The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-11-08
Tammany's Candidate Re-
elected by 5000 Plurality
Over Hearst or Twins.
ALDERMEN REPUBLICAN
HEARST STILL DECLARES He
HAS BEEN ELECTED AND SAYS
HE WILL CONTEST THE RE-
SUIT.

NEW iOANN, -Nof. q 1SVJ.--- i liz lht
est returns from the AIayoralty election
| give George B. Mcclellan. (Tammany) a
plurality of about 5000 over Hearst
| (Municipal Ownership Hearst at mid
night raised the cry of fraud, as it not
| unHcomon with defeated candidates.
| He said he had been robbed of the cleo
tion by Tamany's work in this borough,
and he declared that he would go to the
courts to-day and contest the election in
every district.
William NJ. WINS, the Republican can
didate for Mayor. was hope.essly in the
rear almost from the start.
| Coler NIunicipal Ownership was
elected President of the Borough of
Brooklyn, defeating Ridgway Dem).
Boss Cassidy, of Queens, is down and
out, having been defeated by Bermel, a
| Democrat, running on the Republican
and Municipal Ownership tickets, for
President of that borough. Cromwell
(Rep.) is reelected President of Rich
mond.
The new Board of Estimate will be
controlled by Tammany.
Tammany has lost the Board Of Alder
men, the Republicans and Municipal
Ownership men controlling it by a large
majority. Talk is heard now to the eff
| feet that the Legislature will restore to
the Board the power of granting fran
chises, which was taken away from it
last spring and given to the Board of
Estimate
Manhattan Island, with the help Of
Richmond. elected Mcclellan. Kings and
Queens boroughs proved to be strongly
for Hearst. The victory Of the Munich
| pal Ownership ticket in Brooklyn was
the greatest surprise that politicians of
Kings County have had in many day.
Metz (Dem.) was elected Comptroller,
and Tammany elected MCGOWAN Presi-
dent of the Board Of Aldermen, and
lively of the boroughs of Manhattan and
the Bronx.
In the Board of Estimate. in which
| the Mayor, the Comptroller and the
| President of the Board of Aldermen have
three votes each, tn ePresidents Of Man
haitian and Brooklyn two votes each and
| the other Borough Presidents one vote
each, the voting strength will be: Dem
ocratic votes, 12; Republican and Mu-
nicipal Ownership, 4. AT present the
Board stands 10 to l.
Tammany elected 20 of the a Alder
men voted for in this county. In 1908
it elected 33.
Tammany elects II of the 35 Assem-
blymen in New York county. Last year
it elected %. John NJ Quinn (Tam.) is
elected State Senator in the Sixteenth
district.
Even John r. Mccall, the Tammany
leader of the Board. was beaten by SO
votes by Hubert Slattery. Republican
and Municipal Ownership, in the Thrift
| eth. and with six election districts miss
ing the Forty-second district is tie.
The loss of Tammany Assemblymen
and Aldermen was the fruit for otell of
his alliance with Hearst. There are nine
purely Municipal Ownership Aldermen
/ elected.
The Tammany county ticket, barring
| Osborne for District Attorney, is elected
by pluralities which show great falling
off from 1903, when they ran about
! 10000.
Justices Ingraham and Gildersleeve
/ are reelected to the Supreme Court
bench, and Judge Newburger also goes
to that bench Thomas G. O'Sullivan
! (Tam.) becomes Judge Of the General
Sessions.
The Republicans apparently elect Lau-
er Municipal Judge in the Fourteenth
district, with the help Of the Hearst plat
form.