The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-18
BRoOKLYN,S REG ISTRATION.
The Meaning or the 20. 900 lacrosse Over the
Total or 1898.

The political managers in all tho camps In
Brooklyn were surprised at the swelling Of the
registration figures on Saturday. which made a
total: enrolment of voters for the four days Of
about 2O3 ,OOO. or within 1000 of the figures
last year, a Presidential year, and 10000 in
excess OF the registration in 1895. Saturdays
unexpectedly large enrolment OF about 81
600 is admittedly due TO the zeal and activity
of the Republican district leaders, who made a
housc.to.house canvass and brought out tho
dilatory ~:votcrs. THE Sun. by furnishing yes
tcrday the complete figures. not only by wards,
but by Assembly districts, for the years 1897,
1896. and 1898. afforded the election fore.
casters a fine opportunity to make calculations.
For the purposes OF forming a fair and impair
tial judgment on the question as to which side
has the apparent advantage in the registration
this year tho comparisons should necessarily
be made with that of 1895, when there was a
squarc-cut fight on tho State ticket between
the two great parties. In that year Brooklyn
gave King. the Democratic candidate for Sec.
rotary of state, n plurality OF $500 over Pal
Incr, the Republican candidate. Last year,
when party lines were well nigh eliminated.
this was turned into a plurality OF 81, 253 for
Mckinley.
The registration this year exceeds that of
1898 by 10000. Which districts, Republican
or Democratic, furnish on an average the great
or part OF this increased An analysis OF tho
figures, with either the wards or the Assembly
districts as the basis OF comparison, shows n
clear and unquestionablc gain for the Rcpubli-
cans. The eleven Of the twenty.one Assembly
districts which the Republicans carried in
1895 supply no less than II, 800 Of the 90, o
additional voters this year, while the other
ten districts, which the Democrats carried, in
clude the remaining 800.
Thnra 10 nn1y nna IN hlv n let rlof thi, va.
which shows n falling off in the registration
from 1898. This is the Ninth, comprising the
entire Twelfth ward and three districts in tho
Eighth and two in the Tenth wards. 1t Is a
rOck-bound Democratic district, the majority
in 1895 being 2,73s. with a registration of
7.246. This year the registration Is 7.l5o, a
falling off Of 96 voters. 1t Is significant that
this is the solitary district in the twenty one
in which there has been no increase.
A still more analytical and minute study of
the figures cannot fail to inspire all true-blue
Republicans with confidence. The eleven Re-
publican Assembly districts which furnish
1000 OF. the 20,oo0, increase comprise 295
%S SH Il r; GistriiSts; so that that the average increase
scmbly districts which furnish the 1900 in.
crea:c comprise the III remaining election dis,
tricts, so that tho average inCre. .se in these dis.
tricts is only "a. Briefly, this Is the result of
this comparison:
Average increase in Republican districts. ........4e
Average increase In Democrat districts -. ......9l
Apparent Republican advantage In each district. 6
a comparison Of the individual wards which
are either strongly Republican or strongly
Demo- Ratio from beginning TO end shows sub.
t~taniially the same result. 4 few of these
Wards are taken up by way of illustration. Tho
Firth ward (which gave II Democratic majority
OF l,5T7 in 1893, has an increa scd registration
OF, only 26l this year. The Sixth ward, an.
other Democratic STRONGHOLD, has an increase
Of only 2l0. The Tenth, still more strongly
Democratic, only lGG. Passing TO the Hepub.
second, the TwGnty.third, the Twenty.tlfth aud
the Twcnty.cighth show these big increases
respectively: 93s. l,7s0. ! go. l,l5i and 2,36s.
A review even of the election districts, as Ear
as they could be made identical with those of
lSI1, will show The same Republican leaning.
The Democratic managers are naturally dis
couragca over the result OF the registration,
which they had hoped would not have exceeded
10000 this year. They are beginning. 10 APP
prcciatu The unpleasant fact that Brooklyn Is
steadily getting, even under normal conditions,
into the Republican column.
The Republican leaders were much clated
yesterday over the splglnIid showing made by
the supporters of Gen. Tracy IN the Young Re
publican Club on Saturday night. For several
year the organization has been without the
slightest influence in the politics of the sister
city and almost wholly given over 10 Mug
wumpl-m. A month ago u would have been
regarded as an act of madness for any one 10
question the absolute sovereignty Of Seth Low,
one Of the founders and the first President Of
the club, and he must himself have thought 1t
an evidence of gross ingratitude rs well as an
evidence of his waning strength that 50 out OF
the IA members OF tho little flock present re
pudiated him. Where, on earth. 1t Is justly