The San Francisco call., 1895-11-05
BATTLE OF BALLOTS,
Officers to Be Elected in
the Of-Year States
To-Day.
NEW YORK'S BIG FIGHT.
Tammany Struggling for the
Control of Affairs in
Gotham.
FORAKER'S CHANCE IN OHIO.
Maryland Seeks to Throw Off the
German Yoke-Kentucky in
Doubt.
FoRAKER's CHANCE IN OHIO.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Nov. 4.-The elec-
tion in New York State tomorrow will be
for State officers, with the exception OF
Governor. The battle in this city will be
between the forces of 'good government, u
represented by the Union ticket and the
followers of Tammany Hall. The Union,
or fusion county ticket, contains the names
OF Republicans and leaders OF the New
York State Democracy, which is bitterly
opposed to Tammany Hall.
The Democratic State ticket, however,
has been indorsed by the State Democracy,
and it is believed will receive the support
OF the different factions.
The campaign in this city closed tonight
without any extraordinary demonstration.
Tammany Hall leaders predict that its
county ticket will be elected by from
10000 to 10000 majority, while the fusion
ticket managers are just as confident that
Tammany will not return to power. Both
sides declare that they will carry the State
by comfortable maiorities.
In Brooklyn the local campaign has
been lively from the the beginning. There
are three candidates for Mayor-Shepard
independent Democrat), Grout (Regular
DemocraD and Wurster (Republican).
Republicans believe that Shepard will
take enough votes from Grout to elect
Wurster, while Grouts managers feel con-
tident that the Republican ranks will be
depleted by Shepard to such an extent as
to cause the election of the regular Demo-
cratic candidate
Shepard, it is conceded, has no prospects
of being elected The probabilities are
that Wurster will poll within few thou
sand of the full Republican vote and be
elected. AS in New York City, the Brook
lyn Democrats are united on the State
ticket.
The betting on the result of the election
is very light at the hotels and in sporting
circles tonight. But few betting men who
wished to wager their money were about
the Fifth-avenue Hotel, the Hoffman
House, st. James Hotel and the Gilsey
House, where in former years there has
always been great crowd.
AT midnight the odds stood at to on a
Republican State victory, while the Tam
many contingent fought shy on the result
in the State and confined themselves to the
county. The odds were to l on the
county, but there were no takers. Among
some of the bets recorded are:
Al Smith bet Riley Grammar $1,000 to
$500 on Tammany's victory in the county
George Morgan and R. A. Anderson made
bet OF the same amount on the same con-
ditions and the same Odds John Mat
thews and Ed Gilmore made two bets of
500 even on the result in the State and
county, Gilmore taking the Tammany end
"Billy" Edwards put up $3.50 against
Tom Williams $3.50, that Tammany would
win in the county, Edwards taking the
Tammany end. Edwards also made sew
eral bets of $500 to $500 on the same condi-
tions. Late tonight Ed Gilmore made
another bet of $1,000 to $4O0 with Jack
Mcdonald that Tammany would have q
majority in the county.
ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. "A conference
of Democratic leaders was held here to-
day. Reports were received from the diff
ferent counties of the State. The esti-
mated maiorities of the eleven counties
which are placed in the Democratic column
are $4,000, The estimated maiorities in
the Republican counties are $1,000. The
final estimate of the Democratic State COM
mittee is $4,000 plurality for the State
ticket and twenty-six of the fifty-two SEN
atOrS.