New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-10
FACTS DRAIN From TIE FIGURES.


The recent election once more illustrated
that bad weather hurts the Republicans more
than it hnders the Democrats. THIS Is natural
so far as the country vote of this tate
is concerned for the large majority OF
the country vote is Republican, and con-
sequently the storms which equally deter
voters of both parties from trudsing long
distances through mud and mire to vote, al
feet most injuriously the larger party. 1t Is
evident. by the smallncss of the country vote,
that this resulted from Tuesdays rains. But 1t
turns ont to have been the rule in the large cities
of New-York and Brooklyn, too, although the
polling places are numerous and easily reached.
I'm New York for instance, the falling oil OF
the total vote from the registration was some
thing unprecedented. IL averaged for all the
Assembly Districts 1913 per cent-a total OF
2s, O00-and brought the aggregate city vote
down TO less by several thousands than
was calculated upon. But IN the four
largely Republican districts the average
of falling off was POI per cent, while
in the Democratic districts it ran as low as
1872 per cent. II is not possible to trace this
reduction to changes in location. Ii may he
due in some measure however To the lack OF
interest which some feared a part of the
Repubicans felt in the local tickets.
The old Democratic stronghold, the With
Assembly District in this city, was turned
completely around on Tuesday last, and
went Republican by Liza majority on the
State ticket. Last year the contest there
was close on the Presidential ticket, but
the heavy majority of this year indicates
that able STATESMEN were abroad very
| Loft
We have many fears that the improvement in
that benighted Democratic region is not per-
manent
| 1t is now clear that if tho Republicans had
put up four Aldermen-at-Large on their
county ticket they could have elected them,
| leaving only two to the County Democracy
| Such a result, however, if attained, would
have been nothing less than inhumanity to
| struggling politicians for il would have left
the County Democracy with nothing more to
its credit Tor discredit, as one peascs) than
"Nike" Norton and William II. Kelley,
whom the faction leaders thought able
to "dispense with justice" in civil courts,
and an ineffective following of District Alder
men, but with not a single Senator or Con-
gresham whom they had not been compelled
| to take secondhand from Tammany Hall. How
| ever. they can congratulate themselves on the
successful return of their candidate TO ill va
cancy that does not exist in the Superior Court.
| Tammany Hall lost the only Office having any
patronage which the County Democracy had
| left t--that OF Surrogate. And il did not cap
| ture that of strict-AttOrney in its stead
| for Mr. McKeOn before the election de-
| clared many times that he should never
again aspire to any public position, and that
| he should conduct the Office Of District AttOr-
ney without reference to factions or parties
and solely in the public interest
The extraordinary reduction in the usual
Democratic majority Of Kings County fills the
| Democrats with amazement and the Re-
publcans with JOY, and both with great per-
plexity as to the cause. The former, as a rule
explain the disaster by saying simply, too
much bossism.r The Republicans SEQ in the
result the natural fruit of union on good men
on a straight ticket. The energetic and we'll
directed efforts of the Young Republican Club
had much to do with the success of
the city and county ticket, and this undoubtedly
helped the Republican State ticket The open
and rather shameless abandonment of the re-
form Democratic movement by its leader,
General Slocum, and its newspaper organ was
evidently very injurious to McLaughlin's
cause. Treason, to be successful, must be Sc
cretly planned. The fall off from the registra-
ton in Brooklyn was not extraordinarily large
as compared with the loss in this city, though
larger than in former years. 1t was about II
per cent, against 8 last year. This fact indi-
Gates the vigor with which the Republicans
worked and the great interest taken in the
Mayoralty election.
The result in this county ought to confirm
the Republicans in the policy adopted last
year of "a straight ticket" 1t was carried
out this year, with what success has been al
ready noticed. The Democratic factions, hav-
ing nobody else to dicker with, tried to unite
and compromise in the public view, and then
cut each others throats in the dark. We