The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-02
NEW YORK'S THROES
Enormous Vote Polled IN
the Great City In The
EARLY Morning Hours.
AtL PARTIES CLAIM EVERYTHING
Rumors Of Dickers aud Deal
Where Does Georges
Vote Co.?

| NEW YORK. Nov. 2. lS97.-The first
| Mayor of Greater New York will be elect
ed today. For bitterness. complex situa-
! tions and uncertainty the campaign has
never been exceied in national or munich
pal elections. The dramatic death and the
| funeral of Henry George. uhe nominee OF
the Jeffersonian Democracy and author OF
| Progress and Poverty on the eve of
! the election may have had an effect upon
| the general results 1t is difficult, II not
| impossible, to make any estimates in TINS
| regard because of the absolute lack OF
| precedents. The average man, however,
| appears to- be of the opinion that the
votes that would have been cast for
| George will be scattered among the can
! didates under the new conditions in such
| manner that while they may alter the
| totals received by the various nominees,
| they will not affect the positions of the
| leaders at the close.
The last of the oratorical guns We're
| fired last Saturday night. rafting,
skirmish fire was however carried on by
all parties throughout yesterday and far
| into last night, and even when the smoke
| had cleared away knots of the old polltl-
cal guard, men who sleep Standing up
| on the night preceding an election day,
| argued their favorite candidates chances
until the time for the opening OF the
| polls.
With the dawn of day came preparations
/ for the opening OF the polls. The skies
were dark and lowering, the falling rains
presaged long and disagreeable day for
the workers. Political leaders COM
menced the struggle. full vote will
mean possibly 9,000 and this estimate is
arrived at by taking the total registration
56S, ,56S, and deducting therefrom the
usual seven per cent. allowance for de-
fective ballots, stay-at-homes and nom
voters.
Out of the tangle of alleged deals and
splits" and ''straddles'' and s.withdraw-
als,' have been drawn into alignment
four prominent political parties with the
following as their Mayoralty standard
bearers
| Democrat CTammany), Robert A. Van
Wyck.
National Democratic and Citizens
Union, Seth Low.
Republican, Benjamin F. Tracy.
The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson,
Henry George, Jr.
Another aspirant for the honor OF be-
ing Greater New York's first Mayor is.
Patrick jerome Gleason, the present
Mayor of Long. Island City. He is run
ming as an independent candidate; his
I emblem is battle axe%~ his MOTTO
Neither Tea nor Tiger. and he is ex-
pected to poll 10000 votes.
The official ballots show that there are
three other candidates for Mayoralty
honors-Lucien Saniel, who heads the
Socialist Labor Party, and who VIII pos
sibly receive s, ,000 votes; William Il. Ward
we'll, the leader Of the Prohlbitionists,
who is not expected to poll more than
1000 votes at the maSimum and d. Alfred Ire.
it may be said that it is understood that
tae only M error g95es be r VII ned
since the nominations closed and when it
was too late to take the name of its
candidate off the ballot, practically en-
dorsed Henry George and all the follow
ed to cast their votes for the representa-
tive of the Democracy of Thomas Jeffer-
son. Through a misunderstanding Of
these conditions or for other reasons it
is calculated that 1e00 United Democ-
racy votes may be found in the box for
Cruikshank.
The scattering total, therefOre-for
Gleason, Saniel, Wardwell and Cruik-
shank would be 4,get, which, deduced
from the estimated number Of votes that
will be cast would leave about 505,000 to
be divided among the serious candidates
the he above calculation is accurate and if
the candidates break even, the man
who receives over 126. $50 votes will be the
first Mayor of the Greater New York.
In this connection, it is well to look at
the ante-election claims" of the chairmen
Iof the four leading campaign commit
tees. They are as follows:-
Democratic estimate gives Van
Wyck a majority over all other
candidates combined of ..:......... 10000
And plurality over Low the next
highest ........................... 10000
Republican estimate gives Tracy a
plurality of Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Citizens Union estimate gives Low
a plurality Observation-Disclosures. $1,000
George estimate gives George a
plurality of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $1,000
There are /. .522 election districts, and of
New York, DIVIDED as follows - :.