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VOLUME XCIV-NO. 15T.
SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1903.
Greater New York—McClel
lan, Grout and Forn.es elected
Mayor, Comptroller and Presi
dent of the Board of Aldermen,
respectively. It is a victory for
Tammany.
New York State— Judge Den
nis O'Brien, re-elected. The
Assembly strongly Republican.
Republican Mayors in Syracuse,
Elmira, Rome and Albany.
Democratic Mayors in Schenec
tady, Auburn, Oswego, Troy
and Utica.
Republicans carry Massa
chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska.
Democrats carry Rhode Isl
and, Maryland, Kentucky and
Mississippi.
How Elections
Went in States
East and South
Eugene EiSchtriitz Re* elected Mayor of San Francisco.
"Stoker Mayor" Is Re-elected.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Nov. 3.— Mayor
Dennis Mulvihill, known as the "stoker
Mayor," was carried in a triumphal -pro
cession to-night during the celebration
of his re-election. With him practically
the entire- Democratic ticket was carried
into office. Mulvihill defeated George E.
Hill (R.) by' 7181 in the greatest poll in
the city's history.
Salt Lake Is Democratic.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Nov. 3.— The Dem
ocrats not only elect Morris (D.) over
Knox (R.) by about 1500 but also elect
thirteen of the fifteen members of the
City Council. Eight of these are Mor
mons.
«g ar'AYOR~EUGENE-E.\ SCHMITZ was asked last evening to make a statement shortly
Je/g after the counting. of 'the votes indicated his return to office for a second term. The
°^ Mayor; who had retired to his home early and was with a number of his friends, said :
"I must say that? I am more rthan pleased With the result. I never had a serious doubt as
to the result of 'the [election. To the people who Iiavc supported me I am> indeed grateful. My
fight was a< hard one, ]as I? was not; supported : by> the public press in a single instance, but that
is the result ¦ of -politics. ; 1 , _ •
"/ have no hard feeling against those ,xvho opposed iny re-election, and I will endeavor
to a '\ve the '.people of : San 'Francisco a _good, clean, administrate nn. I have tried to do this,
and would- have done much-better if -Iihad'had the proper support, but now that I have the con
fidence of the people I hope to) carry out my intentions.
' "As. regards the Itandlingor rather the direction of expenditure of money voted on the
bond election, I zuill do ' everythingin my power to see that the funds are rightfully expended
and make San Francisco one of the grandest cities in the zvorld.
"1 '¦: trust and Hope that when my second term of office expires the people will not
regret the; confidence [they [have again placed in me."
MAYOR SCHMITZ TH ANKS
PEOPLE FOR RE-ELECTION
apprised as to the number of Repub
lican ballots thrown out by election
officers.
Mayor Schmitz promises to give
the people a good administration, but
says nothing about the hideous
shadow of Ruef. Parry is delighted
beyond expression over the outcome
of the struggle and the colt is full
of pranks. As the campaign is now ,
concluded the clerks and attaches,!
connected with the administration
may go back to their respective sta
tions, and the Civil Service Commis
sioners, weary of campaigning on the
stump for Ruef and Schmitz, may
return to the old stand of- the com
mission in the City Hall. .
From the figures at hand it appears
that Lane receives about 12,000 votes,
Crocker 22,000, Schmitz 24,000 and
Whitney, Socialist, 2300. When Lane
ran for Governor he was hailed as
the friend of the workingman and the
champion of the common people. He
received 33,000 votes. It seems, there
fore, that 21,000 voters. who gave him
their support a year ago have under
gone a change of mind. The figures
may not be exactly 21,000, but the
number is not wide of the mark.
When all the returns arc tallied and
subjected. to analj'sis one may be able
to determine how many votes Rucf
transferred from the Republican col
umn to Schmitz and how many Mar
tin Kelly took to Lane.
The total vote of 60,300 cast yes
terday was somewhat of a surprise.
Experts, including the Registrar,
placed the number as low as 57,000.
Mr. Crocker made a 'fine showing in
the labor districts south of Market
street. Later on the public • will - be
VOTERS CHANGED VIEWS.
political experts predicted that. a good
Democratic candidate could divide
the labor vote and this division would
have followed if any one other than
a professional job chaser had been
called to Democratic leadership.
