Evening star., 1937-10-11
REGISTRATION SETS.
MARK IN NEW YORK
2,484,312 Figure Is Record
for Exclusively Municipal
Election.
" the AsSocia ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 11.-A great.
record-breaking turnout Of registrants
the biggest in history for An exclu-
Sively municipal election-has lined
up to settle the complicated and bitter
New York mayoralty campaign on
November 2.
Completion of the tabulation dis
closes 2,484,312 had signified their in
tention Of voting-159,92 more than
in 1888, previously the banner munich
pal year. Party Affiliations were not
disclosed
This showing was accepted by pro-
ponents OF Mayor F. H. La Guardia
as heartening on the general prin-
ciple that the higher the registration,
the greater the number Of "independ-
ents" attracted to the registration
booths.
Below 1886 Registration.
Advocates Of jeremiah T. Mahoney,
the regular Democratic candidate,
could point nevertheless to the fact
that 1t was lesser total-by 415,e72-
than the 1886 registration, when the
presidency was at issue.
1t has been generally true here, as
in most great cities, that normal or
subnoomal registration tends, other
things being equal, to favor the So
called machine" candidates, indi-
eating that it's mainly the party faith
full who have taken the trouble to
qualify.
II there is an independent" can
didate, La Guardia is that one.
He is the Republican nominee, the
American Labor party nominee, the
choice of the city Fusion group, and
Is being supported as we'll by the
Communists and by one wing of the
Socialist party.
Mahoney Beat Copeland.
Mahoney, who beat the Tammany
designee. Senator Royal S. Copeland,
IN the Democratic primary and who
Is running as the choice Of pro- Roose-
welt Democratic leaders outside Man.
haitian, now is promised united Demo-
cratic support-from Tammany chief
eo1ilS Allu hi TIC resi-.
Not in many years has 4 city cleo
ton here been so hard to categorize.
No single major bloc can be as
signed to one candidate exclusively.
Organized labor is sharply divided, al
though claimed preponderantly for La
Guardia. An inestimable number of
Democrats will not vote for the Demo-
cratic nominee; an inestimable num-
Der OF Republicans will not vote for
the Republican nominee.
Socialist Party Split.
The Socialist party, like nearly every
other group Of significance, is split.
One wing is pro-La Guardia, but an
other is angry at La Guardia, at Ma
honey and at National Socialist Leader
Norman Thomas for his alleged deal"
to withdraw in favor Of the Mayor.
and has put up its own man, James
P. Cannon.
AZ there Is no single definite issue
locally, SO there is none from the
national point Of view. Mahoney ran
In the Democratic primary as a pro-
New DIAL candidate. But La 0uardia
has been favorable to nearly all major
Roosevelt policies, and supported the
President for reelection last year.
A highly interesting side light de-
veloped yesterday in 4 copyrighted
article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
saying the Mayor, continuing his hos
tility to most organization leaders
OF both major parties, had made
plans in his tentative budget to drop
from the city pay roll several lead
ing politicians. including Frank v.
Kelly, Brooklyn's powerful Democratic
boss, a close political friend of James
A. Farley
Kelly Is public administrator Of
Brooklyn At q $4,000 salary.
The week ahead will find the cam
paign reaching heightened tempo.
The arguments will center around
these main claims:
BY La Guardia-That Mahonev is
the candidate Of discredited machine
politicians.
BY Mahoney-That La Guardia is
the unstable choice OF the red 'front.'"