The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-28
TO A%NTI-TAMMANY VOTERS.
Votes FOR TRACY THE ONLY WAY
TO BEAT TAMMANF.
Facts which Provo THAT the Real Fight Is B"-
tween Tracy ana Van WSck-A Vote Tor
Any Candidate but Tracy IL y Vote Thrown

Facts which Prove THAT the Real Fight IL he
tween Tracy and Van WSck-A Vote for
Any Candidate but Tracy IL = Vote Thrown
AwaJ-Gen. Tracy n Certain winner
To Would. BE Anti. Tdmmdnv Voters;
Some OF you arc in honest doubt as to whether
your vote against Tnmmany will countthe most
IL cast for Tracy or for Low.
1t Is impossible to predict tho number OF votes
which will be actually cast for the six or mors
candidates for Mayor. The political skies may
fall TO tho earth, but they never have before.
Tho ia in tho Republican vote for Folgcr as
compared with the Republican vote OF the pre-
ceding year was liio per cent. OF the latter vote.
Never before or 81 &C. In the history oil this
country, has there been 80 great q change IN a
single year. Tho Mckinley vote of last year in
the territory OF Greater New York exec. ded by
over 10000 the vote cast for Gov. Black. and
the excess was doubtless due to tho number of
Democrats voting for Mckinley who at the
same time cast their ballots for Governor for
Mr.. Porter. the regular Democratic candidate.
If, therefore, W take the vote for Gov. Is nck,
which amounted to PA 900 Including Queens
county,, as a basis for computation, we have APP
proximated the Republican vote cast last year.
So also the 230.O 900 votes cast for Mr.. Porter in
the same territory was the approximate strength
of the Democrats.
nov. blnck . vote OF 2i4,ooo snoulu U U re-
duccd by 20 per cent, or $4,000. Gen. Tracy's
vote would be 100000.
While an llowanc OF 20 per cent. will
probably cover all the defections from Gov.
Black, either OF Democrats who may return to
their party this year or of those Republicans
deluded by tho false prctenccs OF the Citizens
Union and of Henry George and others who are
indulgIng in their personal grievances and vim
dictivencss, a further reduction can be safely
made without cndangering Gen. Tracy's sure
election. II an llowancc of even 80 per cent.
or 81, 1000. should be made. Gen. Tracy would
poll 10000 votes. which it is not possible for
any candidate other than the Tammany candi-
date to equal.
1t is plain that IL last years Democratic vote
for Porter for Cover or should be reduced by
the same percentage, whatever the rate you
take may be. as Is applied to Gov. Blacks vote.
Gen. Tracy will as certainly beat Van Wyck
this year as Gov. Black beat Porter last year.
II tho claims OF the Citizens Union and of
Henry George have any foundation it is certain
! that Mr.. George, Mr.. Low, and Mr.. Gleason will
take more Democratic votes from the $50, 900
cast for Porter last year than can be drawn from
Gov. Blacks vote. II, however, only 80 per
cert, or Il 200, be deducted from Porter's $780,
900. Van Wyck would receive only 1863, 900
votes, giving Tracy a plurality OF "a, 900 over
Van Wyck. The deductions from both Black
and Porter, amounting TO 1913. Oo0. must be die
vidcd and scattered between George. Low, Glea-
son. and the other candidates for Mayor.
The real danger is that the fight between
Tracy and Van Wyck will be closer than "a, 900.
Thus every voter who casts his ballot for Low
weakcns by one vote the only real anti-Tam.
many force; he fires in the air. and not at the
enemy. and every vote cast in that way is a
damage 10 the cause of good government.
~ H,.,.n.,' - f. AG--~-
COMPTROLLER, and President of the Council first
appear in the third printed column under the
Bryan candidate for Chief Judge OF the Court OF
Appeals. and tho entire amman Hall candi'
dates for county offices will be found in the
same column below. ".NoScitur a sociis"-a
man is known by those with whom he associates.
The Citizens Union candidates for county
offices will be found in another column headed
by Henry George. Their full ticket will appear
in another column. but without any candidate
for Chief Judge of tho Court of Appeals. the
highest judicial office in the State.
In effect the Citizens Union invites every
voter to cast his ballot against Judge Wallace
and in favor of a Bryan Chief Judge.
Should you vote the Citizens Union ticket in
any column, how would you feel with a Bryan
Chief Judge and n Tammnny Mayor. when Wal
lace and Tracy might have been elected except
for your votei
II the Republican ranks are broken next Tues.
day by your vote. what organization will there
be to oppose Organism and Populism in 1900
OCT. ~. 1897. EDWARD MITCHELL