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Show TAMMANY BEATEN BY THEJFUSI0N1STS JOHN PURROY MITCHELL ELECTED ELECT-ED MAYOR OF NEW YORK BY LARGE PLURALITY. Fusion Ticket Victorious, Tammany Candidates All Failing of Election Elec-tion Sulzer Elected Assemblyman Assembly-man From the Sixth. New York. Fusion carried New York City on Tuesday, electing John Purroy Mitchell mayor by a plurality plural-ity in excess of 100,000 and which may reach 130,000 and obtaining control of the important board of estimate es-timate "by a safe margin. Tammany Hall saw its nominee for the mayoralty, Edward E. MoCalL go down to defeat by one of the biggest pluralities ever given against a candidate can-didate of the organization, while the entire fusion ticket was victorious. The big vote for Mitchell pulled through the fusion candidates for president of the board of aldermen and comptroller, George McAneny and William Prendergast, against wlhom Independence league as well as Democratic organization candidates candi-dates were running. Prendergast was elected by nearly near-ly 25,000 plurality and McAneny by 50,000. The election of these three men in addition to fusionists chosen borough presidents of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, gives fusion fourteen votes to Tammany's two in the board of estimate which controls the city's purse strings. Tammany's only salvage from the rout consisted of the borough presidencies presi-dencies of Queens and Richmond, minor officials in ithese boroughs and a few scattering assemblymen. William Sulzer, ousted from the governorship of New York last month by a verdict of a high court of im. peachmenL, was elected to the state assembly from the Sixth district by a sweeping plurality. There was jubilation unbounded id the former- governor's headquarters as the count began to record his victory. vic-tory. .Sulzer himself was all smiles. He regarded his triumph as a personal person-al vindication, he said, and. issued a statement thanking his supporters and scoring Charles F. Murphy, leader lead-er of Tammany Hall. He declared Murphy had been condemned bjythe vote that gave the district William Sulzer as its representative at Albany. |