Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1920 — N. Y. “REGULARS” WIN [ARTICLE]

N. Y. “REGULARS” WIN

Organization Candidates of Both Parties Carry'Primaries. Wadsworth Walker for Senate—Nonpartisans Lead In ColoradoSmith Wins in Carolina. New York, Sept Ift—Republican and Democratic candidates who received the indorsement of the unofficial state conventions at Saratoga won decisive victories .in all statewide contests in Tuesday’s Not York state primary. With 2,549 districts missing of a total of 7,274 In the state, Nathan L. Miller of Syracuse, former judge of the state Court of Appeals, Republican organization designee for governor, led State Senator George F. Thompson of Niagara by 77,782 votes. Gov. Smith was renominated without opposition by the Democrats. United States Senator Wadsworth, backed by the Republican state organization, won an easy victory over Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the state Women’s Christian Temperance union, and George H. Payne, New York city tax cttomlssioner. ’ Lieut-Gov. Walker, organization candidate for the Democratic nomination for senator, apparently defeated Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady by a vote of more than two to one. Organization candidates also proved victorious in virtually all the contests for congressional, legislature and judicial nominations. Harriet May Mills, unopposed Democratic candidate for secretary of state, was the only woman nominated for state office, by the two major parties. The prohibitionists nominated Irene B. Taylor for secretary of state and the socialists named Hattie F. Krueger for treasurer. . ,

Montpelier, Vt., Sept. 16.—The Republicans of the primary nominated James Hartness of Springfield for governor in' a four cornered contest. The vote of the other candidates, Frank W. Agan, Fred H. Babitt and Curtis S. Emery, was close. Denver, Colo., Sept 16. —The slight lead of James M. Collins, nonpartisan and (labor candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, almost overshadowed Interest in the other contests tn the statewide primary. With most of the city vote heard from and a majority of the country precincts unreported, Collins was leading Rober M. Higgins, former state treasurer, by a little more than 100 votes. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 16.—United States Senator Wesley L. Jones led three others seeking the Republican nomination for senator in the primaries. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 16.—United States Senator Ellison D. Smith was re-nominated by South Carolina Democrats in the primary, unofficial returns to the Cblumbia_State’from forty-four of the forty-six counties indicated today.