Evening star., 1898-11-08
VOTING IN NEW YORK
Nothing as Yet to Indicate Result of
p Election.
BOTH SIDES LACK CONFIDENCE
Weather F air and the Electors Get
Out Early.
SOME LATE PREDICTIONS
Special From a Staff Correspondent.

SidtlC oHOultTS went tC DeQ last night, or
this morning, feeling less confident than
they have been heretofore that their ticket
would win today. In the game of conf
dence the republicans have made a brilliant
play at the finish.
The polls opened this morning with
stronger Roosevelt feeling among the poiit-
ical prophets than has been indicated a.
any time before during the campaign. This
is manifested not much by the fact that
the Van Wyck men were got on the run in
the betting yesterday as by the fact Il
good many democrats who have not been
willing to admit the possibility of Roose-
velts election have begun to express
doubts about the reliability of Croker's fig
Lres Last night the republicans charged
the corridors of the big hotels where sport
ing men and politicians assemble, an1 their
shouts were still the loudest when the
lights were turned out. In the Hoffman
House and the Fifth Avenue it was like
foot ball rush. Both sides were pushing
and blufling and shouting as if the result
of the election were to be settled there by
physical endurance and lung power.
In straight betting Roosevelt was really
the favorite up to the last, but there
more blufting than betting. The demo-
cratic buffers, after being on the run for
a long while turEad and drove the repub-
lican buffers to cover by producing $lO.0a0
to bet either side, the bluff, backed by
money, worked. The whole tumutuous
struggle did not furnish even an indication
of the prospects of the election.
Situation Hard to AnuIyze.
The fact is that the situation rests on
toe delicate a balance for any one not car
ried away by personal feeling to make any
very positive assertion to the result. The
fight is close in this sense, that it depends
upon lot of very doubtfully inclined vot-
ers, who might turn one way or the other
between their breakfast table and the vot-
ing place, giving a fair aggregate majority
cne way or the other.
At the present hour it looks from this
point of view, as If Roosevelt might have
little the best of it. But if he is cut, as
many republicans fear he may be, in some
Of the cities up the state, it might be
repetition of the Fsssett experience. The
thing that gives something of Roosevelt
coloffng here tf1at many democrats are
saying now, at the end of the fight, that
Croker has been putting his figures too
high in Greater New York, and now knows
1t. This may represent a real condition or
it may be only the voice of anxiety from
men who mistrust their own blind conf
dence in the boss" and have no reasons
of their own to fall back on. One of the
more careful and experienced democrats in
New York said to me this morning that he
was not confident of Van Wyck's election.
He said he rather thought he would be
elected. but would not bet money on it.
Republicans Are Satisfied
The republicans are thoroughly satisfied
with what they conceive to be the situation
in Greater New York though they admit
that Roosevelt will not get the full repub-
lican German vote. But nearly all l talk
with whose business it is not to put on
bold front say that they anxious about
the vote in the cities up the state.
The morning broke beautifully here, and
the voting began early. The Tammany
workers are unusually active in trying TO
get their vote out, and they predict
heavy poll. One prediction is that the Van
Nyck vote in this city will run up to about
li2.oOO, with the Roosevelt vote at l060 0UU
The early morning vote in New York
city was very heavy and was cast rapidly.
Ihe democrats count this favorab Bile TO
them, and indicating that the total vote
Will be heavy. In republican districts,
however, heavy vote was got in early.
Dispatches received at republican head
quarters from Buffalo and elsewhere up the
state say that the weather is fine and that
a heavy vote is being cast.
The voting here is going on quietly. nearly
all precincts showing a great proportion Of
the vote In at an early hour.
betting on the Result.
Bets are still being laid on the result, and
Roosevelts majority up the state being
small. Col. Phil Thompson, who is al
ays in pretty close touch with New York
politics, puts the democratic majority this
side of the Bronx at much lower figure
than Croker, but says he thinks Van Wyck
will be elected. He predicts 1880 for Van
Wyck this side Of the Bronx and but 10. 900
for Roosevelt up state.
Most of the democratic calculations are
based on Roosevelts majority being cut
down up state, indicating that they have
not confidence in Crokers claims for
Greater New York. The republicans are
counting on increase of the republican
vote Oh the East SIDE
Big Upstate Vote.
The reports at both the democratic and
the republican state committee headquar-
ters show that there is a very large vote
being cast up the state. At 40 this after
noon both committees were proclairning
themselves joyousy confident. The demo-
cratic committee put out a statement that
their reports indica ed the election of Van
Wyck by a good majority and a democratic
leg stature.
They stated that their reports besides
showing a very large vote being cast up
state, show that many republicans are vot-
ing for Van Wyck in the upstate cities.
At republican headquarters it was stated
that tSeir reports showed a heavy vote
upstate and that the rapid voting ind:
Gated clearly that there was very little
scratching of tickets. They said the re-
publican vote was all out and going
straight.
A dispatch from the county committee
chairman from Buffalo said that Erie coun-
ty was sure to be carried by Roosc velt
Reports throughout the state were favor
able
In Brooklyn the republicans claim that a
heavy republican vote is being cast The
democrats are greatly pleased over the
rapidity of the voting In New York city
The voters go in and out of the booths So
fast to preclude the probability of much
scratching of tickets. The democrats areue
from thu that the Daily fight is not cuttin..
much figure II the city and that the
straight Tammany vote is going to be very
heavy. The democrats are evidently great
ly encouraged by what they reason out of
the rapidity of the city vote.
Just before 2 o'clock a fiftaen-thoysand
dollar even bet on Van Wyck was looking
for taker around republican headquarters.
At the time no one big money man" was
on hand to take 1T. but a runner was sent
out for some one who wanted it
There Is very little information available
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