The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-04
With Nearly All Newspapers and Other
Powerful Forces Arrayed Against
Him, He Wins Over Low by Sew.
enty Thousand Majority.
MARYLAND IS IN DOUBT

ditions,'' he said, "but when got into the
fight my instructive judgment was lost.
1t simply resolved itself into a question
of what you could put out naked prin-
ciple\to be supported by an unlovable
man.
Commissioner Green said he would sure
ly resign his office on or before Decem-
Der 81.
"The figures speak for themselves and
the people have spoken. Of course, we
are pleased at the result. 1t bears out
the figures we gave. If the election had
been week further off. the chances are
that Devery. would have polled a larger
vote than Low.
THE victory, great as it is for McClal-
Ian, is of more significance to Mr.. Mur
ply who made up the Democratic ticket
and who managed the campaign. Defeat
today would have meant for him deposTt
tion from his post as leader, with all its
powers and opportunities, and the acces-
sion to control of another faction. In.
deed, plans had been made by certain
independent Democrats, based on the be-
lief that Low would be reelected, to re-
organize the Democracy of tue city with
Tammany left out. To Mr.. McCarreD
also, the result meant much, for had Nc
Clellan lost, Mclaughlin would have been
again in control and McCarren and his
friends would have had little to hope
for. The carrying of Brooklyn for McCiel-
Ian caused astonishment as it was pc
lieved the cry OF mo red lights in Brook
lyn" would cause an increased vote for
Low in that borough.
The campaign was one of the most ir-
teresting in the history of New York
city. From the day Mayor Low was re-
nominated his supporters urged his re-
election on the ground that no partisan
que stion was involved but that every man
should vote to uphold the existing admin
istration because it had given the city >,
business-fke conduct of affairs and be-
cause 1t had done much to stamp out the
''red light" evil of the east side. 1t Was
argued by Fusionist orators that the re-
turn of Tammany men to office to mean
wide open town." unrestricted lawless-
ress and the renewed teIrors of the IN
famous cadet system" by which ignorant
girls were forced in to dives OF shame,
their earnings going to the men whom
they supposed to be their husbands.
These statements, the Democrats re-
sponded with the charge that Lows nen-
PARTISAN claims marked an attempt to
secure control of the city in the interest
of Governor Odell; that ali of the credit
for the good business administration un-
der Low belonged to Grout vino was on
the Democratic ticket and that every
Democrat should cast his ballot for Nc
Clelan in view of the important bearing
this city's vote would have on the Presi-
Dental election next year.
Scarcely second interest to the defeat
o. Low was the effect of the result or
the vote on the fortunes OF the octoge-
marian, Hugh Mclaughlin, who for more
than a quarter of century, had been
the undisputed leader of the Kings county
Democracy and who finds that his former
lieutenant, McCarren. was able to 90
manage McClellan's canvass that Demo
cratic plurality resulted IN spite OF Nc
Laughlin's spirited opposition.
Syracuse, n. Y, Nov. 3.-Allan C..
Forbes. (Rep.), elected mayor of Syracuse
by about 1,400.
Elmira. N. Y. Nov. 3.-W. [. Coleman,
(RepD. debated Mayor Sheehan, (Dem.)
Entire Republican ticket elected.