The age-herald., 1901-11-04
Assert Existence of Vice and URsanitaIy Conditions and
 Need of a Change
4 PRIEST FAVORS SHEPARD
Republicans Claim City By 10000 Majority and Democrats By 5o,ooo-Women Take Part
 in the Campaign.

New York, November 3.-The feature of the local political campaign today was the active part taken in it by the pas tors of the churches.
 Thirty-one pastors. clergymen and two leaders of Independent church societies advertised themselves to speak on the issues of the election and all these cler- gymen took for their subjects the all legged maladministration of the present city officials. Rabbi Schulmann, the one Jewish priest whose sermon was re- ported, urged on his hearers the support of the fusion ticket because of the reve- lations concerning vice in the tenement districts.
 All the protestant pastors reported ex- cept two talked for the fusion ticket, as- serting that vice and unsanitary condt- tions existed here and change was needed. The exceptions were Dr. David G. Wylie of the Scotch Presbyterian church and the Rev. Dr. vandewater of St. Andrews Episcopal church, who ad- vised their congregations to examine the two tickets closely and vote for the best men one them.
 Vote Against Bosses.
 Henry Frank of the Methodist Indepen- dent church advised his hearers to vote against bosses whether they came from this city or Tioga County" The Rev. Father J. Ducey of St. Leo's Roman Catholic church. was alone in those re- ported who spoke on the election for the Shepard side.
 One of the features of the fusion cam paign has been the work of the women's s campaign committee. A report issued to- day says this committee had distributed several hundred thousand copies in Eng fish and German in pamphlets purporting to be an expose of vice in the city. Dem- ocrats also had woman's cam paign com mittee actively at work during the can vas, but no reports of its labors have yet appeared.
 While the fusion campaign practically closed last night, few more meetings have been scheduled for Monday and Monday night. Senator Depew is down for a speech during the day at meeting to last from noon until 5 p. m.
 Democrats Are Active.
 The Democratic campaign was carried on with vigor tonight. the party leaders having engaged five theaters and from the stages of these the orators cheered their supporters with words of coming victory.
 The Dem ocrats intend to carry the work up to the last moment, and today have not changed their forecast, which is that Mir. Shepard will receive a majority in the greater city of about 50.O00.
 Robert c. Morris of the Republican county committee today repeated his as- sertion of Saturday that Mr. Lows ma jority would be 10000 in Greater New York.
 Superintendent of Elections McCullaeh today addressed a letter to Police Com- missioner Murphy informing him that it had been asserted that a large gang of repeaters had been organized in Jersey City to come over to New York to vote in the Ninth assembly district in this city. His information also was that an- other gang had been formed in the dis trict to invade Jersey City. and he asked Colonel Murphy's assistance in preventing the repeaters from voting. Chief Murphy of Jersey City was also informed of the alleged attempt to be made to vote ille- gally.