The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

the borough OF Queens, and 5000 in the borough 81
Richmond. The total number OF licenses granted
during this period was e432. and the net proceeds
over the expenses W the maintenance Of the bureau
turned into the treasury amounted TO slo07.
The term OF william Lindsay. Gold Dem oorst. Of
Kentucky. expires ON the tth OF March, 1901 and
tho Legislature Of Kentucky chosen in this years
contest will participate i'll the election OF his suc.
cessor The last Frankfort Legislature had q total
Democratic membership Of ~. a Republican
membership OF so. and had besides = Populists
and Gold Democrat. The Louisville Convention
which nominated Goebel for Governor declared
for Blackburn for Senator.
The Commissioner of Public Buildings Lighting
and Supplies has submitted to the Municipal
Assembly request that 1t ps.s the resolution T.,
have the building known az the Village Hail at Ar
Verne. borough of Queens. Transferred from the
Department OF Public Buildings. Lighting and Sup
plies to tho Fire Department. This building 10
owned y the city and ia occupied by the Fire De-
psrtment on the first floor. by the Arverne.by the
Sea Association the second floor and by the JAM.
u the third floor. The T poms occupied by the
Arvsrne. ny. thesea Association are held under .
i've years lease executed by the former village %
Aryerne on Nov. a., 1897. at annual rental Of
500 to include light heat and the use of furniture
and hItures. The association has the privilege Of
holding meetings in the rooms every Monday in the
year from noon to midnight
These are some Of the contributions of the towns
named to the taxes of the Greater New York last
year: College Point 81. os3 Far Rockaway, s,p t8s,
Rockawsy Beach, 31s.aTa; Richmond Hill. es.9el,
Edgewater. q. l., 1857; Port Richmond, ,esI,
AverIe by the Sea t7B2. and Tottenvnle s. l., s12A
The Democrats OF the Ninth Pennsylvania District
whore member Of Congress Ia to be elected
this year to fill vacancy. adopted this their deo-
lAration OF party faith: We reaffirm belief in
the basic principles of the Democratic party"
There are some differences of opinion in Pennsyl-
vana as elsewhere to what actually have be.
come or have ceased to be- the basic principles Of
the Democratic party: but, by reafhrming faith in
them without expressing any opinion as to what
they are, the Pennsylvsnis Democrats kept on what
may be called the safe side of controversy.
The action of the Manhattan Democracy in endors-
ing the Tammany judicial ticket this year whatever
its political effect upon the situation in New York
county. seems likely to exercise considerable indu-
in of the Assembly districts of the town
otherwise doubtful OF the 26. 600 votes in the
municipal election of 1926, the year preceding the
last Presidential election for Judge Alfred Steckler
$4,000 were cast in Assembly districts T. g. 10,
IL, %. 20 and 81. in seven OF which Republican
candidates for member of Assembly were elected
last year on the Roosevelt ticket In the Fourth
Assembly district, in which the steckier vote was
LOCO q Democrat was elected last year.
The steady growth of the city of St. Louis IN vot,
ing population has led many Republicans to the be.
lief that the steadily diminishing nhuencs of this
Democratic backwoods counties OF Missouri will
make possible the election OF Republican 0overnop
next year. and some mambers OF the party feel an
couraged to make the trial OF ovsrthrowing Demo-
cratic supremacy in that state. Republicans have
been twice represented in recent years in the Cab-
nets OF Republican Presidents by SecrstAry Noble,
during tho term OF President HARRISON and Secretary
Hitchcock, in the present Cabinet OF Mr.. Mckinley.
At the beginning of this years fight for control Of
the New York delegation to the Albany Assembly
the Republicans OF the city had expectations of win
| ming in eight districts. the came number they
carried year ago when Gov. Roosevelt caudi.
date. Since then tho withdrawal OF Assem- IDLY man
: Adler has made tho Eighth probably Democratic.
whereas by fusion with the Citizens Union the Twen-
| ty.hfth, Twenty seventh and Twenty ninth have
been put by politicians in the Republican column,
| still leaving disputable and uncertain four die.
trcts-ths Fifth. Nineteenth Twenty nrst and Thir.
ty.frst-with Republican chances decidedly the best
in the Twenty first. and hard fight promised In the
| other three.
| Timothy j. Campbell was . candidate for the
| fusion nomination. Republican and Labor IN the
r fth Judicial district this year. but hitch arose.
through the failure of the Republicans to put his
Hnlisrd. tho Republican leader in the districa.
| having . candidate Of his own.
| The extreme western Congress district Of Ken.
| lucky. lying between the Ohio River and the
| Tennessee State line. ana including. among othsf
places the city OF Paducah. II the strongest Demo-
cratic district in the State; and the most eAstsrlr
district in the State the Eleventh Congress- includ-
| ing the mountain counties on the West Virginia
border. IL the strongest Republican district Last
year the former gave $500 Democratic majority
| and the latter $500 Republican majority. ThiS
year the supporters Of Goebsl claiming TO- 900
in the First Congress district and tho supporters
Taylor. tho Republican candidate for Governor al
| Kentucky. are claiming 1900 in the Eleventh.
! There 10 to be election for Governor of MIS-
souri, next year to replace that illustrious Demo-
cratic statesman. Lon V. stephens. who was ehossS
in 1895. and already such are the peculiar oondi.
tions OF politics beyond tho Mississippi two lsadin
| candidates for the Democratic nomination are
making q canvass and have TO some eItsnt been
stumpnR the State. Tho leading candidate for the
nomination. who has the support OF the Democratic
| regulars, 10 Alexander Monroe Dookery. formAs
Congressman. resident of the town Of oallattn anA
former student At the Jefferson Medical College
| OF Philadelphia. He 10 well known In Missouri
politics having been elected to nine Congresses on
the Democratic ticket in the district. having been
Mayor OF Gallatin for two years. and ct one tma
| Chairman Of the Democratic State Convention,
His opponent 10 David A. Ball. . State Senator in
| Jefferson City.
There has been some controversy OF rather riot
GUS character. most unsesmly for the partisans Of
peace. with without honor in the District Of CO.
lumbiA among the Democrats insistsnt upon reeog,
milton. though they have votes which would
justify. under American political standards. such =
| demand. Lawrence Gardner the representative Of
the District OF Columbia the National Democratic
Committee. died and 1t was necessary. at least 10
was thought necessary. to elect successor TO hmi
| but the Democrats of Washington could not agree
upon candidate. and the result IL that there are
| now two claimants for the post. and the matter
| will be brought for determination before the neIt
national convention OF the party. Washington 10
the only city in the country OF which It be truly
said that one knows the politics OF Its citizens,
though 1t 10 now generally believed that majority
OF those residents who in the Federal service
| are Democrats.
There are e6,+s6 voters now the voting lists in