The silver star., 1897-11-11
TAMMANY A WINNER.
CAPTURES GREATER NEW YORK.
Van wyck Gets Plurality OF Ne"'"
Hundred Thousand-i"w came
small Vote for George and Tracy

| New York. Nov. 2.-Tammany VIC
fory in the first municipal eiectioh ia
| Greater New York is n sweeping one
Tho only auestion remaining TO De set
/ fled at IL o'clock is the one oil the piu-
rality by which the entire ticket hc,u,
ed by Robert A. Van Wyck has earri'u
the gigantic municipality. o, -,
1t can scarcely be less than N'ouu a'iu
may be larger than that Van WHek
has polled vote which falls possibly
7 tlOOOO under the combined votes ol
General Tracy. Republican ana se.h
Low. Citizens Union.
The total number of votes cast was
not far either way from half million.
The indications are that Van Wyck re-
ceiyeJ 100000. Low 14J,o0, Tracy 100
OO0 and George 10000 The aggregate
is swelled by a few thousand votes cast
for Gleason. Independent Democrats
Saniel. Socialist, and Wardwell, PROM
bitionist.
I on the city ticket with Judge van
Wyck. Bird s. Coler is elected comptroi-
Ter and Randolph Guggenheim prcsl-
dent of the municipal council. Charles
S. Fairchild. who was secretary ot the
| treasury during Clcvcland's first presl-
lential term, and whom the Citizens
Union nut M for comptroller. did not
hold the pace with Low. Ashbel
p. Fitch. originally n Republican ana
afterwards a Democratic member OF
Congress from Tammany district oi
this city, was the Republican nominee
| for comptroller. He is defeated by
about the same vote as the head ot MS
ticket He was nominated with Cen
aral Tracy in recognition of the services
he rendered in the presidential cam
paign last year. fighting as a goid
standard Democrat against the Demo
Gratis who had accepted the III TO pat
form of the Chicago convention. Coler'
the successful candidate. is new TO pup
lie life
Charles Dayton. late postmaster oil
this city. who was nominated for comp
troller on the George ticket. polled prop-
ably half as many votes again as were
given to Mr.. George.
The legislative branch of the city gov
ernment is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IT is
\ double headed body. one branch
being the municipal council. consisting
of the president and twenty-eight mem
bers. and the other, The board OF alder
men. comprising sixty members. Ihe
precise number of Democrats chosen
cannot he stated at the present writing
There appears To he a strong prohabll-
ity that the Democrats have won n
majority of the country and borough
offices along with the municipal places.
The vote of Van Wyck in New York
county is approximately the same as
was cast for Bryan in 1896. which was
l35.G24. General Tracy. Republican.
polled approximately 5000. against
McKinley's vote of 156.359 in New
York county. while Low. Citizens
Union polled approximately 1000. and
George. jefferson Democrat. 12.OOO.
In Kings county which includes the
city Of BROOKLYN. the Bryan vote was
76SS2. while Van Wyck's will be al
most the same. Against McKinley's
vote of 100. 135. General Tracy polls
approximately $4,000. while Lows
vote is approximately 6o.0O.
In these two counties the straight
Republican vote shows n falling off of
nearly 10000. or in excess of the total
vote for Seth Low. while the Tammany
vote equals. If 1t does not slightly ex-
coed that cast for Bryan.
Whatever might have been the result
had Henry George survived the cam.
paign. the elections from the earliest
returns showed that the substitution Of
the son for the father ms the mayoralty
candidate of the Thomas Jefferson De-
mocracy had proved n failure from any
but the sentimental point of view. In
fact, the George candidacy had made
but a beggardly showing. scarcely : per
cent. of the vote in New York city
counted up 10 s o'clock having been
EAST for the son of the author of Prog
ress and Poverty"