The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-05
ALI Signs Point to Defeat of
Hill and Tammany.
ESTIMATES OF MAJoRITIes.
Depew Wouldn't Be Surprised If
Morton Won by 10000.
Joe Nsaiey K1peets . Majority In the
seIs Congress and . Gain of sena-
tors-Iwo, and Probably Three. Con-
Gressmen In Loussiana-

New Yosx. Nov 4-The last Sunday of
the political campaign was an exceedingly
duh day at the headquarters of the various
organizations John Boyd Thacher was IN
charge Of the Democratic state head
quarters at the Park Avenue hotel. hzt he
Is expected TO started for his home in
Albany tonight. OF the other managers
who have been prominent there, Maj.
Hinckley will vote at Poughkeepsie. Mr..
Huston in Penama and Lieut.. Gov. Shee-
han In Buffalo. Chairman Hackett will
probably remain at the Republican head
quarters at the Fifth Avenue hotel until
after election day. having paired his vote
with some one in his home a. Utica Most
Of bis lieutenants, including Mr.. Kenyon,
have already gone to their home districts.
The headquarters of the Ssvsnty's can
dfdats for mayor. Col. Strong. were closed
today. At the headquarters of Hugh j.
Grant, in the Union Square hotel. there
were q number of visitors today. and the
usual reports of resignations from the
state Democracy were given out. I'm
poriance 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 that intending
voters claiming residence there. whose
names are not on the registers.
may lie arrested on election day. At the
state Democratic headquarters on East
Twenty-third street denial was made OF o
statement which has been generally made
that the Tammany candidates for alder
men and assemblymen in the Ninth
assembly district have been Endorsed by
the state Democracy. The candidates OF
that body. IL is declared, are J. A. Hooper
and q. w. Miller.
A summing mp OF the constitutional con-
vention controversy, condemning the
work OF the convention and the course of
its president, j. ii. Choate, was issued
this evening at the Democratic state head
quarters. Several open letters were also
given out Considerable interest has been
evinced in the debate to be held tomorrow
evening in Scottish Rite hall between
George Walton Green. the State Dsmoc-
racy candidate for congress in the Twelfth
district, and his Republican opponent. X.
A. Cheesebrough. Mr.. Green Is the chal-
lenger.
All the party leaders are claiming the
tAtASHS Vi AItiE Erc6fGtlNE kiGkfts DF fAfKS
majorities. The Republicans are espe-
cially desirous of fair weather Tuesday.
The Committee of Seventy tonight
issued an Endorsement of the Strong-G Goff
ticket, signed by a large number of promi-
nent men. They also gave out letters to
show the support of the Seventy's ticket
by the Recommendations and by the Re-
tail Grocers' Union.
A number of clergymen in the city
today preached sermons denouncing mu-
nicipsl corruption and urging opposition
TO Tammany Hall at this election, not on
party, but on public and moral. grounds.
Among them were the Rev. DIR. Park
hurst. at the Madison Square Presbyterian
church, and Rev. Thomas Ducey, at ST.
Leo's Roman Catholic church. Rev.
Father Sylvester Malone. of st. Peters
and So. Pau's Roman Catholic church.
BROOKLYN, issued q statement today in the
same vein. claiming, among other things,
that Tammany already stands con victed
before the people.
At Republican state headquarters to-
night a dispatch from Albany was re-
ceived, announcing that the attorney gen.
eral 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
wilfally obstrueting or delaying other
voters by occupying booth q longer time
than the law permits is guilty of a crimi-
nal offense.
The World tomorrow will say that dur
ing the past week II has been in commuui-
cation with the ehairmen of Democratic
throughout the state. IL will print table
giving resume Of the claims made by
both parties of the expected pinralities of
Hill aud Morton. which indicate that.
according 10 the views taken by the
chairmen OF the various Democratic
county committees, ID. B. Hill will
win by 2i,ss5 plurality. while
the chairmen OF the Republican
county committees having charge OF
their pArty's canvass in sixty counties
claim that Levi 2. Morton Is to be the
next governor. They figure that he will
have As.025 plurality. The Borld says;
In most eases the representatives. Of both
committees agree TO sheir county
going one way or the other although Of
course their figures varied. The counties
where distincttyesy rival claims were made
are as follows: Columbia. claimed for
HtlI by 30 plurality and by SO
for Morton, Erie, claimed by 800
far Hiu aud for Morton by $500.
Kings. claimed fer Hill by ioooo ana for
Morton by precisely the same figures
MONTGOMERY, claimed for Hill bY loo and
for Morton By so; Niagara. claimed for
Hm by 100 and for Morton by i.O0.
Queens. claimed for Hiii by l,~o. for Nor
ton by 80; West Chester. claimed for HiIl
hv !. so. for Morton by iol According 30
the Democratic estimates. Morton. il
IL conceded. will carry the stats
outside Of New YORK city by about
SSIsA. The Republicans claim that Nor
tons plurality above the Harlem bridge
wEll be about :. SO Ia . word IL Hal Is
IN be tie next governor. be will have 20
carry Nex York city by ahost a. co..
according TO the Democratic estimates. or
upwsrds al iooe)0 u the Republican
rxures As 50 the probable resalt for the
rs.t OF the state are correct.