The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-01
VOTERS AROUSED
BY CLOSE BAT TIE
OdelI Flies to New York to
Rally Forces.
HILL SEEKS FOR PROOF
Bob Sides are Making Heavy Claims PrpS
aratioas Started by Republicans for
wh'r.w,nd Finish in Fight"
Against CoIer.
Now York Heraldl


Full speed ahead" continued to be the
signal at all the political headquarters
yesterday. Full speed ahead it was. The
managers of both parties fumea and
fretted and planned ana poured their
money in. while the apathctic voter
Democrat and Republican alike-went
about his business or looked on with
Indifference.
The Herald correspondent who yes
tcrday reported from Buffalo that the
drift in Erie county was toward coler
telegaphed from Rochester last night
that an apparent trend had set in to-
ward the Democratic ticket in the cities
OF the State and that the Republican
leaders had so far been powerless to
check it. This tendency had resulted IN
a scaling down of the Republican ma
jOrity in Monroe county from 3,400. which
the Herald gave last Sunday. to 5000
ac the situation is today. The Herald's
postal card poll of those cites To lie
printed on next Sunday should show the
extent of this drift.
Governor Odell came to this city, and
Hill, the Whole Thing" in the Demo-
cratic campaign, went to Albany Hill
went to Albany to get more figures
against the Newburg grocery firm of Mat
thews & Co.. that in his opinion is the
great issue of the contest. He wants
ammunition to use in his speech at Pro-
hibftion Park, Staten Island, tonight.
There were no important developments
in the grocery issue, except that cight
reporters who listened TO Governor Odell 5
speech at Syracuse last week. when lie
answered the charges of Hill, declare that
in discussing the loan to Mr.. Matthews,
the Governor said that the amount was
S2l. 600, instead of 1000, which Mr.. Mat
thews swears to.
ODELL BUSY WITH CANVASS.
Governor Odell devoted the entire day
to the condition of the Republican can
vass in Greater New York. The Gov
ernor Inspired his followers with con-
fidence which they have been strangers
TO for several days. He has made
completes canvass of the State or New
York. independent of the poll that mas
been made by the State Committee. and
n comparison of these polls Is said 10
show that the Republicans viii elect
their state ticket by 100000 plurality Inc
Governor in all his conversations showed
that he believed he would be elected
and to many of his callers he gave his
reasons for this belief.
Naturally there was much figuring on
the vote of the greater city. The Demo
Gratis are claiming the most astonishing
plurality in this territory ever heard OF
cleveland carried the metropolitan dis
trict in 1882 by more than 1l1.O0O plur-
ality. The Coler boomers will not be
satisfied with that. and insist that they
will roll up even a larger vote against
Odeu The confidence of the Democratic
leaders is so recent and so great tha'
they are having difficulty in getting
even their followers to listen to them
with patience
On the other hand the Republicans are
Manning TO beat plurality OF not 10
exceed. &c, 1000. They say the Democrats
cannot possibly get more than oo'O0V
plurality in Manhattan and the Bronx
$4,000 in Brooklyn. $500 in Queens and
600 in Richmond. 1t would seem that
the Republicans are as much too low as
the Democrats are too high.
PLAN "WHIRLWIND FINISH.
Governor Odell's visit resulted in more
rational work in Manhattan and a re-
doubling of exertions in Brooklyn. a
meeting of the Kings County Committee
was called. and it was decided 10 nave
a "whirlwind finish' whatever that may
mean. The entire city is to be plasterec
with antf-Coler advertising and Hooded
with anti-Coler literature.
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff created
y sensation by asserting to Statement
that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and the
interests with which Mr.. Morgan is sur
rounded were using their influence IL
defeat Odell. He said the campaign hat
a "oueer look" and that individuals an(
newspapers controlled by Mr.. Morgan
occupied a suspicious attitude. Leuten
ant Governor Woodrnff, moreover. has
injured the Republican cause by sending
circulars soliciting contributions from The
school teachers of Brooklyn.
The betting-It started at to L or
Odell in Wall street and closed at to 3
Several bets were made elsewhere a
) TO and 8 to ..