1910 New York state election

History

The Socialist state convention met on June 26 at Schenectady, New York. They nominated Charles Edward Russell for governor; Gustave Adolph Strebel for lieutenant governor; Mrs. Bertha Mathews Fraser, of Brooklyn, for secretary of state; Orcus A. Curtis for comptroller; Sylvester Butler, of Schenectady, for treasurer; Henry L. Slobodin for attorney general; William Lippelt, of Rochester, for state engineer; and Morris Hillquit and Louis B. Boudin for the Court of Appeals. Bertha M. Fraser was the first woman in New York history to be nominated for state office.

The Republican state convention met on September 27 and 28 at Saratoga Springs, New York. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt was elected temporary chairman. Roosevelt steamrollered the old political bosses, and made the convention nominate his choices. Henry L. Stimson was nominated on the first ballot after a nominating speech by Roosevelt (vote: Stimson 684, William S. Bennet 242, Thomas B. Dunn 38, James B. McEwan 35).

The Democratic state convention met on September 29 and 30 at Rochester, New York. Herbert P. Bissell, of Buffalo, was permanent chairman. John Alden Dix was nominated for governor on the first ballot (vote: Dix 434, William Sulzer 16).

The Independence League state convention met on October 5 at Cooper Union in New York City. Alfred J. Boulton, the People's Party candidate for governor in 1904, was temporary chairman until the choice of Herbert R. Limberg, of New York City, as permanent chairman. Hearst (at the time on board the Mauretania returning from Europe, and in contact by wireless messages) wanted the League to endorse the Republican ticket, but the delegates chose to nominate a separate ticket (vote: 212 for, 94 against, 93 did not vote). They nominated the chairman of the League's State Committee John J. Hopper for governor, and Hearst for lieutenant governor, and then adjourned. The convention met again on October 7, and nominated Dr. Thomas P. Scully, of Oneida County, for secretary of state; Arnold B. MacStay, of New York City, for comptroller; William I. Sirovich for treasurer; James E. Lee, of Rockland County, for state engineer; Robert Stewart, of Brooklyn, for attorney general; and Reuben Robie Lyon and James A. Allen, of New York City, for the Court of Appeals.

Result

The whole Democratic ticket was elected.

The incumbent Vann was re-elected. The incumbents Koenig, O'Malley and Williams were defeated.

The Republican, Democratic, Independence League, Socialist and Prohibition parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000 votes), the Socialist Labor Party did not re-attain it.

Obs.:

• "Blank, void and scattering" votes: 8,239 (Governor); 10,007 (Lt. Gov.); 10,695 (Secretary); 10,811 (Comptroller); 11,066 (Treasurer); 11,129 (Engineer); 11,295 (Att. Gen.); 429,307 (amendment); 448,869 (bond issue)
• In the Appeals Court election, Collin received 1,131,944 votes on the Democratic line and 166,915 as an Independent. Vann received 1,156,079 votes on the Republican line and 145,890 votes as an Independent.

Notes

Sources

• The tickets in Auburn (Soc., Proh., Soc. L.) in The Auburn Citizen on October 29, 1910
• The Rep. nominees: STIMSON FIGHTER OF BIG GRAFT CASES in NYT on September 29, 1910
• The Dem. nominees: DIX HAS RISEN FAST IN STATE POLITICS in NYT on October 1, 1910
• Result: FINAL FIGURES OUT ON STATE ELECTION in NYT on December 16, 1910 [omits judges]
• Result in New York City: Revised City Vote on State Ticket in NYT on November 10, 1910
• New York State Red Book 1911
• Result: The Tribune Almanac 1911

References

1. The annual salaries were $14,200 (Chief) and 13,700 (associate), and should have been increased by $1,300 each.
2. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/06/27/102042069.pdf ''SOCIALISTS NAME TICKET''] in NYT on June 27, 1910
3. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/09/29/105093406.pdf ''STIMSON HEADS TICKET AFTER ROOSEVELT PLEA''] in NYT on September 29, 1910
4. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/10/01/102047523.pdf ''DIX NOMINATED BY DEMOCRATS''] in NYT on October 1, 1910
5. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/10/06/105094251.pdf ''HEARST'S LEAGUE OUT OF CONTROL''] in NYT on October 6, 1910
6. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/10/08/105094707.pdf ''FULL HEARST TICKET''] in NYT on October 8, 1910
7. Dr. Thomas Alexander MacNicholl, of [[Pleasantville, New York. Pleasantville]], co-founder of the [[New York University School of Medicine. New York Red Cross Hospital]] (1893), Vice President of the American Medical Society for the Study of Alcohol, ran also in 1912
8. Gustave A. Strebel, tailor, of [[Syracuse, New York. Syracuse]], ran also for lieutenant governor in 1906, 1908 and 1912; and for governor in 1914
9. James T. Hunter (1870-1952), silversmith, ran also for Mayor of New York City in 1903, and for governor in 1914 [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0717FB345F177B93C5A9178AD85F468585F9 Obit] in NYT on January 7, 1952 (subscription required)
10. James Thompson (b. 1861 [[New York City]]), [[City College of New York. College of the City of New York]] graduate, manufacturer, President of the Village of [[Valley Falls, New York. Valley Falls]]
11. Reuben Robie Lyon, lawyer, of [[Bath (village), New York. Bath]], ran also in 1907 and 1908
12. Alfred Lee Manierre (May 4, 1861 [[New York City]] - Oct. 1, 1911 NYC), [[Columbia College (Columbia University). Columbia College]] graduate, lawyer, ran also in 1902 for governor, [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/10/02/104877290.pdf Obit] in NYT on October 2, 1911