The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-05
BOTH ARE CONFIDENT
EACH SIDE CLAIMS THE VICTORY
IN NEW YORK.
sHEPARD'S MAJORITY 10000.
IS DEMOCRATIC ESTIMATE WHILE
LOWS FRIENDS CLAIM 10000.

In the Betting the Fusion Candi-
dates Have Shade the Better,
the odds Being 10 to on Low.
Croker and Carroll Are Confident
of the Election of the Entire DEM
ocratic Ticket Superinte ndent
McCuIIagh Furnishes List of Pre-
cincts Where Attempted Fraud Is
to Be Looked for.
New York, Nov. AIT midnight to-
night. six hours before the opening of
the polls. both sides in the municipal
contest were claiming the victory. The
strenuous talk came from the fusion
leaders. who were more in evidence at
their headquarters, than were the DEM
ocrats at theirs, the latter after the
distribution of campaign funds in the
afternoon having hurried to their sew
eraI election precincts to give their last
orders to their followers. John A. Ma
son of the Shepard headquarters said
he felt confident of the result and plac-
ed the Democratic candidates major
ity at 10000.
During the late afternoon Seth Low,
the fusion candidate, at his own head
quarters said:
Il think things could not look more
rosy and added: This has been a
most interesting campaign. The fight
is now over. and no matter who is
elected 1 am sure that the city will
profit by the agitation of the questions
which have been the main issues of
the campaign"
Robert c. Morris, chairman of the
Republican Campaign Committee,
stuck to his estimate of 10000 for Low.
Edward NJ. 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 and no issues to discuss any fur
ther than he has already discussed
them.
If the betting on the result is any
indication as to what the count of
ballots will show, the fu-
sion candidates seem to have
the better of It by a shade. Late
tonight wagers were laid at 10 to
on Low, and the rest of the city ticket.
There is not the same confidence on the
fusion side as to the county. ticket, and
predictions are made that all the can
didateS on the Democratic county tick
ct in New York county will be elected
with the possible exception of Robert
A. yanWyck for justice of the Su-
prene Court, who has had to bear the
brunt of the attack, and Henry w. I'M
ger for district attorney. Possibly on
account of the whirlwind campaign he
has made, William T. Jerome, fusion
candidate for this office, was getting
the benefit of predictions that he would
run ahead of his ticket, but the bet
ting odds favored Mr.. Unger.
Richard Croker and John F.
Carroll late tonight were posi-
tive of the election of the entire
Democratic city and county tickets.
Mr.. Croker also said Kings county
would go Democratic, while Lieut.. Gov.
Woodruff AND Otto Kempner talked of
10000 and $4,000, respectively, for the
fusion candidates in that county. These
estimates on the Brooklyn vote were
the one discouraging feature to the
fusion camp. The biggest estimates
made by the fusionists are based on
$4,000 majority for the fusion ticket in
Brooklyn. None of the fusion leaders
agree on the majority that the city
ticket will have in Manhattan and the
Bronx
At the Democratic Club tonight
Brooklyn was claimed for Shepard and
the Democratic ticket by 10000 ma
jority; Queens county was claimed by
1,5O0 majority; Richmond by 1000;
making the total ma jority claimed by
the Democrats 49.733.
Notwithstanding the claims of the
Democrats and those of the fusionists
the election will likely be a close one.
Both sides are counting on the inde-
pendent voters.
superintendent of Elections McCul-
laugh addressed another letter to-day
to Police Commissioner Murphy la
which he furnished a long list of cleo
tion precincts in which he claimed
frauds would be attempted. Mr.. Nc
Cullagh told Col. Murphy that when
the state deputies made arrests to-
morrow the persons arrested would be
turned over to the policemen at the
polls and Col. Murphy was requested
In the letter to issue orders to the po-
lice to at once take such prisoners to
the nearest magistrate. There was a
feeling of fear tonight that before
election day was over there would be
frequent clashes between the state dep
uties and the police.
Following a time-honored custom the
district leaders of Tammany Hall gath
cred at Tammany Hall to-day and re-
ceived the money for the payment of
poll watchers, and to meet the other
expenses incidental to the election to-
morrow.
1t was stated on good authority that
between 100000 and 100000 was set
aside for the purpose, and that about
SooO,OOO of this money was disbursed
during the day. 1t was said about
szoO0OO was sent to Brooklyn to heip
the Organization there.