The sun., 1897-11-03
CITs IN ANXIOUS MOOD.
Mow the Nay wont at the headquarters or
the FACILITATING Patriots.


the PaipitatinE Patriots.
Tho day was one of anxious waiting at the Git
headquarters. for although all Of them seemed
very confident Of victory, the confidence was Of
the kind that peeded continual stimulation.
Few of tho big bosses put in appearance.
Poet Glider amblod amiably about the deserted
press room. which for weeks he has filled with
10 much activity. J. Kennedy Tod. the Cit
Wiskinkie, skipped in and out, glecfully say
ing that nothing but Low votes had
been cast anywhere. Jeems weynolds was
particularly happy because carly in the day
report had been made to him that one man in
the Fifth Assembly district had scratched the
Republican nominee for Coroner and put in
Jeemss name. his reason being that Jeems was
better fitted for the job than anybody else be-
cause of his recent continuous association with
political corpses. John Columbus Clark, paler.
thinner, and more cadaverous than ever, drifted
aimlessly about asking questions concerning the
vote. Boss Pine took scat at the telephone
and called up all parts of Greater New York to
SEQ how the election was going.
The busiest man about the place was Lewis L.
Delatield. who was lawyer in charge, and whose
duty it was to decide all points of law that were
brought to his attention. He had at his disposal
half dozen cabs and as many budding LAWYERS.
whom ne sent sourrying about town whenever
field took it upon himself to decide the George
paster trouble. He studied tho matter care
fully for three minutes. then announced that all
the George ballots would have to be counted,
because mon could not be disfranchised by the
mistakes of election officers.
to Nj. Delafeld's E notice. This was the case Of
pet-cioanins works Of the C. II. Brown Company.
221 East Thirty eighth street, McCann went to
Thirty-seveath and Thirty.elehth streets. in the
Twentieth Assembly district yesterday morn.
ing about o'clock: He got his ballet and went went
that Albert 7. McCann had already voted; He
see what he could do. There he found William
c. Le Gendre. who took him to Delateld. Della
swear e,a in his vote. This was done and the man
voted. lie Gendre said the Cts in the Twen-
this would be attempted by Tammany, but he
had hoard of no other instance where an at
tempt had been made to steal vote from q man
by iInpersonating him at the polls.
Early in the afternoon man attached to the
woman's Municipal League came rushfaS into
whiskey. He said that all through the Fifth
Assembly district Tammany workers were wear
carrying around with them great rolls OF money.
He didn't know what they were doing, but he
Vas Vas sure that they S were doing so%Gtang and
wanted Mr.. Delafield to tell her what to do to
make the Tammany men stop wearing Git
Delafleld made an evasive reply, and what Mrs.
Belts did Is not known.
afternoon put the Cits in better humor than
they had been in in the morning District leaders
arrived throughout the day and reported that
strength of the enrolled vote The unusually
heavy vote in in the morning they Interpreted to
was brought ha 70 Their ears ears that that Chair air
On the strength of that they ordered q supper
to be served at headquarters in the evening.
When o'clock came. the time for the polls to
out plurality Of SO. 600 for Low
I The change that came over the feelings cling Of the
When the returns began to come in Pine, Glider.
| James C. Carter, Reynolds. and Clark. with a
Seth stayed at home. After the figuring they
had done in the afternoon. the Cts could not soc
evening grew older and the news of the land.
| slide to Tammany, their faces grew longer and
| longer. and finally, at o'clock. Jeems Weynolds
said; ... w. .o.
deceived BY our reports from Brooklyn, which
city by a tremenioqs majority: Yes, concede
Mr.: Lows defeat, But we beat Tracy"
mot sss sS than a the the q5s
League who came to headquarters to get the
| returns of the great Low victory which did not
AFTERNOON. This order was countermanded
later. and the poor women sat at the windows
house on the other side of the street. They
stopped putting returns on 1t early in the
Some Of the Cit spellbinders made speeches
from the balcony to the little crowd below. John
charge. and by midnight tho headq quarters were
dark. The only consolation OF the cresttAilen
| Cits was that they had beaten Tracy, and that
in tho end made them almost happy.
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