The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
New York City Gives HyIan
$4,000 Plurality.
Largest Margin Ever Won by
MayOra1ty Candidate.
ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
Includes Sixteen Members on
City Board of Estimates.
Mitchell Ran Second, Socialist
Hilquit Got Big Vote.

New York, Nov. 7.-Tammany Hall
returned to power as the result of
yesterdays mayoralty election. Not
only was Judge John F. Hylan swept
into office by the largest plurality
ever given to a mayoralty candidate
in New York City, but there was
elected with him the entire Demo-
cratic ticket, giving the new admins
tration all of the sixteen votes in the
board of estimate which controls city
expenditures.
Those elected with Judge Hylan
were Charles L. Craig, comptroller;
Alfred e. Smith, president of the
board of aldermen, and the presidents
of the five boroughs of the city.
Judge Hylans plurality, based on
virtually complete returns, early to-
day was nearly 148,OO0. Mayor
Mitcheps plurality four years ago was
121,209.
With twenty-seven election districts
missing, the vote for mayor stood:
John F. Hylan, Democrat, 297, 2SG.
John Purroy Mitchell. Fusion, 49,
307.
Morris Hillquit, Socialist, 142.17s.
William NJ. Bennett, Republican,
53,678.
Socialist Vote Phenomenal.
One outstanding feature of the may
orally vote was the great increase in
Edward Russell, the Socialist candi-
date, polled but 100 votes. At the
presidential election last year Allen l..
Benson, Socialist candidate for presi-
dent, received BLISS votes.
The Socialists got more comfort out
of the fact that they carried twelve
assembly districts, three of which are
expected to send Socialists to the as
sembly at Albany.
The result of the vote of $4,000 SOL
!
for at least a month. Tammany cam
paign managers asserted that the
votes would increase the plurality.
The last Tammany mayor was the
late Mayor Gaynor, who was elected
in 1910, but who later broke with the
organization. The faithful rallied at
Tammany Hall last night and the
celebration lasted until early morn
ing hours,
t.. Is Thoroly American.
/ tbMayor-elect ,Hylan in a statement
after his election became a. certainty,
emphasized that there was no loyal
ty'' issue at stake as had been charged
by Mayor Mitchell.
IT want to make it plain to the
world" he said, that there was no
issue of Americanism or loyalty in
volved, so far as 1 am concerned.
There could be none for I am as good
an American as any man, as loyal to
as firm and determined in support in
every act of the government in this
war as-any man"
New York's next mayor began his
career as a tracklayer on an elevated
road and later. became fireman and
engineer. Soon after his marriage he
began the study of law and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1897. He was
appointed chief magistrate in 1906 by
Mayor Mcclellan, a Tammany mayor.
ard in 1916 was appointed county
judge of Kings county. A year later
b was elected to the same office.
Mitchell Not Surprised?
Mayor Mitchell, apparently in good
spirits said at city hall today:
TITS all overland now down to
business in the mayors office"
He refused to discuss his plans for
the future, denying however, that he
knew anything of a reported offer to
him of a high commission in the
armV,