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Show I f " I! ; New York's Candidates for Mayor: i (left to right) John Furroy Mitchell, 1 Morris Hlllqultt, J. F. Hylan and W. j M. Bennett. By Frederick M. Kirby. t J NEW YORK, Oct. 9. A Tammany j or Socialist mayor for New York I which? j1 That seems to be tho outlook for the election November G, as the result of 1 a primary in which fraud and trickery x j played a big part, and which has re- I suited in a four-cornered race. I Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, the Fusion candidate elected in 1014 with ) a non-partisan administration, faces I the probability of defeat because of tho nomination against him of William M. Bennett, a Republican. Sixty to ) 70 per cent of Mitchell's support In I 1 1911 came from Republican sources. 1 1 He opposed Tammany then and won. But in the Republican primary just held, William M. Bennett, a Manhattan 1 Republican decided to run against him. t The Fusion committee failed to take j Bennett seriously. When the ballots were counted Mitchell Mit-chell apparently had won by a small margin. Bennett demanded a recount. The results were surprising. Hundreds Hun-dreds of ballots marked for Bennett had had the penciled "X" nibbed out and the "X" inserted buCforc Mitchell's name. Before the count was complete Mitchell conceded the nomination to Bennett, but announced his intention of running independently. The Tammany nominee is Judge J. F. Hylan of Brooklyn. William Randolph Ran-dolph Hearst is supporting Hylan, and with the Republicans split between Mitchell and Bennett, th Tammany organization vote is likely to "put Hylan Hy-lan over." But another factor enters. This year, for the first time, the Socialists have a chance to put a mayor into office. This is true, partly because of the mixed situation and the three candidates candi-dates in the field against the Socialist,! and partly because the campaign is going to be fought on the issue of the! war. There has been some attempt to talk about municipal ownership (which Tammany has endorsed), and to which Mitchell leans; and there is more or less desultory campaigning about the "Garylzed public schools." Judge Hylan, too, is doing his best to appear excited about his charge that "tho foundations are running the city." But Mitchell has staked bis whole campaign on a demand that the people peo-ple endorse his straight-out American-Ism, American-Ism, and his loyal support of tho administration ad-ministration in the war. And Morris Hillquit. Socialist candidate, can-didate, has accepted tho Mitchell chal- lenge, and the whole Socialist campaign cam-paign turns on opposition to conscription, conscrip-tion, and on demands for peace. I The Now York World has conceded Hillquit a vote of at least 125,000 and 225.000 would sweep the Socialists into power in every branch of the city administration. ad-ministration. A large section of New York's population of foreign parentage Is Socialist |