The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-02
Outward Signs Seem to Point to
the Election of Low.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES-SE-
GREY UNDERSTANDING SAID TO
EXIST BETWEEN PLATT AND
CROKER MAY RESULT IN THE
ELECTION OF VAN WYCK-SOME
OF THE MISTAKES MADE BY
CROKER.

New York, Nov. BIASED upon the
amount of patronage at stake and the gil
gantic character of the machine to be put
into operation by the first engineer at the
lever, the municipal election in Greater
New York dims everything else in the
country to day. 1t has been a contest
characterized on the part of some of the
men In charge by an exhibition OF the
most implacable hatred. The conditions
ar so unusual and the temper of the peo-
pie so uncertain that it is difficult, If not
impossible, to make prediction that
will approximate the result of to.mor-
rows vote. 1t may be said, however, that
the outward signs point to the election of
Seth Low, the candidate of the Citizens
Union party. Seth Low and the late
henry George represented the same great
ldeal--opposition to bossisIn, a political
condition that has grown to monstrous
proportions in New York city during the
paststwenty years. How much of the
vote OF George will go to Low is an un-
known factor in the campaign.
For days it has been admitted even
wheE Henry George was delivering his
sledge- hammer blows It the commc n en- :
emy-that the contest here is between
Van Wyck and Low. Tracy does not an
pear at any time to have been a close
second In the race, and while it is not an
parent that Henry George was drawing
the masses about him in sufficient mum.
Der to secure his election, he was fast
dlsiute grating the ranks of Tammany
and filling the heart OF Boss Croker with
lmpenetrable gloom and dependency
There ls but one way, seemingly, through
which victory can be male to perch once
more upon the Tammany banner, and
that depends for success upon the ability
OF Boss Patt to deliver into the tolls of
Croker. the honest manhood Of the Repub-
licans of New York. ~
There has long been an understanding
between Platt and Croker. Each of these
men are bosses OF the most vicious char.
acter. Croker wsnts the city and e in
order to gain 1t he has to pledge to Platt
the State, he will not hesitate to carry
out the compact. If this compact has
been entered into then Van wyck NAV
pull through. BY such deal Platt may
still save the State. which seems to be
slipping from him, and Croker may wrest
victory from the very jaws of defeat. But
the heat of the campaign has been so
great and the passions OF the voters so
worked upon that it is doubtful If Platt
could deliver to Croker the goods essen
tial to the binding of such n bargain.
An analysis of recent votes in New
YORK would seem to point to the success
of Seth Low, despite the terrific odds
against which he has been fighting. In
1892 Cleveland received in the present
area of Greater New York 204, $40 vote 8
and Harrison ,Sl3. In 1896 BRYAN
received 225,6i3 and Mckinley oS3, 110.
Ia the election of last year there were
$500 votes cast for Palmer and Buckner:
IA, 10 for the socialist ticket, and 1873
for the prohbitionists. These figures
show that in 1896 nearly 10000 voters
who voted for Cleveland refused to vote
for Bryan. They also show that McKin-
ley succeeded in getting over 101 600 more
votes than were given to Harrison 1t
cannot by any possibility be claimed that
this increase was the legitimate Republi-
can increase. Add the 10000 Sound
money" Democrats vote to McKinley's
and he has an increase over four years ago
OF IL, 900. The only satisfactory answer
to the question, "Where did these votes
come fl om?" Is to say they represented
the independent vote, Democratic votes.
sound money" votes, an aggregation of
votes that declined to indorpe the Chi
cago platform and which could not If
consistent indOrse the views of and vote
for Henry George.
1t would seem, therefore. that these
were votes cast Tor the principle repre-
sented in this wonderful canvass by Seth
Low and that he of all the men in the
race should fall heir to them. 1t IS not
unfair to assume that Mr.. Low will re-
ceive 'Deral perez ntape of the vote that
sloughed away from the regular Demo
cratic ticket last year, and to this per-
centRge must be added that percentage Of
the Republican vote of New York city
represented in the element antakonizing
the machine ticket, an element OF such
magnitude as to command the respect Of
even Mr.. Plat.
Hear DR.. Price, Y NJ c. A, hall to.
morrow night at $50 O'Clock.