The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-06

was here early this morning because of
a communication with some authority.
Was it Governor Roosevelt? don't
care to say. Let the sheriff tell you what
he likes about it. 1 will say that his
visit has not interfered with the police
plans already formulated.
ssThey stand as they were first formu-
Ia1ed. Nothing has transpired within
twenty four hours to cause their modi-
fication. Our business is TO preserve
order at the polls and afford the election
officials protection in the discharge of
their duties"
The polls will remain open until 5 p. m.
Within the limits of Greater New York
there are 1,522 voting precincts and 639,-
223 registered voters. Under normal con-
ditions about "a per cent Of the vote is
generally cast in a presidential year.
The first returns of New York may be
expected by O'Clock tonight
The leaders and workers of both polit-
ica1 parties were astir- eariy- perfecting
arrangements for the bringing out of the
full vote as soon as possible. Despite the
exciting events of the afternoon and eV-
en1ng previous to election the police Off
clalS and Republican and DemOcra tic
leaders appear to be a. unit in asserting
that the election in this city this year
will be quiet and orderly The indict-
ment of Chief of Police Devery on the
charge of interfering with State Super
intendent of EIectionsAIcCullag the no.
tice of Gov. Roosevelt on Mayor Van
Wyck telling him he would be held re
and the recall by Chief Devery of the
objectionable orders to his subordinates
appear to leave matters about as they
We're before Sunday last when Chief
Devery notified the police officials that
the McCullagh deputies must not be al
lowed to interfere with men who were
willing to swear in their votes.
The McCullagh claim is that the depu-
and all votes which in their judgment
are illegal. The courts after the election
will undoubtedly be called upon to set
tie the differences of opinion growing
out of the dispute, but in the meantime
the mayor and chief of police have given
assurances that the police will render
the deputies every assistance in their
power and that every effort will be made
to keep peace at the polls
If trouble occurs during the day it will
undoubtedly grow out or the serving of
warrants upon persons alleged to be
entitled to vote Superintendent Nc
Cullagh alleges that extensive COLOMBIA
ton has been planned in the lower sec
tiOnS of the city.
The vote was cast very rapidly in this
city. In the Fifth assembly district one
third of the total vote had been cast at
o'clock In Brooklyn also the early
vote was very heavy. No disorder was
reported IN the morning hours and in
general the voting was carried on
quietly.
I anticipate no trouble whatever"
said State Superintendent of Elections
John McCullagh.
Il feel confident that it will be an
orderly and quiet election. / have about
500 deputies stationed about the differ
ent polling places and a number of
emergency men in the Office. I am GER
tain that with these shall be able to
que1 any possible disturbance that may
arise, but I expect nothing of the kind.
There will be no trouble either between
my men and the members of the police
department.
Richard Croker surprised the election
inspectors in his district by walking into
the polling place five minutes after the
companied him and voted.
The leaders had not changed their eS-
Inmates in any important particular over
night, save that in Kings county some
of them on both sides are making claims
of at least 35, coo plurality instead of 10.-
600 for both Mckinley and Bryan. 1t is
probable that the early estimate Will
prove more nearly correct than these
later figures, and the majority in the
borough of Brooklyn will not be pro-
nounced on either side.
New York, Nov 6.-Dispatches from
various points in New York state re-
ceived by the Associated Press up to
IL o'clock show the prevalence of
weather conditions most favorable to
the polling of a large vote. local
storm in the southwestern part of the
state last night made the reads bad
thereabOutS, but in the general results
this will be scarcely appreciable. Odell,
the Republican candidate for governor,
voted among the first in his home city,
Newburgh, and afterward reiterated
his belief in a general Republican vic
tory. In some of the Albany election
districts nearly half of the registered
voters had deposited their ballots by
10 o'clock. In Buffalo and Schenectady
also the early vote was heavy.
The students of Syracuse university
We're challenged as they appeared to
vote, but in every case the vote was
sworn in.
At Rochester, where the ballot ma
chimes are being used. the vote promises
to be the heaviest on record.
New York, Nov. 6.-There were
number of arrests during the morning.
but many of them were due to mistakes
in names or in house numbers.
One or two unnaturalized foreigners
who attempted to vote were arrested
The voters of the Seventh assembly
district which is heavily populated by
workingmen, cast their votes early.
About one-third of the vote in this dis
trict was in the ballot boxes at $50.
Governor Roosevelt voted at his home
in Oyster Bay about 1890 He said he
did not anticipate any serious trouble
over the election in New York city. He
would be prepared. he said to go 20 the
city today if it should become neces-
sary. Otherwise he would remain at his
home, where he would receive the re
turns tonight.
There was a local rain storm at Utica
early in the forenoon, but later the
weather became fair and the voting
there proceeded RAPIDLY At Auburn,
where ballot machines We're used, four
ffths of the vote had been cast at 10
o'clock. At Rome also, voting was big
and the record there showed that the
citizens were turning out early
New York. Nov. 6.-Chief Clerk Ro-
denbaugh. OF the bureau of elections.
said at noon that from reports received
by him from districts in Brooklyn and
New York he thought fully half of the
city's total vote had been cast. All re-
ports received by him he said, were very
and no trouble had been re-
port from any place.
OHIO.
Cleveland, Nov. e-Election day in
this city opened clear and cold. Voting