Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
LOOKS LIKE TAMMANY
View of New Workers as to
Election.
LOW MAY WIN OUT
CHANCES ARE ON SIDE OF THE
TIGER.
Devery's Vote Might, However, Defeat
the Hopes Of His Old
Friends.
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

NEW YORK, October 31.-In a blaze OF
fireworks and oratory the great New York
municipal campaign will come to close
tonight Saturday practically marks the
finish of the campaign in this city always.
and Monday is occupied in making the final
arrangements for polling the vote. On the
eve of the finish both sides are making ex-
travagant claims-claims which the manag-
ers of each party know may be upset by
the action of the voters next Tuesday.
With party lines gone completely to
smash and with all of the usual political
guiding marks adrift from their moorlngs
the managers do not know how to figure
on the outcome. In the immense total vote
of New York and Brooklyn they talk about
majorities of ten and fifteen thousand.
When the vote is whitfield down to such a
fine point 1t is unsafe to say upon which
side the majority may turn. There Is that
Devery vote for example. Devery may poll
anywhere from 1000 to 10000. and in a
sharp finish the vote which he will sub
tract from Tammanys total might of itself
decide the election.
Sort of Poetic Justice.
1t would indeed be poetic justice II Dev-
cry, who has been the personifcation of
one form Of Tammanyism, should in this
means Of defeating its object. Prior to an
election there is often observed an intangi-
BILE drift of surface sentiment one way or
the other. People say 1T fs in the air,
without being able to exactly define it.
Well, 1t seems to be 'in the air" that Tam
many is in the lead. One hears that on the
streets, in the casual conversation at the
elevated stations and the street cars. 1t is
especially prevalent in the cafes and hotel
lobbes. Conversations like this can be
heard on all sides. How is it going?" asks
the first citizen. "It looks like Tammany
to me-" says the second citizen. But
and then the second citizen proceeds to
argue why Tammany should not win, and
so it goes.
The two elements of doubt which most
keenly affect the situation are these: The
knife play and treachery going on among
both parties; second, the possession of an
enormous campaign fund by Tammany and
the fact that Tammany we'll knowns how to
apply 1t.
Practical Use Of Money.
A notable example of the practical use OF
money among the floating voters was fur
nished last night. Over in Brooklyn. in the
seventh assembly district there Is an or
ganization called the Independent Voters
Association. Three weeks ago the associ-
alton voted to support the fusion ticket.
Last night a meeting was held for the
purpose of having final fusion rally. In
the meantime, however, somebody had been
seen, and the crowd all roared for McClel-
Ian and threw ancient eggs at the fusion
orators. The fusion managers are making
the usual outcry about the threatened in
vasion of colonizers. They know, however,
that danger to them does not lie In the
presence of f1oaters from an outside town.
who run the risk of getting two years In
Sing Sing If they attempt fraud on the
ballot. The real danger is in the quiet use
of Tammany methods among the voters
who are registered and have a right to vote.
The Wine Liquor and Beer Dealers Assocl-
alton has sent out circular letter to saloon
keepers, which urges all members of the
association to bend his utmost energy to
the election of George B. Mcclellan as
mayor" The circular says:
Putting aside all collateral issues that
have been raised to becloud our minds. let
us keep an eye on what Is most vital to us,
the preservation Of our business and the
protection of our interests. Think OF the
sights, surs and insults heaped on US by
Mayor Low last winter. Think OF the de-
ceit practiced by Mayor Low to draw votes
two years ago and his broken promises.
Think of the Infamous crimes that Mayor
Low imputed to us. Think OF the out
rageous excise bill which Mayor Low favor
ed. But most of all think of the execrable
plot of the Odell-Low combination tc tax
US out of existence by new exactions next
winter.
Tammanyites A ect Injured Innocence.
In the last hours of the campaign the
Tammany orators are appealing to their
followers to resent the aspersions cast upon
the democracy by the fusion spellbinders.
The Tammanyites are putting on an air OF
injured innocence. At 23d street a big
fusion banner is stretched across the thor
oughfare bearing the legend, Vote for
Low and turn the grafters out" At the
next corner is a Tammany banner which
urges the reader to "Vote for Mcclellan
and turn the slanderers out"
Mr.. Mcclellan still promises that II he Is
elected he will appoint honest men to office.
Mr.. Low follows close upon his footsteps
wherever he speaks and says that the only
possible way for Mr.. Mcclellan to keep
that promise is to do what the present ad-
ministration has done, appoint men with
out regard to politics. Mr.. Low insists
that Mr.. Mcclellan cannot do that and be
true to the policy Of Tammany.
N. o. M.