New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Justice Aspinall Breaks
Livingston Slate for the
Supreme Court Nomina.
tions i'm Second District
Swami Democratic
Choice for Bench
Five Sitting Judges, IN
dorsed by Both Parties,
Are Named i'm Manhattan

Early returns in both the Republican
and Democratic primaries in the First
and Second Judiciary districts indi.
Gated that the organization states
given out by the party leaders for the
Supreme Court nominations were fol
the most part successful. The big sur
prise came, however, in Brooklyn, Sec,
ond District, where Justice Joseph
Aspinall. Republican, whom the Liv.
ingston-Kings County organization
failed to designate for denomination
was practically sure of crowding out
one of the regular designees. The Liv.
ingston slate appeared to be badly
broken.
The first hundred election districts
in Brooklyn gave Justice Aspinall
1905. There was only one higher vote
than his at that time, that for County
Judge Norman S. Dixie, which was
1889. Justice Aspinall also was run
ming strongest of any of the entries
of the regular slate. Justice Lester
W. Clark, of Richmond, the other Re-
publican judge turned down by the
Livingston faction, made poor show
ing.
Strahl Breaks Democratic Slate
The vote polled in both judiciary
districts was light. Returns at mid
night showed that four of the five reg
dates for the Supreme Court in Brook
lyn have been nominated. Jacob Strahl
Municipal Court justice, apparently
has crowded out one of the regulars
The five candidates designated by the
Democrats were Federal Judge Edwin
L. Garvin, Justice Townsend Scudder
County Judge Burt Humphreys, Of
Queens; Edward w. Mcmahon and AS
sistant Corporation Counsel Charles J
Druhan.
In the 1st District, including Man
haitian and the Bronx, there were nine
nominees to be chosen from fifteen
candidates in the Republican primaries
and eleven in the Democratic primaries
rich, Platzek, Erlanger and Ford, who
were indorsed by both parties, re-
ceived the full organization vote cast
on both sides. Outside Of the fusion
candidates, the regular designees ap-
parently were nominated.
Swami Named by Democrats
District Attorney Edward Swami was
among those nominated for the Supreme
Court by the Democrats. Justice Will
lam p. Burr, former Corporation
Counsel and sitting by appointment
by Governor Smith, and Justice Ed
ward J. McGoldrick, also sitting by ap-
polntment, were nominated, the returns
indicated. They ran slightly ahead of
some of the four Democratic justices
whose terms expire this year and
who were indorsed by the Republicans.
On the Republican side, in Manhat.
tan and the Bronx, the regular desig
nees, outside of the fusion candidates
went through with a large vote ahead
of the three independent candidates
lican, indorsed by both parties, re-
ceived proportionately larger vote
from the Democrats than the Republi,
cans in the returns of the first SOC
election districts.
James O'Malley Nominated
James O'Malley, who was defeated
for Surrogate last year by James A
Foley, his Democratic opponent, re,
Court in the New York County Repub-
llcan primaries. Isidor Wasservogel
and Henry X. Davis, of the Bronx
regular Republican designecs, also were
successful.
The regular designees in the counties
outside of Brooklyn and Queens in the
I'd District-Richmond Nassau and Suf-
folk-with the exception of Justice As
pinall, apparently got tho organization
vote. Justices Aspinall Strong and
Dixie were heading the Republican vote
in Suffolk in the early returns. The
Democratic organization candidates
wore welF in the lead in these counties
In Manhattan and the Bronx (First
District) Isadore NJ. Levy, Raloh v
Wechsler and Joseph r. Clevenger, the
three independent candidates out OF
the twelve in the Democratic primaries
were far in the rear of the regulars
Four hundred and fifty election dis
tricts, out Of 953, in Manhattan, gave
them ono vote to four for the organ
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