New-York tribune., 1901-10-27
YORK CITY'S FATE.
LOWS MANAGERS EXPECT
10000 PLURALITY.
TANMANY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
SAYS ITS TICKET WILL WIN
BY 255OO PLURALITY.

By 25,5OO PLURALITY.
careful survey of the field. based o can-
vasses and estimates, warrants the predic-
tion that the entire fusion ticket win.
almost beyond peradventure. in Neyv-York
City, and probably in New-York County.
In round numbers there are $4,000 voters
registered in the city of New-York and doubt
less all but per cent of them will vote. Their
decision will control the government of a mu-
nicipality containing about S.5OO,O0O people.
$3,S 900 900 of assessed property and an an
nuaI expenditure of S1O0OOOOOO.
The utter rout Of Tammany and a clean cut
fusion victory in all the five boroughs Is con-
fdently claimed by the anti-Tammany campaign
managers. To use football simile. the fusion
forces are holding their lines practically intact
against the bucking of the Tamnany braves.
while for their part they steadily forcing the
ball down the field for the final grand touch
down.
Fighting with desperate determination for the
official lives of thousands of city employees un-
protected by the Civil Service. lavishly using
hundreds of thousands of dollars wrung from
ofhceholders. protected vice, gamblers and black
mailed corporations. the Tammany leaders as
sert their confidence in the result the night
of November ). They back this up with offers
of wagers on the general result. All the while
there seems to be an undercurrent Of doubt in
their ability to stave off the inevitable Old
tricks are not producing satisfactory results.
Money offered TO former friends in the organi-
zation TO bring them back into line is being
spurned. Poor Hebrew shopkeepers and italian
Iaborers or the lower East Side and in Mulberry
Bend. under the guidance Of Tammany's foes.
have mastered the mysteries of the ballot. and
are only too eager to add their individual mites
OFr The dav- Of y PDr rbaf-
oppressOrs-
President Robert c. Morris of the Republican
County Committee President r. Fulton Cut
ting of the Citizens Union. John c. Sheehan. OF
the Greater New-York Democracy. and other
leaders unite in predicting that the fusion
ticket will win Mr.. Morris, after employing
canvassers to go through more than one hun
dred districts estimates that the anti-Tammauy
plurality will be fully 10000. Chairman jacob
Brenner of the Kings County Republican Exec
utive Committee predicted in 1896 after
careful canvass. N1cKinIey's plurality within
LOCO votes. This year he is equally confident
that the fusion ticket will sweep Kings with a
plurality exceeding 10000
Mr.. Sheehan stands by his forecast in The
Tribune of two weeks ago. and says that Tam
many Hall will be defeated by more than $4,000.
He thinks the fusion plurality in the boroughs
will be about as follows: Manhattan and The
Bronx, 10000: Brooklyn, 10000; Queens, 1000;
Richmond 1.500.
The fusion leaders not only confident OF
electing their borough and county tickets, but
they also are confident of electing a majority
of the Board of Aldermen
The anti-Tammany leaders are also confident
of electing their county ticket. including their
three candidates for the Supreme Court bench.
and of materially increasing the number of anti
Tammany Assemblymen-
The Tammany Executive Committee claims
Manhattan and The Bronx for Shepard by
10000 Queens by $500. Richmond by 1000, and
comedies Brooklyn 10 the fusioniSts by 5000.
leaving Tammany a plurality on its city ticket
of 25OOO
The Tammany leaders also predict the election
of their county and borough tickets in Manhat-
tan thirty-four of the forty-fOur Aldermen IN
Manhattan and The Bronx ard twenty nine Of
the thirty-seven AssembIymen on their ticket.