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Show BETS WILL BE ( PAID IN GOTHAM Certificates to Be Given to HcClellan and Others Oth-ers in New York. NEW YORK. Dec. 25. Certificates of election will be. presented tomorrow, to Mayor McClellan and the other candl- dates who, on the face of, the returns, were successful at the last election. Exact figures have not been given out, but it is known that the plurality of Mayor' McClellan has been reduced by about 300 from the figures, given out by the police on election night giving him by the. corrected figures a plurality over William Randolph Hearst ot about 3400. . :'''- '- . No opposition wlll .be made on behalf be-half of Mr. Hearst to the Issuance of a certificate to Mayor McClellan. but there has been no wlthdrawol of the announced plan to ask the Legislature U make a complete investigation of the election. .With the evidence brought out In such an. inquiry as a basis, it is declared that quo warranto proceedings will be instituted to test the right of the Mayor to hold his office. of-fice. - ' ' Election bets,' however, will be paid without more delay. About $1,500,000 has been tied up in the hands of stakeholders stake-holders since before election. |