Lane never had the ghost of a chance
to win. What little support he se
cured came from dyed in the wool
Democrats and non-partisans of the si-
Pcrhaps he would have Jess cause
for chagrin if one of his newspaper or
gans had not resorted to the most con
temptible form of misrepresentation to
bolster up this hopeless candidacy.
The Republican press and the Rcpub
lican campaign committee warned the
public at every stage of the campaign
that a vole for Lane was really a vote
for Schmitz. Results prove that the
warning was justified.
Early in the campaign many of the
y^ UGENE E. SCHMITZ is re
»Y elected to the office of Mayor,
M and it is devoutly to be
wished that his second admin
istration of municipal affairs will be
better than his first. His plurality, ac
cording to the votes tallied, will ap
proximate 2000. An army of muni
cipal attaches and political workers,
sustained by a campaign fund of $50,
000, won the battle, as the forces of
good citizenship were divided. Votes
which should have been given to Hen
ry J. Crocker were thrown away on
that unfortunate prince of demagogues
which Gavan McNab placed at the
head of the Democratic ticket.
Henry J. Crocker, the Republican
nominee, made the most creditable
campaign ever conducted in San Fran
cisco. He accepts the result in manly
fashion. He maintained throughout
the animated contest a straight
forward, honorable course, appealing
to the judgment and intelligence of
good citizenship for support. He car
ried the Assembly districts of the Re
publican column, but his pluralities do
not seem to be large enough to over
come the heavy vote which Mayor
Schiriitz receives in the so-called Dem
ocratic districts south of Market street.
LANE'S CASE WAS HOPELESS.
As foreshadowed in The Call from
' ¦ -
day to day during the canvass, Frank
lin K. Lane failed to carry a single As
sembly district.
Lane's Chances
Were Never
Good.
Stayer.
zronrirn s. bcukxte ox. x>.).
Auditor.
m w XCASST ¦y»*Tr-a-it en,).
. City Attorney,
7ESC7 V. Z.OZTG (E.).
Sheriff,
r\?rr-\*- 3. ctjbtxs cd.).
Assessor,
\7£SB32rOTON DODGE (D.).
Tax Collector,
EUTTAJH) J. SMITH (H.).
Treasurer,
cromr s. sscsougaxd (b.v
Eeccrder,
xsssozra godcsattx a>.).
County Clerk.
JOUST J. GEEIP CK.).
District Attorney,
mwia r. BYxzrGToa: co.).
Coroner,
T. B. "W. LEIiAITD (D.).
Public Administrator.
si. j. srraxs (s.).
Supervisor,
GEOSGE AX.7ERS (B.)>
Supervisor,
FEED IT. BEZTT (B).
Supervisor,
CHiELES BOSTON (BO.
Supervisor,
rKES EGQEB3 (B,).
Supervisor,
TEEODOSE LUK2TEDT (B.).
Supervisor,
kazwell mchtjtt (B.).
Supervisor,
I.. A. SEA (It.).
Supervisor
vr. "w. Ei:'DrE:OH (B.).
Supervisor,
JAMES P. BOOTH (X>.).
Supervisor,
H. TT. SBAXTOEZTSTrXir (D.).
Supervisor,
Eirtrrz, SBAirrnxABT <d.).
Supervisor,
A. CCjffTi: JJZ. O.).
Supervisor,
JOZL2T COZTSO3 CD.).
Supervisor,
A. A. D'AKCOHA CD.).
Supervisor,
BXZTBT FAYOT O>.).
Supervisor,
BO3EBT J. Z^3T7GBXBT CD.).
Supervisor.
OSCAS SOCKS CD.).
Supervisor,
SDWABD B. BOCK CD.).
J-ire cf the Police Court,
GEOEGE S. CABA2TZSS CD.).
Judge cf the Police Court,
TZZHSTTSTD P. 2SOQA2T CD.).
