The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-03
mrs. MACKAY WINS IN A WALK.
ONE VOTE DEHIND HER ALLY,
THE LIVERYMAN.
Election Disputed on ths Ground That Some
Of the Votes We're for Katherine"
and Some for "Mrs. Clarence"
Jane Verify, Aged -, . First Voter.

| anu SONuc IOT WITS. CLARENCE
Jane Verify, Aged -. . First Voter.
| ROsLYN. l.. l., Aug. 2.-Mrs. Clarence H.
Maokay was elected school trustee Of Ros-
lyn to-day. Her running mate, John f.
Remsen, beat her by one vote, 40 that her
victory was not quite unqualified. DR..
p. d. Leys, the third candidate, in a two
out-of-thres election, was nowhere. The
victory Is not without its aftermath, for
DR.. John Bogart, president Of the Board
Of Education and manager OF DR.. Ieys's
campaign has disputed the election on a
Thus ends campaign full Of wire pulling.
The final vote was Remsen, 254; Mackay,
1885, Leys, 80.
The pot has been seething for some time.
1t was given out just after Mrs. Mackays
annual lawn party to the children Of the
region that she was to be a candidate
for one OF the two places on the Board OF
Education. Mrs. Mackay had great many
ideas about the Roslyn school, in most OF
which she was opposed by the present board,
upon which DR.. Legs has cat time out of
mind.
She believed that the school was with
out adequate sanitary oonveniences, that
the instruction was behind the times espe-
cially In the matter Of manual training,
and that the town ought to have high
school instruction. To impress these views
on the people OF Roslyn she had an expert
come down, look over the field, and tell the
school board that she was perfectly right.
Augustus s. Downing, third assistant COM
missioner OF education, embodied these
views In a letter which. published just
before the election In the Roslvn News
was thorn in the flesh OF Drs. Bogart
and Legs, who believe that the school il
good enough without any OF those new
tangled ideas.
To-day Mrs. Mackay had retired to
Saratoga. TO await with confidence the out
come. Remsen sat in the door Of his livery
stable and kept away from the polls. Not
80 DR.. Leys. He stationed himself in the
door Of the schoolhouse where tho polls
we're set up, and handed out to every one
that passed q ballot marked for himself
and Mrs. Mackay. DR.. Legs "a an old
gentleman with benevolent spectacles and
long white beard and mustache. which
he MIXED violently all day whenever he
saw any OF the opposition voters driving
up In a Remsen fres rig. DR.. Lsys ex-
planned that he put Mrs. Mackay's name
on his ballots because he rather preferred
her to Remsen, whom he considered az q
person led astray by political ambition.
The names Of Mr.. Remsen and Mrs. Mackay
appeared on the ballots handed out by
their friends. Every Remsen rig was In
requisition: the casual visitor to Roslyn
had TO foot It.
It was seen from the first that there was
going to be vote breaking all records.
Men, women and escorting children began
to roll in almost as soon as the polls opened
In the morning.
EARLY In tho day Clarence II. Madkay
himself scorched up In his automobile,
passed his wife's supporters with pleasant
nod and went into the polls. He greeted
DR.. Leys cordially.
Il guess know how you are going to
vote, said Or. Legs.
II guess do" responded Mr.. Mac kay.
He passed In q straight Remsen -Macka y
ticket and hurried to the station to join his |
Before 1 o'clock the highest record for
a school election was broken. The highest
number Of votes In previous election stood |
at 100. Now the 200 mark was long passed.
And still they came. A thrill of excitement |
Thu oOWh VIC NhhSc btiOoo VIVA q yoiiO"
dog cart drove u2 with Mrs. Jane Verify.
the Oldest inhabitant, and grandmother Of
Phineas Seaman. the constable. Mrs. Verify
Is ~ years old and never thought OF doing
such thing as voting before. But her
grandson has been at her for a week, and
on Monday she promised to vote II the
to her promise.
Il never thought I'd vote before died.
said Mrs. Verify as she dropped ballot
for tho candidate Of her sex.
Just a. the polls were about to close
the yellow dogcart drove up again with
more Of the Verify family-Mr. and Mrs.
Frank, grandson and eranddau ghter-in-
law Of Mrs. Jane. Mrs. Frank Verify
vas dressed In q green summer gown for
he occasion.
Hurry upi" yelled the Maokay sup
porters as the couple alighted.
Mrs. Verify gathered her skirts and
late. When she was half
way across the hall. the gavel Of Election
Judge Craft fell, and the polls we're closed.
Perhaps II II had not been for the green
iress. Mrs. Mackay might have had two
more votes.
When the judges fell to counting, no one
doubted the result except Dr. Legs, and ne
ooked apprehensive. When they told him
that out Of total Of so4 voters he had re-
,eived only So votes, he ohewed his beard for
4 while. He was sitting In the kindergarten
room, where he had set up headquarters
20 await the returns.
I'm up against H." he said at length.
That shows what a woman can do"
DR.. Bogart, however, was militant. He
,trode straightway into the Office Of the
Judges and lodged q protest on two ac-
counts. In the first place. Mrs. Mackay
mad been called Katherine Mackay' on the
Legs ballots. while on the Remsen- Mackay
ballots she was down as Mrs. Clarence
Mackay.'
These may be one and the same person"
ne said. but We have no legal means Of
knowing that
In the second place, the Legs ballots
,ad shown distinctly the legal title Of the
office, while the ballots Of the opposition
were headed only For school trustee
There were other clauses In the protest,
out these were the main ones. The judges