Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-11-05
IH8 ElPIRE STATE.
Yesterdays Developments in New
York City and State Politics.
WILL HILL WIN OR LOSE?
The Rival Ideas as to Various
Counties Show Great Differ
ences-The Fight in the City.
Claims and Counter Claims.

Sunday of the political campaign was
Rn exceedingly dull day al the head
quarters Of the various organizations
John Boyd Thacher was in charge Of
the Democratic State headquarters at
the Park Avenue hotel, but he is ex-
pscted to start for his home 10 Albany
tonight. or the other managers who
have been prominent there, Major
HlnEley will vote at Poughkeepsie, Mr..
Huston 10 Psnnyan and Lieutenant
Governor Sheehan in Buffalo,
Chairman Hackett will probably re
main at the Republican headquarters
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel until after
election day, having paired his vote
with some one 40 his home 10 Utica.
Most OF his leutenants, Including Mr..
Kenyon. have already gone 70 their
home districts.
The headquarters Of the Seventy's
candidate for Mayor Colonel Strong,
were closed to-day.
AT the headquarters Of Hugh j.
Grant In the Union Square Hotel, there
were a number Of visitors to-day and
the usual reports or designations from
the State Democracy were given out
10 was announced that d. Rockwell
Fay aud q number OK others had left
The State Democratic organization IN
the Twenty-third Assembly district
and would support Grant. Importance
seemed TO DO attached 20 the asser-
tion that Colonel Strong bad written a
letter 90 a police captain asking him TO
have his men examine the registers OF
the lodging houses in his precinct, so
that intending voters claiming residence
there, whose names are not on the regis
tiers on election day, may be arrested.
Al the State Democracy headquarters
TO East Twenty-third street, denial was
made OF the statement which has been
generally made that the Tammany
candidates Tor Alderman and Assem-
bly, 10 the Ninth Assembly District
have been endorsed by the State Demo
cracy. The candidates of that body, 10
is declared, are James A. Hooper and
George w. Miller.
A summing up Of the Constitutional
Convention controversy, condemning the
COnyRRtiOn and the course OF its presi-
dent, Joseph II. Choate, was issued this
evening az Democratic State beadQuar-
hers. Several open letters were also
given out
Considerable interest has been excit-
ed 10 the joint debate TO be held to-mOr-
row evening In Scottish Rite hall be-
tween George Walton Green, the State
Democracy candidate for Congress, 10
the Twelfth district, and his RepubIi-
can opponent, Robert A. Chesebrough.
MIR. Green Is the challenger.
SilOJb8 10Y LEADERS, are claiming the
ncc6Vs OF the0 respective tickets by
rge majoritie3 The Republicans are
especially DESTROYS OF fair weather on
Tuesday.
The Committee of Seventy tonight IS
sued an endorsement Of the Stronghold
ticket, signed By a large number OF
prominent men. They also gave out
letters to show the support Of the Sew
enty's ticket by GermGn-Americans and
by the Retail GrOcers' Union. Another
document made public was an arraign-
ment of TammaDy management OF the
Department OF Charities aud Correction,
the Investigations into the methods In
the insane asylums under its care being
especially referred TO-
A number OF clergymen 10 the city to-
day preached sermons denOuncing mu-
niCipal corruption, and urging their
hearers 10 oppose Tammany Hall at this
election, not on party, out on public
aud moral grounds. Among them were
the Rev Dr. Parkhurst, 40 the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church, and the
Rev. Thomas Ducey, at ST., LeO'S Cath
Ollie Church.
The Rev. Father Sylvester Malone,
Of 50. Peters and st. Pau's Roman
Catholic Church, Brooklyn, issued q
statement to-day 10 the same vein,
claiming among other things that Tam
many already stands defeated before
the people.
AT the Republican State headQuar-
tsrs tonight a dispatch from ALBANY
was received announcing that the At
torney General had decided that under
the election law, no voter may occupy
the voting booth more than ten min
utes, instead OF forty, as claimed by
some; also that any person wiliully o0-
structiug or delaying other voters By
occupying a booth longer time than
the law permits, is guilty Of q criminal
offense.
The World tomorrow will say that
during the pas, week it has benin
communication with the Chairmeu OF
the Democratic and Republican County
Committees throughout the State. To
will print a table giving a resume Of
she aims made by both parties as 10
expected p.ura.ities for Hill or Morton,
which indicates that according
90 the views taken by the
Chairman Of the various Demo-
cratic County Committees, David b.
HUI will win by 81, SIS plurality. while
the CbairmeG of the Republican County
Committees having charge OF their
party's canvass 10 the sixty counties,
comprising the State, claim that Levi
p. Morton is 20 be the next Governor.
They bgurs that be will have 55,O25
plurality. The World says:
"In most cases the representatives OF
both committees agreed as 20 their
county going one way or the other, al
though, OF course, their figures varied.
"Ihe counties where che distinctly
rival claims were made are az follows:
columbia claimed for Hill by so
plurality and by 800 for Morton.
erie, claimed by l,5OO for Hill and
for Morton by 5000.
kings, claimed for Hill by 10000
and for Morton by precisely the same
figures.
MONTGOMERY, claimed for Hill by 100
and for Morton by zoo.
Niagara, claimed for Hill by 500; for
Morton by 1000.
Queens claimed for Hill by ], 500;