Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-11-06
ELECTIONS.
Van Wyck Elected First Mayor
Of Greater New York.
DEMOCRATIC JUDGE WINS,
But Republicans Probably Retain
Legislative Control.
nuTn AMI MAPvT.ANn ppcuTrc
JUDGE WINS,
OHIO AND MARYLAND RESULTS

10th Go Republican on the State Tick
cts, but in Each State There Is a
Close Contest For the Legislature,
With the Chances Favoring the Re-
publicans Democrats Add Four
Senators and Twenty-Five Assembly,
men to Their Strength in New Jer-
sey's Legislature Fusion Wins In
Nebraska.
New York, Nov. 3-Tammany's vic
tory in the first municipal election in
greater New York is sweeping one
The only question remaining to be
settled is the one of the plurality by
which the entire ticket headed by Rob-
ert A. Van Wyck has carried the gil
gantic municipality. The returns from
all the counties in the state indi-
cate plurality OF more than $4,000 for
Alton 3. Parker, Democratic candidate
for chief judge Of the court of appeals.
His plurality in greater New York is
13305S. Van Wyck, Tammany candi-
date for mayor of New York, has 3D.
54S plurality over Seth Low and 49, 01
over General Tracy. The state legisla-
ture remains Republican. The sena-
tors, hold over, and the new house of
assembly stands IS Republicans to GO
Democrats. Ten Of the newly elected
Republican assemblymen are said to
hn Qf7fi-p1off Tn ho 10
the Republican majority is 80: in the
house 78.
On the city ticket, with Judge Van
Nyck BIRD S. Coler is elected comp
troller and Adolph Guggenheimer presi-
dent or the municipal council Charles
S. Fairchild, who was secretary of the
treasury during Cleveland's first
presidential term, and whom the Citi-
zens' Union put up for comptroller, did
not hold pace with Mr.. Low Ashbel
p. Fitch, originally Republican and
afterwards a Democratic member of
congress from Tammany district of
this city, was the Republican nominee
for comptroller. He is defeated by
about the same vote as the head of the
ticket. He was nominated with Cen
eral Tracy in recognition of the services
he rendered in the presidential cam
paign last year, fighting as a gold
standard Democrat against the Demo-
Gratis who had accepted the 16 to /
platform of the Chicago convention
Coler, the successful candidate, is new
to public life.
Charles w. Dayton, late postmaster
of this city, who was nominated for
comptroller on the George ticket, polled
probably half as many votes again as
were given to Mr.. George.
The legislative branch of the city
government is Tammany-Democrat
1t is double headed body one branch
being the municipal council, consisting
of the president and % members, and
the other the board of aldermen, COM
prising 60 members. The precise num-
Der of Democrats chosen connot be
stated at the present writing. There
appears to be strong probability that
the Democrats have won a majority of
the county and borough offices along
with the municipal places.
1nNewYork and Brooklyn the straight
Republican vote shows falling off of
nearly 10000, or in excess of the total
vote of Seth Low, while the Tammany
vote equals if it doesn't slightly ex-
coed, that cast for Bryan
The polling came within about $4,000
of the entire registration, which, con-
sidering the weather conditions under
which the election proceeded. was yall
that could be expected. The day was
wet, foggy, "muggy" to a degree. 1t
was such day as, in the years gone
by, when the voters lined up in the
streets to await their chance to cast
their ballots to the judges inside, was
called gold Democratic weather" I'm
der the altered conditions, the voting
being done within doors, this character
ization cannot well apply.
There was a general suspension of
business, and nearly everybody who
was qualified had the opportunity Of
voting. 1t was only in the outlying
sections that the exercise of the right
OF franchise was attended with any
inconvenience. And at night the whole
city was alive to the occasion. Bulletin
boards, search lights, newspaper ex-
tras, readers on the stages of scores
OF theaters, told the story of the cleo
ton. The jubilant had recourse to the
discordant fish horns for expression of
their joy, while the saloons, closed
during the hours while the voting was
in progress, did business on a scale
that promised to compensate for the
period Of enforced thirst, noisy and
brilliantly Illuminated. The enthusi-
asm in the vicinity of Tammany Hall
was particularly great.
Van Wyck is shown to have polled
nearly as large vote as Tracy and Low
combined, while the George vote, which
L. sJ1l
or less apprehension and was expected
to be anywhere from $4,000 to 100, 900, has
fallen to almost infinitesimal proper
tons. Gleason's vote and that of the
Socialist and Prohibition nominee for
the mayoralty will send the grand to-
tai above the half million mark.
Rain, which prevailed generally all
over the state, had the effect of keeping
great many of the country voters
away from the polls. The result is APP
parent in the reduced majorities given
in concededly Republican districts to
William j. Wallace, the Republican
nominee for chief judge of the court of
appeals, as compared with the plurali-
ties by which the same districts were
carried last year. In many districts
the pluralities of year ago are re-
duced nearly one-half and in few that
have reported is the falling off less
than rs per cent.
Following is the total of the votes re-
ceived by the three leading candidates
for mayor IL greater New York, COM
plete returns having been received from
all of the 1istricts: Van Wyck 235, 1S1;
Low, 1859; Tracy, 101, S23 The total
vote of Henry George was about $4,000.
Besides New York, the cities of Buff
falo, Rochester, Binghamton. Syracuse,
Utica, Albany, Troy and Schenectady
elected Democratic mayors.