The record-union., 1897-11-03

The vote of Van Wyck ir eyew Yoys K
County is approximately the same as
was cast for Bryan i'll 1896, which was
135, GA. General Tracy, Republican,
polled approximately $1,000, against
McKinley's vote of 156359 in New
York County, While Low, Citizens
Union, polled approximately 1900,
and George, Jeffersonian Democrat, 12,-
600
! In Kings County, which includes the
city of Brooklyn, the Bryan vote was
| 16,SS2, while Van Wycks will be al
most the same. Against Mckinley 8
vote of 109. .135, Tracy poHed approx
imately $4,000, while Lows vote is APP
proximately 5000.
In these two counties the straight Re
publican vote shows a falling off of
nearly 175,000, or in excess of the total
vote for Seth Low, while Tammany
vote equals. if it does not slightly ex-
ceed, that cast for Bryan.
The polling came within $4,000 of the
entire registration, which, considering
the weather conditions under which the
election proceeded, was all that could
be expected. The day was wet, foggy,
| ''muggy" to degree.
Whatever might have been the re-
suit had Henry George survived the
campaign, the elections, from the earli-
est returns, shows that the substitution
of the son of the father as the Mayor
atty candidate for the Thomas jefferson
| Democracy had proved q failure from
any but the sentimental point of view
| In fact, the George candidacy had
made but a beggarly showing. scarcely
, per cent. of the vote IN New York
City counted up to S o'clock having
been cast for the son of the author OF
| Progress and Poverty
The George vote possibly suffered by
the failure Of the Supervisors of Elec-
tion to supply large number of the
| precincts with pastors to attach to the
voting papers. The law requires that,
in the event of the death of a candi-
date before the date of the election, af-
ter the voting papers having been
printed, there shall be prllred and sup
piled to each precinct pastors upon
which is printed the name of the orig
inal nominee
| Although in the case of the Thomas
| Jefferson Democracy's ticket the person
/ substituted was of the same name as
| the candidate who died, Henry George,
/ the Election Board held that the let
| ter law should be observed and pastors
We're ordered printed and distributed in
| the prescribed manner. As already
| stated, the distribution was not done
| in all cases. and consequently many
voters We're under the necessity OF writ
/ ing in the name of the second Henry
| George, or voting the ticket as it stood,
neither Of which, ii is claimed, was
| literal compliance with the law. In
| some cases citizens who had intended
| to vote for George would not do so, an
/ ticipating that an attempt would result
| in the vitiating of the ballot as a whole
1t has been held in previous cases of a
/ somewhat similar character that the
evident intent of the voter should be
considered by the judges, and the vote
counted az regular and this rule has
! in all probability been followed in many
cases to-day.
! DISPLAYING THE RETURNS.
| NEW YORK, Nov 2.-The attraction
/ of the newspaper bulletin boards for
/ the crowds was not a whit less than IL
/ was last year at the Presidential cleo
! tion. The streets in front of the bull
! letins We're jammed With people With
very few exceptions every morning and
| evening paper in the city had bulletin
boards in front of its main Office while
some had them at branches. Some
had two and three big white sheets
stretched in from. OF their buildings dis
playing with their election figures, pho
| tographs and colored views and the
pictures of the candidates. From the
south side Of Nassau street 20 the park
IN front of the City Hall there We're but
| two lanes in the enormous mass of peo-