The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-05
BOTH SIDES ARE CONFIDENT
CLAIMS OF OPPOSING FORCES IN
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hcpub!ican Chairman Sticks to His Estimate of 7O,OOO for Loxy-Croker and Carroll Positive of yictory-Lase Last Night Wagers of Ten Go Seven We're Made on Low and tho Rest of the City Ticket
City Ticket.

New York, Nov. 5.-At midnight to- night both sides in the municipal con- test were claiming the victory. The fusion leaders were more in evidence at their headquarters than g5ere the dem- ocrats at theirs, the la.ter, after the distribution of campaign funds in the afternoon, having hurried to their sev- eral election precincts to give their last words to their fol 7wers.
 During the late afternoon Seth Low, the fusion candidate said: T think things could not look more rosy" and added: This has been a most interest ing campaign. The fight is now over, and, no matter who is elected, I am sure that the city will profit by the agi- tation of the questions which have been the main issues of the campaign"
 Robert O. Morris, chairman of the re- publican campaign committed stuck to his estimate of 10000 for Mr. Low
 Edward M Shepard said this evening that he had no particular statement to make and nothing to say of the cam paign beyond what he had already said.
 Late tonight wagers were laid at 10 to on Low and the rest of the city ticket. There is not the same confi- dence on the fusion side as the county ticket. and predictions are made that all the candidates on the democratic county ticket in New York county will be elected with the possible exception of Robert A. Van Wyck for justice of the supreme court and Henry w. Unger for district attorney. Possibly on &C., count of the whirlwind campaign he has made, William T. Jerome, fusion candidate for the latter office, got the benefit of predictions tonight that he would run ahead of his ticket, but the betting odds favored MT. Unger.
 Richard Croker and John F. Carroll late tonight were positive of the cleo ton of the entire democratic city and county tickets. MT. Croker also claim ed that Kings county would go demo- cratic, while Lieutenant Governor Woodruff and Otto Kempner talked of 10000 and 25,000, respectively, for the fusion candidates In that county The biggest estimates made by the fusion ists are based on a 25000 majority for the fusion ticket in Brooklyn. None of the fusion leaders agree on the majority that the city ticket will have In Man haitian and the Bronx.
 At the Democratic club tonight Brooklyn was claimed for Shepard and the democratic ticket by 5000 majority; Queens county was claimed by 1,500 majority and Richmond by 1000 mak- ing the total majority claimed by the democrats at the Democratic club 49,- 733
 The election will likely be a very close one. Both sides are counting on the | independent voters. Superintendent of Elections McCullagh addressed another | letter to-day to Police Commissioner Murphy, furnishing long list of elec ton precincts In which he declared | frauds would be attempted. MT. Me Cullagh told Colonel Murphy that when ! the state deputies made arrests to-mor- row the persons arrested would be ! turned over to the policemen at the | polls. Colonel Murphy was requested | in the letter to issue orders to the police to at once take such prisoners to the nearest magistrate. There was a feel ing of fear tonight that before election day was over there would be frequent clashes between the state deputies and the police.