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"An act of courage," applauded Mayor LaGuardia, and other New Yorkers agreed. For besides being a good Democrat, William Francis Xavier Geoghan is a good Roman Catholic, a fact important to Governor Lehman last week. Mr. Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed to renominated Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., Senatorial Candidate James Mead. To appease conservatives, Candidates Lehman and Poletti last week indignantly repudiated the proffered support of New York's Communist Party.