The Portland daily press., 1894-10-31
FIGURES THAT SPEAK.
Tammany Districts Show Great Fall
ing off.

Tammany Districts Show a Great Fall
ing off.
Registrations Totals Which Bring Joy to
Republican and Gloom to the Wigwam
Heavy Gains Uptown.
IN. Y. Tribune.)
Republicans and anti Tammany men were
jubilant yesterday over the results OF the
four days registration of voters, winch
ended Saturday night with grand total
of@0S, 402. This was within l,246 of the Presl-
deItial registration of 1892, and an increase
over last year of AZ, 453. 1t required no care
full analysis of figures to see that they per-
tend crushing, overwhelming defeat OF
Tammany Hall for.the losses from last year s
registration have all fallgn upon Assembly
districts usually carried by Tammany, while
all the gains have come to those districts In
the upper part of the city. which have been
carried by the Republicans and which are
reasonably sure to show largely in
creased Republican and anti-Tammany
vote.
The first sixteen Assembly districts. all
but one of which are claimed for Tammany,
and which have given in the past the bulk
of the Democratic and Tammany majority
in this city. show falling off in registra-
ton, some of them a heavy reduction. The
Ist District loses in the four days registra-
ton, as compared with 1892, LOO; the lid.
which is presided over by the notorious
Paddy Divter, is short about 2,O0U, al
though less than dozen of these ahsentees
went to Sing Sing; the Hid. where Timothy
'sDry Dollar Sullivan commands, also
suffered in way similar to Paddy"
DIVERS land goes ''shy'by over l.u0(; the
WITH loses 500 ;the With, 100. the VI tn, 60.
the With, l,400; the With. 1900; the Xth.
600; the XIth, 800; the XlIth. 100; the AllltE
200; the XIvth, $50; the XVIII, 49,, and tlfe
XVIth, 500, a grand total of over ll,Oo0
votes lost in Tammany's strongholds.
The remaining districts of the city, which
cast the bulk of the respectable vote, make
up these loses and raise the increase to over
$4,000. There was, therefore. abundant
reason. for the rejoicing and qualification
which prevailed at all the Republican and
anti-Tammany headquarters yesterday.
Good political calculators estimated the fall
| ing of on Election Day from the Iegi stra-
ton at less than 10000. or at about 100000
| votes Allowing to the Prohibition, Popu-
| list, Social Labor and the other smaller fac
| tions, and for blank and defective ballots.
| they estimated the vote to be divided be-
| tween Strong and Grant for Mayor 27O,000.
| If Grant should reach the seemingly impos-
| sible vote of 10000. which is greater than
| Tammany was ever able to cast unaided,
| Strong's plurality will stand at the satisfac-
| tory figure of 10000. This ex-Sneriff U Brien,
| Francis NJ. Scott, Maurice J. Power, Charles
| j. Canda, Colonel Robert Grier Monroe and
other prominent Democrats opposed to Tam
many were inclined to think yesterday was
| too low an estimate. Mr.. Beekman placed
Strong's plurality at not less than $4,000,
and few of the Others would agree to drop
it below $4,000.
General c. II. r. Coils, who is chairman
of the Republican Committee on Election
officers, and has given the registration care
full study, said yesterday that there was
great deal of comfort for Republicans. not
only from the enormous registry developed.
| but from the fact that in Republican dis
| tricts there is so large percentage of In
| crease, while in the Democratic districts
| there had been even greater percentage
! of decrease. Those districts which are
| pretty evenly balanced also show an in
| crease. OF this increase he believed that
| the Strong Golf ticket would receive 70 per
cent.
| General Coils said that he suspected that
| some of this big increase in the upper dis
| tricts might come from false registration
| by Tammany Hall. A canvass in his As
sembly District, the XXIVth, showed in ono
election district nearly 10J registered yo-
| tiers who say that they have been living
| there only one or two months. Many might
be legal voters, but the General means to
| look into these cases with care. and, with
| the aid of Superintendent Brynes, means to
| have as many of them in Jail as attempt to
| vote Illegally.
| AT Tammany Hall and Grants Union
| Square headuartsrs yesterday nobody cared
| to talk about the big registration, until W..
j. K. Kenny, the Supervisor of THE City
Record got down his statistical records
andstried to prove that the big drop in the
lower districts, was simply caused by the
| people who had moved out of the districts,
either uptown or to Brooklyn and New Jer-
| sey, their places being taken by immigrants
| not yet naturalized. The increase in the
upper part Of the city came, in Mr.. Kenny's
| view from the natural increase OF popula-
| tion, together with the movers from down.
| town districts. During the afternoon Dis
| irict- Attorney Fellows dropped in and con-
i Cured in Mr.. Kenny's views. But all of
1 their figuring would not explain the terrific
drop of nearly 5000 in Paddy" DIVERS
and DRY Dollar Sullivan's districts.
Many Tammany Hall men privately admit
| ted that they saw no hope for the Tamma-
| nv ticket since the registration.
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