Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-03

York county is approximately the
same as was cast for Bryan in 1896,
which was 1876, SPA. Gen. Tracy Rep),
polled approximately $4,000 against
McKinleys vote of 156,359 in New
York county, while Low &C. u, polled
approximately 1900 and George, JEFF
ferson Democrat, 1000
In Kings county, which includes
the city of Brooklyn, the Bryan vote
was 1882, while Van Wyck's will be
almost the same. Against McKin-
ley's vote of 109,135, Gen. Tracy poll
ed approximately $4,000, while Lows
vote is approximately $4,000.
In these two counties the straight
Republican vote shows a falling off
of nearly $4,000, or in excess of the
total for Seth Low, while the Tamma-
ny vote equals, il it does not slightly
exceed, that cast for Bryan
The polling came within about So
900 Of the entire registration, which,
considering the wet conditions under
which the election proceeded, was all
that could be expected. The day was
wet, foggy and "muggy'' to degree.
Robert "a. Van Wyck, Democratic
nominee for Mayor, voted at $40
o'clock, casting ballot No. 10. He
spent thirty seconds in the booth.
THERE was no crowd at the polling
place and there was no demonstra-
ton.
1t was nearly two hours later when
Seth Low appeared at the precinct
where he was registered. He spent
two minutes in the booth. His COM
ing and going were not marked by any
demonstration.
Gen. Tracy, the Republican nominee
for Mayor, voted at 1905 o'clock. He
walked alone from the Union League
Club to the voting place, one square
away, and was in the booth just one
half minute.
Mr.. Tracy appeared in the best of
spirits and said he looked for a Re-
publican victory.
Richard Croker voted at II o'clock.
Rain, which fell more or less per-
sistently throughout the forenoon, has
had little effect to restrain the voters
of Greater New York from giving ex-
preston to their preferences for city
and borough officials. The polls open
ed at o'clock, and within two hours
a good third Of the votes had been
polled in the residential sections of
New York and Brooklyn. From that
time forward the polling proceeded a
little less rapidly, though still with
enough animation to keep the clerks
Of election from gossipping, so that
there was at noon but small fraction
of the registered vote remaining I'M
cast. In the suburban precincts the
voting was little behind.
COSTLY BALLOTS.
1t cost $1,000 to vote four of the
registered men residing in Central
Park to-day. These four men voted at
One Hundred and First street and
Eighth avenue, where special booth
had been built for them. Inspectors,
ballot clerks and police had to be fur
nished for the four voters. The men
live in McGowan's Pass tavern.
BY $50 o'clock all had voted and
the inspectors and ballot clerks were
free to discuss politics or anything else
until shutdown, but the booths must be
kept open in accordance with the law
until o'clock.
The other three voters in the Park
are James Conway, the shepherd, and
his two sons, who live at the sheep fold
and vote at Eighth avenue and Fifty
sixth street, where there is big dis
trict.
THE GEORGE VOTE.
Whatever might have been the re-
suit had Henry George survived the
campaign, the elections from the
earliest returns were that the substi-
tuition of the son for the father, as the
mayoralty candidate of the Thomas
Jefferson Democracy, had proved a
failure from any but the sensational
point Of view. In fact, the George
candidacy has made but beggarly
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