New-York tribune., 1902-12-05

The figures giving the total vote shows & loss in
every district but two. with great variations The
loss in the XXVIIth District was 263 per cent; in
the XXvth the gain was 3.5 per cent. the other
districts ranging between these extremes
The figures giving the Democratic vote shows
loss in twenty DISTRICTS ranging from 80 to OF per
cent. the average being per cent In the other
fifteen districts the gains ranged from 22.S TO OF
per cent.
The figures giving the Republican vote shows a
loss in every district; in the XxIud It 81 per
cent; in the other thrty-four districts tho range
was from 43.7 to 1sS per cent This loss in the
thirty-four districts fairly uniform and ab-
normally great showing decided dissatisfaction
among the rank and file OF the Republican voters
study OF the map will show that in certain
areas the results fairly Uniform Drawing a
line across the city from the East to the North
River along Fifty-third-st-, and including all OF
the xVIIth District we have twenty-five districts:
adding the XXIId and xXIVth districts. extending
north from .Fifty-thrd-st, between the East Eiv.r
and Lexington-ave. TO Seventy-sixth-st. there .
twenty-tour districts in which the figures show
about equal general averages In these twenty
four districts the total vote IN 1900 was 1so0a: in
1902 1890: the loss was SSs or M 1t1s 3 per cent @
@ 5 the oss Ess Tas N @ @ aaa eF ea per IN 8 At
tbe loss LDis'Sn was &.442. or Sio1 per cent
g judging i from the vote cast in the State outside
feotsSs not have fallen more Tran sent Apply
four districts in los would have been y $50
Republican vote 39s per cent Of the whole vote
cast Applying the percentages IN 1907, the
Democratic vote would have been 102 !72 and the
Republican 68.25s. The actual Democratic vote was
los 1s2 an OF $40 Assuming that this 40
these VINO did not vote with the party in 1900 and
deducting it from the estimated vote of 6S25S which
the Republican party was entitled to expect.
have 81 S4S. The actual Republican vote 4T.407
a loss of Is al. These voters could not have voted
the Democratic ticket: had they done there
would have been very decided gain In the Demo-
cratic vote of 1902 1900. instead OF actual
loss of 21S9 At least 1900 Republican voters in
these twenty-four districts stayed away from the
polls.
XXIst XXIIId. XXVlIIth. XXIXth. XXXth,
XXXIst. XXXIId, XXXIIId XXXIVth and
XXXVth, the decrease in the total vote S.277.
or $50 per cent, as against a. 4Is per cent in the
was S922; the Republican loss 1888 The loss in
total vote ranged from 1862 to 81 per cent. The
Democratic vote shows a gain in every district
except the XXXth. ranging from 223 to OF per
There was Republican loss in all of the eleven
districts-S.7 per cent in the XXIIId and ranging
from n 1sS per cent in the other districts.
The variations irregular and large that
each district should be studied by itself The loss
total vote was IS per cent. and to be expected
in an ''off year" The loss IN the Republican vote
was 2s per cent and the gain in the Democratic
vote was f2 per cent 1t Is evident that not only
independent voters, but independent Republican
voters. voted the Democratic ticket Why? Was
II the trust question? Was it tariff reform? Each
man must answer these questions for himself.
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