The New York herald., 1921-09-15
PRIMARY PRESAGES
DEFEAT FOR HYLAN
Republicans Find Five Fac
tors Considered as Omens
of Victory.
CURRAN'S VOTE FIRST
Party Unanimity, Coopera-
tiOn of Candidates, WOm-
ems Aid, Tammany Fight.
ALL ALIVE TO REAL ISSUE
Haskell, La Guardia and Ben
nett Pledge Personal Service
and Cooperation.
ALL ALIVE TO REAL ISSUE

Chances for Republican success il,
the coming municipal campaign have
improved so per cent. In the minds of
politicians who surveyed the situation
following the primary on Tuesday.
Here are some of the facts upon which
they based their conclusions.
Size Of the Curran victory, which
showed him having unexpected
strength as a campaigner
Analysis of the vote, which indicated
that the Republican leaders all owe,
the city, with few exceptions, had
worked in harmony for the success of
the Organization" ticket. Not in
years has such unanimity OF action
been seen among the different bor-
oughs and the different groups in each
borough.
The establishment OF absolute and
| complete cooperation between the vic
| torious candidate for Mayor AMI his
| three rivals at a luncheon given by
| John j. Lyons, Secretary OF S,ate,
| who will remain as the personal cam
paign manager of Mr.. Curran.
The effective driving power Of the
Republican women as shown by their
| campaign work in the primary.
And, last but not least. the ugly
, clouds hanging over Tammany H1ll as
a result Of the bitter fight of James
| j. Hines for the Democratic nonina-
| ton for Borough President of Man
| haitian.
May Disrupt Tnmmany.
The announcement of Mr.. Hines last
night that he would seek recount OF
the vote with the prospect that the de-
cision for Miller, the Murphy phone
booth candidate, would be overthrown.
and that he would ask the Governor for
an investigation, promised a situation
that might disrupt Tammany Hall. 1t
| was said that the Democrats this year
would have to face the same sort of
trouble that the Republicans did four
years ago when William M. Bennett
charged fraud in the primary and sue
ceeded in having himself declared the
/ NlGlOT III tie GOHlt5L loi tiO -baJ VI hisy
| nomination.
The extraordinary victory Of Mr.. Cur
ran came out with great vividness as the
vote was analyzed. Not only did he
carry every borough. but he actually
got majority of all the votes cast. That
majority was 3f.0s4 out OF a total vote
Of 175,264. He carried forty-eight of
-. n rf In. fln
greater city. while Fiorela II. La
Guardia, President of the Board Of AL
dermen, got ten and Judge Reuben l..
Haskell carried only four. all in Brook
yn.
In Manhattan. which he carried by
plurality of 2o,34S over La Guard.a. Mr..
Curran was ahead in all the twenty
three Assembly districts except the
First. Second. Eighteenth and Twentieth
which went % The Aldermanc President
Each one has strong Italian popula-
| ton.
The districts carried by Judge Haskell
were the Twen.y-third tthe one in which
he lives). the Twenty second. which adj
joins 1t. and the Twentieth and Sixth
all in Brooklyn. Incidentally the
| Twenty second Is that of Jacob A. Liv-
ingston. the Kings county leader. But
| he could not prevent Haskell carrying II
| two years ago. although at that time
| he worked desperately for Haskells de-
| feat La Guarda carried the Third,
Eighth. Thirteenth. Fourteenth and
| Nineteenth Assembly districts In Brook
| lyn. while the fourteen others went to
| Curran, some Of them by extraordinary
majorities.
La Guardia picked up one district In
! The Bronx. Curran won in the seven
/ others. In spite of the prominence OF
wet sentiment In Queens Haskell did
4 not carry a single Assembly district.
i That in itself was taken to show that
I the Republican voters were keenly alive
TO the real issue this fall and were not
! going to be led astray In their deter