The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
TAMMANY DOUBT AND FEAR
SHE'S GONE IF GEORGE CAN POLL
MS 1850 HOTE AGAIN IN TIN OITY.

III 1000 IOIE Ata4lN 1N 1890
60 the wiEwan IL spending Many Times tho
RtonoJ for Van wyck That IL P"t Up Tor
nrynn-The Pri1o n Richer ana Losing
Wakes n Good Deal more difference New.
II there is one thing more than any other
which i%nccnsos the great mass OF the Democrats
who voted for William j Bryan last year
against Tammany Hall in the present cam
paign 1t Is the lavish display Of banners adver'
Using tho candidacy for Mayor OF Mr.. Van
Wyck, which Mr.. Croker and John c. Sheehan
have caused to DO made. This display only
emphasizes the fact that Tammany's support
Of Bryan last year was half.hearted and per.
f%unctory and only made to preserve tn" rcgu-
laritv of tho organization as an integral part OF
the regular Democratic machine. The Bryan
mon pointed yesterday to the fact that last
year when the streets were n mass OF color be-
cause OF the display of Mckinley banners,
Tammany Hall spent practically nothing to Off
set this display in the interest Of the Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate. As one OF them
put it yesterday:
When the great cause Of humanity, the
cause of the people, was at stake, Tamamny
gave it only lukowarm support. Now that the
only stake-in Tammany's thcory-is the per-
sonal interests of a few men who want to con-
troll the vast patronage of this great city. with
all the possibilities suggested by such control,
Mr.. Croker and Mr.. Shechan can find limitlcss
sums to spend in a campaign of display. But
all their show will not blind true Democrats to
InS iact That the Tammany machine has re-
self unworthy, Of Democratir support; True
Democrats, will vote this year as they did last,
hope IL will be, the defeat may prove its re.
generation. Such r defeat will not be one Of
OF Croker, Sheehan. and the rest, who are not
In politics for either principle or their health.
tory tns d for puq Ds ErGaoP asis ye WE T Epgsn be men y 1n.
derstand that thoT,oughly, and If our support,of
nsinTrfS George will accomplish it, we will be
The Tammany campaign against George is
continued with unrelaxed vigor. Every day the
alleged labor men who, they say, will not sup
port tho .Jeffersonian candidate for Mayor.
of Van .wyeE is James p. Archibald. one Of the
many Wardcns OF Ludlow Street Jail, who tried
set hflp S aomdt.1 Ta% Rrehi to kST'sp l ths chain snnd f5o%
ing his conversion to Tammany was given out
Yesterday: In it he says among other things:
liberty of the citizen"
Mr.. Archibald can speak feelingly on this sub
ject. 1t will be remembered that Mr.. Archibald
ceased keeping der chail' after an experience
in the Tendcrloin in which a lot Of whiskey and
q policeman played a part.
The Tummany leaders have been examining
the election returns of former Mayoralty con:
tcsts with a view to uscertaining something Of
tho effect OF the George vote on the chances Of
their candidate.
They were by no means treasured by the re-
suit. They found that the total Tammany vote
for Mayor in 1890 was only 10000 votes. The
Tammany vote for Coroners the following year
was ll5. 900. In 1892, when all the Cleveland
Democrats and 2wump who arc now with
Low. and a lot OF dissatisfied Republicans be-
side voted with them, they got l75, 900 votes.
The following year, still. with a united Democ-
Eacy and with g registration SO padded that
went to Sing Sing, the Tammany candidates
received $4,000 votes. Then came 1894, and
the Tammany vote went back to its normal
strength, 10000, cast for Grant for Mayor.
nation satisfied the leaders that the Tammany
vote, which, under ordinary circumstances,
can be relied on, is not far from lis, 900 In this
county. To this they expect some addition by
reason of the faction OF the ship Democracy
which they have annexed, and other accessions
with the Strong administration. Both these
elements are uncertain quantities, and what
bothers Mr.. Croker and Mr.. Sheehan more
than anything else Is the extreme probability
that they will not be nywhcre near enough to
Offset the draft made on the Tammany vote by
halved the Tammany vote in 1886, and now
when there is much more than Henry Georges
personality involved in the contest, they fear
that his candidacy may bring even worse re-
suits for them. Should George get as many as
e; 900 votes in this eity The Tammany leaders
candidate. They know and have publicly ad-
smash. but they hope to get a good share OF the
Democratic vote which might have gone to
they know, that the Democrats who have de-
Clared for Low will probably be the last to de.
scrt him, and that his Republican deserters
will support Gen. Tracy.