New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-25
pOULT1CE FOR PANICS.

Our neighbor 1.-THE New-York Times" al
though it is supporting Mr.. Mcclellan for Mayor
| frankly and completely demolishes the arSu-
| ments Inv which If is sought to create panic
and scare the natural adherents of Mr.. WINS
| into voting for Mr.. Mcclellan for fear of MI
| Hearst It has no patience with the talk art
fully started by Murphy's emissaries that Mr.
| Hearst is Tammanys chief opponent and that
| the Wfgwam leaders seriously fear his election.
1.-THE Times" presents to it's readers an esti-
| mate of the strength which may fairly be
| counted as q minimum for Mr.. WINS not differ
| Ing greatly from that made by The Tribune on
Monday. 1t shows that if Mr.. WINS gets only
| 20 per cent of the vote, the average Of the Re-
publican vote for Mayor in years Of straight
! party nominations, he will receive over 1580OO
| AS that average is brought exceedingly low by
| the Tracy vote of only 10 per cent, when halt
| of those who ordinarily vote Republican ticket
supported Mr.. Low, it is no fair measure OF
Mr. Ivins's probable strength In 1892 Mr.
| Einstein received 80 per cent of the vote. That
was q Democratic tidal wave year, when all
| independent Democrats were supporting Mr..
| Cleveland and speaking respectfully of Tam
many Hall Mr.. Einsteln merely held the party
organization as an incident Ia the Presidential
campaign in which the Republicans were badly
beaten, while Mr.. WINS is making an energetic
fight with large support from independent citi-
zens. Yet If he gets only the proportion of
votes given TO Mr.. Einstein he will have over
go 900. 1.-The Times does not think the aver
age percentage guide trustworthy, calls atten-
ton to the fact that Governor OdeIl in 1902 re-
ceived 204, 499 in this city, though it says he
was unpopular here and had offended influential
members of his own party, who did not conceal
their intention to injure him. Some Of those
enemies who were unable to cut down his vote
below 100000 are now, through their organs,
trying by the same methods of attack to injure
Mr.. WINS, and are loud in their predictions of
an insignificant vote for him. 1.-THE Times"
however, with calmer judgment and greater
honesty, says;
IF the Republicans support their candidate Mr..
WINS, with decent loyalty he would have a right
to expect a total somewhat nearer 100000 than
the percentage result Of $40 A de-
cent opinion Of the electorate Compels us to be
heve that both Mr.. Mcclellan and Mr.. WINS will
receive a larger vote than that indicated by
figures based on former elections
THE Tines hopes and believes that Mr. Nc
Clelan will win, figures out that if he gets the
percentage secured by Van Wyck in 1897 against
Tracy and Low he viii have 10000. and pre-
diets that be will have considerably more. Mr.
Hearst may naturally be expected to cut Mr..
McClellan's vote far below that Of 1903, and
the Republicans believe he will draw enough to
elect Mr.. WINS. That he can draw enough to
give him any chance of election himself 1.-The
Times" does not believe. 1t says:
It is Of course. incredible that Mr. Hearst
should receive anything like the vote which his
vociferoUs friends are claiming for him Every
body hears of the polls taken here and there, Of
the straw vote and Of the great stir his can
Vass is making. Ante-eection polls and straw
votes are worthless, and the stir. whatever 1t
may be- that Mr. Hearsts canvass is making is
one that must necessarily prove to be not alto
gether favorable to himself
In the face of such a sane analysis of the
situation by a self-respecting supporter of Mr.
Mcclellan, no conservative anti-Tammany voter
need let himself be frightened when Murphy
and his reckless newspaper organs attempt to
stampede them with the Hearst DOGGY