The sun., 1897-10-31
rRAor,s LEAD IN BROOKLYN
Republicans Confident or a Giorious Victory
t,rasptpr Cts nebuked.

In tho closing hours OF the campaign the Re
publican forces In Brooklyn are resolutoly con.
hdent OF glorious victory for Con. benjamin
+. Tracy. It was In that particular bailiwick.
that was claimed as the stronghold OF the Low
sentiment that the fight was hottest. Tho truo-
blue Republican chioftans buckled on their
armor In earnest after their throe successive
stunning defeats Of Jake Worth, the special
champion OF the Cts Union candidate. and not
aday or hour has since passed that they have
not boon making wide breaks in the Mugwump
ranks.
Tho retreat OF Worth from his ambush. and
his open declaration for Low, has had contrary
effect from that intended. Such an exhibition
OF duplicity and base ingratitude on the part
OF man long honored and enriched by the Ro-
publican party has disgustod even some Of
Worths own factional lieutenants. and has un.
pleasantly closed his variegated political career.
Jake Worth will no longer be q disturbing fac
tor in the Republican organization in tho sister
city.
Tho most iubant feeling prevailed yesterday
at the Court street headquarters. Each supple
mental canvassing report still kept Tracy far in
the lead, with Low trailing behind with his
slender Mugwump following.
Lieut.-Gov. Timothy l.. Woodruff said:
Il confidently predict that Tracy will lead all
the other candidates in this city. Lows follow
ers must DO hard pressed indeed when they in.
dulge in the nonsensical twaddle that Tracy
votes viii Ifs be swung ~ t to- Van ~ wyek 1t Is iic
and they know 1t, and not one OF them Is man
enough to back up the statement with his name.
The attempt OF Mr.. Low and his friends to
grasp for George votes and help before Mr..
Georges body was cold puts them in the cate
CORY of vullurcs. Even many OF Lows friends
blundcr"
A striking evidence of the hollowness of the
claim that the BROOKLYN real
almost solidly for Low was furnished yesterday
when when declaration in favor OF Tracy received
Austin A. H,pter, Charles d.. Mnrch, A. d.
slmpnsoa nb Tnres "A A. DonEht George Essns
Wheeer, Charles f. Wheeler, william 4.
Rick ford j. Fu!or j. Wallace Ss; Page, VGs George e
K Hale Hale william \, H h Pink, Samuel 4. stoddaEd,
Yam Dyke Albert F: PINK: iSh f' Bartis Albert
Robinson, f. NJ. Wells. Charles II. Ridgway,
and William VI. Gibson.
md trl bearer was made by Edward VI. Grout
the Democratic candidate for President OF the
borough OF Brooklyn, at IA hR Democratic gath
cring in Flatbus on Friday night:
Our real opponent Is Gen. BENJAMIN F.
kind word about Gen. Tracy. He is Just as big
man as Thomas c; Platt, and no man is going
to use him II he is elected"
This generous admission from a political foe
evoked ringing cheers.
The Rropflyn Timss yesterday declared that
it said. "tnat can defeat Van Wyck. He has
the undaun ed Repub lean party behind him.
The evident effort which all the Low papers
have made to gather the Georg vote for Low
was so hysterical and so frantic that it dis
closes fact little suspected by them II speaks
louder than words Of the desperate position in
which which The Low boomers, feel themselves.
than Tracy, and yet they. are so pushed
for votes that they are willing to truekio
to the aght.out Bryan men tor support. They
do indeed TO be mad over non. partisan
ship. for they are willing to deal with the very
men who would destroy the credit of the nation.
| But the claim that Seth Low is stronger than
| Tracy, and in any way expected TO win by his
| followers, is exploded from this time iorth for
! the appeals made for the George vote have un-
covered the fact that the Citizens Union itself
realized the desperate chances which Low is
| taking"
| This is the result OF the final canvass made
| by the Repuhlican man gers. with the entire
Fifth and Nineteenth wards and some few dis.
tricts in half dozen Of the other wards missing
Tracy: So.2Ob
an W NScK.'--...-. .stN,abS
Low. .......,........
,feorse b,bol
Doubtful and scattering 3O,o.3
| y fair and careful canvass of the Twenty.
| third ward, in which as III ny as 5000 votes
have been ciaimc for Low. shows that he can.