New-York tribune., 1920-11-03
Six Senators
In City Gained
By Republicans
Upstate Democratic Strong
holds Also Carried; All
Five of the Ousted So
cialists Are Reelected
Gain Also in Assembly
Democrats Now Have Eight
Out of Twenty-three in
the Manhattan Delegation

The Republican landslide elected
four additional Republican Senators in
Brooklyn, at least two in Manhattan
and wiped out the only two Democratic
Senatorial districts outside of New
York City the 3lst, in Rensselaer,.
and the 49th, in Buffalo.
Lato returns showed the election of
sll Of the FIVE ousted Socialist As
sembymen. August Claessens, Louis
Wadman, Charles Solomon, Samuel De
Witt and Samuel Orr.
Another Socialist elected was Mrs.
Marion r. Laing, of the 5th District
OF the Bronx.
From Schenectady came returns
showing tho defeat Of Mrs. f. V. R..
Gillette, who represented the I'd Dis
trict Of that county in the lower. house
during the present year
. Three Republican Senator'S were
gained in Manhattan. A fourth who
It was thought might pull through
Albert Ottinger-was defeated by Ma
than Straus jr. Ottinger's record in
the Senate, to which he was elected
once and for which he has been de-
feated twice, defeated him He was
the author OF numerous unpopular
measures, including the bill invalidat-
ing oral leases, which was no sooner
signed by Governor Whitman than the
proateering landlords began dispossess-
ing tenants with whom they had made
oral leases. Ottingcrs district is over
whclmingiy Republican and he was the
only Republican in the district de-
feated.
Senator Bernard E. Downing, of the
14th District, which embraces the lower
East Side, was reelected Downing,
who had the Republican Endorsement,
q week ago regarded the district as
Socialist, and expected to see Samuel
Z. Beardsley, the Socialist nominee,
succeed him.
Gain Also in Assembly
Equally surprising were the Re-
publican gains in the State Assembly,
Manhattan, having fifteen Republican
Assembl blymen-elect out of twenty
three.
Brooklyn also showed Republican
gains.
The present representation in the
State Senate is 80 Republicans and 81
Democrats. The next Senate will have
close TO 40 Republicans, and the Re-
publican membership in the Assembly
-110-wilI be swelled to about 12O.
At least twenty of the ffty-one mem
bers Of the next state senate will be new
men. The defeat of Senator Samuel J.
Ramsperger, Democrat, Of Buffalo,
takes one of the most picturesque fig
ures from the upper house and Incl
dentally, its dean. Ramsperger has
been elected nine consecutive terms to
the upper house-eight years In all
During that time he has never made a
speech of more than 200 words
Roosevelt Nephew Reelected
From Herkimer reports indicated the
election Of former Senator Theodore
Douglas Robinson, former Progressive
State Chairman, to his old seat in the
upper house. Robinson, who is
nephew Of the late Colonel Roosevelt,
was forced out of office alone with
number Of other Progressive Repub-
llcans by the Whitman machine.
Both branches of the Legislature will
elect new leaders, as both Speaker
Ihaddeus c. Sweet and Senator J.
henry Walters, majority leader of the
Senate, have retired from public life
Asse mblyman II. Edmund Machold,
OF Jefferson; Assembl blyman Simon L.
Adler, of Rochester, present majority
leader, and Assemblyman Louis Nj.
Martin, of Clinton, are being talked of
Tor the Speakership.
The majority leadership of the SEN
ate WI 20 10 either Senator Charles
y. Walton, Of Ulster. or Senator John
Mullen, of Rochester,