The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-26
p~oLrrTcAL VOTES.

PoLITTcAE NOTES.
The adoption at the special session Of the New
York Legislature in July of tho Soldiers and sailors
law, intended to preserve tho franchise rights Of
New Works absent soldiers aud sailors, was criticised
in some other States AZ an expensive and unsatis-
factory method of obtaining results. which in other
states PennsylvRnia. for instance we're securedby
simpler methods. As appears from tho official can
vass OF Pennsylvania, however. there were only Ave
soldier votes cast In tho whole city OF Philadelphia
at the recent November election. all hvo voting for
the. Republican nominee for the ohice OF Governor,
Col. Stone. Throo Of the soldiers voted for the Re-
publican candidate for Lie-utcnant.Govcrno and
two for the Democratic candidate.
The disfranchising amendments adopted by tho
Raleigh Legislature to the state Constitution en-
countered only six adverse votes in the Senate and
twenty.sovep in the House. u total of THIRTY three.
though there are thirty.siS Republican or Fusion
members of that body. It follows in tho line of the
Louisiana constitutional amendment and must DO
submitted TO the voters for their assent in tho cleo.
ton Of 1901. Though North Carolina has a consid-
cradle colorcd population. 1t is Of itself not sum.
Client, even with all colored citizens voting. to dcfeat
such AN amendment. There arc 10000 qualified
voters in North Carolina. of whom 100000 are ma
two white voters and 1OS, 900 native colored voters,
the foreign.born vote in North Carolina being onlS
1000. What part in the controversy favoring or op.
posing negro disfranchisemen the white Republic
cans of the mountain districts of North Carolina
will take remains to be seen. but Their solid opposi-
tion to It would be of great Importance when the
question comes to be submitted in tho form that IL
will be as a constitutional amendment.
At the last general election in Vermont there wero
so Republican votes cast for Governor in Browning
ton, Orleans county. and . Prohibition votes; there
were no Democratic votes.
Wisconsin. Minnesota. North Dakota and Califor-
MIA were the four States of the country which by the
Federal census of 1850 had n larger foreign.born
than native.burn male population of voting age.
The percentages were 53. ~, G5 and 50lG rnspec-
lively. Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota
have q large Scandinavian populations; California
has many Chinese residents of voting aye.
The salary of the Governor of the State of Mary
land Is 81, 900. Under the present city administra-
ton in New York the avera 70 pay OF a secretary -
is So, 900 a year.
Since the determination of contested Congressional
elections in the House of Representatives has been
snb-dividGd among three ommittees-Electiun Com
mittces 1, . and sand since such contests arc
decided upon legal rather than political grounds.
the number of such controversies has been material
ly diminished, a much smaller number than usual
pending in the Fifty-sixth House. Tho Senate in
the determination of contests adhercs tenaciously to
the constitutional prer ISatives of the upper house.
and it is found generally that such contests as arise
are settled usually in evident disregard of all politi-
cal considerations, Republicans voting. AZ in the last
Delaware case. for the admission of a Democrat. and
Democrats voting often for the admission Of n Re
publican whose title to such recognition appears to
them to be superior.
One of the surprising results of the February
spring clecti ms in Pennsylvania was the Republican
gains in. Pike county. In q majority of the town
ships from one 10 three Republicans were elected by
small majorities. The vote was the largest in tho
history of the county for the spring election. Here
tofore Pike county has been known in PENNSYLVANIA
as the Democratic Gibraltar, giving in an ordinary
election moro Democratic majority than there were
Republican votes cast. 1t was of Pike county that
Horace Greeley wrote that the two chief products,
the only two important products of Pike county,
Pa, were snakes and Democrats. but when Mr..
Greeley ran ON the Democratic ticket for Presi.
dent he received 797 votes in Pike. against 800 for
Gen. Grant, the Republican candidate.
In the various biographies which have appeared
concerning the late Henry Loewy, the Tenth ward
politician, some curious mistakes have been made.
He has been referred to as "a product of east side
Tammany Hall politics." a Leader without party
allegiance, and as having resigned his place as
many years a Republican, though closely identified
with the political interests of Bernard iiuurke. In
1924 the Rourke organization supported Villain l..
I StrcnS for Mayor, and the latter appointed Mr..
Loewy City Marshal in 1895 for n term ending on
May /, 1897. Like the other City Marshals, Mr..
Iocwy held over without reappointment until. hav-
ing meanwhile allied himself with %Tammany Hall,
Mayor Strong filled his place by the appointment of
another candidate.