Name of Candidate........................................................
Your Signature......................................................
Your Address.................................................
Borough of..............................................
Sign this Ballot and send it to the Journal.
The town was marked out into districts, and the canvassers proceeded systematically from house to house. Never before had there been so extended a canvass introduced of what they call a straw ballot in any constituency. It was, of course, not a ballot in the sense of secret voting at all, for all the citizens signed their papers, which were then taken to the central office and carefully examined. The census began on the 4th of October and was continued for a week. It was closed with the following result:—
Each elector was required to sign his name and address upon a voting card supplied by the canvasser. When the poll was closed the Journal had obtained signed declarations from no fewer than 277,871. The voting was divided as follows:—
| Total Journal Poll. | ||
| Van Wyck | 89,056 | |
| George | 85,050 | |
| Low | 59,764 | |
| Tracy | 44,001 | |
| Total | 277,871 |
These figures show that Mr. Van Wyck had 32 per cent. of the constituency, Henry George 30½, Low 21½ and Tracy nearly 16. If on the 2nd of November the whole 550,000 electors had gone to the poll, and those who have not been reached by the canvassers had voted in the same proportion as those who have, the result would have worked out as follows:—
| Position in Greater New York. | Actual Vote. | ||
| Van Wyck | 176,269 | 235,181 | |
| George | 168,345 | 20,727 | |
| Low | 118,288 | 149,873 | |
| Tracy | 87,098 | 101,823 | |
| Total | 550,000 | 507,604 |