Candidates
Who Probably
Are Elected
Ohio has gone overwhelmingly Repub
lican. The contest in that State was for
Governor and the Legislature and it had
an additional interest because Senator
Hanna, chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee, is a candidate for re
election to the Senate. Hanna will con
trol the Legislature by a big" margin, and
Myron T. Herrick, Republican, has da-
LANDSLIDE IN OHIO.
One lesson of the returns Is that New
York is not only still a Democratic city,
but a Tammany city as well. Devery has
ceased to be an issue and the public has
taken the view that Devery was respon
sible for graft and blackmail and that
Tammany, having thrown Devery out.
was entitled to another trial In manag
ing the affairs of the municipality. Dev
ery's vote was pitifully small.
The election seems to have been very
fair and orderly. While the results show
a complete breakdown of Republican and
Fusion, It cannot bo charged that the Re
publican organization was treacherous.
The tide was simply strongly in favor of
Democracy and a wide-open town.
REPUBLICANS FAIL TO VOTE.
The Republicans who left their party
last year are still with the Democracy
and there also is evidence that thousands
did not go to the polls.
The constitutional amendment which
was submitted to voters, providing for
expenditure of $101,000,000 for the improve
ment of the Erie Canal so as to permit
the transportation of barges carrying
1000 tons of freight, probably has been
adopted. Very few counties up State vot
ed in favor of It. The amendment was
voted down by some of the more impor
tant counties traversed by tha canal. In
those counties which are not traversed
by the canal In Northern and Southern
New York the amendment was simply
slaughtered. Erie County, which was
supposed to be the hotbed of canal
sentiment, did not do as well as the ad
vocates of tha improvement had expected,
but New York County's heavy vote has
probably more than * offset the up State
result.
The Assembly of the State of New
York Is safely Republican.
plurality second only to the un
precedented sweep of 1902, when Coler car
ried the city by 122,000 votes more than
Odell, the Republican candidate, for Gov
ernor.
It was more than a landslide— It was an
avalanche. Manhattan and the Bronx,
comprising New York County, gave a
plurality of between 60,000 and 70,000 for
McClellan, Grout and Forbes. Even
Brooklyn was carried by the Tammapy
ticket by a plurality approaching 4000. In
this Tammany sweep practically all
the Democratic candidates for borough
and county offices, except in Richmond,
triumphed. The Board of Aldermen will
be completely in the control of Tammany.
The verdict at the polls strongly en
trenches the wigwam in power in this
city. Charles F. Murphy becomes the
most important Democrat in the country.
He will probably have more influence in
the next Democratic National Convention
than Croker, Kelly or Hill ever had. be
cause he will not only be able to domi
nate the entire Democratic party of th*
entire city, but the Democratic party of
the State as well. Murphy's victory
seems to mean the destruction of both
Hill and Hugh Mclaughlin.
TAMMANY FOB CLEVELAND.
The Tammany leader will be abla to
name the next Democratic candidate for
Governor, and,- possibly, the next Demo
cratic candidate for President.
The Call Is informed that Tammany will
stand in favor of the nomination of
Grover Cleveland for President next year,
and It Is said that Judge D. Cady Herrlck
of Albany will displace Hill as nominal
State leader and may be the candidate of
the Democrats for Governor.
EW YORK, Nov. 3.— Tammany
l3L y scored a remarkable triumph in
f\J to-day's city election. Its entire
JL \f city ticket was elected by a
National Effect of
Off Year Vic
tories.
Continued on Page 0 t Coluzia 4,
The San Francisco Call.
MAYOR SCHMITZ WINS
FIGHT FOR RE-ELECTION
AIcasaT — "Too Much Johnson."
Alhambra — Ellery's Boyal Ital
ian Band.
California — Haverly's Minstrels.
Central — "At Valley Torre."
Columbia — "The Storks."
Fischer's — "Babes and Eoiei."
Grand — "Ben Hnr."
Orpheum — Vaudeville.
The Chutes — Vaudeville.
Tlvoll — Grand Opera.
THE CTEATXTX&.
San ITanei«co and vicinity—
E.e.ln "VTe&nesday; brisk to hiarh
icuthtrly winds.
* A. G. UcADXZI.
District Forecaster.
With One Exception, Union Labor
Party Is Hopelessly
Defeated.
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