The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-31
PR0PHESIED FOR CROKER.
PRBPOsTEROUS ELECTION FIG URES
Br WIGW4M R.hINM1RERS

Ordered u Elect Van WICK on pnper. they
Gave tsIm az. 900 Plurality In Manhattan
ana The Bronx And They winLed the other
E~ya-Ptetend That George VIII oct No Vote.
1t was with many q grimace that the Tam.
many Hall district leaders submitted yes err.
day to tho diotntion Of Richard Croker, and,
under oruors from him. stood up in Tammnny
Hall and predicted election results In their
districts which they know will not be verified
by tho count Of votes next Tuesday night.
John G. sheohan had told tho downcast
leaders that thoy need not predict results
this year, but Richard Croker ordered to the con-
trary. Mr.. Croker insisted that the shouts Of
victory be kept up TO tho last. lie said that
there is nothing like keeping up a sentiment in
favor OF a candidate by presenting evidence
tending 10 show that he is going to win, and he
ordered that a meetipg Of the Committee on Or
ganization be held yesterday afternoon and that
the district leaders be on hand to give figures
which would show beyond a doubt that Van
WyCk will be elected Mayor.
The leaders obeyed the mandate OF their chief,
although 1t CALLED many Of them 10 do it, and
tho result was the most prcposterous showing
Of figures ever made by Tammany prophets.
Defeat was admitted In but two OF the Assembly
districts, tho Twenty.fifth and Twenty.ninth
Victory was claimed as certain in the other
thirty.three districts with the exception OF the
Nineteenth, Twenty.scventh, and Thirty.frst,
all strong Republican sections. in which 1t
was declared that Van Wyck has a chance
for q plurality. A plurality of 200 was
claimed in the Twenty-tirst, the banner Repub-
lican district Of the county, where a careful poll
made BY tho Republican organization showed
that Gen. Tracy will carry it by figures in ex.
cess OF 1000. The pluralitics claimed in the
districts generally recognized rs Democratic are
ridiculously large. and the leaders who an
nounced them yesterday are well aware that
they are not warranted by the political con-
ditions.
But what gives the lie to the estimates more
than any other one thing was the failure to
consider the vote for Henry George as a factor
at all. Only two of the leaders gave figures on
the estimated George vote in their district. All
the others spoke OF three candidates., Van
Wyck, Trnc and Low and referred to the
rest OF the vote MS scattering" William
Dalton admitted that George will get
$50 votes in the Eleventh Assembly dis.
trict, and William F.. Stillings estimated
1000 as the vote to be cast for him in the TWEEN
~ty.third. The other leaders did not even admit
IN forms that Henry George is a candidate, The
studied avoidance Of reference to the movement
against which Tammany has been directing all
its campaign literature, and in the effort to
break UP which the Finance Committee of the
Wigwam is alleged to have 5 ent most of itf
campaign fund. was suggestive Of orders to be
little the George movement. The leaders rather
overdid the thing.
With all their exorbitant claims for Var
Wyck. 1t was noticeable that it was admitted
on all hands that Gen. Tracy was the only mar
in the race against their candidate.
The estimate OF the plurality OF Van Wycl
over Tracy was obtained through a call of tn,
districts. the district lea;cr rising AS his dis
trict was called and making his prophecy. This
wac the result: