Evening star., 1897-11-02
HEARING THE NEWS.
Crowds on the Streets to Learn the
Result of the Voting.


Result of the Voting.
The scenes end incidents that marked
the streets of Washington a year ago, when
the day of the week is. cons. .dered, were
reproduced on a scale slightly diminished
tonight, and the inspiration that brought
them into being was the same On both oc-
o9sions-eXcited interest in the result TO
be attained by American citizens exercis-
ing their right of franchise. The first event
was of national imDo rtance to the most
superlative degree ever known in the po-
litical history of the country. Regardless
of the fact that few, If any, of the men
who composed the immense crowds were
voters the throrgs that surrounded The
Evening Star office on every side and which
gathered at o:her places seemed to have
an individual interest in the outcome, and
as their sympathies were pleased by the
bulletins they gave vent to their satisfac-
ton in yells vigorous enough to wake the
seven sleepsrs
When the election of Mckinley was as
sured. however, the old town never knew
such a hot time, and that is saying a great
deal
Tonight the streets were well occupied
by the crowds, and Pennsylvania avenue
was a promenade from curb to curb from
The Star office vas as usual, greater than
the assemblages at all other places COM
bned. and it greeted the bulletins cast
out on the immense screen with general
applause, no matter which side was ia
vored. The early returns showing big
republican losses in Massachusetts, a vir-
tual victory for Van Wyck in Greater New
York and Parker. the democratic candi-
dat fnr ind in asrInn lya
a wolf,' as cne observer put it, were Justify
cheered at The Star office, but down at
the Metropolitan Hotel, where the dyed-in-
crowd made more noise than a pack Of
coyotes.
The pleasant bracing air attracted many
beaux and their bellies and the latter dis
played almost as great interest in the bull
letins as their stalwart companions. The
small boy with his ear-wrecking instru-
arl he screeched impartially at everything
long as the crowd found something to
start it's vocal chords to action.
At Republican Headquarters.
Secretary Sidney A. Perkins was at the
rational republican committee quarters, in
the Glover building, to which admission
was Dy cara NlSltOTS GENERALLY Buyeu
Secretary Perkins on the terror of the early
dispatches from Boston and New York.
but he retained his serenity and merely re-
marked:
I'VE do these things different out west"
One of the first specials received at ma
tional republican committee headquarters
announced the claim of the democratic
managers in New York that Van Wyck
would be elected by 60.O)0 plurality. The
effect of this was offset by special from
Cincinnati stating that everything looked
promising and voters who cast republican
ballots last year were putting them in
again this time. Then came a dispatch
from Lincoln, Neb.. indicating a big vote
with everything locking favorable for the
frsionists.
The first definite telegram received by
Secretary Perkins from Ohio was from
Cincinnati, stating that two precincts gave
a democratic gain of IS over 1896. 1t began
to look as if they didn't do things so differ
emily in the west after all, and an irreyeren;
listener to the dispatch SO remarked.
The party at headquarters began to in
crease at this point Senator Wilson 1f
Washington, Recorder Cheatham, Col.
Wimberly of Louisiana, Correspondent
John s. Shriver and other ardent republi
cans were on hand. The bulletins were
York and Massachusetts, and Van Wyck' S
increasing strides and the steady average
loss of 100 republican votes to town in
Massachusetts, from the vote of 1886, and
when read amid such surroundings and to
such hearers gave anything but comfort.