The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-03
SUMMARY OF THE RESULT.
Van Weeks Plurality e6, ,66e.

New York; Nov. 2.-Tammany's vic- tory in the first municipal election in Greater New York is a sweeping one The only question now remaining to be settled is the one of the plu- rality by which the entire ticket headed by Robert A. Van Wyck has carried the gigantic municipality. It can scarcely be less than S6,OOO and may be larger than that. Van Wyck has boiled a vote which falls possibly 15,0O0 under the combined vote of General Tracy, republican, and Seth Low, Citizens Union.
 The latter was successful to the ex- cess of the 140OOO pledges implied by the signatures to the petition upon which he became the candidate of the independent movement, which, at the outset, offered to Join hands with the republican organization in concerted effort to exclude Tammany from power in the greater city to come into being on January 1, 1898, with population the second in magnitude of the great cities of the world. The offer was de- clined on the ground that in any such movement the republican organization would participate only coincidently with the other party to the compact, and the Citizens Union, on the other hand, refused to recall its nomination of Mr., Low in order that the form of selecting a candidate might be carried out conjointly with the republican or ganization.
 The total number of votes cast was not far either way from half a million The indications are that Van Wyck re- ceived 233,00O, Low 146,0O0, Tracy 100000 and George 10000. The aggregate Is sweIled by a few thousand votes cast for Gleason, independent democrat; Saniel, socialist, and Wardwell, prohi- bition.
 On the city ticket with Judge Van Wyck, Bird s. Coler is elected comp troller and Randolph Gugenheimer president of the municipal council Charles S. Fairchild, who was secre. tary of the treasury during Cleveland's HTSL pTeSluSnlldl Iclul, tllu " HUH btAS Citizens Union put up for comptroller did not hold the pace with Mir. Low Ashbel P Fitch, originally republican and afterwards a democratic member of congress from a Tammany district of this city, was the republican nom inee for comptroller. He is defeated by about the same vote as the head o1 his ticket. He was nominated witf General Tracy in recognition of the ser vices he rendered in the presidential campaign last year, fighting as a golG standard democrat against the demo crats that had accepted the 16 to plat form of the Chicago convention. Coler the successful candidate, is new to pub lie life.
 Charles W. Dayton. late postmaster of this city, who was nominated fol comptroller on the George ticket, boiled probably half as many votes again as were given to MT. George.
 The legislative branch of the city government is Tammany- democratic It is double-headed body, one branch being the municipal council, consisting of the president and twenty-eight mem. bers, and the other the board of alder. men, comprising sixty members. The
  precise number of democrats chosen cannot be stated at the present writing There appears to be a. strong probabil. ity that the democrats have won a ma- iority of the county and borough offices along with the municipal places. The vote of Van Wyck in New York county is approximately the same as ! was cast for Bryan in 1896, which was 35624. General Tracy (republican boiled approximately 55,00O, agains McKinley's vote of 156,359 in New Yorl county, while Seth Low (Citizens Union) polled approximately 77,0OO, ant George Jefferson democrat) 12,000 in Kings county, which includes tn, < city of Brooklyn, the Bryan vote Wa. 76. .6s2. while Van Wyck's will be almos the same. Against McKinley's vote O 1O9.135, General Tracy polls approxi mately 35OoO, while Lows vote is ap proximately 65,000.
 In these two counties the straight re publican vote shows a falling off Q nearly 175,OO0, or in excess of the tota vote for Low, while the Tammany yot'