Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-11-12
NEW YORK.

united against him nearly all of the
newspapers and practically every
minister of religion in the city,
George B. Mcclellan, son of the civil
war general, was yesterday elected
third mayor of Greater New York
over Seth Low, fusionist, the present
mayor,
Col. Mcclellan, who is at present a
member Of congress, made the follow
ing statement:
Il am deeply grateful to my fellow
citizens for their confidence in me
| renew the promises which | made
before election. | have no bitterness
of feeling for any one. l shall go at
once to Washington to prepare for
| the extraordinary session and as soon
as the question of Cuban reciprocity
| is disposed of, | shall turn my atten-
tion to the affairs of the city.
81 invite the cooperation of every
citizen whether he supported me or
not and regardless of his political
views in the Advancement of the
city's good.
This victory should encourage
and unite all democrats for the presi-
dental contest in 1904"
The victory, great as it is for Nc
Clellan, is of more significance to Mr..
Murphy, who made up the democratic
ticket and who managed the cam
paign. Defeat would have meant for
him deposition from his post as
leader, with all its powers and op-
portunities and the accession to CON
troll of another faction. Indeed,
plans had been made by certain indie
pendent democrats, based on the be-
| lief that Low would be reelected, to
reorganize the democracy of the city
with Tammany left out. TO Mr.. Nc
! Carren, also, the result meant much,
for had Mcclellan lost, Mclaughlin
would have again been in control and
McCarren and his friends would have
had little to hope for. The carrying
of Brooklyn for Mcclellan caused as
tonshment, as it was believed the cry
of mo red lights in Brooklyn" would
cause an increased vote for Low in
that borough.
The campaign was one of the most
interesting in the history of New
| YORK City. From the day Mayor Low
was renominated his supporters
urged his reelection on the ground
tina no partisan question was involved,
but that every man should vote to up
! hold the existing administration be-
cause it had given the city business
like conduct of affairs and because it
had done much to stamp out the red
! light" evil of the East Side. 1t was
argued by fusionist orators that the
return of Tammany men to Office
would mean a wide open town." un-
restricted in lawlessness and the re-
newed terrors of the infamous 'cadet
system" by which ignorant girls were
forced into lives of shame.
! MIR. Mcclellan was attacked by the
! speakers for the fus1onists because,
they alleged, he had sold the name
his father honored to cloak the de-
signs of evil men. To these state
ments the democrats responded with
the charge that Lows non-partisan
claims masked an attempt to secure
control of the city in the interest OF
| Gov. Odcll; that all of the credit for
the good business administration un-
der Low belonged to Grout, who was
on the democratic ticket, and that
every democrat should cast his ballot
! for Mcclellan in view of the import
ant bearing this city's vote would
have on the presidential election next
| year. Both candidates made nightly
! speeches.
Lows principal supporting orator
was District Attorney Jerome, who
! bitterly opposed the mayors renom-
ination on the ground that he was
unpopular, but who after the nomi-
mating convention made frequent
| speeches for the fusion ticket.
For Mcclellan Bourke Cochran re-
! turned to political activity and made
! several speeches.
Returns from the assembly districts
upstate indicate a few gains by the
| republicans, the returns showing four
assemblymen in districts formerly
represented by democrats. From
many of the upstate assembly dis
! tricts, however, no reports had been
received. In New York county the re
| publicans had gained one assembly
man, seven districts being unreport-
ed. The republicans gained a state
senator in the Twenty-third district,
where republican succeeds Charles
! McClelland, democrat, who resigned
to accept federal appointment. The
! senate holds over and is a strongly re-
! publican.
The republicans elect their entire
city and county ticket at Buffalo, Y.
| Y. No election for mayor this year.
At Binghamton, mayor and entire
republican ticket elected.
Democrats carry Auburn, except for
a few minor Offices.
At Utica, mayor and whole demo-
cratic city ticket elected.
At Oswego the democrats elect the
mayor and majority of the alder
| men.
Schenectady elects a democratic
mayor.
Rochester, Nov. 4.-The republicans
elect Cutler, for mayor.
Albany, Nov. 4.-Charles II. Cans, re-
publican, was reelected mayor of AL
| bany by a plurality considerably
larger than that of two years ago,
defeating Col. William Gorham Rice,
formerly United States civil service
commissioner under President Cleve-
! land. The campaign was one of the
! hottest in recent years, being CON
Quoted on exclusively local lines. The
entire republican city ticket is elect
ed.
Syracuse. Nov. Alan C. Forbes
! (republican) elected mayor of SYRIA
cuse by about 1,400. Forbes defeated
/ 'HhOmaS. democrat. The entire rem h.