The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05

'ture Claimed by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Small - at Republican Head.
quarters
New York, November 2.-Tammany's
victory in the first municipal election in
Greater New York IS a sweeping one.
The only question remaining to be set
tied at II o'clock is the one of the plu-
raIity by which the entire ticket, head
ed by Robert VanWyck, has carried the
gigantic municipality. 1t can scarcely
be less than 60, 900 and may be larger than
that. VanNyck has polled a vote which
falls possibly 40, 900 under the combined
votes Of General Tracey, republican, and
Seth Low, citizens union. The latter
was successful to the extent of polling
an aggregate vote in excess OF the Ill.,
600 pledges implied by the signatures to
the petition upon which he became a
candidate Of an independent movement,
which at the outset offered to join hands
with the republican party organization
in a concerted effort to exclude Tamma-
ny from power in the greater city to
come into being on January /, 1895, with
a population the second in magnitude of
the greatest city of the world. The offer
was declined on the ground that by such
u movement the republican organization
would participate only CONFIDENTLY with
the other party to the compact, and the
citizens union, on the other hands refus-
ed to recall it's nomination of Mr.. Low
in order that the form of selecting a can
didate might be carried out conformity
with the republican organization. The
total number of votes cast was not far
either way from half a million. The in
dications are that VanWyck received 21O,-
900, Low $4,000, Tracey 100, 600 and George
~, vvj. The aggregate is swelled by a
fnW th0nCanI votes cast for Gleason
independent democrat; Cancel, a social
list, and Wardwell, prohibitionist.
On the city ticket with Judge VanWyck
Bird s. Color is elected comptroller and
Randolph Guggenheimer president Of the
municipal council. Charles S. Fairchild,
who was secretary of the treasury dur
ing C~leveland's first presidential term,
and whom the citizens union put up for
comptroller, did not hold the pace with
Mr.. Low. Ashbelp Fitch, originally q re-
publican and a democratic
member of OngreSS from a Tammany
district of this city, was the republican
for comptroller. He is defeated by about
the same vote as the head of his ticket.
He was nominated with General Tracey
in recognition of the services he rem
dered in the presidential campaign last
year fighting as a gold standard dem
ocrat against the democrats who had ac-
cepted the 16 to / platform of the Chi
cago convention. Color, the successful
candidate, is new to public life.
Charles w. Dayton, the ex-postmaster
of this city, was nominated for comp
troller on the George ticket and polled
probably half as many votes again as
were given to Mr.. George.
The legislative branch of the city gov
is Tammany democratic. 1t is a
double headed body, one branch being
the municipal council, consisting of the
president and twenty-eight members, and
the other the board of aldermen, COM
prising sixty members. The precise
number of democrats chosen cannot be
stated at the present writing. There ap-
pears to be a strong probability that the
democrats have won a majority of the
county and borough offices along with
the municipal places.
The vote of VanVyck in New York
county is approximately the same as
was cast for Bryan in 1896, which was
ed approximately 5000 against McKin-
ley's vote Of 1856, 359 in New York county,
while Low. citizens union. polled prox-
imately 1000. and George, Jefferson
democrat, 1000.
In Kings county, which includes the
city Of Brooklyn, the Bryan vote was
76,SS2, while VanWyck's will be almost
the same. Against McKinley's vote of
100, 135. General Tracey polls approx
mately 5000, while Lows vote is approx
imately 5000
In these two counties the straight re-
publican vote shows a falling off of near
ly 175, 900, or in excess of the total vote
for Seth Low, while the Tammany vote
equals. if it does not slightly exceed,
that cast for Bryan.
Rain, which prevailed all over the
state, had the effect of keeping many of
the country voters away from the polls.
The result is apparent In the reduced ma
j%orities given in concededly republican
districts to William J. Wallace, the re-
publican nominee for chief judge Of the
court of appeals, as compared with the
pluralities by which the same districts
were carried last year. In many districts
the pluralities of a year ago are reduced
nearly One-half and in few that have
been reported is the falling off less than
% per cent. Conceding to Judge Parker.
democrat, a majority of 100000 in Greater
New York, it is probable that he has
won in the state. The returns for as
semblymen are entirely lacking in the
Greater New York districts. owing to the
large number Of candidates whose votes
must be counted before the assembly
nominees are reached, and the results
here will probably not be known until
tomorrow. Outside of Greater New York,
with thirteen districts to be heard form,
dispatches to the Associated Press show
the election of 81 republicans and II
democrats.
This, it is believed, insuTes the con-
tinuance of republican control of the as
sembly whatever may be the result in
Greater New York districts.
At IL o'clock Republican State Chair
man HaCket declared that from dis
patches received from assembly districts
over the state. the republicans had a
working majority in the assembly.
THE GEORGE VOTE.
Whatever might have been the result
had Henry George survived the cam
paign, the indications from the earliest
returns were hat the substitution of the
son for the father as the mayoralty can.
didate of the Thomas Jefferson democra.
cy had proved a failure from any but &
sentimental point of view. In fact, the
George candidacy has made but a beg.
gardly showing, scarcely 5 per cent. Of
the votes in New York city counted VI
10 = O'clock having hppn cast for tho cor
of the author of Progress and Poverty.
The George vote possibly suffered by
the failure Of the supervisors of cleo
ton to supply a large number of tn,
precincts with pastors to attach to tn,
voting papers. The law requires that il
the event of the death of a candidate be
fore the date of the election and afte
the voting papers have been printed
there shall be printed and supplied t.
each precinct pastors upon which i
printed the name of the person selected
in the prescribed manner to succeed tn
deceased candidate, the pastors to be at
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