The age-herald., 1898-10-23

were blank for judge of the court of ap- peals In this city the combined vote for Tracy, Lowe and George for Mayor was fl 900 more than the vote for Van Wyck.
 The Tammany organ
 The Daily News, which is now the TanTs many newspaper organ, has called these figures to the attention of the campaign managers and in double-leaded editorial warned them that it will take almost landslide this year to elect the democratic state ticket. It is clear that the demo- crats must poll more votes in the city than they did last year or they will be beaten, because the republican vote in the country will not keep down to the 3S per cent. loss this year.
 As to the situation fin the city, probably nine-tenths of the men who voted for George last year will vote the straight democratic ticket next month. The Lowe vote of last year is far more difficult to trace. Lowe himself and most of the men who were prominent in his campaign are supporting Roosevelt, and 1t Is generally assumed that the entire independent re- publican vote will go to the Rough Rider. Of the mugwump democrats who supported Lowe few have gone back into the ranks of the party, but there are many others who remain an unknown quantity in this campaign.
 The so-called German vote, which in reality Is small band of chronic office seekers, was largely for Lowe last year, and this year most of them are for the democratic ticket. The Lowe vote of last year is really the balance of power in the Uar Wua yUf11 George vote and some of the Lowe vote. If he gets enough of the latter he may have a majority in the city sufficient to overcome the normal republican plurality above the city line. At the present time the prospects are not over-encouraging even to the democratic managers.
 Free Silver is Dead
 The campaign has positively settled one matter that may be of interest to demo- crats all over the country, that is that the free silver question is a dead and buried issue. The party leaders made no mis- take when they had the state convention ignore the Chicago platform. The cam paign has developed the fact that the dem ocrats of New York are convinced that the election of 1896 settled the silver ques- tion for a long time. 4 few men tried to put a silver ticket in the field and create a division in the party and the republicans have attempted to drag in the ghost of the Chicago platform by the heels, but both efforts have been in vain The so-called silver men in this state are agitators who raised the question in the hope of getting something out of the regular organization. They have been ignored, and the failure to indorse the Chicago platform will prob ably not lose the state ticket ten votes. all told. No matter how the state elecion goes the New York delegation to the next nation- al democratic convention will be unani- mously opposed to fighting the campaign of 1900 on the silver question.
 Richard Croker is now in absolute con- trol of the democratic organization in this state and he is running the state cam paign according to his own ideas. Senator Murphy has no more voice in the manage ment of the campaign than a Tammany district leader, and David B. Hill does not rank as high as a messenger boy in the councils of the party at this time. If the campaign is a successful one the credit will belong to the Tammany chief and he will rule the state as he rules the wiswam in Fourteenth street. If it is failure well it will be up to Richard to explain.