New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
SaysRepprblicar
Vote Inn Prirn1ary
Assures Victory
Tuesdays Results Show
That the Party i'm State Is
as Virile as Names, AS"
serts Representative Smell
55 Counties for Miller
With 752 Districts Missing,
the Former Judge Leads
Thompson by ll9,l94


Thompson by ll9,l94
"The record-breaking vote in the
Republican primary yesterday showed
that the G. o. P. in this state is as
virile as Names. The election of
Judge Nathan L. Miller as Governor
and the reelection of United States
Senator Wadsworth and their running
mates November are as certain as that
OF Senator Harding and Governor
Coolidge New York will roll up
splendid pluralities for all the Re-
publican nominees"
This was the answer of Representa-
tive Bertrand H. Smell, chairman of
she executive committee of the Repub-
''can State Committee, when asked to
comment on Tuesdays primaries.
commenting on the vote cast for
, senator George F. Tnompson,~of Mag
ara, who opposed Judge Miller, Repre-
j sentative Smell said:
~, The large vote given Senator
campaign he made throughout the
state and to the fact that he was sup
ported largely by the drys, who an
swered the call of William H. Ander-
SON. Now that Senator THOMPSON has
oeen defeated, / assume that he, like a
good Republican,, will support and work
Tor the party's candidates."
Thompson May Lead Drys
senator Thompson also was candi-
date-unopposed--for the nomination
tor Governor in the Prohibition party,
and, according to his friends here. it
Is probable that he will remain at the
head of the dry ticket
Judge Miller carried ffty-ive of the
slxty-two counties in the state. The
! counties carried by Thompson were
Niagara, Chemung, Orleans. Yates. Suf-
folk, Queens and Kings.
NO comment was made by local Demo-
cratic leaders on the result of the vic
tory of Lieutenant Governor Harry G..
Walker, of Binghamton, over Mayor
George R. Lunn OF Schenectady for
the nomination for United States SEN
ator. Lunn carried only five counties,
Ulster, Yates. Schenectady. Cattarau-
bus and Schoharie.
in the Democratic primary, as Gov
ernor Smith and the other designces
of the Saratoga convention were unop-
posed. Walker, the organization choice.
like Judge Miller and his running
mates on the designated ticket in the
rival primary, made practically no cam
paign.
United States Senator wadsworth
beat his nearest rival, Mrs. Ella A.
boole, by overwhelming majorities in
every county in the state, except three
-Chemung, Franklin and Tompkins.
George Henry Payne. of the Bronx,
who also ran, did not carry a single
county. In Brooklyn, which Thompson
carried against Miller. Wadsworth over
whelmed Mrs. Boole bv ratio of near
ly seven to one. State wide, Senator
Wadsworth defeated Mrs. Boole by
about 31z to /,
Miller's Majority Nearly 134,369
The vote for the Republican candi-
dates for Governor, with 752 of the
7,274 election districts missing, fol-
lows:
Miller, 24G,173
Thompson, 126,979.
Or these figures the complete vote
estimated--is:
Miller, 276,412.
Thompson, l42,0 ,043.
Miller's estimated majority in the
state, 1S4,369.
Judge Miller carried New York City
by ajority of 1894 over THOMPSON
Miller's majority in Manhattan was the
largest given him in the entire state
nc get 23,s4l votes to Thompson's
9.0S3.
The vote for United States Senator
III the Republican primaries, with sl3
Wadsworth. 242,299.
Boole, 1881.
Payne, al GAL
The vote in the Democratic primary
for the Senatorial nomination, with
l,l26 election districts missing, was:
Walker, 105,5l9
Lunn, 47,142.
Vote in Kings Surprise
AS Jared the DESIGNATED candidates
FOR places on the state tickets in the
two major parties, so Jared, in most in
stances, the contestants for the minor
ofhces, the asDirants backed by the or
ganlzation winning in practically every
case.
The vote in Kings was the surprise
OF the day, and the large nxmber Of
Brooklyn Republicans who voted for
thompson reflected the Livingston
sentiment OF the borough, according to
local leaders.
According to some Brooklyn Repub-
licans the Thompson vote foreshado ows
the deposal OF Jacob A. Livingston as
+ the Republican leader of Kings County
by the followers Of United States SEN
ator William NJ. Calder.
Livingstons own Assembly District
the 22d-was carried by Thompson
by vote of :633 to 1887. In his own
district clubhouse a week ago, where
ne had invited Thompson to speak,
Livingston, who was supporting Miller,
attacked Thompsons Americanism
Thompson's reply to the attack caused
the Republican organization workers
to flock around him at the close of his
speech and promise him their support
Remember Lockwood's Shelving
Another element in the BROOKLYN
vote was the indl~nation OF local or