The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
Results Of Elections
in States and Cities
Throughout Country

ticket in New York County, headed
by Thomas F. Foley. for Sheriff. has
been elected by a plurality approx
mately $4,000.
Macmillan F. Ihmsen ran about
5000 ahead of his Fusion ticket.
Edward T. Bartlett and Willard
Bartlett have been elected Judges of
the Court of Appeals by majorities
that may reach three-quarters of a
million in the State over Messrs. Nc
Donough and Lyon, the candidates OF
the Independence League.
Lyon and McDonough, though de-
feated by the two Bartletts, who had
the combined support of the Demo-
Gratis and Republicans, polled about
$4,000 votes in Greater New York
alone.
Matthew Linn Bruce, the Republi-
can candidate for Supreme Court JUS
tice, was beaten by James W. Gerard,
the Tammany candidate. the latter's
indicated plurality at an early hour in
the morning being 27,565.
Although he ran we'll ahead of his
ticket. Judge Whitman went down to
defeat with the rest of the Fusion
candidates.
Malone led in the list of General
Session Judgeship candidates. Null
queen was next, and very close up,
and Swami was third. Whitman led
Palliser and Vidaver by approx
mately 5000 votes, but at that he
ran a good $4,000 behind Swami.
Besides winning all the General
Sessions Judgeships in the contest,
Tammany easily captured ali the City
Court Judgeships.
Fusion carried nine Assembly dis
tricts in this county. so that the rep
resentation from this city in the AS
sembly will be the same as hereto
fore. there was, however, a shift of
two districts. The Parsons-Hearst
forces carried the Tenth and Eleventh
Districts, heretofore Democratic, but
lost the Nineteenth and Twenty
ninth. The latter was previously a
very strong Republican district.
With only a few election districts
missing the returns from Brooklyn
showed the election of Norman S.
Dixie and Lewis L. Fawcett, the Re-
publican candidates for County
Judges, by pluralities of 1866 and
1868 respectively.
The fight for Sheriff was extremely
close. Hobley, the Republican, has
seemingly been elected by a plurality
of about 372. William A. Prender-
CAST, Republican candidate for Regis
ter. was elected by about 5000 -plu-
rality.
Clarke, Democrat, is reelected Dis
tarict Attorney by 1875.
Both Queens and Richmond coun-
ties have gone heavily Democratic,
the gains in Richmond being very
large. In Queens the Democrats elect
their entire ticket, with the exception
Of one Republican Assemblyman, De
Groot, and one Republican Alderman
Carter. I
The New York Assembly will be
heavily Republican, as usual, but the
Democrats have a few gains. James
w. WadSworth, Speaker Of the AS
sembly, against whom a determined
fight was made, has been reelected.
The next Assembly of New York
State will stand: Republicans, "a;
Democrats, Sc.
The present Assembly comprises 9S
Republicans, 40 Democrats, two In
dependents and one Independence
Lacquer.
For the first time in its history Or
leans County elected every nominee
on the Democratic ticket by over 500
majority. Il
The results in other New York mu-
inequalities are as follows: Yonkers
elected DR.. N. A. Warren Mayor by a
plurality of about 500; Albany re-
elected Mayor Charles H. Gaus and
the entire Republican county and city
tickets; Rochester elected Hiram H.
Egerton Mayor and the Republican
Common Council; Buffalo elected five
Of the City Councilmen and fourteen
of the twenty-five Aldermen; Utica
elected Thomas Wheeler, Republican,
Mayor by 1900 majority; Troy was
carried by the Republicans electing
Mayor Elias P. Mann by 400; Schen-
ectady elected Horace S. Van Worst,
Republican, for Mayor, by 900 plu-
rality; Syracuse reelected Mayor
Alan c. Forbes, Republican, by $500
plurality; Ithaca Republicans elect
and three of the four Aldermen; Os-
WSSO IS-SlSClSu JOAu II. SL11Lu, y
publican, for Mayor, by $50 plural
ity; Binghamton elected G.. M. Slau-
son, Republican, for Mayor, by 1000
plurality; Elmira elected Daniel Shee-
nan, Democrat, as Mayor by 1876 plu-
rality; Auburn elected G. A. koenig,
Democrat, as Mayor and seven out of
ten Democrats as Aldermen; Rome
elected A. p. Kessinger, Democrat, as
Mayor by 500 plurality; Watertown
elected Hugo, Republican, as Mayor
ny 1854 majority; Gloversville elect
ed Frederick M. Young, Republican,
by OF plurality and the whole Re-
publican ticket; Geneva elected a
Democratic Mayor, City Treasurer
and Supervisor, the Board Of Alder
men is Republican; Amsterdam re-
elected Mayor Jacob H. Dealy, Demo-
crat, and the Republican ticket for
the other Offices; Johnstown elected
DR.. Frank Ree5e, Democrat, for
Mayor, by a plurality of six; Cohoes
elected Merritt P. Hanson, Republi-
can, as Mayor, by 500; Medina for the
first time in its history elected all of
the Democratic candidates; Fulton
elected Edward Quirk as Mayor by
266 plurality; Kingston elected AL
bert H. Cook, Republican. as Treasu-
rer of Ulster County by 1000 major
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