New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-04
BROOKLYN ALL DEMOCRATIC.
.mrAn SWEEP IN KINGS COUNTY.

,rnnwAv HAS 1887 PLURALrrY-wHIrEs Man
o,u or 80-rwo REPUBLICAN AssEMpLrMhN
= Practically 0 clean sweep was MADE py the oe"o
-. of Brooklyn on the city and county ucke's
CITY Judge and two Coroners being lost oy '"c ne
,.blioans and nothing gained. On Congress and the
xs..mbly the Republicans held their own. s. " White
sncoeeds Oar win r. James by narrow plurality but
<ha eletiou Ia likely to be contested by his opponent
Tas xIth Assembly District represented last year by
an lndependent Republican, elected by Democrats
v,l now be represented by Labor Democrat elected
Nv the same votes The Republicans offset this ioss
however by the election of John Reitz. IN the with
Distr,ct The lXth IL the only other Republican dis
trict, as 1t was last year.
The Board of Supervisors will have eleven Demo-
cratic majority year has this the gain OF one
Republican in the Sixteenth Ward being offset BY the
ioss Of the Nestor OF the Board John L. Ryder OF
the town of Flatlands who, after continuous service
for over thirty years suffered his first defeat MS OPP
moment receiving 35 more votes than he.
The burden Of the Democratic ticket was borne by
District-Atorney Ridgway, who swept the county oy
1857 General Tracy attributed his defeat in Part Part
knights of Labor organized to vote against him.
The TACT that he lie the attorney Of the Atlantic Avenue
Committee to show that bill limiting the labor OF
etreet-car employees to twelve bours was unconstitu-
tional as drawn up, was used against him with dam
aging effect His breeding Of tottng horses and the
Interpretations in regard to It probably lost MN
many votes. District-Attorney Ridgway was asked
Yesterday II he would see that there was no poo
or gambling on the race-tracks In Kings county his
The election is over now, and shall not answer
that question" . -,o -.
Major W. c. Beecher received not quite 2, 500 votes
ont OF total of 1OI 900. He said that bis vote was
larger than he expected lie believed .na' Dr'
Cuylers sermon, however, lost him many votes. ,
Of the other candidates the county ticket the
Coroners- elect are Dr. A. j. Rooney, by 77o3 piu-
Sslity over Dr. Menninger, and George H. Lipdfay by
1850 over DR. Hesse. County Auditor Lake is ro-
elected by 1921 over II. f. Townsend. Inc cry
ticket headed by /. b. Rutan, elec1ea e Noounty
r. H. Poi1lon. For Controller ei,Surrogate Living
ston is elected Police Justice Naeher by 6Is
and for City Judge w. j. Osborne has q ,3oZ more
votes than Judge Reynolds. rvs
The contest for Congress close in both the LID
and With Districts In the former error In the foot
ings of the ward totals Tuesday night was found
yesterday reducing the plurality for s. " hte rom
las to lis Later it was found that an error had
heen made IL the vote for White in the fourth
district of the Nineteenth Ward reducing his vote by
81 With these corrections he has piuraiity OF on
over Bell Rudors were circulated yesterday that
evidence had been found showing the use OF money
In securing votes Ii was alleged that detectives had
certain proof II any such Is forthcoming 1t will be
lad before the Graud Jury No action had been taken
ties last evening in the matter. Supervisor Bell MI
Whites opponent, said he would take Gil legal means
to sustain his claim to the seat; o,o
Congressman Bliss secures his seat by only 29S,
falling OF of over 800 votes. In the lld Congress
sionai District Felix Campbell is reelected by large
majority He received IA 1893 votes. The Prohibition
candidate. j. w. Sleck, received 3,737. and James
Donovan who withdrew after the Republicans IN
dorsed him. had 1887
The vote on tie State ticket shows these results
Daniels A, O97: Peckham, 81, $50; Groo, 1855;
Peckbam's plurality 1O,663
The following tables show the results by wards ior
District Attorney and City Judge:
VOTE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY BROOKLYN