The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-21
POLITICAL VOTES

Prohnbuities, Clear, fair weather on election day
and a total vote In the Greater New York OF $4,000.
The vote Of Massachusetts, at last years election ives
Sol, 900 and Of Iowa $4,000.
There IL no one connected with the Citizens Union
In any capacity, advisory. admonitory, executive. or
otherwise who has less than three names And a con-
adorable part of the time devoted by the Citizens
Union to eiectioneering is taken up in the work Of
getting straight the initials of the citizens. By some
Of them this f. deemed to be n matter OF almost pH-
mary Importance. and II IA probably a safe prophecy
that more Of the Gifts will have their names straight
than will get their tickets straight on election day.
The George party IL well equipped with capable,
alert, sincere, and eloquent takers. the graduates OF
the ~cart-taii canvass OF 1850 and OF the anti.poverty
crusade OF tho year, following. Robert G. 1ngersoli,
who is now supporting Benjamin F. Tracy for Mayor
Of New York, was q George man In 1888. In that
year, as in this. the George party had a johnson. and
70 him on Oct. ee, Col. Ingersoll wrote q letter from
which this Is an extract: my sympathies arc with
the laboring men. The industrious should wear the
robes and crowns and sit at the banduets OF the
world. II the workinsmen of New York stand to-
eether. II they vote as they feel. the next Mayor Of
New York will be Henry George"
The two ofnces to be nlled at the State election OF
this year in Pennsylvania are those Of Auditor>aen-
erai and state Treasurer. Tho Auditor-General OF
Pennsyivauia gets %. 800 for his services, togotheR
with fees, the Treasurer of tho State gets $1,000. The
term Of the latter Il two years and OF the former
four. At the election OF 1894 tho Republican candt
date for Auditor had q majority OF 100000, ana nh
not sertously expected that the Democrats viii carry,
or come near carrying, Pennsylvania this year. The
Independent Republican,, so-called. arc running oan-
didates of their own. and the explanation II made
that It would DO Q wholesome thing II they got Q
large vote, AZ O big Republican majority would make
the Republicans careless. This IL familiar Mugwump
logic, but Il Ia not likely 70 DO Of much avail in Penn.
sylvania, where Mugwumps arc not common enough
to count. A political party does not usually become
careless when II has Q majority. and 10 10 undeniable
that the Democratic party OF Pennsylvania. which
has boon beaten out Of Its high top boots in nearly
every election, has not become careful. Quito the
reverse.
Amatter Of much local In terest in the annexed dp.
trict is the completion of what is called the anal map
of the district lying east of tho Bronx River. u IL
now in course Of preparation by Commissioner Louis
+. Harren. II Is urged that 10 be presented to the
Board OF Street Openings before the close OF the pres
emit year, in order that It may DO passed upon. The
claim made 10 that the uncertainty attaching TO prop
srty in this part of the annexed district precludes its
sale NJ full value.
What must DO described a. . remarkable statement
WA made at o meeting of the Union League Club of
Chicago last week. It was made by Mr.. Moulton. .
member OF the club. who pointed out thai while the
city of Chicago enjoys the unenviable distinction of
being the most poorly paved of the large cities OF the
country IL has spent during tho last eight yoarp toH
pavements $50, 025. 7so.ss.
Ono Of the liveliest local contests now IN progress In
any district Of town Is in the Tenth Assembly, which
was at last years election.the closest in the State. hav-
ing been carried by the successful candidate. Jere-
miah J. Sullivan. by Q majority OF two votes only.
Mr.. Sullivan. an old baseball umpire. and well known
to patrons of games upon the diamond. Is q candidate
for reelection in q district in which. perhaps.
moro than any other in town the excise question is
rIl. ..~.- @-o1-.- rlN O. A.
candidate OF the National Democrats as well as OF
IS former Excise Commissioner Julius
Hamburger. who is making the most vigorous fight the
district has known for many years, speaking nightly
In English and German.
There is some complaint among the Republicans OF
Illinois that Shelby NJ. Cullom is 81 getting all the con-
sula,es.' By this expression It is meant that . con-
siderable number OF consular appointments are being
made at the request OF the senior Republican Senator
from Illinois. The fact Is that Illinois has q very large
cosmopolitan population. and the consular appoint
nents. especially to German. Scandinavian and Aus
trian posts. count for considerable in q political way.
A successful Illinois politician is expected to keep .
sharp lookout on these consulates. and the fact that
"Cncle Shelby as he is sometimes called, has done
and is doing this Is proof in many minds OF hiAl
shrewdness and perspicuity. \
Andrew Beiser. who ia running for Alderman on
the Home Rule Democracy ticket in the Fifteenth As
sembly district. and who. his friends believe. will be
instrumental in defeating the T%ammany candidate.
Robert Muh. Is . well.known business man in that
district. where he has lived for half q century. He
was a soldier during the civil war. one OF the nrst to
go to the front. and one OF the last to return home,
and his Identification with politics has not been As an
oficeholder or ONCE seeker. He has been for somo
time President OF tho Thomas J. McManus AssoAa-
ton. a strong body in that district. and he Is weR
known among the German.Amertcan voters, who are
numerically important in the Fifteenth district.
"
Nevada 10 now the only State in tho country In
which former Confederate soldiers, not amnestied,
have not the right of suffrage. Nevada furnished
1850 troops TO the Union side during the civil strife.
There were. at least. 1850 enlistments, q smaller
number than from any other State.
The financial affairs OF the Department OF Charities
under the present administration do not appear to
be in a satisfactory condition. Two OF the physicians
OF Bellevue have resigned. giving as the cause Of
their withdrawal "lack of funds" A man appointed
as an ambulance driver at Bellevue after civil SER
vtce examination has declined the appointment. Tho
visiting oculist TO the outdoor poor has resigned,
giving as the reason lack OF funds, ana on Randal's
Island one inspector. a skilled helper. and two hos.
pital orderlies have been removed owing to lack
OF funds TO pay them.
There is an increase this year in the registration In
nve uptown Assembly districts and In the annexed
district. The only one OF the districts south orEighty.
sixth street in which there is a gain over last years
registry is the Twenty sixth. In this district last year
the Bryan vote was 3.l12 and the Mckinley vote
".oal. There were SIS Socialist votes.
The site of the new engine house In Maiden lane
cost $50, 900. that OF the new hook and ladder house
in West THIRTY third street. near Sixth avenue.
$4,000. that OF the new engine house in Broome
street $4,000 and that Of the new engine house in
Great Jone. street $4,000. The new company NJ
l5atl street and Railroad avenue Will have q site
costing S21, 900.
The late Charles w. Jones, former United States
Senator from Florida. who died in Detroit last week.
had a peculiar career. the closing features OF which
brought the State Of Florida into some unwelcome
prominence. Senator Jones was an Irishman by
birth and went TO Florida when a boy. He was self.
educated. and was admitted 10 the bar at Pensacola
three years tefOre the breaking out of the civil war,
in which. unlike most Southerners, he took no active
part. In the year lN72. when Democratic prospects