The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-03
Great Rejoicing at the s'Tiger" Head
quarters and Noisy Demonstra-
tiOns in tine Streets.
STATE IS ALSO DEMOCRATIC
JUDGE PARKER ELECTED TO THE
COURT OF APPEALS.
Legislature Reported to- Have Been
Carried by Democrats-Light Vote
in the Country Districts.


in the first municipal election in Greater
New York is a sweeping one. The only
question remaining to be settled at IL
o'clock is the one of the plurality by which
the entire ticket, headed by Robert A. Van
Wyck, has carried the gigantic municipal
ity. 1t can scarcely be less than 10000 and
may be larger than that. Van Wyck has
poiled a vote which falls possibly 10000 un-
der the combined votes of General Tracy,
Republican, and Seth Low, .Citizens Union
The latter was successful to the extent of
polling an aggregate vote in excess of the
100000 pledges implied by the signatures of
the petition on which he became the candi-
date of an independent movement which at
the outset offered to join hands with the
Republican party organization in con-
certed effort to exclude Tammany from
power In the greater city to come into being
on JAN l, 1898, witas y population the sec
ond in magnitude of the great cities of the
world. The offer was declined on the
ground that in such a movement the Repub-
lican organization would participate only
coincidentally with the other party to the
compact, and the Citizens Union, on the
other hand, refused to recall its nomination
of Mr., Low in order that the form of select
ing a candidate might be carried out con-
The total number of votes cast was not
far either way from half a million The
indications are that Van Wyck received
10000; Low, 145.OOO Tracy, 100000, and
George, 1900. The aggregate is swelled by
a few thousand votes cast for Gleason, In
dependent Democrat; Saniel Socialist, and
Wardwell, Prohibitionist.
On the city ticket with Judge Van Wyck,
Bird S. Coler is elected controller and Ran
dolph Guggenheimer president of Municipal
Council. Charles s. Fairchild, who was sec
retary of the treasury during Clevelands S
first presidential term, and whom the Citi-
zens' Union put up for controller, did not
hold the pace with Mr. Low. Ashbel p.
Fitch, originally a Republican and after
wards Democratic member of Congress
from a Tammany district of this city. was
the Republican nominee for controller He
was defeated by about the same vote as
the head Of his ticket. He was nominated
with General Tracy in recognition of the
services he rendered in the presidential
campaign last year, fighting as a gold
standard Democrat against the Democrats
who had accepted the 16 to l platform of
the Chicago convention. Coler, the success
full candidate, is new to public life. Charles
w. Dayton, late postmaster OF this CITY.
who was nominated for controller on the
George ticket, polled probably half as manv
votes again as were given to Mr.. George
Inc legislative branch of the city govern
lneht Is Iammany-Democratic. 1t is a.
oouDie-headed body, one branch being the
municipal council, consisting of the presi-
dent and twenty-eight members. and the
otner the Board OF Aldermen comprising
sixty members. The precise number of
tG
present writing. There appears to be a
strong probability that the Democrats have
won majority of the county and borough
officers along with the municipal places.
The vote of Van Wyck in New York conn
ty is approximately the same as was cast
for Bryan in 1896, which was l35. .624. Cen
eral Tracy polled approximately 55.OO0
against McKinleys vote of 156, 1853 in New
York county, while Low polled, approxi-
mately, 1900, and George 12OO0 In Kings
county, which includes the city of Brook
lyn, the Bryan vote was 1852, while Van
Wyck's will be almost the same Against
McKinley's vote of 1O9,1S5 General Tracv
polls, approximately, $1,000, while Lows
vote is. approximately, 65,000 In these two
counties the straight Republican vote shows
falling off of nearly 175,0O0, or, in excess
of the total vote for Seth Low, while the
Tammany vote equals, If it does not slight
ly exceed that cast for Bryan.
The polling came within about $1,000 Of
the entire registration, which, considering
the weather conditions under which the
election proceeded, was all that could be ex-
pected. The day was wet, foggy, 'muggy'.
to degree. 1t was such a day as in the
years gone by, when voters lined up in the
streets to await their chance to pass their
ballots to the judges inside, was called
good Democratic weather" Under the al
tered conditions, the voting being done with
in doors, this characterization cannot well
apply.
There was a general suspension of bust
ness, and nearly everybody who was quail
flied had the opportunity of voting It was
only In the outlying sections that the exer-
cising of the right of franchise was at
tended with any inconvenience. And at
night the whole city was alive to the oc-
casion. Bulletin boards, searchlights news
paper extras, readers on the stages of
scores of theaters. told the story of the
election. The jubilant had recourse to the
diseordant fish horns for expression Of their