New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-22
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WURSTER.S ELECTION Sd FE.
THE OFFICIAL COUNT MAKES HIS
PLURALITY 2.1SS.

PEc1rrARITIEs OF THE CoUNT-JUpGE CULLEN TO
PASS on LAW poINT-THE COUNTY
CANVASS DRAGGING ALONG.
The Brooklyn Boarl OF Aldermen last night m
Ished the canvass OF the vote on the Mayora'?
ticket. and found as was expected that Frederic"
". Wurstcr the Republican candidate. haH p'''
elected by substantially the same plurality a. w
claimed for him by the Republicans on me Po'''
returns the night OF election. The Tribune %" '',
Wednesday morning following Election Day SHn
that Mr.. Wurster was elected by small ou' Sa''
plurality. and that II would probably be above jill
teen hundred. The offcia' canvass completed las
nigh. gives the totals follows:
Wurster 77i2). GroL:. 75.2S7; Shepard 9''V' zee
horn 9. Smith Prohibition. S5. Matcnett Soe'ai'.-
Labor 1850: G. T.. smith. Peoples Party. 30 BANK
ballots II 29l defective 1873 scattering. T. WIZ
sieTs plurality. 2.i35
The vote furnishes an interesting study IN many
OF rs features Mr.. Wursi,r. on the oilici. cA'-
vass gained a vote or two over Mr. Groni 10 near
~ every ward on Thursday nigh, following We
election The police returns gave Wurster 1'f3' ana
Grout - 36l d plurality o. 2l'3 for ne io'ih".
The Democrats. WIKI Mr. Grout setting ne exam
pie Immediately sol up CRY % fraud desot" the
fact that not d Democratic election official ont %.
about 800 appointed by the Democratic Genera
Committee able to offer particle OF PROOF
that there hal been any irregularities. NJ @roni
after the official canvass was begun, asked Tor q
wit OF mandamus requiring The Aldermen - Sh'"
cause why they should not count al the baI.o'-
thrown out by tn election officials as detectIr
Judge Cul!eu's decision OF this point - eNpr. ~
this week /, is conceded that about One-haIi ~
the defective ballots Republican and The otnei
half Dem ocrafic that II Mr. Grout succeeds Ii
compelling the OH c!al canvassers 70 20 all over ~,
vote again he VIII not gain thing out IN" IL
will OF suffering public. Nj. Wursier cannot be
declared elected until Judge Cullen has ruled on
the question u defective ballots
The Prohibition vote is disappointment 10 tHe
lea lers Of that party. Ordinarily they poll about
sixteen hundred votes. The figures show faliinl
of Of - per cen, Matche,t. the SOcialist-!a BOZ
candidate for Mayor. than doubled on that
uartv's normal vote 40 Ole seems 10 know how
20 account for The blank ballots. on an average
two men IN every election districi were thick mead
"a enough t. turn into the ballOt-bo1 a perfectly
blank ballot. thinking. no doubt that they mad
defective ballots il surprisingly small. considering
he ihree-corner~d hght, there being only about
three 10 an election district. In the Twsnty-thri
District 81 the Twsnty-thrl Wari. humorist vot
FL for Grover Cleveland for Constable.
TIE county canvass by the Board 81 supervisors
Is dragging along slowly. In the NNiIlth Assembly
District where Waldo Republican. and Higgins
Democrat. have both been claimng election the
Official canvass makes Nj Wai0 a winner by a
plurality OF IS In the With Senate Distrc- tht
vot- on supreme C0ur; and County Court Judges
X much mixed Every night The supervisors nave a
small amy % canyassers before them 10 explain
ava clerical errors and discrepancies.