Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-23
WORLDS MISLEADING FIGURES.

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candidate u i ! previous e.sc
lsoa are AkeI IS Isl aaie4u0n
81 s.at Eay epe4 IRON the
same state TINS Bax u nes
ing 70 state Salsoa atseadaEt eiEcam-
stancs NAleA aIslea Essa figure,
nay TX maa II Al taF
sasf VI she truth &c
gYe iAs lrufh thsy 81. eaa
easlly es A4 % = concaus
ION yery lar IRON ae vAoe truth and
aolh.ng BAT ne truth.
4hls IS shat tie As1 YORK WoSA
has been guilty q II attempting II
aw comparisons tNeea the
Alss popaaEy Roosevelt -
PARKER i'll ss lgk wEleh are ~
osa8ie ID ts after. The World Ter
instance ii i recent issue SAYS that
Parker carried AeN York for chief
Judge Of the court Of appeaA by g..
900 the year after tie great landslide
ID NeKiniey. Pit ne Wogid negs
i stass. aays ttle Gio5eDeraocras IT,
reason that Parker Eot nis 6s.sss HI i
lead mot s7.og was that the CHI
zens' Union ucast for mayor IN NeN
YORK CITY. in the the election on the
same day as Tie state chose The ap
peals judge. had no candidate on II
for tha latter office The regular
rpahlican candidate tor mayor.
Tracy, had Tie name III the FepubN.
can nominee fOr judge. Wallace. ID
his ticket. The democratic nominee
Tor mayor. Van Wsek. had Parker on
his ticket Low. however. the Cit.
TeHs ansoa candidate. who poIled
more republican votes than Tracy re
received. carried on bis ticket na
nanae tor appeals Judge Thus the
10000 republicans, Or thereabOats
/ among the 10000 voters who sup
/ ported Low, were unable to support
Wallace, and this let Parker get his
se&s9 plurality. Had Lows repnbli
can supporters been able 10 vote FOL
: appeals Judge, Parker would have
teen W badly beaten that he na7ei
would have been heard VII III come
ZION with any elective office again.
Now. mo mayoralfy canvass o
j 1856, which The World and other dem
! ocratic papers are citing as an evl
4 deHoe that Roosevelt was uupopuia
IN New York, needs q iittic of Ii
same sort of explanation. In 1856. til
ysar I'll which Roosevelt was thu II
= publican candidate for mayor. Abrar
) Hewitt was the democratic NOR
Y inee. and Henry George, then on til
top wave Of his eraze. was the canti
or date Of the s~ingle-taxers. socialists
in knights OF Labor and other element
N Hewitt Was supported by the count
"a democracy, md was Endorsed b
Tammany. lint many of The repuhl
cans were afraid that ID the diyislo
between two such popular msn-
popular with the conservative masse
OF the city-as Hewitt and Rooseye
the vote OF the element might be 8
= ~eyeniy divided that the radicals woul
triumph and George be elccte,
ia. Hence. thousands of them ahandone
Ii Roosevelt and voted for Hewitt. vii
II. The hope of rendering Georges q,
OF feat certain. The vote as eounte
nj stood thus: Hewitt, $685.: Georg
IS, ITO: Roosevelt, so.455.
ad This was the situation. and this n
result. In the mayoralty canvass !.
New York III 1856. Roosevelt WI
only d youth 1t that time. being abol
Y Is years Of age and had served
g the Legislature. He was a man
" prominence. Is shown by his leade
% ship IN the New York delegation
The convention Of 1854 which nomis
- ZM.
atsd Blaine. Had there been
y straight division between the cand
dates II the polls n 1855 Rooseye
might not have carried thar dem
cratic city. but he would have rccei
cd many more votes than he actual
scored. and would undoubtedly ha,
led Henry George. Roosevelt vi
never ashamed Of his showing In Il
canvass ~ 1855. and had no occasis
III TX, R~ooscselt's vote was compar
lively light N lsas. when he vi
elected governor. because some Or Il
NJ lrepnblieans leaders we're against ii
20 on account OF his well.known host
l,y 10 any SORT Of boss dlstation
The republicans OF New York a
not making any boasts. They ma
u. no boasts In 1871. when. AZ this tin
III THE canvass Greeley was far ahei
~ of Grant. according 70 the democrat
81 shouters. The Grant votes talke
s. however. IN November, The Roosevs
votes viii do the same sort OF talkli
,hgs xear ana tbav will nrohahiv a