The New York herald., 1921-11-10
TANMANY'S SWEEP
IS COMPLETE IN ALL
CITY DEPARTMENTS
Hylan Plurality, 417,986:
Hubert, 268,728 and
Craig 249,252.
NOW IN FULL CONTROL
Board of Estimate All
Democratic With so Ma
jority in Aldermen.
ALL BOROUGH PRESIDENTS
Panken. Socialist, Gets Only
$4,000 Against the 20O,-
900 Expected.
ALL BOROUGH PRESIDENTS

Virtually complete election returns
received yesterday showed that Tam
many Hall had won the most sweeping
political victory in the history of the
city Of New York. not only having
carried the Mayoralty by the largest
majority ever achieved by a Demo-
cratic candidate, but having captured
nearly every city. borough and county
office except one judgeship of the Su-
preme Court bench and the Shi ievalty
of Kings county.
Mayor Hylan was reelected by a
plurality of 417.9S6 over Henry Fl.
Curran, experimentation candi-
date, and Jacob Panken, the Socialist
aspirant. The only plurality that ever
exceeded his was that of 1884 ac-
corded President Harding last fall.
Mayor Hylan led the Tammany
ticket by handsome margin. Murray
Hubert. Commissioner OF Docks COM
ing second with a plurality of 26s,72S
over Vincent Gilroy, coalitionist, for
President of the Board of Aldermen.
and Comptroller Charles l.. Craig fol-
lowing with a reelection plurality Of
249,252 over Senator Charles C. Lock-
wood.
Tammany captured the five borough
Presidents, which with the foregoing
offices, gives Fourteenth street unani-
Df l,n I'D nf ca i
mate, directing body Of the city gov
ernment.
Women Drift to Tnmmany.
The voting was we'll up to the regis
tration. only 93,3sS absentees being in
dicated. The women contrary to pre-
dictions that they would trend to the
Republican candidates. drifted to Tam
many. IL any deviation from the line Of
the male vote was shown. The regis
tration was 1,26S,364 and 1,l74,971
voted.
Tammany already controlled the Board
Of Aldermen by Democratic total Of 81
against IS Republicans and Socialists.
that margin having been achieved
through keeping two Socialists out of
their seats for their two years terms
until last week. The election Increased
reduced the Republicans to thirteen.
wiped out the Socialists and put in one
Fusionist.
Harry E. Lewis, District Attorney OF
Kings county. Republican, was elected
to the Supreme Court bench for the Sec
ond district, nosing through in second
place with the aid of the normally Re-
publican counties of Suffolk and Mas
sau. Peter S. Seery. Republican, de-
feated Michael A. Laura, Democrat, by
24.50o, for Sheriff OF Kings county,
largely because Mr.. Laura's organiza-
tion repudiated him after he asked
leave of absence as Deputy Street Clean
ing Commissioner while under charges
Of having been concerned IN an attempt
to influence court in the interest of
an official OF the Street Cleaners Union.
Democrats in Full Control.
With the exception of what compare
lively slight patronage Mr. Seery will
control Tuesdays election gave Tam
many Hall not only the dispensation Of
every bit Of patronage in all municipal.
borough and county departments but
gave that organization undisputed sway
of the Board Of Estimate, the Sinking
Fund Commission and the Board of AL
derinen. which means the absolute di-
rection Of every city appropriation and
contract.
Jacob Panken. Socialist candidate for
Mayor. for whom his managers had
forecast 100000 votes. got only $1,000. ana
ran 1900 behind Harriet Stanton
Blatch, the Socialist candidate for
Comptroller. and 17.7o0 behind James
+. Oneal, candidate for Aldermanic
President.
Alderman August Ferrand. Republican
floor leader, in the old Forty-fifth. new
Forty-sixth. district. Brooklyn. was de-
feated by Fem, his Democratic op-
ponent. by $50. Bruce NJ. Falconer. Re-
publican, from tho old Twenty-third
new Fifteenth. district. had been gener-
ally forecast for defeat because Of racial
and religious issues raised against him
through his having opposed freedom TO
the city to DIR. Chain Weizmann. Zion
ist leader. and Archbishop Mannix Of
Australia. but managed to get by with
a plurality of 200 votes.
Also Garry Judiciary.
The Democratic victory in the judici.
cry contest was equally decisive, the
only loss on the Democratic ticket being
in the election to the Court of Appeals
bench. which was carried for Justice
William S. Andrews of Syracuse by the
upstate Republican vote. The Repub-
licans made a hard fight to elect Judge
Morris Koenig. brother OF Samuel
Koenig, chairman Of the New York
County Republican Committee. to Gem
eral Sessions. but failed
The tremendous reversion from the
Republican victory of last fall carried
INTO Office even the weakest county
Democratic candidates.
Mayor Hylan issued q statement
thanking the voters for the plura lity
they gave him. and added:
By their votes they have shown what
Continued on Page Seven.
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