
Wingers in Revolt Against
Regulars.
Primary Day comes tomorrow.

Inc Dolls Will be open In New York
city between . ana p. N. Elsewhere
in the State from A. NJ. to Q p. M.
Within those hours duly enrolled
, members OF the various political parties
! will have the opportunity Of voting for
their party's candidates for the Offices to
! be filled this. year and OF assisting to
choose the members of their county COM
mittees to serve until the Presidential
primaries in April. New county COM
mittees and new State committees will
be chosen then. There is no election OF
State committeeman this year, as they
serve two year terms.
There is no Statewide Office to be
nlled this fall. so the primaries are all
local In various communities. In New
York city there In one city-wide ONCE to
be filled. that because OF the elevation Of
Alfred 70. Smith TO the 0overnorship
HIS former place OF President OF the
Board OF Aldermen must be filled by
election In November.
In Richmond county the Democratic
party Is all torn up over a bitter fight to
defeat the designees OF the organization
leaders, who have been charged with IA
, voring the so-called '-rrolley-Gas Ring"
Much vituperation has been INDUCED in,
much oratory expended and thousands Of
collars spent In propaganda
In Kings county q rather languid IN
terest has been taken in an attempt OF
an anti-McCooey faction to nominate its
. own county ticket instead Of his.
Aside from these contests and a few
sporadic fights In small units, such as
, Assembly and Municipal Court districts,
, there has been little indication that the
annual primary elections were approach
ing.
Few Prohibition Desienees.
|. H.
| passage of the primary law the Prohibi-
ton party will have no primary ticket IN
, me Bronx. Queens or Richmond. The
rev designations they made were thrown
, out by the Board OF Elections for lack
, OF signatures. In New York county and
, Kings the party has a few designees for
, county Offices
, The Socialist party In all the boroughs,
lwnich heretofore has been q close cor
, poration. with no opposition to the will
: OF the governing body. has had it's trou-
bles. The Left Wingers have contests
? Tor the party nominations in many dis
tricts. The party leaders have issued
an appeal to Its members to come out on
! primary day and resist the attack Of tho
Left Wingers.
: There is no opposition In the Demo-
/, cratic primaries to the candidacy of
! Robert l.. Moran for the nomination for
president OF the Board of Aldermen, OF
, which body he Is now the acting head.
The Republican county committees in
the various bo-oughs have recommended
to enrolled members Of the party the
nomination OF Representative r. H. La
Guardia for President of the Board of
Aldermen. Unakked, William M. Ben
nett filed a petition for himsef for this
nomination. But he has made no cam
paign. He asked the sixty-two Assembly
district leaders TO arrange meetings at
which he and Mr.. La 0uardia could
speak In opposition. But none were ar
ranged. MrJ Bennett has made an UNI
successful attempt to draw his opponent
r out on national issues, but little atten-
r ton has been paid to It. Two statements
= by Bennett and two interviews by Rep
) resentative La Guardia have constituted
{ the campaign, which might be summed
, up In the phrase: Bennett also ran
> that's ALL"
In Republican ranks the fight OF Pep
resentative Reuben L. Haskell of the
} Tenth district. Brooklyn, for the nomi-
, nation for County Judge has perhaps at
, tracted as much interest locally as any.
} This largely because he Is violently OPP
posed to Federal prohibition and has
I publicly stated that his vote will be a
test OF the anti-prohibition sentiment.
Z There are two places to be filled and
Haskell has drawn third place on the
:
, considered to be far from bright, al
/ though he is popular in organization cir.
A clea The Twentieth Assembly district
organization Endorsed him on Friiay
night.
Haskell Contest Only One.
! The Republican County Committee in
Kings held an unofficial convention, duly
constituted, and selected candidatea for
Tcn AMI ~ IA flaVa En- h. a
I the party for the various nominal lions.
The result is that the Hasel1ll contest is
' the only one the Republicans in Kings
: have for their local slate.
I'll In the first Judicial district, consist
4 ing OF The Bronx and New York county.
nominations are to be made for two
: places on the Supreme Court bench and
three places on the City Court bench.
There are no contests, Justice JoBeph r..
I Newburger and Justice Richard H.
I Smith. turned down by the inner Tam
: many clique. refusing the designation
! OF the committee OF the bar for the DEM
: ocratio primaries
In the Second Judicial, which consists
; OF Queens, Kings and Richmond. In ad-
dition to Nassau and Sufrolk, one MONT
nation is to be made for the Supreme
Court Aaron L. Squiers ia running un-
: opposed In the Republican primaries.
George ]. 8. Bowling. a chronic runner
for office. Is opposing the selection OF
John r. Kuhn by McCooey There are
insurgents contesting the Democratic or
ganization designation for the Assembly
in three districts and for the Beard OF
Aldermen in five districts in Manhattan.
d In The Bronx the Democrats have fights
In only two Aldermanic districts.
In Kings the Democrats have fights
4 against the organization designation in
0 six Assembly and five AldermaIic dis.
3 tricts. In Richmond they have fights IN
: one of the two Assembly districts and l..
: two OF the three Aldermanic districts.
In the Fifth Municipal Court district
8 in Manhattan the Republicans nave a
contest for the one nomination. The
Q contestants are Abram Ellenbosnn and
4 Alexander U. ZinlSe. between whom the
: leaders could not choose, and Mark ELI.
: son, an added starter The fight is keen
Z as election Is certain for the Rep lbllcar
5 candidate.
n An InsurEent Candidate.
The Democrats have an insurgent can.
= didacy for one OF the three Municipal
I Court nominations in the First district
Manhattan. In Kings the Republican,
q have one and the Democrats two Muni.
: cipal Court fights. In Queens the Re.
!. publicans have one and the Democrats
> two contests for Municipal Court nom!.
= nation. F-Str
The Republicans In Manhattan hay,
! contenders for the nomination TO tn,
y Assembly In the Nineteenth Assembi,