The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-08
y,,tdnt-John Jeroloman, Grace Dem.

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Dem, I; disputed. 8.
There are thirty-one members Of the Board.
the President having q vote on all propositions
submitted to the Board. There seems. by the
unofficial returns, to be but twelve
Hall candidates who are sure OF their election.
The Republicans have hopes Of proving that
Lantry. in the sixteenth district. who seems to
have forty plurality, was not actually elected.
There are two other districts where the result
seems to be in doubt. and where the seat Is claim
ed by both the Tammany and the Republican
candidates. These districts are the Second and
the Twenty-fourth. In the former William IL.
Kilboy, Republican, says he has been elected on
the face of the returns, "a certified by the cleo
ton inspectors, by 30 plurality over Alderman
Nicholas T. Brown. Alderman Brown saws that
he Is elected by Il votes over Kilboy. He as
serts that the election inspectors erred in many
cases. in that they failed to return a vote for
him every time a paster for Sbarboro, the Re-
publican candidate for Assemblyman. pasted on
the regular Tammany ballot, partially obscured
Browns name. The right to go behind the re;
turns Of the inspectors will probably be asserted
oe In he other district. the twenty. fourth. the
first returns showed Alderman. John Long re-
elected, over Joseph Schilling; Republican, by
eight plurality. This Ia denied on behalf OF the
Republican candidate, who says he Is elected by
more than fifty votes.
with Brown, Lantry. and Long all elected.
one member OF the board, but President John
Jer o9ksr drd Is Z 1emoc so ;;b I, n tb rs 3 menid he Oh u
Democratic majority OF one on party questions.
But II the Republicans get any one Of the dis
leaders should be so Interested in the con-
troll Of the Board, whose powers have been
so abridged that, they cut a small figure
In the. municipal administrators, and In
i E,eM G may ih i%ss isGs ' the Board { rfS out Of eris asS
There Is one power possessed. by the Board OF
Aldermen, however, which. is OF the greatest
district the county OF New York into Assembly
districts.
amendment TO the Constitution providing for a
reapportionment Of Senators and Assemblymen
OF ~ th h Senstte districts We're liked by the Consti,
tutional Convention, and are as partisan and
unfair as the Republican caucus managers OF
that Convention could make them. The $50
Assemblymen which the amendment provides
for are apportioned BY il to the several counties
ave. The districts which these thirty Ave
Assemblymen are to represent must have
t aiaerm SSnnd elected hf ir 1 81 the viii hNasd Re- O.
publican Board there Is no doubt that every
sito %sp ~o .are Il REPUBLICAN %aaiit 20 es distr Gas az as i pos. fSHH Syy
clever gerrymand ering. As IL Is. the allotment
Of A.semblymen by the Constitution 70 this city
Is not In proportion to the population OF the city
yet ynes1 Republican publ M Board Of Aldermen Would try
as |. possible. The disastrous effect of the election
Of 4 Republican Board OF Aldermen, the Tam
many leaders who were not completely knocked
out by the election returns were not slow to see.
As quick TO see the advantage of a Republican
majority in that Board were Uncle Charley
Hackett and his lieutenants OF the Republican
State Committee. and when they learned that
the control of the Board was in doubt they sent
out ORDER to claim everything for the Repub-
lican candidates in the close districts, and fight
for the Aldermanic candidates AS though the
battle was for the Presidency OF the United
States.
The Democrats have this advantage, that
Tammany Hall has every member OF the present
Board OF Aldermen, which will canvass the vote
for members of the Board of Aldermen cast on
Tuesday. Just here 1t may be noted that one OF
the advantages which the Republicans would
gain by the control OF the incoming Board would
be that IL is 10 be charged with the duty OF
canvasslng the vote for Presidential electors
cast in this city in 1896.
Another advantage to be gained by the con:
troll of the Board Of Aldermen Is the control OF
the Sinking Fund Commission. which has the
administration OF the city's millions In property
and the investment of the millions of its sink
ing fund. This 10 an advantage which appeals
more TO the municipal reformers than II does To
tho practical politician In these days. The
Chairman OF the Finance Committee of the
Board of Aldermen is a Commissioner of the
Sinking Fund. The other members are. the
Mayor, the Recorder, the Comptroller, and the
City Chamberlain.