The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-03
A SPLENDID MAJORITY AND
DEMOCRATS CLAIM A V1CTO-
RY IN THE STATE.
WEAVER, DEM, WINS IN LOUISVILLE
Heavy Falling Off in the Republican Vote in
Massachusetts Mir. Bryan's State Seems
to Have Behaved Handsomely In
dcations Are That Democrats
Have Maryland Legislature.

New York. Nov. 2.--Rain, which pre-
vailed all over the State. had the ef-
feet of keeping many of the country
voters away from the polls. The result
is apparent in the reduced majorities
given concededly Republican districts to
William J. Wallace, the Republican
nominee for Chief Judge of Court of
Appeals, as compared with the pluraii-
ties by which the same districts were
carried last year.
In many districts the pluralities of a
year ago are reduced nearly one-haif
and in few that have been reported
Is the falling off less than % per cent.
Conceding to Judge Parker, Democrat,
a majority of 100000 in Greater New
York, it is probable that he has won in
the State. The returns for Assembly
men are entirely lacking in the Greater
New York districts, owing to the large
number of candidates whose votes must
be counted before the Assembly nomi-
ness are reached, and the results here
will probably not be known until to-
morrow Outside of Greater New York,
with thirteen districts to be heard from,
dispatches to the Associated Press show
the election of sixty-one Republicans and
seventeen Democrats. This, it is believ-
ed. insures the continuance of Republi-
can control of the Assembly. whatever
may be the result in the Greater New
York districts.
At IL o'clock Republican State Chair
man Hacket declared that from des-
patches received from Assembly dis
tracts over the State. the Republicans
had working majority in the Assem-
bly,.
The polling came within about $4,000
of the entire registration, which, con-
sidering the weather conditions under
which the election proceeded, was all
that could be expected. The day was
wet, foggy, muddy to a degree. 1t was
such day, as in the years gone by,
when voters lined up the streets to await
their chances to cast their ballots, to
the judges inside, was called "good Dem
ocratic weather" Under the altered
conditions, the voting being done
within doors, this Characterization can
not well apply. There was general
suspension of business, and nearly ev-
erybody who qualified had the opportuni-
ty of voting. 1t was only In the out
lying 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
extras, readers on the stages Of scores
of theatres, told the story Of the elec-
ton. The jubilant had recourse to the
discordant fish horns for expression of
their Joy, while the saloons closed dur
ting the hours while the voting was in
progress, did business on scale that
promised to compensate for the period Of
enforced thirst, were noisy and brilliant
Iy Illuminated. The enthusiasm in the vi
cinty Of Tammany Hall was particular
ly great.
THE vOTD.
New York, Nov. 3.-The estimated
vote for Greater New York for Mayor,
Is as follows:
Van Wyck 233, ,752; Low 146,821; Ira
cy 100,998; George 20,3S6.
Van Wyck's plurality S6,921.
The plurality Of Parker, Democratic
candidate for Judge of the Court of
Appeals in the State Is estimated at TO-
600.
GREATER NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 2.-Tammany's vic
tory in the first municipal election in
Greater New York is a sweeping one.
The only question remaining to be set
tied at IL o'clock is the one of the plu-
rality by which the entire licked, head
ed by Robert Van Wyck has carried
the gigantic municipality. 1t can scarce
iy be less than sixty thousand. and may
be larger than that. Van Wyck has
polled a vote which fall possibly 10000
under the combined votes of General
Tracy. Republican, and Seth Low, Citi-
zen Union. The latter was successful
to the extent Of polling an aggregate
vote in excess of the 10000 pledges i'm
piled by the signatures to the petition
at the outset offered to join hands with
the Republican party organization in a
concentrated effort to exclude Tammany