The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-07
NEW YORK.

New York. Nov. THE weather in
Greater New York today could not have
been finer. The sky in the early morn
ing was clear, the air was pleasantly
cool and the result was that voting all
over the city was at a pretty rapid rate
considering that only local officers and
assemblymen were to be elected. The
polls opened at o'clock and will close
at > p N.
At Harlem, where there are several
close assembly districts the early VOt-
ing was so heavy as to surprise the old
time politicians. In the Eighteenth
election district of the Thirty-firSt as
sembly district, 45 votes out of a regis
tratlOn of 30 had been pOlled at l:4O
o'clock. In the Nineteenth election dis
trict of the same assembly district, 56
votes out of 1862 had been cast at 7:55
o'clock. In the Ninth election district
of the Thirty assembly district
Sc votes out of 362 registered had been
cast at $40 o'clock.
The registration was light this year
and it is probable that the poll will be
10 to 10 per cent below that of last year
when a governor and other state officers
We're elected.
Dispatches to the Associated Press
from interior cities and towns in the
state report good weather and good
roads, 1nsuring a vote up to the average
of an off year in politics
There were the usual number of ar
rests during the morning for alleged il
legal registration of voters. The var
iOus magistrates disposed of the first
cases as quickly as possible
A man who was registered from a
house in Park Row as JOhr Ray, was
arrested but his landlord appeared and
testified that the man had lived for
some time at the address he had given
and Mr.. Ray was discharged. 1t was
probably the name more than anything
else that caused his arrest
There was some trouble in the Eigh-
teenth assembly district when it was
known that superintendent McCul-
lagh's deputies had secured warrants
for the arrest of Il number Ct men reg
iStered from the city lodging house in
First avenue. The first of these men
v no tried to vote was jeremiah
O'Keefe. The state deputies tried to
arrest him. but the police interfered,
saying that the man had q right to
vote before the warrant could be served
on him superintendent McCullagh
Went TO the scene of the trouble and
arrested O'Keefe himself after a bitter
talk with Police Captain Masslachter,
whose attitude was at one time so
threatening that McCullagh exclaimed:
Don't put your hands on me, Mass
lacher."
A large crowd hostile to the state
deputies gathered and for time it
looked as though there would be a riot.
The police. however, surrendered
O'keefe and McCullagh drove away
with his prisoner in a cab.
In the Nineteenth assembly district
OF this city where a strong effort was
made to prevent the reelection of Rob
ert Mazet a Republican, a arrests for
illegal registration had been made at
9.30 o'clock. The arrests were made on
warrants secured by State Superintend-
ent McCullagh. The prisoners all gave
bail for examination tomorrow.
Those of the prisoners who had not
voted Immediately left the court room
and expressed their intention of going
back to the polls to vote An noon AIr.
Croker said:
Everything points to a sweeping
Democratic victory in the city. 1t will
be a, clean sweep all around. In the
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