The sun., 1896-09-27
POLITICAL VOTES.

The opening rally Of the Prohibition party OF
| New York will be held at Carnegie Music Han on
| Thursday, Oct 8, ana the speakers will be Joshua
lowering. the Prohibition candidate for Presidents
| Hale johnson, the Prohibition candidate for Vice.
President; Prof. Samuel Dickie. Mayor OF Albion,
! Mich., and Chairman Of the Prohibition National
| Committee; oliver W. Stewart, Chairman of tho
! Pittsburgh Convention, and ounce Morrow OF
| Wilmington, Del.
| There arc twelve persons on the civil service
eligible list for appointment as 'investigators."
| There are only six, onehalf many, on the oiigi.
bio list of tho Civil Service Commissioners rs driv'
| ers, kind of employment given to many In the
| city departments. particularly In the Park Dc.
| partmcnt. the Department of Public Works. which
| has 100 drivers and cartmen, tho Department or
| Street Cleaning, which has $50; the Bureau OF
| Markets, the Department of Street improvements,
| and the Department OF Charities. The Civil Ser.
vice Commissioners not practical: twelve in.
| vestigators, six drivers.
The Republican majority in the last state cleo
| tion In Kansas was 10000, In Kentucky s,oO0 In
Maryland 1901 In Michigan 1oe.892, IN Mime.
| sofa 8O,0l3, in Ohio 98,022. in Wisconsin $4,000,
in Iowa 90, 900, in Indiana 10000. and in Illinois
| 10000. These are some of tho so-calied doubt
| full" States.
| Tho Republicans. at their County Convention in
Lyric Hail. have put In tho held for tho only coun-
ty olce be led at this year's.election DR.. Tat
| tie of the Ninth Assembly district, and to this ex-
| tent the purpose of the Convention which amend
ed the State Constitution in 1sb+ has boen frus'
| trated. The purpose OF the elections article was
to separate positively and definitely State and ma
tional from local and municipal elections. Yet
here the voters of New York called upon In the
first Presidential election following the adoption or
| the amended Constitution TO declare their party
preferences the Coronership, and It is the nrst
record in which that ofice was the most
bat ltyn nla IN mn.
nicipality the county ticket It has not yet been
determined who Will run IN opposition to DR.. Tut.
tie on the Tammany Hall ticket, but there is some
talk OF II. Def. Baldwin the state Democracy
candidate for this oflce. He is now one OF the en-.
ployces OF the Corporation Counsel's ONCE and is
sometimes described as "a State Democracy man
through and through" The jurisdiction OF the
Coroners' ofllce is OF tho Through and through
variety" and It is for that reason that Mr.. Bald
wins candidacy does not lack support in State De.
mocrncy circles. to state tho fact more exactly,
| In the State Democ-acy-circle
The political situation in four the silver States
Colorado, Nevada. Idaho. and Montana, is peculiar
from the fact that portion, at least, II not ma
Jority OF tho regular Republican organization is
| favorable to Mr.. Bryan the silver question, and
in.each OF these States the Republican State Con.
vention has put up a complete set of Bryan Republi
can electors In opposition to the Mckinley Republi-
electors the factious OF the Republicans fus
ing with each other on State ard Congressional
nominations. These four States, Colorado, Ne.
vada, Idaho, and Montana, are greatly interested
In the silver product, and they are large States,
too, with extensive land surface, but not much
voting population. Colorado hasa land area OF
| over 100, 900 miles, Idaho $4,000. Wyoming 97,.
600, and Nevada 1O9, ,OO0-in all 500, 600 square
miles, about nine times tho size OF the
| State OF New York. But In the election OF 1892
Mr.. Harrison received only $4,000 votes In Colo
RADIO Clcss than half his vote IN ConnectcuD, 49,
900 in Montana (he poled "a 900 votes in the city
OF Buffalo, $500 In Idaho Syracuse gave him TO-.
5000, and 9, 500 In Nevada dess than the Republi-
polled for Mr.. Morton for Governor In Long
| Island City in 1890.
The rival Prohibition parties have set up candi.
| dates against each other for Governor and other
ori gers in Massachusetts, the Middle of the Road
| men choosing a Lowell man and the narrow-gauge
Prohibiionlsts a Nantucket man to head their re-
spactive tickets. The campaign song OF the mar
row-giuge Prohib!,ionist this year is, The Dram.
shop on the Kings Highway The Middle of the
Road Prohibitionists have adopted, who'll Be tho
Boy for the Placer" q. --
six contracts for asphalting that amount in the
aggregate to-s6O GOO were let out last week by
the Department OF Public Works, and all the surety
bonds-furnishec for.the :compet,on:of the work
were, the extent of $4,000, given by Philadel-
pha institutions
Herman Sulzer or the Ihlrty fourth Assembly
district is a candidate for the Tammany Hall rom-
ination for the Assembly in that district this year
and by vote OF the Boart OF Aldermen, approved
by the Mayor Sept. 8, he has been oficially per
itted parade the streets OF this city with four
cames and four donkeys," said permission to con-
tinue up and including Oct. is. The donkeys
are to be 10 to donkeys.
These are the three newspapers in which propos.
ais for apparatus house for nre material in the
annexed district to be published by vote OF
members of the Fire Board: The Union, the Morn.
ing advertiser, and the Aduance.
Some Democrats are recalling the fact that after
the surrender OF the Democratic organization
to the Liberal Republican Convention of 1879
and the consequent defeat OF the party In this
State OF the crushing results OF It, tho
Democrats won in the election succeeding. that of
1878. in New York, and In 1874 the Deroc
1ority in the State so. 900. Ir State of the
country is the support OF Democratic principles
more steadrast and enduring than in New York,
and defeat stimulates. usually. to moro vigorous
effort In the next election.
The outlook for appointment under the municipal
civil service is not encouraging 10 applicants at
present, although two OF the Civil Service Commits
sioners have recently returned from their summer
vacations. There now 500 applications file
for the orce of clerk. and any one nng his appli.
|
twenty mouths Statesmen desiring clerical places
in the service OF the city should apply for the OF.
hce OF Junior clerk, for which they would stand q
somewhat better chance OF appointment.
Under the administration OF Shipping Commits
sioner Maurice j. Power tho affairs OF that depart
ment OF the United States Treasury service have
been greatly improved, and recent reports on he
in Washington show, the Governments protec.
tion TO American mariners has been largely and
Judciously extended at this port. During the last
two years there has been visible and marked in.
crease in the number OF American sailors, and as
protection has been extended to these In respect
the terms OF their service and payment, the
dtion OF American seamen has been improv ved.
The ONCE of Shipping Commissioner was created
for the protection OF sailors. and the record in
once OF Maurice ]. Power shows how far, and ir
what ways, such protection may be extended.
Joseph Murray appears on the records OF the
Comptro!ier's ofrice as the assignee of two claims