The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-11-08
NEW YORK POLITICS.
oUlEr PREVAILS AROUND POL
TrICAL HEADQUARTERS.
A Number of C!ergymen Take occasion
10 Denounce Tammany FROM
Their Pulpits-Both Parties
Claim Victory.

NEW YNRK. Nov. 4.-The last sun
dAv of the campaign was exceedingly
duIl at the headquarters of The poIlt-
icsI narties. John Boyd Ihacder was
in charge of the Democratic heau-
quarters at the Park Avenue ho!el,
but lie expected to start for his nome
in Albany tonight. OF the other
n,ambers who have been prominent
there M,ior Hinckley will vote at
Poughkeepsie and Lieutenant Gov
.sbeehan in Buffalo. Or airman
EFT will probably remain at tne
blican headquarters a the Filth
ma hotel until after election day,
~ paired his vote with someone
at his homo in Utica. Most u his
lieutenants, including MI Kenyon
have already gone to their nome uis-
tricts. The headquarters OF the Com"
mittee of seventy's candidate Ior
MAYOR, Colonel Strong, were closed
today. At the headquarters VI
Hugh j. Grant, In Inc On'on
SQUARE hotel there were hunOo-
visitors today and the usuai reports 81
designations from the state Dem crazy
were given out. lE was thhounceu
that J, II Fey Ind q NUMBER Oh Olhets
had left the state Democratic orgahl-
cation in the Tween ty-third assembly,
district and will support Grant Im-
nortanee seemed to be attached 10 the
assertion tnat Colonel strong had |
written o letter to a police captain
asking him to have his men examine
the registers of the lodging houses III |
his preclnst so that intending resi-
dents, claiming residence here, whose
names are not on the registers, may
be arrested. -.
At the state Democratic headquar-
ters in East rwenty-third street de-
NAL was made of the statement Ihat
Tsmmany candidates for aldermen II
the Ninth assembly district nave Deeh
endorsed By the general assembly,
Thr c,ndida'es of that body,
III Ga G..lnrsd, are taT
w. MIl.r .ld George H'-Fin,
Several lran letters were gwen
our. Considerable interest hos been
excited in the joint debate to be held
tomorrow evening in the Scottish Hlte
hall between Walton Green, the state
Democratic candidate for congress in
the Twelfth district and his kepub"
lican opponent, Robert A. Cnes-
brough. MIR Green is the challenger
All parties are claiming the success OF
their respective tickets by large ma
ioIities. The Republicans are es-
pecially deslrous of fair weather ou
Tuesday. The Committee Of Seventy
tonight issued an endorsement OF the
Strong Golf ticket signed by large
number of prominent men. They also
gave out letters to show the support
vi the seventy's ticket by German-
Americans and by the Retail Grocers
union. Another document made
public was an arraigument of the !
Tammany department of charities
and corrections, the Investigations
into the methods of the insane asy-
lums under its care being especially
referred to.
A number of clergymen in the city
today preached sermons denouncing
municipal corruption, and urging
their leaders to oppose Tammany hall ,
at this election, not on party but on
moral grounds. Among them were
the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, at the Madi
son Square Presbyterian church, and
Rev. Thomas Lacy, at st. Leo's RD-
man Catholic church. The R9v, ,
Father Sylvester, Ct st. Peters and
st. Psu's church, Brooklyn, issued a ,
statement today in the same vein, B.,
claiming, among other things,
that Tammany already stands de-
feated before the people. At the Re.
publican state headquarters q dis.
patch from Albany was received au-
nouncing that the attorney general l
had decided thst under the election t
law no voter may occupy the voting [
booth more than 10 minutes instead Of =
40, as claimed by some; also that any
person williully obstructing or delay {
ing other voters by occupying a booth /
a longer Tins than the law permits is
guilty of criminal otfense.