Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1903-11-05
IAMAANY AGAIN ON D)P'
New York City Election Results
in Democratic Victory.
CIRCUIT AND FoRNEs ALSO win
Greater part Of Democratic Ticket
is Carried by the Head--racciel.
lan's Plurality 10 About Seventy
Thousand.

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lan's Plurality 10 About Seventy
Thousand.
New York, Nov AFTER a remark
able campaign, in which there was
| united against him nearly all OF the
newspapers and practically every
minister of religion in this city, George
| b. Mcclellan, son of the civil war
general, was elected third mayor OF
| Greater New York, over Seth Low,
| fusionist, the present mayor, by a
| plurality of about 10000
Edward NJ Grout was elected comp
| troller and Charles ". Fornes presi-
dent OF the board of aldermen. These
two men were originally on the fu-
sion ticket and were endorsed by
Tammany, whereupon the fusionists
took their names from the Low bal.
| lots and nominated other candidates,
| 1t was the nomination OF GrOut and
Fornes by Tammany that caused
Hugh Mclaughlin, the veteran lead
er Of the Kings County Democracy, to
bolt and declare that he would not
| support men who were not Demo
Gratis. In spite of his detection. how
| ever. Mcclellan, Grout and Fornes
| carried Kings county. The manage.
ment of their campaign there was
taken over by State Senator Patrick
H. McCarren when Mclaughlin re-
signed A surprise was the low vote
| for William s. Devery, former chief
of police, who ran on an independent
ticket,s which was given practically no
support
This result shows a tremendous
change of public sentiment since
Mayor Lows election two years ago,
when he won by 31,632. At that time
ne carried all the boroughs but
Queens, his plurality in Manhattan
and the Bronx being 1868, and Brook
lyn 25,767. and in Richmond 763 In
Queens Shepard (Dem,J had plurat
ity of SCI. Mcclellan carried Manhat-
tan and the Bronx by about $4,000, q
gain of $4,000; Brooklyn by about
5000, a gain 81 !. 600. and Queens by
about 5000 gain OF more than 1000.
This makes total net gain for Nc
Clellan of about 100000 as compared
with Shepard's S vote OF two years ago.
Low carried only one borough,
Richmond, by about 200 votes.
The campaign was one of the most
interesting in the history of New
York From the day Mayor Low was
renominated his supporters urged his
reelection on the ground that no
partisan question was involved. but
that every man should vote to uphold
the existing administration because 1t
had given the city businesslike con-
duct 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 "wide-open town." lin-
restricted in lawlessness. Mr. Nc
Ciellan was attacked by the speakers
for the fusionists because they al
legged he had sold the name his faith.
er honored to cloak the designs of
evil men. To these statements the
Democrats responded with the charge
that Lows nonpartisan claims masked
an attempt to secure control of the
city in the interest of Governor Odell,
that all the credit for the good bust
ness administration under Low be-
longed to Grout, who was on the Dem
ocratic ticket, and that every Demo
crat should cast his ballot for McClel-
Ian In view of the important bearing
this eity's vote would have on the
presidential election next year.
Mayor Low sent telegram OF con
graduation to Mcclellan, as follows:
81 congratulate you on your election.
II can be of service to you pray
command me-"
From the fall of darkness till long
after midnight the Tenderloin was
the scene OF noisy revel. The vigor-
Gus hum which commenced as the
first few bulletins appeared soon grew
into the most tremendous demonstra-
tion that the Tenderloin or the city
itself. for that matter. probably, has
ever seen. From the "Flatirons build.
ing. with its twenty-storied beak
glare OF electric lights, to Longacre
EludICy a uMuuIEH tu0USdU0 people
surged back and forth from one bull.
letin board to another On Broad
way and parts OF Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh avenues, with some Of the in
tersecting streets, as the evening wore
on the noise SCENE ! like the crash of
many batteries OF artillery. The en-
thusiasm was not confined to the
Tenderloin alone, but extended to
0ther parts of the city and Brooklyn.
Returns from the state indicate the
election OF Republican mayors In Syra-
cuse, Rome, Elmira. Plattsburg. Roch-
ester. Albany, Binghamton. Water
town and Oneida. In Oswego, Utica.
Schenectady, Troy and Amsterdam
Democratic mayors were elected Re
turns from all assembly districts of
the state give the Republicans a net
gain of six IN the assembly. thereby