New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
By Ernest Harvier

from New York City districts, of whom
only three-John MacCrate and Fred
erlck W. Rowe, of Brooklyn, and Isaac
Slegel, of Manhattan-are Republicans
Two districts, the 10th and 18th. are
vacant. In these districts Reuben L.
Haskell and Fiorello H. La Guardia.
both Republicans, were elected in 1918
congressman Haskell resigned to be-
come county judge in Brooklyn and
MAJOR La Guardia to become President
OF the Board of Aldermen. The other
seventeen Congressman are Democrats.
elected, most of them in the Demo
cratic sweep" of 1918, when Alfred Z.
smith was elected Governor.
Inc Republicans are counting upon
electing majority of the Congress-
men from New York City next month
twelve of the twenty three-and their
chances of doing this may be pro-
nounced good.
They start with two districts abso-
lutely assured-the 18th, in which Ma
than Perlman, and the Goth, in which
Isaac Siegel have been nominated by
both parties.
Two other districts are practically
certain for the Republicans-the 9th,
IN which Warren l. Lee, and the 17th,
IN which Ogden L. Mills are the Repub-
in Brooklyn. 1t was carried in 1916,
a Presidential year, by 1900 majority.
1t includes some of the strongest Re-
publican territory in Brooklyn. The
18th Us in nhattan-central Manhat-
tan, north of Fourteenth Street and
south of Ninety ninth. The great per-
sonal popularity OF Ogden l.. Mills with
all classes Of voters, attested when he
was chosen state Senator from nearly
the same territory and before his res
ignation to engage in war work, as
sures his election.
Five Other Districts Claimed
Five other districts confidently
claimed by the Republicans are the
9th, which is in Brooklyn; the 9th,
which is partly in Brooklyn and part
district), wholly in Brooklyn; the 18th.
in which Walter NJ. Chandler is run
ming for the fourth time, and the Gath,
which is partly in New York and West
chester counties. 1t is normally Re-
publican, and Benjamin F. Fairchild,
VINO was defeated by small majority
IN the Democratic sweep of 1918, car
rled it by 1000 majority in 1916, the
year of the last Presidential election.
Mr.. Chandler has had an exciting ex-
perience in this district. In 1912 he
Progressive; in 1914 he was reelected
for second time as a Progressive by
800 votes; in 1916 he was elected as
republican running against a for
mer Progressive on the Tammany tick
ct. In 1918 he was defeated bv a small
majority, carried away from the safe
harbor Of success by the swift-running
Smith current.
In the 5th District (Brooklyn) Ar
dolph L.. Kline, who was in turn an AL
derman and Mayor (afterward a Tax
Commlssloner), is the Republican can
dldate. In the 21st District, normally
Republican but twice carried by the
democrats IN recent contests, Martin
Z. Ansorge, who was a former candl-
date, is the Republican nominee.
his Is district in which factional
difficulties have separated the Repub-
licans in past elections. 1t is a Wash
lngton Heights and Riverside district,
including much of the growing terri
tory north of 125th Street which is
being honored by week"
This would leave the Republicans only
three districts to carry to procure their
round dozen-a majority of the New
York City districts.
Hope to Win in Eleventh
The first of the three districts which
the Republicans are hoping to carry is
the eleventh, now represented bv
Daniel j. Riordan and which includes 8
the section of the lower West Side
south OF Christopher Street, and that
portion of the East Side which is south
of Market Street. Ordinarily the dis
trict is Democratic, and the party has
made only perfunctory fight there.
This year the Republicans have in the
I!,i IIeid man of national distinction,
Wilbur f. Wakeman, secretary and
treasurer of the American Protective
Tariff League. Mr.. Wakeman has many
valuable connections in the district,
which includes Wall Street and con-
siderable part, if not indeed the larger
part, of the wholesale dry goods dis
trict. What is more important in a
political way, however, is the fact that
it includes the whole of Staten Island,
the shores of which on the north and
west sides of the island are teeming
with manufacturing interests of which
shlpbuilding is now the chief.
The district has a very large Italian
vote, which is almost solidly Republi-
can on the national ticket this year,
and there is reported considerable dis
satisfaction among Democrats with Mr.
Riordan, who is looked upon as a
Tamnrany representative and whose
chief strength is with members of the
Tammany Hall organization-an organ
lzatlon by no means in good condition
just now, having emerged from series
OF hard knocks administered from va
rious angles OF the political horizon.
Mr.. Wakeman is making an active per-
sonal campaign, and it is the judgment
of many persons familiar with this
district that he will carry Staten ISL
and by majority large enough
to otfset-and more than offset-the
Democratic majority in the Manhattan
end of the district.
Eighteenth a Doubtful District.
The second of the doubtful districts
is the Eighteenth, now represented by
| Congressman Carew, who had a very
large majority two years ago. The
opposition to Mr.. Carew's return pro
ceeds from various causes. At the
| September primaries James McGurrin,
Democratic opponent of the League
| of Nations, ran against Mr. Carew
and polled a substantial vote He did
not get enough votes, however, to get
the nomination, and as soon as the
primary results were made known the
redoubtable jeremiah J. OLeary de-
clared himself an independent candi-
date on what may be described as a
Sim Fein platform.
1t is a district in which the Irish
patriotic organizations are, perhaps,
stronger than they are in any other
EorrraSoioral district of Tho o,tv opd