The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
DAY OF FAIR OMEN
Golden Sunlight Floods
Almost the Entire
Country.
ELECTION QUIET EVERYWHERE
Tremendous Vote Being Polled
in Every State Both Sides
Claim Everything.
TAMMANY's FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Distinguished Citizens Who Put in
Early Ballots Crowds
Formed in Line.
More Interest in tho Minor Con-
tests As RuIe Than in the
Foreordained National
Result.
TAMMANY'S FIGHT FOR LIFE

NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 1S96-A more per-
feet election day could not be desired.
The day dawned bright and clear and
the atmosphere was warm and spring
like.
The poll clerks in the various Assembly
districts did not have to wait for voters
this morning In many of the election
districts voters were m line before the
polling places opened. Even the bankers,
brokers and rich men generally were on
hand early. In the 2eth Assembly dis
trict, known as the millionaire district.
the Oldest polling booth in the city, fre-
quenters said they had never seen the
millionaires around SO early before. The
early voting was general throughout the
district, and at most of the polling
places more ballots had been cast by ten
O'Clock than has been the case for years
past.
Among the very earliest of the voters
were Mayor William L. Strong, ex-Su-
perintendent of Police Byrnes the famous
horse owner, Robert Bonner; Banker
Isidor Wormser, H. Nick. TwombIy,
William Rockefeller, Washington E. Con-
nor, John D. Rockefeller, John j. Me-
Cook, Chauncey M. Depew, Isaac N
Seligman, David j. Seligman, John f.
Harper, Treasurer of Democratic Nation
al Committee William M. StSJohn, John
Jacob Astor, Richard Heber Newton, the
well known clergyman; Congressman
Dugro, Elihu Root, Oswald Ottendorfer,
w Bourke Cochran, Philip H. Dugro,
Herman Oelrichs, Coils P. Huntington
ex-Police Commissioner Erhardt, Elbridge
t. Gerry, Colonel Frederick D. Grant
Secretary of War Daniel Lamont. Mr.
Lamont, after voting, was approached by
a United-Associated Press reporter but
he declined to discuss the election and
Immediately went away. These gentle
men, of course, voted in their respective
election districts, but the majority of
them were located in the swell localities
of the city.
There was no excitement and the police
had little to do. No trouble of any kind
was reported from any part of the city
up to eleven o'clock.
Many went went to the polls on their
wheels and after voting went off on a
trip.
A noticeable feature was the number of
cripples and sick men who voted at an
early hour Men on crutches hobbled to
the polling places and some of the sick
had to be assisted to and fro. This gives
an idea of the intensity of the enthusiasm
that prevails.
In the Sixteenth Congressional District
where two rival Republican candidates,
falrchild and Ward, have been nominated
Tor Congress considerable feeling exists
The Tammany Hall leader in the district
said this morning that he thought as a
result of the fight there was a good
chance for the election of the Democratic
candidate for Congress, Eugene B. Travis
In the Second Assembly District, the
banner Tammany stronghold. there is
some dinerence of opinion as to the out
come. The Republicans express the be-
lief they will materially cut down the
Iammany majority, while the Tammany
workers assert that they will carry the
district by larger majority than ever
before.
The Twenty-third Assembly district.
which has heretofore been debatabIe
ground, is this year conceded by Tam
many to the Republicans on National.
congressional and Legislative candidates
McKinley's plurality in4the district the
Iammanyites concede, will be about 2, 600
Some Democrats take a roster view of the
situation, and claim that the vote will
NC ciose on TreSldent ana that the Demo-
Gratis will carry the district for their
Congressional and Assembly candidates
In the Twenty-ffth Assembly district.
Republican stronghold, the Democrats
were claiming gains, but the Republicans
deny this and say the indications are that
the district will give an increased Re-
publican majority
The Thirtyfourth Assembly district,
which heretofore has given large Demo-
cratic majority, was being claimed by
the Republican workers in the district as
early as eleven o'clock this morning for
Mckinley by fair plurality.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov 3, 1S96.-At
IL o'clock the managers at Democratic
and Republican headquarters estimated
that fully one-half of the entire vote of
the city had been cast
The Polls remain open until o'clock
this evening.