The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-03
REPUBLICANS AGAIN
WIN LEGISLATURE
Mold Majority, 36 to Is, in
Senate and Increase Lead to
III to 33 in Assembly.
SOCIALISTS CLAIMING IL
Walters, Thompson, Sage,
Law, Marshall, Russell and
Dodge Will Not Return.

Dodge VIII MOI return.
Republicans will control the next
Legislature. They have increased their
majorities In both houses. If Gov. Smith
I is reelected the old deadlock between
I the executive and legislative branches
will continue in Albany for the next
two years. If Judge Miller wins he will
have undivided support of the State
government
Early returns indicated that the politi-
cal complexion OF the coming Legis.a-
ture will be SO Republicans and Is DEM
ocrats in the Senate. and III Republi-
cans. q Democrats and Socialists in
tho Assembly.
The Socialists at midnight asserted
that they had elected eleven Assembly
men and two Senators, although outside
OF the five present Socialist Assembly
men their estimates are not confirmed
They claim to have elected Samuel E.
Beardsley over Senator Bernard Down
ing in the Fourteenth district in Man
haitian and Edmund Seidel over Senator
Peter A. Abeles, Republican, in the
Twenty-second district in The Bronx.
Downing was a fusion candidate. The
Assembly candidates the Socialists con-
tend are elected are:
Kew York--Theresa s. Malkiel Of the
Fourth district; Elmer Rosenberg,
Sixth: Louis Waldman. Eighth; August
Claessens. Seventeenth, and Isadore
Phillips. Eighteenth; Marion II. LANG.
Fifth.
Bronx--Samuel A. Dewitt, Third dis
trict, and Samuel Orr, Fourth.
Kings-Henry Fruchter. Sixth district;
Henry jaeger. Fourteenth; Nat Rubin.
Nineteenth; Charles Solomon. Twenty
third.
Late reports indicated that Senator
Downing beat out his Socialist oppon-
feated Seidel and Assemblyman Sol I'LL
man. fusionist, defeated Rosenberg.
Ramsperger Is Defeated.
Senator Samuel J. Transporter. the
dean of the upper House Of the Legis-
lature. was defeated by his Republican
and Prohibition opponent, William T.
Martin. The Democrats had elected
Transporter to the Senate regularly
since 1899. and his defeat Is one of the
big surprises of the election. The Demo-
Gratis also lost their Senate seat from
Rensselaer, county.
Rensselaer, county and Ramsperger's
district in Erie were the only two up
State Senatorial districts that had been.
up to this election. represented by
Democrats. The Republicans also
gained three seats in the Senate from
Kings county: Maxwell S. Harris in the
Fourth, William T. Simpson In the
Fifth and George NJ. Reischman in the
Ninth. Harris and Simpson defeated
the Democratic incumbents, Senators
Kenneth Sutherland and Loring M.
Black.
The Republicans also gained one seat
Ina New York county, Ward " Tolbert
defeating b. Elliot Burston in the
Twentieth district Elizabeth v. Gil
lette of Schenectady county, Democrat,
and one of the two women members of
: the Assembly. was beaten BY William
w. Campbell. Republican.
While "a of the 81 Senators and 113
OF the $50 Assemblymen are expected to,
return, both houses will be minus many
OF their most influential members.
Speaker Thaddeus c. Sweet. who as
pired to the Republican nomination for
Governor and who engineered the trial
of the five Socialists last winter. win
be among the missing and lively fight
is on already for his place.
Assemblymen II. Edmund Machold Of
Jefferson, now chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee; Assemblyman
Joseph A. McGinness of Chautauaua.
ui.I Assemblyman Edward A.. Everett
cf st. Lawrence. have announced their
candidates.. The chances favor Ma
chold, with McGinness succeeding him as
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
would Gust Socialists Again.
Everett has announced that he would
run on a platform of Americnnism. and
would insist on again throwing out the
five Socialist members who were ex-
PEELED from the Assembly at the Inst
session. Any further attempt to revive
the Socialist custer however, win I'M
doubtedly be frowned on by the leaders.
Simon L. Adler of Monroe and Charles
ID. Donohue of New York are expected
again to be the majority and minority
leaders respectively.
~, Among the Senator's who will not re-
turn are some of the men who enlivened
Senate debates for years. They include
j. Henry walters of Monroe, the ma
tority leader who has come to New York
as attorney for the b. Z. Keith vaude-
Vile circuit: George F. Thompson OF
Niagara, the chronic Republican insur-
gent who was the Prohibition candidate
for Governor, and Henry M. Sage of
Albany for years chairman of the
Finance Committee and who probably
had greater control over rhe finances OF
the State than any other State official
except the Governor himself.
Other Senator'S who will be among the
missing are Walter W. Law, Jr.. of
westchester: ". Monroe Marshall Of
jefferson, the Republican nominee for
State Treasurer; J. Samuel Fowler OF
Buffalo Charles r. Russell of Brooklyn.
Abraham KapIan. Joseph ID. Kelly and
william COPELAND Dodge OF New York
Marty McCue Goes to senate.
Among Assemblynien who win go to
the Senate are Martin @. McCue of New
York, Frank L. wlswall of Albany, AL
Ian j. Bloomfield of Madison and DE
Hart II. Ames Of Cattaraugus. Theo-
dore Douglas Robinson. nephew OF the
late President Roosevelt, will return to
the Senate from Herkimer county after
nm absence Of several years The Roose-
welt family will also be represented In
the Assembly. Theodore Roosevelt son
Of the late President, having been re-
elected from Nassau county.
John X. Yale, one of the most In
fluential members of the Assembly back
In the days when Ed Merritt OF 81.
Lawrence county was majority leader,
was elected TO that body from Putnam
county. He had been away from the
Legislature for six or seven years.
1t II expected that Senator John u.
Mullan of Monroe county will succeed