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NEGRO SUES TO GET ALDERMAN 1C SEATHarlem Man Short 401 Votes, Insists White Rival.Indications now arc dial not one of the nfgiw who claimed elc Moil »•* die Board of .\lrtrrn!«ii on lhr morning atier'' Novfinbfr 6 util sit wtih that body. Juror's i\ Thomas. Jr. the Harlem negro law) er who run on the Republican ticket In tbs Twenty-sixth district anil first appeared to have won. In nuking a lar.t attempt lo gain u seat Ilia attorney yesterday appeared In tbr Supreme »*ourt und .asked for hii order permitting an Inspection of ballot*.Robert S Mullen.Ills' rift Attorney of poured for bin father, who apparently has candidate. and 8Ald•*\Ve appreciate the anxiety of the negro voters to send al leant one Alder-, man 10 the Board. They have succeeded . In sending .one representative totheformer •Assistant The llrnnx, up. Aldertnan Mullen, beaten the negro__theAssembly. But III this election, not-1 withstanding the fact that the Itepuhl!-cans have gerrymandered the Harlem j district III the hope of mitkli'K H h .-me negro district, the white I 'emocratic1 candidate got 2.*33 votes and the negro Republican only 2.431.Justice tilegerlch Adjourned argument on the motion until Monday.
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New York Sun
New York, New York, US
Fri, Nov 23, 1917
Page 6
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