The San Francisco call., 1897-11-03

e. + TRACY ....................1O1,S ,S23 4
RGE.................... 2O,3S6
Scattering ................ 10000 4
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2-Tammany' vic
tory in the first municipal election in
G-ea er New York is a sweeping one. The
6u V question remaining to be settled at
II-u'elock is the size OF the plurality by
.v-l.ch he entire ticket headed by Robert
j a. Van Wyck has carried the gigantic
municipality.
T.. Low was successful to the extent
=of polling an aggregate vote in ex-
i cess of the 10000 Pledged inn
r!ied by the signatures of the pet
etl ~ upon which he became the cand;.
Z ia Of an indepe ndent m ovement, which
- Inc obtset offered 10 join hands with
Ee Republic an party organization in
concerted effort TO exclude Tammany from
: Iower in the greater city to come into be-
ing on January l. 1898, with population
the second in magnitude OF the great
cigies Of the world.
The offer was declined on the ground
that in such a movement the Republican
organization would participate only CO.
irc 5dently with the other party to the
- compact and the Citizens Union, on the
other hand. refused 10 recall it's nomina-
on of NJ. Low in order that the form OF
selecting candidate might be carried out
conformity with the Republican organiza-
tion. The total mum Ger of votes cast was
not far either way. from half million.
Van WICK rece We ,235, 181 Low 149, ,873
Tracy 101, S23 and George %. .386, The ag-
greEate i swelled by few thousand votes
cast for Gleason, Independent Democrat; :;
Saniel, Socialist, and Wardwell. Prohi-
bitiouist.
On The city ticket with Judge Van Wyck,
Byrd. S. Coler is elected ComptroI er and
e. Randolph Guggennein president of the
municipal council. Charles S. Fai-child,
who. was Secretary Of the Treasury dur
ing -CIeveland's first Presidential term,
and whom the Citizens Union put up for
p Comptroller, did not hold the pace with
Mr. Low. AshbeI Fitch, originally a Re-
publican ard afte7waId a Democratic
member OF Congress from a Tammany
-dlstr!ct o. this city, was the Republican
\ nominee,for Comptroller. He is defeated
Ny.apout tile same vote as the head of his
ticket. He was nominated with General
Tracy in recognition of the services he
rel dered in the Presidential campaign
last year, fighting as a gold Standard
Democrat against the Democrats who had
accepted the 16 to platform OF the Chi
Cago convention. Coler, the successful
candidate, is new. to public life.
Charles W. Dayton, the ex-postmaster
of this city, who was nominated for
Comptroller on. the George ticket, polled
+. pfobably half as many votes again as
:. ware civen TO Mr.. George.
p. 7 he legislative branch of the city gov
ernment Is Tammany-D Democratic. Il is
a double bead body, one branch being
;he. municipal council, consisting of the
7Hesiuent and twent ty-eight me bers, and
the other. the board of aid rmen, COM
Tris.n sixty mem Ders. The precise num-
Der of Democrats chosen cannot be sta ted
al The. present writing. There appears TO
be strong probabilit that the Demo-
era IS have won a majority OF the country
and borough Offices along with the mu-
7 cipal places
Tne polling came within about so 600 of
the entire registration, which, considering
the weather conditions under which the
election proceeded. was all hat could be
: expected. The day was wet, foggy.
"muggy' to a degree. 1t was such Gay
a., in the years gone by, when voters
lined up in the streets to await their
,hance 10 cast their bal OTIS to the judges
inside, was called good Democratic
wea,ker." Under the altered conditions.
the voting being done WITHIN doors. this
characterization cannot well apply. There
WIS general suspension of business and
= a'y everybody who was qualified had
opportunity OF voting. 1t was only
lA}he outlying sections that the exercise
OF the right o. franchise was attended
with any Inconvenience.
At night the whole city was alive to
the occasion. Bulletin. boards, search,
lights, newspaper exlras, readers on the
%iages OF scores OF theaters told the story
Of tie election. The iubllant had re-
course to the discordant fsh-horns for
expression of their Joy, while the saloons,
closed during the hours while the vo ting