Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-29
CROKER NOT ENCOURAGED.
Reports TO Tammany Boss Are Not to
His ikinn

Reports 20 lammany BOSS are Not 70
His Liking.
New York, Oct. 2a.-Crokers canvas
sers filed their reports with him yester-
day: not final, for another count will be
made in the latter part of this week.
Upon this latter report Croker will base
the ante-election statement which he
proposes to issue on Saturday. And yet,
unless the final reports brought to Crok-
er by the district leaders tell a happier
story than the one which he heard Sum
day he may decide to issue no statement
excepting a general appeal to the de-
mocracy to support the Shepard ticket.
His counters reported to him figures
showing an aggregate plurality for the
Tammany ticket in Manhattan and the
Bronx of about 25,000 or almost exact
,ly the plurality that Bryan received in
the old city of New York. This is q
most alarming statement to make to a
leader who has had not only hope OF
success but has also been confident OF
winning by 10000 plurality. For If the
best that Tammany canvassefs :an do
is to report plurality of 100000 in Man
haitian and the Bronx, then that Is an
admission of great falling away from
the strength displayed by Tammany IN
the election of 1897. 1t is an acknowl-
edgement that the campaign is q des-
perate one for the democracy. or rather
for the Tammany ticket, since the fu-
sion ticket might as property be called
a democratic as an Independent or -e-
publican ticket.
There seem to be reasonable grounds
for the prediction that from 10000 to 25,-
900 democrats will support the fusion
ticket straight thru from Seth Low for
Mayor down to the candidate for the
humblest Office. In 1894, when Col.
Strong was the candidate of the citizens
rarity, democratic organization SINH
lar'in many respects to the Greater New
York democracy, which is now allied to
the fusion movement. brought to the
support of Col. Strong little over 10000
votes. 1t was this ally that made the
election of Strong possible. 1t furnished
enough to give him his plurality, with
something like 10000 votes to spare, or.
IN other words. had this democratic ele-
r,ent supported Hugh Grant at the time
he would have been elected by about TO-
COO votes.
This portentous report of Croker's dis
trict leaders probably explains the new
spirit infused into the campaign. the
lcss Of temper, the recklessly false
charges, az for instance. the assertion
that Judge Jerome is playing his game
in this campaign for the sake OF no.
toriety that will enable him to marry an
English duchess, statement quoted as
having been made by Mclaughlin, of
Brooklyn. 1t was laughed away by Je-
rome. who simply said of 1t that what
ever his own feelings might be with re-
spect to any English duchess, Mrs. Je-
rome would undoubtedly object to any
proceedings that might make him free
to marry duchess or any one else.
Mclaughlin Of Brooklyn never loses
his temper or his head. excepting when
lie is driven into a corner or is in de-
SPAR, and this accusation, flippant, friv-
olous and unworthy, even had Judge
Jerome not been the happily married
mar he Is. would have been accepted as
good proof OF McLaughlin's anxiety. He
ia especially anxious in this canvass be-
cause the responsibility for the election
of Shepard has been laid fatty and de-
cisively upon his shoulders by Richard
Croker. In fact, there are many things
tending to show that Croker is some
what Indifferent to Shepard's election,
altho he is intensely concerned about
the success of that part of the ticket
which represents exclusive administra-
ton and authority in the county of New
York and in the borough Of Manhattan.
cigaret Smoker Suicides.
Terre Haute, Ind, Oct. 29.-Myron
Beard, cigaret smoker, aged Is years,
committed suicide just after leaving his
sweetheart at her home after ride she
had taken with him in his buggy. AT !
o'clock in the morning Boards father
found the horse standing at the closed
gate. In the bed of the buggy was the
body Of the youth. Miss Mollie Nc
Carthy. the sweetheart, says Beard was
in good spirits, but that he said he