Evening star., 1937-10-31
NEW YORK RESULT
TOPS INTEREST IN
TUESDAYS VOTING
La Guardia Given Chance
to Win Over Mahoney
for e-eIeCtion.
RACES IN OTHER CITIES
MARKED BY BITTERNESS
New York State to Select Three
for Congress-Virginia and Jer-
sey to Select Governors.
Bv G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Election day-Tuesday-w be a
mild affair compared to what may be
expected in 1888 and 1910. Never
theless it holds set of municipal
elections that vie with other election
days in interest. New York. Detroit,
Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland are
all choosing mayors and other officials
after campaigns Of varying degrees of
bitterness
Two States, New Jersey and Vir-
ginia, are electing Governors. Va
cancies in the National House of Rep
resentatives are to be filled. three in
New York State and one in Virginia.
The mayoralty campaign in New
York City has attracted the most ma
tional attention. Mayor La Guardia
Is seeking reelection on a Fusion
ticket-with the backing of the Re-
publicans, the American Labor party
and other lesser political organizations.
Against him is running the regular
Democratic nominee, jeremiah T. Ma
honey. with the blessing Of Chair
man James A. Farley of the Demo-
cratic National Committee who also
is chairman of the Democratic State
Committee of New York.
La Guardia Conceded Chance.
1t will be an amazing thing If La
Guardia wins re-election-and he is
given an excellent chance for victory
by many observers. Four years ago.
in a tfree-cornered race in which he
opposed two Democrats. La Guardia
won with vote of 866,552. O'Brien,
the Democratic nominee and Tam
many candidate, received 586,672. and
Mckee. a Democrat running as the
candidate of the Recovery party"
with the backing of Mr.. Farley. had
600, ,053 votes. The combined O'Brien
and Mckee vote would have sunk
La Guardia had they been combined
aginst him. This year la Guardia
faces only one Democratic candidate,
Mahoney.
The Democratic enrolment in New
York is tremendous, when compared
to the enrolment of other parties.
1t is something like 1,600,o00 to 300,-
900 for the Republicans. The ENROLL
ment of the American Labor party.
which was formed last year TO sup
port President Roosevelt, is smaller.
1t is quite apparent that La Guardia
must receive a very large number Of
the votes of enrolled Democrats if
he is to win reelection. He is count
ing on strong support from labor and
the American Labor party is doing its
level best for him. On the other hand,
La Guardia is an anathema to some
of the Republicans, although he has
the Republican nomination. Many of
the anti-La Guardia Republicans
voted for Senator Copeland of New
York in the primary, when the Sena-
tor was running in both the Repub-
lican and Democratic primaries. Sen
ator Copeland was regarded as the
Tammany candidate in the Democratic
primary, but he lost there, too.
Supporter of New Deal.
La Guardia supported President
Roosevelt in both his campaigns for
the presidency. He has been a sup
porter of New Deal policies. Notwith-
standing. Farley. Gov. Lehman. Sena-
tor Wagner. author of the Wagner
Labor Relations Act, and all the Roose-
velt Democratic leaders in the city
have turned in for Mahoney.
Although he was not the original
choice of Tammany and a majority
of its district leaders, Mahoney has
been labeled the "Tammany candi-
date" by La Guardia. 1t is against
the organized machine, backing Ma
honey, which the Mayor is making his
campaign and on the plea that he has
given the city an honest government,
which, he says. it could never have
with machine Mayor"
The Republicans in New York are
backing La Guardia in the hope they
will be able to destroy Tammany and
put check to Democratic machine
control of the city. Dewey, racket
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