Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-08

and crisp. and as a result an extreme ly heavy vote is being boiled. This is particularly true in the rural districts, where long spell of dry weather has put the roads in excellent condition and enabled the voters to reach the polling places with ease. Tn fact, up to noon to-day reports indicate that the good weather extends over the en- tire country and leads the experts at headquarters to predict that the vote cast will be the heaviest in many cleo tions.
 # In New York state the weather con- ditions and the earnest efforts of both parties to get the voters out early are having decided effect, and from many places up state it was reported that a third of the vote had been cast by 9 o'clock. An unusually heavy vote was reported in every city and town heard from during the morning. Work CTS for the republicans and democrats were active ill getting out the vote, but no trouble was reported and little was anticipated.
 In this city perfect weather brought out a large early vote and the voting continued heavy during the morning.
 
 that the vote in the city during tho morning was being cast at the rate of 100000 an hour. Although q number of arrests were made on charges of H. legal registration and fight occurred in one polling place, the morning vot- ing In general in Greater New York was quietly done.
 The presence of the deputies was early in evidence and hundreds of men were challenged during the first few hours. Each of the deputies was supplied with a list of registered voters who were to be challenged This list included the name of every person whose right to register was challenged provided that challenges had not been withdraw. Hundreds of other names also had been placed on { the list as result of investigations conducted by MT Morgan's office since the registration closed.
 With the early arrests for alleged illegal voting the officers at polics headqnarters soon had all the business they could attend to in the election eases aloIe The first case reported was that of Winfield Scott Moore4 customs inspector It is alleged that Nfoore's name appeared on the r is- traitor lists merely us Winfield Scott, without the ssAIoore.' Moore claimed that the registration clerks had erred. The first real trouble was reported in the turbulent eighth assembly district pn lower east side. At one pollins place gang of fifty or seventy-fve men apparently acting upon pre-ar> 4Anged plan surrounded the polling place and began to make it unpleasant flor the policemen on guard there. Finally they rushed the booth and be- gan to jostle the officer who stood at the door, Other policemen came to the assistance of the assaulted officer and the mob finally dispersed. Tn the melee one of the policemen and one oa the assailants was injured. Similar disturbances in which the police hao to drive off other gangs occurred ih s other polling places in the district.
 In the districts in the lower part of the city the early morning balloting was very heavy. Nearly one-third of the normal vote had been cast during the first two hours, and the leadera predicted a record vote before the polls close at 3 o'clock, Further up town the early hours passed quietly, but the voters began to turn out i'll goo0 volume during the forenoon. Magis- trates were sitting in all sections of to men arrested on charges of illegai voting and the prisoners were ar- Taigned as soon as they reached the station house. Many of themA were successful in proving their right to cast their ballot and were promptly released At the West Forty-seventh street station fourteen arrests in elec- tion cases were made before o'clock but the deputies were not able to pre-. sent sufficient evidence to hold any of them and the prisoners were dis charged.
 New York, Nov S.-Almost perfect weather conditions prevailed i'll the f Greater New York and early indica- { fions pointed to q heavy vote in to. days election. From the moment the polls opened at 6 o'clock the booths in many election districts were filled and lines of men stood awaiting their turn to deposit a ballot While perfect Icity, trouble began in some quarters /almost at the start and arrests for al- ] leged illegal voting began almost sim 1 ultaneously with the opening of tho polls. Tn some cases the arrests were accompanied by disorderIy demonstra> 1ions and at least two persons, Il po- liceman and q citizen. were injured be fore voting had been in progress twen- ty minutes.
 luS HTsl SurpTlSe5 OI lue udy Wds sprung by State Superintendent or Elections Morgan when he distributed nearly 5000 deputies representing his office through the election districts of the greater city. 1t had been expected that the 800 deputies that the superin- tendent of elections is authorized to appoint would be reinforced by about POO men, including a large number of secret service men, whose whole at tention would be directed toward the holders of alleged illegal naturaliza- ton papers. It developed to-day, how ever, that Mir Morgan had found that under section of the Metropolitan election district law the state superin. tendent or any of his deputies is em. powered to call on any person to as sist him in the performance of his duty. This law raised practically all restrictions regarding appointment ot deputies and 2000 additional men