The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-06
NECK AND NECK :
RACE FOR N. Y.
GOVERNORSHIP
Democrats Sweep the Five
BorOughs of City by Big
Pluralities.
SOLDIERS VOTE MAY WIN
upstate Gives Whitman 1885,
100 Lead; City Gives
Smith 26O, 100.
SOLDIERS VOTE MAY WIN

Result Of the election In New York
State was in doubt early this morn
ing.
With about 1000 of the 4.606 up
State election districts reported
Alfred e. Smith was the indicated
leader by 1000 votes.
These returns naturally included
the cities and larger towns. where the
Democratic strength was greatest.
Early in the night Smith looked to be
the winner by a wide margin. The
late figures from the outlying districts
cut down his lead steadily until 1t
disappeared.
Democrats swept City.
The Democratic victory In the city
was as complete as the most opti-
mistic Tammanyite had dared predict
In the greater city Smiths plurality,
with As election districts missing. was
e5s.2ss. divided by boroughs as follows: ::
Manhattan, 10I.240; Brceklyn. t2,-
5sl: Bronx. 45,s05 Queens. 2s,619;
Richmond. 6,oll.
II the 4s missing districts returns
hold the same ratio Smiths city plurality
will prove TO be 260.loo.
Upstate 1912 election districts out
of 1906 gave Whitman 62s,566 and
Smith 05,gs5. II the 634 missing dis
trlcts run the same as those reported
Whitman's upstate plurality Will he
?5S.i00.
John ]. Lyon, who has had charge OF
the soldier and sailor vote for Secretary
OF State Hugo. said last night that II
would not amount to more than l2.Oop
as an outside figure. Republicans esti-
mate that of this total the socialists
will get Is per cent, or l,sOO. They
cav that to give Smith 65 per cent OF
the remainder would be a most liberal
estimate. This estimate would give the
Democratic candidate $3.50 and Gov
Whitman $50. soldier vote plurality
OF 1000 for Smith.
Secretary of State Hugos repre-
sentatives visited the various camps ano
naval stations in this country and es'
teblished polling places. Under the "a
the vote could be taken any day WITHIN
twenty days of election. Several thou
sand men In the service voted at the ar
mories here yesterday.
II will not be known what this vote
actually is until the sixth Tuesday afte1
election, when the envelopes in whicf
each ballot Is sealed are opened and can
vassed by the various boards of cleo
lions. This is December II. Betweei
election day and the day of canvassini
the Secretary of state gathers the bal
lots from the various stations and dis
tributes them to the various home dis
tricts OF the voters.
In Greater New York Ed"ar
Schoeneck, for Lleutenant-Governor
-nta HARRY
walkers 475,605, with el3 election dis
lricts missing
New York city's Congressional dele
cation stands Fusion tRep. and Dem
c democrats, 1s: Republicans. 2.
Never London, Socialist. was beater
IS were all the other Socialists with tn
oNception of Shiplacoff, who is runnin
uecl and neck with Haskell.
The delegation had stood; Democrat
u; Republicans, Q; Socialist l.
Socialist Vote Falls on.
There was a great falling off in tn
Socialist vote in New York city. or IN
ten Assembly districts in the city car
rled by the Socialists for Assembly !
1917 every one was carried by smit
for Governor yesterday.
or the four so-called Socialist district
m New York county Smith carried IN
Fourth by to / and the Sixth, Eight
and Seventeenth by nearly to /.
there was fusion between the Democrat
and RepublicanE in the first three
these districts the Socialists have Jos
their Assemblymen there. The result
the Seventeenth district, where there wa
no fusion, is close.
In Kings county the Socialists no
have three Assemblymen--in the SiNt
Fourteenth and Twenty-third district
Smith carried the, Sixth by little lei
than two to one and the Fourteenth Q
more than two 10 one. The Twent!
third, or Brownsville, district was carrie
by smith by 1853, to 1855 for Whitma
The indications in the Tenth Congre
district were that Abraham Shiplaco
Socialist candidate, was running neck ai
neck with Representative Reuben
Haskell. but would probably be beaten.
Representative Meyer London wa
heaten through fusion on Goldfogie
the Twelfth. The Socialists did m
come anywhere near electing Algerne
Lee, their candidate for Congress In Il
Thirteenth District; Scott Nearing rul
ming for Congress I'm the Fourteenth,
Morris IIllquit In the Twentieth In
inese districts there was fusion again
the Socialist.
There was never any doubt about u
election of Justice Victor J. Dowlin
democrat, ndorsed by the Republican
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