Evening star., 1901-11-06
CORAY BADLY BEATEN
Fusion Candidate for State Treasurer
Of Pennsylvania
HARRIS PLURALITY over $4,000
Vote PoIed Throughout the State
Unusually Light.
REPUBLICANS VICTORIOUS

| PHILADELPHIA, November 6.-The lat
/ est election returns from Pennsylvania in
dlcate that Frank G Harris Tep.) has been
elected state treasurer over Elisha A. Coray,
jr., the fusion candidate by between $1,000
and $1,000 plurality. In 1899 Barnett (rep.)
| for state treasurer had a plurality of no.
| 5SS over Greasy (dem).
| William P. Potter (rep) has defeated Har
man Yerkes (fusion) for judge of the su-
preme court by about 10000.
The vote polled in the state yesterday
| was unusually light, but in this city the
! vote for state treasurer exceeded Barnetts 8
vote for the same office in 1899 by more
| than $4,000 votes.
| In Luzerne county, the home of Coray,
| the latter carried the county by about 12,-
600 plurality against less than 1000 plu-
| rality for Greasy (dem) in 1899 while in
| Montgomery county, the home of lerkes,
| the plurality was increased nearly l,ooo:
Common pleas or orphans court judges
| were chosen in sixteen judicial districts IN
t the state. and in a great majority of these
| the republicans were victorious.
TUE RESULT IN PHILADELPHIA.
FusioniSts Find Comfort in the EIec-
ton of Judge Davis.
PHILADELPHIA, November 6.-Wm.
.
city ticket as :he partys candidate for dis
trict attorney, received only S,022 votes
yesterday. He ran behind his ticket in
nearly every ward
Allowing the democratic party the high
est vote cast in each ward for it's repre-
sentative on the ticket, the total demo-
cratic vote is increased to 1903 Last year
the democratic candidate for President re-
| ceived 5s179 votes in Philadelphia, and
two years ago Greasy (dem.) for state
| treasurer, was given 40,5SJ votes. The
great falling off in the democratic vote is
due to the split in the party on the ques-
ton OF fusing with the independent replb-
| licans.
| The entire vote cast in this city footed
| up 237 42S. against 23S,ooO in the presi-
Dental contest of last year. The great Il
! terest in the fight made by the fusioni5ts
to defeat the regular republican city and
state ticket is responsible for the extra
ordinarily heavy vote. In the state, where
there was little or no interest in the fight,
except III certain localities the vote was
unusually light, some counties reporting a
falling off of 80 per cent, compared with
last year. The decrease noticeable in
the strongly democratic counties.
Fusionfsts Find Consolation.
The fusion leaders in Philadelphia extract
consolation from the fact that they elected
one Of three judges chosen for the new
court or common pleas NO D, defeating
Judge Maxwell Stevenson, the regular
democratic candidate, who was also nomi-
mated by the public opinion party. The
court was created by the last legislature,
and Judge Stevenson was appointed by
Governor Stone, along with Robert Ralston
and j. Willis Martin, republicans The
regular republican leaders sought to aid
Judge Stevenson through the public opinion
party This could be accomplished by rea-
son OF the fact that while three iI,d
were to be chosen, only two could be voted
for by each voter. Judge Stevenson received
only 4S,lGo votes. G. Harry Davis fuson)
nudge.