El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-02
Indi cation Points to a Tam
many Victory.
RETURNS ONLY MEAGER.
Croker Telegraphed Ex-Governor
Stone, of Wisconsin, that Tam
many Has Cinch'' h''-IndicatiOns
Point That Way.
New YORK. November The most

NEW YORK, November 2.-The most
tire I'M endous municipal battle on record
is being fought out ct tn. polls today.
The prize is the mayoralty of Greater
New York, as it becomes constituted
on New Years day, when the great
area embraced in the corporation will
not only be the second city in the
world, but the largest municipality on
earth practically governed by one man.
The four candidates are ex-Secretary
Benjamin F. Tracy, republican; Judge
r. A. Van Wyck, Tammany; Seth Low,
Citizens Union. and Henry CT Orge.
Jr., Unit. Democracy. The mayor to
be elected today will serve for four
years at salary of Sl5, 900 year, and
to say nothing of an army of miuor
employees, he will have the appoint
ment of forty important department
heads and chiefs, whose terms of Office
will run from four to six years, and
the aggregate of whose salaries wilt be
a quarter Of million dollars annual ly
There are but six governors in the
country who rule a greater number of
people than the succa ssful candidate OF
today-those of New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania. Illinois, Indiana
and Missouri. The issues of the
ly ventilated that the election
interes5. Former Secretary Tracy and
Mr.. Low practically represent the
same Republican principles and doc
triues, the actual difference between
them beirg that Mr.. Tracy is the
creature of what's known as the Platt
machine, while MIR. Low owes his
candidacy to voters of all parties who
believe that municipal government
should be divorced from party politics.
Tho total has haan wit IN
a fraction of $4,000, or within 1000
of the presidential vote of last year.
The most conservative p"edict'o 5 to-
day are that Judge Van Wyck will
head the poll with plurality of 49,
600 to 25 600 over Seth Low, who, il is
feared, will bsat General Tracy by
about 10000, the latter beating Henry
George, Jr., by 10000 or more. The
PrOhi bitionists and Socialists have
tickets in the field, while the redoubt-
able Mayor Gleason, of Long Island
City, is also an Independent candidate,
but these tickets com bined will poll
but a handful of votes as compared
with the fOu- leading candidates. If
a uniOn of the forces of Tracy and
Low could have been effected the Re-
publicans would have swept the terri
tory, but as it is, impartial observers
and the betting is the same way
figure out Tammany Hall safe win
ner, with plenty to spare.
The weather predictions for the en-
tire day is for steady down pour OF
rain with falling temperature. Last
night heavy rain prevented the out
door meetings and kept thousands away
from meetings, but the rain demon
strated the fact that host of Henry
George men are in dead earnest in this
contest. The George meetings were
enormously attended. A fog comb ned
with the rain and made the work early
voters disagreee BILE, bus the election
eXcitement has become so intense that
citizens would flock to the polls if
obliged to swim. An enormous vote
was cast in the city duricg the early
hours. At $50 O'Clock it was estimat-
ed that 40 per cent of the total vote
had been cast in Greater New York.
NEW YORK, November 2.-At two
O'Clock Croker at tTammany Hall wired
Ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri: "We
have a cinchD