The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-05

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-.At noon today Mr.
Croker issued an unofficial statement!
claiming New York county, which is the old
city proper. for Bryans by 90,000. This ex-
ceeds any claim heretofore made by Mr..
Croker
Two conditions today are making the
Republican managers talk more hopefully
and boastfuIy of tomorrows result. One
is the weather. The other is the Stock
Market No fairer November day than this
was ever known in New York. The sky is
clear and the air is braeing. Republicans
say if tomorrow's weather is a duplication
OF teday's, a bigger vote than was polled
in 1896 will be cast in this State and that,
as consequence, their plurality will be
bigger than the most optimistic Mckinley
guessers have claimed
The Stock Market is stronger than the
biers have ever known ii TO be OF the
day previous to a Presidential election,
probably owing to trust influences s From
| the New York magnates' viewpoint this
| means that the sentiment Of the country
| is all one way-toward Mckinley. Almost
| to man the Wall Street gamblers have
| been predicting financial Generalization
and ruin to the country in the event OF
| Mr. Bryan's election, and the fact that
the wall Street barometer this morning
does not indicate an approaching storm
is accepted by the people who Ln1w tn
ing but Wall Street as an absolutely sure
sign of Mr. Bryan's defeat
AT the same time there is noticeable a
ioL
element of the bulls and bears, possibly
denoting the belief that the stcck Market
is being manipulated for distinct pur-
pose by the powerful trust magnates a-d
other fnaneiers supporting Mckinley.
Two contradictory reports concerning
the vote OF Greater New York as deter
mined by the reports ef the Tanlmany
| district leaders are being quietly circu-
| lated today One comes from a newspa-
per editor who is q member Of TamnanY
| and said 10 be very close to Mr. Croker.
According to this report, Mr. Croker IS
! in possession of figures which show that
Bryan will carry Manhattan Isiand-oId
i New York City PROPERLY only Z4.c6O.
this IS less than half the plurality the
Bryan people have been counting on in
tl-e old city
The other report is that Mr. Croker to-
night will issue q statement. showing that
the returns Of district leaders give Mr..
Bryan an unprecedented lead in Manhat
| tan Island. If this report is true, and the
| other boroughs do proportioratety as well.
| the promised plurality of q hundred thou
and for Bryan in Greater New York will
be realized and he viii in all probability
carry the State. Still. it is said that when
a friend approached ore Of the Democratic
managers this morning and asked if ne
| should take some Republican money at 5
to l on this State, he was advised hot to
bet
/ J. J. Dekney Assistant Corporation
| Counsel of Greater New York. has just
returned from three weeks campaign
| of the State and is betting heavily on a
Bryan landslide He toured the State
with Mr.. Bryan and has been speaking in
the rural districts ever since He de-
| clares earnestly the belief that the Re
| publicans cannot come down to the Bronx
with more than fifty thousand.
Senator Platt says Mckinley will get
| fully 10000 plurality above the Bronx,
| anu tAat 1atAii4Ahy S&Aio' i"tA up 4'4'i Q
than 10000 for Bryan in Greater New
| York
| Mr. Croker told ali of his district lead
ers this morning that it was safe to claim
| the State for Bryan by a big plurality.
| Ex-Governor Stone declines to make any
| statement today further than the claim
of sweeping Bryan victory. Messfs.
Jacnsen and Hughes, managers of the
| anti-imperiaiist movement. stubbornIy
| stick to their claim of a Bryan triumph.
They still give Mr.. Bryan SAT electoral
votes. j, J. D.