The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-21
NOT ONE LOW DELEGATE
WILL 90 TO THE CITY CONTENTION
FROM NEW FORK COUNTY.

Assembly DIstrict-The 500 Low OrEnniza-
ton. Make = Poor s~howInE-Amnsa Thorn-
ton Gets = Black Eye-some Local Tussies.
Uthere we're many Republicans in New York
,ounty who signed that wonderful Citizens
Union petition In favor OF the nomination OF
18th Low for Mayor. they did not make their
votes count for much at the regular Republican
primsries. held last night, the returns made at
b,adquarters, l Madison avenue, being &C.
cepted as Il criterion.
From those returns 1t was evident that the
policy Of tho leaders Of the organization ex.
pressed at the meeting of the County Commit.
foe ON last Thursday night had been fully in.
dorsed by the enrolled Republicans at the polls
IN their election districts.
In fact, It was a clean sweep for tho orgoniza.
ton, II n very few election districts of the 1900
IN the city are left out OF the question. Every
Assembly district was carried.
As these election district primaries simply
elect delcg ties to Assembly district conven-
tons, which choose the City Convention dele.
yates. It will be understood that the ultimate
result Of the primaries will be that not a dele
cate who IS favorable to the nomination of Seth
Low will 20 to that convention from New York
county.
The only district in the city where tho Low
men were eNUCClcu " SHOW any btTcnRIn WIS
the Tnenty.scventh. The Twenty-seventh takes
in the Union League Club and Murray Hill and
large sections of Fifth avenue. The Gifts have
been counting on the Twenty.seventh to break
.solid anti.Low delegation from the borough of
Manhattan in tho city convention.
The Twenty-seventh came out all right, how
ever. OF the 1876 delegates elected there will
probably be a majority of more than fifty for q
straight ticket and against Mr.. Low when 1t
comes to elect delegates TO the City Convention.
OF the twcnt!-three of tho thirty-fve election
districts in the Assembly district that THE Sun
had heard from. nineteen were for q straight
ticket. there was a contest in three, and one dis.
trict. the Thirtieth. was certainly for Low.
The nineteen districts have eiRhty.three dele.
gates. considerably moro than u majority OF the
whole number. In several election districts on
the east side the straight.ticket men did no,
vote at all, and the Low men got out and
hustled and were nightly tickled with them
selves.
In a great many moro districts on the west
side the Low men were not heard Of at all, and
there was no show of q contest. In the Fifteenth
Election district the primary was held in the
room OF the Roscoe Conkllng Club at the cor
ner of Broadway and Forty-tifth street,
A young man named Clisby wanted
to vote there. He was not an enrolled
Republican and he was q member of the Cts
Union. He wasn't permitted to vote. Their
was 4 row right on the spot and the young mai
went sailing downstairs. He came back will
half a dozen men who wanted TO vote. The,
wcre not enrolled either. and this time tw'
policemen LED the young man out.
In the Seventh election district Columbus O
johnson. Mayor Strong's Water Registrar. had
heap Of trouble. Mr.. Johnson's name wa,
stricken from the roll Of the party o
the district some time ago on the groun'
that he wasn't a good Republican. HI
vote was challenged. After a while. though
the regulars relented and let him vote. TIL
two election districts which were supposed t
be the strongest for Low were the Third and tn
Eighth. The anti-organization men won 1
them last year. Last night the straight tickle
men won by majorities of from 3 to 5 to l.
In the Twenty-hfth Assembly district, wher
Amasa Thornton had undertaken q fight, Charlie
A.Hess, the district leader, won a square victory
Amasa was a sadly disappointed man; He ha
city delegates in New York County to NJ
Worth for Low.
NIT II; T 5Siy q r sss t hIgssie t ass. aI;tF Isas lss
e. r result: H RS'''f Ia. besa RseosIssin
issGs f IN an is short wit To i Ind s' tSe@ .
promise him the nomination in the Twenty.lftl
ulstTlCL IOr ASSenDiymhn. II was oNluouI D
this that Mr.; Thornton had given up hopes @
delivering the fifty votes of the county for Lo'
to Worth and had gone in on his W hook.
The Republican leaders declined to e~ntertai
Mr.. Thornton's proposition TO mako him tn
candidate for Assembly in the district.
Most OF the district leaders who brought 1
returns to county headquarters last night RI
ported that there had been no contest whatove
In their Assembly districts. They wore aske
how this could be when the Cts claimed sue
strong organizations in their districts and the
replied that anyone who would pay $lo0a mont
70 keep up Assembly district headquarters. q
the Cts have done, could make o show at NEE
ings and the like, but when 1t came TO runnin
aticket in the Republican primaries they foun
that they didn't have tho enrolled Republican
with them, and Democratic can't vote at Repul
licAn primaries.
At the primaries last night delegates wer
chosen to all tho minor conventions. and ther
we're some sharp contests between rival cand
Gates for Councilmen. Aldermen, and Assem-
James A. Barcus Of tho Twenty.irst Assem-
ply district, who has been making q pioturesqu
canvass for Councilman In the Fourth distrtc
And who has spent Q great deal of none
II the preliminary skirmish. 10 said I
opposition Of Leader Abraham Gruber and
pave secured quite Q number Of delegates. Il
lad tho support OF the women and the clerg,
and the women hustled for votes for him II the
could not cast any themselves.
ton Is said TO have been In the, TMenty-seyen,
peeking denomination. It was said ut count
headquarters last night that Charles Russo
burke, the organization candidate. In likely
peat him In the convention.