The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-05
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The inauguration Of Mckinley and Hobart
will be on Thursday, March 4. 1897. Inaugural
ton day, 1899. fell on Saturday, . half holiday.

The inauguration Of Mckinley and Hobart
will be on Thursday, March 4, 1897. Inaugural
ton day. 1899. fell on Saturday, . half holiday.
Bryan carried the annexed district towns
Joined to New York by act of Legislature on
July /. 1898. Wakefield. WilliamsbridRo and q
portion of Westchcster rallied to the support OF
the sllverite nominee and gave him collectively
= plurality Of 25 votes.
Tho Socialist vote OF New York city at Tues
days election was so per cent. greater than the
vote of the National Democracy. Very few
honest-money Democrats threw away their
votes in this town. Tho smallest vote cast for che
National Democracy ticket in any Assembly
district of the city was In the Fourth. where
Deputy Surveyor Bowling is the National
Democracy leader. Gen. Palmer's vote there
was SO. The Socialist vote In the same district
was 855.
The State of Massachusetts, stands FIRST among
the States of the Union In respect of prompt
ness and accuracy of election returns. There
are $40 polling precincts in Massachusetts,, and
the voting hours in that State arc substantially
the same as In other States; six in the morning
until four in the afternoon. At Z O'Clock on
Tuesday evening the result Of the vote in Mas
sachusetts was known with practical accuracy.
The system of percentages as applied to the
vote In Massachusetts, made IL possible to state
the result there In Boston two hours earlier
than the result Of New York was known. The
polling places closed an hour later in New York
thaniin Boston.
William Mckinley will DO the twenty-hfth
President of the United States. On the 2oth of
February, SIX days before his inauguration, no
will be fifty-two years Of age, the Same age that
Abraham Lincoln was whom inauEurated in
1861. Mr.. Lincoln, like Mckinley. was born in
the month of February-on February IL. 1909.
He was inauRurated on the 4th of March. 1851,
twenty days after the completion of his hfty-
second year, whereas Mr.. Mckinley will be in
auRurated six days after 1t. Like Lincoln, Mr..
Mckinley served as . Representative in Con-
gress before his election to the Presidency.
1t is q question, which It will probably take
the official canvass to decide, whether the three
Tammany district leaders who protested and
inveighed against the endorsement of the Chi
cago silverite platform made q poorer showing
in support OF It than the three districts repre-
sented in favor of the summary and preoipitate
endorsement OF Bryan and Sewall and repro
Bented by the Tammany Hall Central Club. In
tho Twenty-seventh Assembly district the ma
jority against Bryan was 8. 500; in tho Twenty
ninth It was $500. These two districts have
long been In charge of James ]. Martin, who
spoke out courRgeously against the endorse
ment or the Chicago platform. In the Thirty
first Assembly district. also recorded against
such action. the majority against Bryan was
5.4OO. These were the three anti-BrSan dis
tricts in Tammany. In John Scsnnell's district
the majority against Bryan was 4 900. In tho
Thirty fourth. wherein the Tammany organize
tion is controlled by Henry D.. Purroy. 1t was
LOO, and in the Thirty-ffth, In which Mr..
Purroy resides, 1t was 100.
One unfavorable result OF tho support of
silver by the Democratic party In the State and
city is the damage done to the Democratic
clubs in town. The Republican social clubs
have benefited correspondingly. The Manhattan
Club since 1t has been in its new house at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-fourth street has gained
largely in membership. but the increase ceased
with the adoption of the Chicago platform In
July. The Democratic Club. its younger rival.
and an outgrowth of the Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club. put itself firmly in opposition to the
silver platform Of Chicago. but otherwise took
little part in the campaign. The club house of
the Democratic Club appears upon its books at q
valuation of $500. 900. but against this there are
q mortgage Of SIPS, 900 and bonds issued in the
form of a second mortgage of 100000. The
membership of the club Is about 700.
Two conspicuous public officials. one national,
the other municipal, did not vote at the eleo-
ton Of Tuesday. The first of these was Grover
"a VI sno bAh sssO ~
other was Patrick Jerome Gleason. Mayor OF
Long Island City.
Carrot A. Hobart, tho next vice-President
and twenty-fourth of the line of Vice-Presi.
dents, is the first Jerseyman. the first resident
of New Jersey. to hold that office. He was born
at Long Branch in the same year that William
Mckinley was born in Niles, o. The Republi-
cans of New Jersey, who have been endeavorinG
to get that State in the Republican column,
have triumphed at last through the election OF
Mr.. Hobart; but they have had a hard struggle
extending over forty years. When the Repub,
licau party was established In 1856, its frs,
National Convention was held at Philadelphia
on the 18th Of June. The Republicans went to
New Jersey for their candidate for Vice-Presi.
dent, William L. Dayton. The Republicans los,
New Jersey in that year. They barely lost It
getting four Of the seven electors, in 1860. They
had n Jerseyman ut the head of the Dem
ocratic ticket against them In 1864. carried II
in 1872, and continued to lose until this year,
when 1t is at last securely In the Mckinley and
Hobart column by a larger majority than II has
ever given n Democratic candidate. The St
Louis National Convention. which nominated
Mr.. Hobart for the Vice-Presidency, convene ed
on June 10. and made its nominations on June
ls-exsctly forty years after the first Republi.
can National Convention-forty years to q day
Monarchy nnd Popular Government.
Tt THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Prof. Felix
Adler, in his Carnegie Hall address last Sun.
day. argued that the American republic. equally
with n monarchy. rests upon force and the prin-
ciple OF divine right, tho only difference being
that while the monarch can, an supposed. do nc
wrong, with us 1t is the majority of the people
who can do no wrong His theory was that, In