The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-22

Taking first the registration this year 1t is
900 votes, surprising that Every resistcrcd
voter casts his vote, there will be left but 1877.
f9se yo' ssn in NJ Mse si'r and ID s s.s a,v,as sSe n ggoc anGDs
and Pal. Gleason, Take the Second Assembly
district for example. The Gifts shy that they, got
Canal street to the Battery, 4.2s5 signatures
or m aes WIZ I Pe.t''Gi1 or "n low. .nf IN thai that d dis'Tist
there is a registration Of 1857, leaving. there
!Trs:r snpggS on w 2 fSl' o note d Is gsst' T ha, ,a lss
year Mckinley got but 2,6Gs votes in the dis
trict and Bryan got i.346. Therefore, leaving
whole Republican vote and ne ,rly q thiri of the
Democratic vote. Yet in 1856. when tho Second
present ono. Mr.. George roIied 1878 votes there.
What will he do down there this year. And
yet the Cts say. In cold sonr.ety, that 4;2s5
different and genuine men signed that Low
petition in that district and will vote for the
candidate.
town TO the Nineteenth. a Republican strong
hold uptown. exhibits the same simplicity on the
Part at Of the :, H ms SIps P osniS 81 f fhs to Ths E re-,
the Low petition and will vote for him or. in other
voted for Mckinley will vote for Low. On such
a basis the outlook is pretty bad for the
n iriets w Sne~,o they cl ana '" vote Ia larger tr' th hasi
half Of the registration. the Second. Eighth.
Tenth lthree:fourths thore,, Eleventh, Twelfth.
fourth, Twenty-hfth. Twcnty.sixth, Twenty
seventh. and Twenty-eighth. In the Fourth.
Fifth. Sixth. Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth.
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Tvcnty-ninth they
claim almost a half of the entire registration.
1t Is no wonder that the young men who run
tho Cts lean back in their chairs when they
read these figures and say that It's all over but
the shouting. But II you can find a politician
in town to-day who isn't shouting with laugh
ter when he reads the Cts figures for his own
museum-as an exhibit, not TO see the curiOsi.
ties. For that, take him to Twcnty-third street.
1t would be too bad not to print, with the Cts
figures, their own Interpretation thereof. Here
1t is:
we are making Of all signcrs OF the Low ballot.
We know from personal interviews that the
great body of these siRners have registered and
intend TO vote for tho Citizens Union ticket.
The canvass WAS conducted in all parts OF Tho
city, on Broad way and tho BOwery. among the
stores and among the tenement houses and fac
tories, and there Is no doubt whatever that a
much larger number of signatures would have
boon secured IL the Union lind EXTENDED the can.
vass. We set out to secure 100 900 signatures,
thought the number was sufficient to prove the
popular demand for Mr.. Lows nomination.
The larger proportion OF the signatures come
from the tenement houses, but the signers In
clude l0horers, postmen. policemen. mechanics,
clergymen, lawyers. printers. dotors.. Every
matte canvass WAS made outside OF the borough
of Manhattan, and the signatures which have
come to us from the other borouRhs arc purely vol
untary. Tho total number of voters represented
Is upward of l6l 900. These figures show tho
strength OF the movement for Mr.. Lows cleo
ton, and every day increases our confidence in
It's certainty