The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-05

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 Thatcher was in charge of the
Democratic state headquarters at the
Park Avenue hotel, but he is expected
10 start for his home in Albany to-
might. OF the other managers who
have been prominent there, Major
Hincl1ley will vote at Poukhkeepsie
Mr.. Huston in Pennsylvania, and Lieu
tenant-GoveTnor 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 someone in his home in Utica.
Most Of his lieutenants, including Mr..
Kenyon, have already gone to their
home districts.
The headquarters of the Seventy's
candidate for Mayor, Colonel Strong,
were closed today. At the headquar-
tiers Of Hugh J. Grant, in the Union
Square hotel, there were a. number OF
visitors today and the usual reports
of designations from the state Democ-
Stfacy were given out.
y Importance seemed to be attached to
the assertion that Colonel Strong had
written g, letter to a police captain,
asking him to have his men examine
the registers of the lodging houses in
his precincts, that intending voters
claiming residence there whose names
are not on the registers on election day
may be arrested.
At the state Democratic headquarters
On East Twenty-third street, denial
twas made Of the statement, which has
Sbeen generally made, that the Tam
SSnany candidates for aldermen and as
+ eemblymen in the Ninth assembly dis
trict, have been endorsed by the state
Democracy. The candidates of that
body, it is declared, are James A.
Hooper and George w. Miller.
summing up of the constitutional
ention controversy, condemning
work Of the convention and the
CO ,rse of ITS president, Joseph w. Cho-
ate, was issued this evening at Demo-
cratic state headquarters. Several
open letters were also given out.
Considerable interest has been
evinced in the debate to be held to-
morrow evening in Scottish Rite hall
between George Walton Green, the
state Democracy's candidate for Con-
gress in the Twelfth district, and his
Republican opponent, Robert A
Cheeseborough. Mr.. Green is the cllal-
lenger.
All the party leaders are claiming the
success of their respective tickets by
large majorities. The Republicans are
Especially DESTROYS of fair weather on
Euesday.
The committee of seventy tonight is
sued an endorsement Of the Strong
. Golf ticket, s1gned by a large number
Aof prominent men. They also gave out
letters to show the support of the
Eeventy's ticket by the German-Ameri-
y cans and by the Retail Grocers' union.
A number of clergymen in the city
today preached sermons denouncing
municipal corruption and urging oppo-
sition to Tammany Hall at this cleo
ton, not on party, but or public and
moral grounds. Among them were the
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, at the Madison
Square Presbyterian church, and Rev
Thomas Ducy, at st. Leo's Roman
Catholic church. The Rev. Father Syl-
; vester Malone, of st. Peters and ST
Paups Roman Catholic church, Brook
lyn, issued a statement today in the
Name vein, claiming among other
things that Tammany already stands
convicted before the people.
At the Republican state headquarters
tonight, a dispatch from Albany was
received, announcing the attorney-gen-
eral had decided that under the cleo.
ton law no voter may occupy the vot-
ing booth more than ten minutes, in
stead of forty as claimed by some
also that any person willfully obstruct-
ing or delaying other voters by occupy
ing a booth longer time than the law
permits is guilty Of a criminal offense