The advocate., 1897-11-10
LATE ELECTION RETURNS
Show Some Surprising Reaults--New York
DemOCatiC--0hiO in Doubt.

Below we give the returns of last
weeks election, and while they are not
official, they are substantially correct:
NEW YORK STATE Returns from
all the counties In the State indicate a
plurality of more than $4,000 for Alton
B. Parker, Democratic candidate for
Chief Judge Of the Court of Appeals. His
plurality In Greater New York Ia 1873, ,058.
The State Legislature remains RepUbM-
can. The Senator'S hold over and the
new House OF Assembly stands IS Re-
publlcans to 6S Democrats. Ten OF the
newly-elected Republican Assemblymen
are said to be anti-Platt. In the present
Senate the Republican majority Is 30; In
the House, 7S.
GREATER NEW YORK (City).--Van
Wyck, Tammany candidate for Mayor Of
New York has S1,548 plurality over
Seth Low, and 1884 over Gen. Tracy.
SMALLER CITIES OF NEW YORK.
The following cities have elected DEM
ocratic Mayors: New York, Albany, Syr-
acuse, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester,
Amsterdam, Schenectady Kingston,
Jamestown. The Republicans carried
these cities on the Mayoralty: Cohoes,
Rensselaer, Yonkers, Newburgh, Clio
versville, Oswego, Utica. In Albany the
regular Republican candidate polled five
more votes than did the Independents
Republican candidate.
NEW JERSEY.-The New Jersey AS
sembly will have a Republican majority
Of 81 on joint ballot. The latest figures
from the different counties show that the
Democrats have elected Senators in Bur-
lington, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Passaic
and Sussex counties, and that Robert s.
Hand, Republican, is elected Senator
from Cape May by about 150 majority,
With the hold-over Senator'S this will
make the Senate stand IA Republicans to
Z Democrats.
INSTRUMENTATION WolCOtt,
the Republican candidate, is reelected
as Governor of Massachusetts, by a plu-
rality of nearly $4,000. Revised returns
show total vote of 165,313 for Wolcott;
1896 for George Fred Williams, regular
Democratic candidate, and 14,129 for
William Everett, the nominee of the Ma
tional Democrats. Wolcott's plurality
was 1883 last year, nearly 1000 less
than his total vote this year This years
political complexion Of the General AS
sembly will be as follows: Senate--Re-
publicans, "a; Democrats, 6. House
Republicans, 1872; Democrats, 10; Inde-
pendents, s; ProhibitiOnists, /.
PENNSYLVANIA - The complete
vote of Pennsylvania is as follows: For
State Treasurer, Beacon, Republican,
364597 Brown, Democrat, 240, ,216; Swal-
low, Prohibition, 1853; Thompson, In
dependent, 1928. Beacom's plurality,
124,3S1. For Auditor General--McCau-
ley, Republican, 4O0,695; Rietter, Demo-
crat, $50, 1854; Lathrope, Prohibition, 55,-
1872. McCauley's plurality, 140,531. The
total vote for State Treasurer is 734, ,259,
as compared with 767,087 in 1895, and
1,194, 1856 in 1896 DR.. Swallow, the Pro-
hibitiOn candidate, has plurality in ten
Of the sixty-seven counties.
IOWA.--The complete unofficial re-
turns of Tuesdays vote are: For Gov
ernOr, Shaw Republican, 224,555; White,
Democrat, 193,567; POpulist, middle-of-
the-road. $3.50; gold Democrats, 5,434;
Prohibition, 1882. Total, 44O, 1873.
shaw's plurality, SO,9SS. Shaw's total
vote is the largest ever cast for a Repub-
Hcan candidate for Governor, being