The record-union., 1899-11-05

national Administration in it's conduct
of the war and management of the
Philippines. The currency question has
cut little figure in the campaign.
IN COLORADO.
DENVER, Nov. 4.-The local cam
paign closed tonight with speeches in
various portions of the city. Only
county officers are to be voted for, the
leading tickets being those of the DEM
ocrats, Republicans and fusion of the
silver Republicans and Populists.
1t is not believed the result will have
any material influence in next years
State election. The most interest in
the Denver campaign is a. proposition
to issue city bonds to the amount of
81, 100000 for the purchase or construc-
ton of a municipal water plant. Coun-
ty officers are to be elected throughout
the State
IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Nov 1.-The election
next Tuesday will be for the Assembly
of $50 members. The counties that
make up the city of New York will
elect several county officers, and City
Aldermen will also be chosen. Syra-
cuse and Albany will elect a Mayor
and other city officials.
The present Republican majority in
the Assembly is about twenty-five. A
careful estimate, based on advices re-
ceived from all the counties, gives the
Republicans eighty members and the
Democrats seventy in the new Assem-
bly,. There are twenty three close dis
tricts. where the pluralities will not
exceed 200 or 800 Fifteen of these are
included in the eighty Republican dis
tricts and eight in the seventy con-
ceded to the Democrats. The next AS
sembly will not vote for a United States
Senator. Chairman Odell of the Re-
publican State Committee claims
eighty-four Republicans, conceding
sixty-six to the Democrats.
The campaign up the State has been
lost sight of in the bitterness of the
contests in Manhattan Island for AS
semblymen, county officers and Alder
men. An antiTammany fusion ticket,
supported by the Republicans, Citizens
Union and Independent Labor parties.
and indorsed by the various reform
bodies, is in the field, and apparently
is receiving the hearty support of all
the elements.
In making up the ticket the Repub-
licans conceded everything to their
allies. Thus the fusion candidates for
Supreme Justice are both Democrats;
the candidate for Sheriff is the leader of
the Granite Cutters Union, and one
of the candidates for City Court Justice
is a single-tax leader.
Tha Tomrnanu oO11ntv ticket is aQ-
mitted to be a strong one, but does
element, though the candidate for Sur
rogate is a single-taxer. The result de-
pends upon the strength of the Labor
party, whose vigor seems to have deep
ly impressed the old party politicians.
President Quigg of the Republican
County Committee estimates that 26o-
coo votes will be cast. He hopes that
the Labor party will throw 10000 votes
to the fusion ticket, in which case the
result will be: Fusion 132.O0O. Tam
many 10000, Socialist, ETC., 10000
Richard Croker declares that figures
given by his district leaders insures a
Tammany plurality Of $4,000 to io,UUU
votes. James B. Reynolds of the IN
dependent Labor party claims a vote
of $4,000 for his party, and a tuslon
plurality of $1,000 to $4,000
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, Nov. 4.-The State cam
paign has been dull in Massachusetts,.
State issues have been thrown to the
winds. and both sides have confined
themselves to arguments for ana
against expansion, the silver question
being rarely mentioned. The Repub-
lican candidate for Governor is W..
Murray Craine, the millionaire paper
manufacturer, and the Democratic can
didate is Robert Treat Paine, who IS
a. descendant of the Revolutionary
leader of that name. and who is well
known for his connection with reform
and philanthropic work. The coming
back into the Democratic fold of many
of the Palmer -Buckner Democrats is
among the features of the campaign.
IN MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 4.-The campaign
in MARYLAND closed tonight with the
leaders of both parties claiming every
thing, but with the betting decidedly
in favor of the Democratic candidates.
Odds of to / are being freely offered
on Smiths election as Governor, but
with very few takers, though why this
is so is not apparent to a non-preJu-
diced observer. The officers to be
elected on Tuesday are Governor,
Comptroller and Attorney General.
new Legislature and half the Senate
will be chosen, but no United States
Senator is to be elected at the coming
session.
The Republican candidate for Gov
ernor is the present incumbent, Lloyd
Lowndes, who was elected four years
ago by something more than l1,OOO
plurality In the following year Nc
Kinley carried the State by $4,000.
Since then there has been a change,
the State election two years ago being
very close, while the Congressional vote
last year showed such decidedly Demo-
cratic gains as to again put the State in
the doubtful column.
In May last, Thomas G. Hayes, DEM
ocratic candidate for Mayor of Balti-
more, was elected by over 5000 plu-
rality, and it is the results of these
contests which give the Democrats con-
fidence that John Waller Smith, their
candidate, will win.
The fight has been made by the DEM
ocrats on purely local issues, no men
ton of the currency, tariff or expan-
sion appearing in their platform, and
references to those questions having
been carefully excluded from the
speeches of the Democratic spellbind
ers. The Republicans also adopted this
policy at first, although their platform