Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-06

of the seventh district police court on West
oath street, they were placed in carriages
and rushed off to the court. II they were
discharged democratic workers put the res
cued voters in carriages again and drove at
full speed back to the polling place.
In some of the election districts more
than one thousand persons were registered
and the election officers have to hustle the
voters through at the rate of three every
two minutes. In the seventh election dis
trict of the thirty-flrst assembly district
the number of registered voters is nearly
900 this year. The district captains of both
parties had men In line when the polls
opened. and from that time on there were
from 100 to $50 men in line. At IL o'clock
election were afraid that some would be
left. Keeping up the same rae of prog
ress there would be 100 men at o'clock
who could not cast their votes.
Heavy voting Pleases Both sides.
With the most favorable conditions pre-
vailing throughout the state, the indica-
lions are that the vote cast today will be
as large as ever was polled in the empire
state. The voting early in the day was I'M
usually rapid many places reporting that
at noon two-thirds of those registered had
exercised the electoral franchise. At no
polling place in all the state had any dis
turbance occurred. The use Of ballot ma
chimes in large number of the larger
cities expedited the voting. The short time
occupied by voters in marking their ballots
is taken as evidence that little scratching
has been done, and the expectation, there
fore. is that the counting will be completed
early. The country districts, as well as
those in the cities and villages, gave evil
dence of unusual interest in the contest.
Leaders of both the democratic and the re-
publican parties claim that their respective
organizations have benefited by the fact
that so large a proportion of the registered
voters have gone to the polls today The
facts can only be known after the counting
of the ballots.
J. Cheever Goodwin. the playwright, was
arrested on the charge of false registration
when he attempted to vote, his address
being recorded as No. 81 West 9th street.
He was taken to the West 6Sth street sta
ton house. where he was released. as 1t ap-
peared that an error had been made in
writing 9th street for 6Sth street.
Views at Headquarters.
At o'clock today ex-Gov. Stone, demo-
cratic national committeeman, said:
Il have no reason to change my claim
made some time ago and emphasized re-
Gently. AT the same time 1 have no other
information up to this hour than this. that
We are getting out our full vote. 1 do
not care to give figures. At this time 1t is
useless.
At republican national headquarters at
80 o'clock, National Committeeman Man
ley said.
"Three-fourths of the republican vote in
Greater New York is cast. We get similar
advices from up the state. There has not
been a single unfavorable word for us re-
ceived at these headquarters l am conf
dent-mOre so than I have ever been-that
we shall have a great victory. I have never
before known national election in which
some unfavorable news for the republicans
was not heard before noon on election
day"