Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-20
Greatest Plurality Ever Given a
Philadelphia Candidate.
GREAT SURPRISE TO THE REPUBLICANS
Disappointment and Depression OF
the Democrats.
DID NOT HOLD THEIR OWN

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, February 2O.-It
was after i o'clock this morning when the
count of the vote cast in this city yester-
day was completed. Not only were there
more ballots put in the boxes than ever
before but the ticket in every ward was
cut up to such an extent as to make the
work of taDulatin the vote very difficult
In a total vote of PA, ,747, Charles +. War
wick, the republican candidate for mayor,
has plurality of GO,9S9 over ex-Gov Robt.
e. Pattison, the democratic standard bear
er. This is the greatest plurality ever
given candidate in municipal contest
the previous record being $1,000, received
by Edwin S. Stuart in 1891.
The result is a pleasant surprise to the
republicans, the most sanguine of whom
did not dare to predict more than 4o,Uoo
plurality for their ticket The conservative
members of the party, before the election,
even expressed themselves as satisfied II
they got 10000.
Consequently, there was unusual rejoic-
Ing in the early hours this morning when
the republicans realized that their candi-
date had won by plurality in excess OF
their widest hopes.
Democrats Depressed.
The democrats were correspondingly de-
pressed. for they had good reason to an
ticipate victory at the polls in view of the
supposed disaffection in the republican
ranks believed to exist because OF the man
ner in which Mr. Warwick was given the
nomination over Senator Penrose. The
Pattison campaign had been conducted on
q reform, non-partisan platform, and the
leaders of the party were Sangulne that
their man would be elected. Gov. Pattlson
shared this belief placing his own pluraity
at 10000.
The result shows that the expected re
f,,p F1ffiSOn did material
ize. The full strength of the democratic
vote was not even given him, democratic
strong holds like the third, fourth, sixth.
eleventh, twelfth and seventeenth wards
either going against him or giving very
much reduced plurality in his favor. All
of these wards are in the third congress
sional district formerly represented by the
late Samuel J. Randall, and the result
shows that the McAleer or anti-Harrity
democrats still have the knife out for any
candidate whose election is advocated by
the national chairman.
Roney Ran S,S.7 Behind.
William j. Roney, Mr.. Warwick's COM
pa1ion at the head of the ticket. as candi-
date for receiver of taxes. ran only S.S21
behind the ticket Mr.. Roney is brother
in-law of Leader David Martin and 1T was
expected that he would be extensively cut
hy the republicans opposed to Mr.. Mar
tins leadership. The independent and
Municipal League candidates Jared very
badly, not one of them being elected. In
several instances candidates vigorously op-
posed by the Municipal League ran ahead
of the ticket.
Women were voted for school directors
for the first time under law recently
passed. There were seventeen such candi-
dates scattered throughout the city, but
only one was elected, the fortunate woman
being Anna Longstreth, republican, in the
fifteenth ward, who ran 129 votes ahead Of
Warwick and got the highest plurality on
the ticket in that ward. The other women
candidates We're nominated either by the
democrats or prohibitionists in hopelessly
republican wards and they therefore had
no chance of being elected.
In the state the same story is to be told,
the city and borough elections in the east
ern half resulting in almost unanimous
republican victories.