Evening star., 1936-11-04
NEW YORK MARGIN
|SUNPRECEDENTED
Roosevelt Lead of 1,175,-
600 Over Landon Piled Up
in State.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 4.-The
greatest majority ever given a candi-
date for the presidency by New York
State was rolled up yesterday for
Franklin D. Roosevelt on the basis Of
nearly complete returns.
A lead Of more than I.175.000 votes
for the Democratic candidate was re-
corded in the contest between him and
Gov. All NJ Landon for New York's
Al electoral votes.
The count in 1921 districts of the
$3.50 in the State was: Roosevelt, s.
1874; Landon, l.s80.233.
Only the Republican landslide of
1920 registered a plurality approach
ing that given Mr.. Roosevelt. Then
New York State gave Warren G. Hard
ing 1,089,s2 more votes than James
M. Cox. The total vote for all candi-
dates was 2.ss3,672.
Even in 1882, in the landslide which
removed Herbert Hoover from ONCE,
Mr.. Roosevelt's plurality was only $685.
996 in this State.
Lehman bcn1n0 freSluent.
Lehman, however. ran behind the
President. With 1927 election dis
tricts reported, the Governors count
stood at 2,673,036, against 2,1109l3
for William F. Bleakley, Republican.
That Tammany Hall went down the
line for the Lehman ticket
was apparent from the tremendous
pluralities rolled up in the metropolis.
President Roosevelt's complete vote
in New York City was 2,0l6, ,204, against
$50, 746 for Landon. His metropolitan
plurality Of more than 1856 900 con-
trasted with his city plurality in 1892
of 871 900 over Herbert Hoover.
Lehman's city plurality was 922,038.
In the city's own political struggle.
a Tammany-supported candidate, Will
liam F. Drummer, won the presidency
of the Board of Aldermen over New
bold Morris, Republican.
The vote Of the American Labor
party in New York-on the ballot with
the same presidential electors as the
Democratic party-was l82,923, with
3,100 districts reported. This party
was formed for the announced pur-
pose of mastering strength among
Progressives and trade unionists.
Parties Trade ii House.
The same party in 1877 districts
rolled up 1882 votes for Lehman.
Its vote outside this city was not yet
available.
Republicans and Democrats traded
victory and defeat in the congress
sional races. Representative Vito
Marcantonio. only Republican men,
Der from Greater New York, lost to
James j. Lanzetta, Democrat.
Upstate, in the thirty-third dis
trict, Fred j. Douglas, Republican,
won from Representative Fred j. Sis
son, Democrat.
Bertrand H. Smell, Republican
House leader. was returned in the
thirty-first district upstate. In Pres
ident Roosevelt's home district. Rep
reSentative Hamilton Fish, Repub-
lican, was reelected.
New York State had 16 Republican
and 26 Democratic Representatives,
with one vacancy, in the retiring
Congress, plus two Democratic Rep
resentatives at Large. Those two in
cumbents. Matthew ]. Merritt and
Caroline ODay, won reelection.
G. o. p. Margin in Assembly.
Incomplete tabulations showed the
State Senate probably would contain
80 Democrats to 81 Republicans and
the Assembly rs Republicans and "a
Democrats.
Mr.. Roosevelt polled 1884, $50 votes
In New York State in 1882 to / 1,e37, 1853
for Herbert Hoover. and Gov. Lehman
polled 2,65s.5l9 to William j. Dono-
vans Republican) 1,s12,0S0. Two
years ago Lehman's majority over
Robert H. Moses Republican) was
808, 1901.
The President, as was the case in
1882, failed to carry his home COM
munity of Hyde Park.
Among the upstate cities which went
Democratic were Albany, Buffalo and
Observation-Disclosures for the first
time in its history in q presidential
election. Syracuse, Ithaca, Fulton,
Batavia, Oswego, Geneva and Cort-
land, among other cities, went Re-
publican.
Alfred e. Smith, 1928 Democratic
presidential candidate, who cam
paigned this year for Landon, had no
comment on the results. Smith car
ried the city. but lost the State in his
presidential race.