The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-17
New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond
Counties are elected. The relative strength
OF the various Mayoralty candidates, as es.
timated at midnight was:

Judge Van Wyck's plurality In the bor-
oughs Of Manhattan and the Bronx Is about
sc, $50. Lows vote Is 1853 in these two
boroughs, and Traoy's about 1000.
Van Wyck's large vote has swept with
him into office his associates on the mu-
nicipal ticket and every candidate on the
county ticket, both In New York and Kings
Counties. Tammany and its allies will con-
troll also both branches Of the Municipal
Assembly.
The two greatest surprises OF the day
perhaps, from the local point Of view, were
the large falling of in the vote from the
total registration, and the inability OF
Henry George to hold together any per-
eeptibie part Of the vote his father proba-
bly, would have obtained.
The total vote shows that nearly $4,000
registered voters failed to go to the polls.
Most Of these, politicians figured out. were
vote for General Tracy or Seth Low, de-
cided finally to vote for neither.
The best estimate of the total vote OF
each candidate shows that had the solid
vote Of Low and Tracy been combined on
Mr.. Low he would have beaten Judge Van
Wyck by 1900.
In the round up at the polls Tammauy
was able to make It's magnificent organiza-
tion felt. The results show that 1t sue
ceeded In capturing at least eighty per
cent. Of the vote claimed for Henry George.
Another interesting fact Is developed by
such hasty study as can be given to the
returns. Judge Van Wyok got practically
the vote that was cast in New York County
last year for William J. Bryan. The vote
that was cast for Mckinley appears to have
been. split up among Mr.. Low, General
Tracy and Mr.. George. This shows that
the free silver Democrats who voted for
Bryan last year voted for Van Wyck after
the death OF George.
The Municipal Assembly will be over
whelming Democratic. The Democrats will
have practically unanimous vote In both
the Board Of Aldermen and the Council.
Bird s. Coler and Randolph duggenheim-
or, the Democratic candidates for Comp
troller and President Of the Council, are
elected, the former by 100000 over Fitch,
Rep, and the latter by about 115, 900 over
Appleton, Rep.
Tammany men owned the town and vast
crowds surrounded the bulletin boards.
Broadway and Third avenue, from Four
teenth street to Forty-second street, espe-
cially swarmed with a noisy crowd, most OF
whom were cheering for Van Wyck and
Tammauy Hall and footing horns. The
nounced to the Indians In the Fourteenth
street Wigwam at exactly 9.15 O'Clock. The
announcement was made by Richard Croker
In person, from the rostrum Of the hal, and
1t was received with tiger yell that
drowned the music Of the SiXty-ninth Reg
iment Band and made the building echo
and re-echo for full five minutes.
The indications are that, with the e1cep-
tion possibly Of six Of the twenty-one AS
semblymen in Brooklyn and nine Of the
thirty-fve in New York, all the Tammany
candidates are elected. In Queens, four Of
the Assemblymen are Democrats. The
Citizens Union elected two Assemblymen
in New York County.
The present representation in the Assem-
bly, from the counties in the Greater New
York Is: New York County, % Democrats
and u Republicans; Kings County, z
Democrats and IA Republicans; Queens
County, Democrats and Republicans;
Richmond County, Republican.
Charles II. Van Brunt and Francis M.
Scott are elected to the Supreme Court
bench In the First Department and Willard
Bartlett in the Second Department.