The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-04
OGRADY TO BE SPEAKER?
GOSSIP ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
OF THE LEaIsLATURE.

Assured or n Majority in the Assembly. Ropub-
iieaus say the Rochester SIan Deserves
Reelection - AnaIyrlnE Tuesdays Vote
Georges Death worked y Mig Change
Chairman Charles w. Hackett Of the Repub-
lican state Committee had many visitors yes
to-day. They all went to headquarters
in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. eager to
know the result of Tuesdays election as
to tho Assembly. All over town reports
wero circulated to the effect that the Republi'
cans had lost the Assembly. Tho returns
printed in THE Sun In another column will
demonstrate beyond the shadow OF q doubt that
the Republicans will have q good working ma
jority in the lower house at Albany.
The Hon. James NJ. E. o'Gra6y of Rochester,
who was Speaker Of the Assembly last year,
will, 1t was announced. be reelected to that
high and honorable office. Speaker oGrady
made an excellent record last year. All of the
Republicans declared yesterday that he
deserved a reelection. Some Of the Democrats
wanted Assomblyman Thomas F.. Donnelly Of
the Thirty.second New York district nomi.
mated ( r Speaker to represent the compliment
airy vote Of the minority. Mr.. Donnelly was
elected on Tuesday for the third time. His rec
ord at Albany Is also highly commended. and
from all that was heard last night IL is very
probable that he will DO honored by tho compli.
mentary vote of his party.
Senator Plat was importuncd all day TO give
his views as TO the defeat OF Gen. Tracy and
United States Circuit Court Judge William ].
Wallace. He replied that it was unnecessary
for him to say anything at this time. Other
Republicans said that Mayor Strong, Seth
Low. and Patrick J. Gleason were doing
all the ost-mor en- talking, and that 1t would
do no harm to let them continue doing 1t. All
who looked over the ground carefully were con-
WINGED that the sentiment as to the vote taken
in Greater New York for tho Mayoraliy candi-
dates did not crystalline until three days be-
fore election day, or Immediately after the
death Of Henry George. Seth Low friends
| appear to be quite pleased over his vote. His
vote is largely made up of Republicans who be-
came convinced after the death Of Henry George
that Low was somewhat ahead in the race with
Gen. Tracy, and these Republicans, while Tracy
men at heart. dropped in their ballots for Low, in
the hope that he would beat Van Wyck.
Other Republicans, 1t was ascertained, after
Henry Georges death decided that Gen. Tracy
had no chance to win, but refused absolutely to
vote for Low, claiming that he was head
man in n conspiracy to split tho Re-
publican party. Thousands thereupon cast
their votes for Van Wyck. These Re-
pnblicans did so because they were utterly
Republicans who thus cast their votes Tor Van
WICK were unenrolled Republicans-Republi.
but in, their anger at Low they. forgot
themselves and pumped in their votes for Van
e OWN Of the the truth rUthe of tHhS the foreso faSu expl lana.
tions,. and this to q great extent. they said,
would explain how Gen. Tracy came to have d
AS an evidence Of the truth of the theory tina,
tho situation changed materially after the
that ex.Mayor Hugh ]. Grant, manager Of Val
Wyck,s campaign, declined to make any state
%Sn ni GF as'ln ns them CT 'h isss s,saa a sta aeam ass wS SHh,
prSaie,ed that Van Wyek yonle got o total O
THE SUNS returns this morning show that eN
Mayor Grants predictions were remarkably
Tho Democrats over at the Hoffman House
were very much pleased over the election Of
Chief Judge Of the Court Of Appeals. Demo
cratic candidates for Governor next year
PFo F. gsyno up Of on the eDEs eESot s!sei s aGss' Go%m }Ghe
came down from Syracuse and was highly elated
over the realection Of Mayor James +. Mcguire
of that city. Mr.. Gaynor declared that the
onondaga declaration in the next Democratic
State Con ent on would prese t tho name of
Most OF the Democrats at the Hoffman House
however. DECLARED that In their estimation the
Would be- the candidate for Cover or next year
Mr.. Stanchfeld's friends wanted him to be the
candidate, for Governor a year ago. Older and
wiser heads saw only disaster in the situation
then and they did not care to sacrifice
such an intrepid Democrat as Mr.. Stanchficld
So they thrust the nomination upon Mayor
John Boyd Thatcher of Albany. and when he de
clined. or rather when Mayor Thachcr was prac
tically forced out, the nomination went to cx
Judge Wilbur +. Porter of Watcrtown, who had
been nominated at the Buffalo Convention fol
Lieutenant Governor.
Ali politicians, in both the Republican and
Democratic camps predicted that the battle fol
Governor. Governor, and State Off
GERS and for State Senators and Assemblymer
| next wear would DO as Interesting AS tho tgll
for Mayor of Greater Now York had been. The
Senators aud Assemblymcn then elected will
vote for the United States Senator to succeed
Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy.