The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-06
PoLITIcAL NOTES.


There are SO Republicans and Il Demo-
Gratis In the senate at Albany and 10 tina
Assembly there are i0i Republicans aud "a
Democrats. giving tho Repu bllcans % major
ity in the Senate and 81 majority In tina
Assembly. on Joint ballot the Republicans
have 40 votes and the Democrats o.,
II ia stated that n bill is to be introduced at
Albany providinr for the taxation OF dogs.
Ore half Of tho revenue will 10 70 the State
and tho other half to the locality where tho
dog Is owned. II IL estimated that there arc
about 100000 dogs in the state. and with
a tax Of about 81 each this will raise million
dollars.
The total vote for President in the late
election was I350s4 400. This was 48oo5s
less than the vote in 1900. Notwithstanding
an estimated increase Of nearly 100000 IN
population and of L., 100 900 in eligible voters.
What should the total vote have been
in November had the intcregt OF citizens
in the result been profound and their prefer
ence betY cen the candidates sharply defined?
The fullest vote in proportion to population
ever cast in Presidential election was in
1895. when the ratio was TO b.
Ity this ratio the vote IN November would
have been 1850 900, The vote actually
pollcd was 5.O9c. 900 short Of this.
President Roosevelt hiss already assumed
number OF big contracts in undertaking
10 bring about tariff revision. the regulation
OF railroad rates national license for cor
poratons aud Federal control OF insurance
companies,
There is to be no election for state officers
In New York this year.
Vice Presdcnt-eleot Fairbanks OF Indiana
has not resi- gned his seat in tha United states
Senate.
on election day in New YORK city Demo-
crats we're induced in the Ninth aud othnr
Assembly districts while H the D,!lipg
booths 10 put the cross marx in the circln
and 10 cut out the star Che emblem o. IN,
Democratic partly a, the TOP % "a bu'ot,
returning thl star TO those ehD "intlos1
them TO do 80 as glarlntso o. gooi itith
By such inducements" thousands OF Demo-
cratic ballots were VOID b'caus, Of the mltila-
ton Yet the stupid Democrats had satisfied
their "consoienoes- that they had voted
tho Democratic ticket al right and got
little something Tor dong so at the same
time.
President Roosevelt is in the srme boat
with President Lincoln when he refers to his
Confederate relatives aud sEys.
Personally. ! had kmsmen on both sides.
Two OF my mothers brothers fouGht in the
Confederate service -one. b. the way, served
on the Alabama under Acmiial SenlneS.
the father OF the wife OF that gallant cS-
Confederate. Luke Wright whom | have
made Governor OF the Philippine II was
lut the other day that DESIGNATED the onir
living grandson Of StoneWGll jackson cadet
az West Point, ana have just made leb stuart.
Jr. United states Marshal for the Eastern
District OF Virginia"
Louis F. Payn says he like to think Of the
DAYS when he owned newspaper and pep
pered the other fellow" Plat. Hin and
Bnck were a.so formerly newspaper men
and usually had pot q yltriol handy.
Alton B. Parker tells hls friends that tho
Southern Democrats have become altogether
too prosperous and the Southern States
too much the centres OF substantial business
concerns to consent again to turning tho
Democratic party over to William J. Bryan
and the radicals.
Several years 90 john L. Sullivan WAS
warmly welcomed at the White House. and
now it Is said that President Roosevelt is to
receive Bob l'itzsimmons on bis next visit
to Washington. The Presidents friends
say that he was delighted to receive on cleo
tion night congrutulatory despatch from
Tom O'Rourkc. the New York sporting man.
The President isn't by any means a dufier in
handling the mittens himself
William j Bryan was interrupted the other
day at omaha during a quick lunch and mar
rowly escaped missing his train. He Jumped
aboard. holding fast to n chunk Of Western
pie. parentaetlcaly. the two biggest eaters
ia the nation are said to be John /. sullivan
and Col Bryan.