St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-05
FIGURES ARE VERY PLENTY,
But Will They Tally With
Those on Election Day?
There's the Rub.
SEVERAL LICKINGS IN STORE.
fhe Globe Will Swiftly Record
Them on Wednesday
Morning.

New YORK, Nov. 4.-The last Sunday
Of the political campaign was an ex~
ceedingly dull day at the headquarters
Of the various organizations. John
Boyd Thacner was in charge of the
Democratic state headquarters at the
Park Avenue hotel. but he is expected
10 start for his home in Albany tonight.
OF the other managers who have been
prominent here, Maj. Hinckley will
vote at POughkeepsie, Mr.. Huston in
Pennsylvania and Lieut.. Gov. Sheehan
in Buffalo. Chairman Hackett will
probably remain at the Republican
headquarters at the Fifth Avenue hotel
until after election day. having paired
his vote with some one at his home in
Utica. Most OF his lieutenantS, includ-
Ing Mr.. Kenyon, have already gone to
their home districts. The headQuar-
ters OF the Seventy's candidate for
mayor, Col. Strong, were closed today.
At the headquarters of Hugh j. Grant,
in the Union Square hotel, there were
number of visitors and the usual
Reports of designations
from the state Democracy were given
ont. 1t was announced that j. Rock
we'll Fay and number of others had
left the state Democratic organization
in the Twenty-third assembly district,
and would support Grant. Importance
seemed TO be attached to the assertion
that Col. Strong had written letter to
police captain, asking him to have his
men examine the registers of the iodg-
ing houses in his precinct. So intend.
ing voters claiming residence there
whose names are not on the registers on
election dav may be arrested. At the
state Democratic quarters in East Twen-
ty-thiTd street, denial was made of the
statement which has been generally
made that the Tammany candidates for
alderman and assembly in the Ninth
district have been indorsed by the state
Democracy. The candidates of that
body, il is declared, are James A.
Hooper and George ". Miller. A sum-
ming up of the
Constitutional Convention
controversy, cOndemning the work of
the convention and the course of its
president, Joseph II. Choate, was issued
this evening at Democratic state hsad-
quarters. Several open letters were
also given out. Considerable interest
has been excited in the joint debate to
be held tomorrow evening in Scottish
Rite hall between George w. Green,
the stale Democracy candidate for con-
Eress in the Twelfth district, and his
Republican opponent. Robert A. Chees-
Drough. Mr. Green is the challenger.
ALI the party leaders are claiming the
success of their respective tickets by
large majOrities. The Republicans are
especially desirous of fair weather on
Tuesday. The committee of seventy
tonight issued an Endorsement of the
StrOng-GOff ticket, signed by large
number OF prominent men. They also
gave out letters to show the support of
the Seventy's ticket by German-Ameri-
cans and by the retail grocers' union.
Another document made public was an
arraignment of
Tammany's Management
oI the department OF charities and cor
rections, the Investigations into the
methods in the insane asylums under
its care being especially referred to.
a number of clergymen in the city to-
day preached sermons denouncing
municipal corruption, and urging their
hearers to oppose Tammany hall at this
election, not on party, but on public and
moral grounds. Among them were Rev.
DR.. Parkhurst, at the Madison Square
Presbyterian church, and Rev. Thomas
Ducey, at st. Leo's Roman Catholic
church. The Rev. Father Sylvester
Malone, of St. Peters and St. PauPs
Roman Catholic church, BROOKLYN.
issued statement today in the same
vein, claiming, among other things.
that Iammany already stands defeated
before the people. At the Republican
state headquarters tonight a dispatch
from Albany was received announcing
that the attorney general had decided
that under the election law no voter
may occupy the voting booth more than
ten minutes, Instead Of forty. as claimed
by some, also that any person willfully
obstructing or delaying other voters by
occupying booth a longer time than
the law permits is guilty of a criminal
OtfenSe.