The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-20

will be a diminution In the number Of polit
ical organizations in this city. Seven q
them. ranging from big to little, took par
in that election. Judged in proportion Il
their numerical importance by the record u
previous elections, the probable effect OF
their existence may I've foretold.
The defeat encountered by Tammany wa,
not the first, or most serious, in It's history
Tammany has been beaten just as badly ~
now. without any appreciate effect on H.
subsequent course. In the municipal cleo
ton OF 1872. when for the last time in New
York until now n Republican Mayor wa,
chosen, T%aninany polled for its unsuccess
fnl nominee $4,000 votes. and was beatrf
all along the line. The next year. with the
Mayor a Republican and all the city Office.
In hostile hands, Tammany rolled for the
head OF its local ticket, the candidate III
Sheriff, q 1900 votes: turning the adverse
majority Of the year before into n Tam.
many majority Of 81 900. The election Of
1875 was n rout for Tammany. a Repubii-
can District Attorney being elected by u
majority OF 10000, III anti Tammany Re.
corder by $1,000, n Republican Judge Of the
Superior Court by 81 900, and an titan
many Judge Of Sessions by -. 900. In 1876,
however, the whole Tamnany ticket was
triumphant from Mayor down 10 Aldermen.
In the election Of 1884 1ammany Hall s,t.-
tained what seemed to be a crushing defeat.
GRANT, its Mayoralty candidate. polled only
$4,000 votes in a total Of 22s. OOO, a much
smaller proportion than he polled ut che re-.
cent election. But the year following. Tam.
many was again successful. and 1t carried
the city In every election at the eight con.
tests succeeding. The result. of the recent
defeat Is not likely to be dissimilar. Sup
port OF Democratic IDEAS in New York is nm.
tagging and perennial. Reorganization,
thorough n radical, always follows in
Tammany Hall a defeat at the polls and the
Democracy energies from such a conflict
stronger than before, and better able to cope
with its Republican ndversaries and their
Democratic allies.
Their recent victory fully ~justifies the ex-
ultation Of the Republicans, but il does not
necessarily indicate that they will achieve
the political results which they are expect
ing. In the election of 1851, for the only
time in the history of New York politics,
the Republicans carried the city OF New
N'hNsh ''Ah pN ~
majority Of 10000. In the municipal cleo
ton OF the same year GEORGE OPDYKE,
Republican, was elected Mayor, and all out
ward indications were favorable tn the per-
manent Republican control of the city, the
Governor, State officers, and Legislature
all being OF that party. At the election Of
1852, however, the Democrats elected their
Governor, and at the next Mayoralty elcc-
tion their Mayor, the Republican candidate
being third In a triangular contest.
The perpleSities OF the situation for the
after the first of January next,
include, rs was the case after Jan. |, 1878,
a Republican Mayor with n " Committee of
Seventy" on his hands. 1t was this fact
which crushed out this hopes Of the last Re
publican Mayor, HAvEMEYER, who, like
STRONG, was "A member Of the committee;
and IL is the expert Judgment Of men Of all
that the success Of the new Republi-
administration will he regulated by the
or unwillingness OF the new
to cut adrift from the Seventy.
to do this made Mr.. HAyEMEYER's
administration unpopular, and put back the
Republicans rs much as twenty years.
In default Of complete official figures, it
appears that the State Democracy OrganiZa-
lion suffered, In some respects, more from
the recent election than Tammany. Though
Z ran candidates for Congress in seven Of
,he ten districts Of the city. and Assembly
md Aldermanic candidates in all thirty. no
state Democracy man won anywhere except
he Assemblyman In the Tenth district who
lad been endorsed by Tammany, and the
AlHaFnnan In thu T.rantx am ,.I,n, Al.
Republicans supported. The late election
eft Tammany outvoted, bur united. It left
he State Democracy outvoted and split in
wo, the larger faction under the leadership
FAIECHTLD, supporting the WHEELER
ticket, 10 the extent OF 5000 votes, and the
mailer one under the leadership OF GRACE
numbering about Z 1000 having given a futile
upport to Senator HILL. The insignifcance
the State Democracy as an ally for the
Democracy, was shown By the small
1t made to the HILL vote and its
allure to elect a solitary local candidate in
ny district.
The Independent County Organization ap-
cara Ia NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by the re-
ult OF the recent election, because, unlike
State Democracy, there were no defec-
NoAa iAcAi AIMS aiAh hStthlse ia those dis
riots In which 1t is best organized, chiefly be-
Nv Fourteenth street, encouraging results
attained. Not only did they give MAORI
rs for the STRONG ticket, but they went
p~nerally for the MORTON ticket, too, putting
his organization in line with the majority
the next Legislature, without whose IN
'ryention the recent city election will be
holly without benefit TO any Of those out
de factions that were united in support Of
le STRONG ticket.
4. MIHOLLASD, the leader OF the
Republicans, has gone TO the
Orio1s climate VI California for rest and