The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-10

New York, November 6.-That bit
ter fight will be waged in the courts to
decide whether George B. Mcclellan
OF William Randolph Hearst is to be
mayor of New York for the next four
years, is now assured. The complete
returns give Mcclellan q plurality of
3,4S5 votes, the smallest ever recorded
for Il successful candidate and result
which might readily be reversed by a
recount of the ballots
Mr. Hearst today announced his in
tention to take an immediate appeal to
the supreme court, his managers hav.
ing declared that they had secured evi..
dence Of illegal acts against 900 in
spectOrs of election and that 10000
Hearst men, who went to the polls to
vote for Mr.. Hearst had found that
their names had already been voted.
Most of this fraudulent voting Is
said to have been done in the East
Side Assembly districts, especially in
the Eighteenth, Charles f. Murphy's
home district, and ill the Sixth, Of
which Timothy d. Sullivan is the
leader.
Mr.. Hearst's proposed action met
with warm approval in many quarters,
even among those who opposed his
election and he received many assur-
ances of support. District Attorney
Jerome expressed himself in terms of
strong approval of Mr.. Hearsts pro-
gramme and declared that he would
Immediately institute Il searching in
vestigatiOn of the alleged democratic
frauds. He also ordered the returns
from the Eighteenth and Sixth dis
tricts to be carefully guarded.
Ira @. Darrin, the newly elected dis
trict attorney of Queens county on the
Republican ticket made a similar state
ment. William NJ. Wins, the defeated
Republican candidate for mayor, also
commended Mr.. HearSt's action and
expressed the belief that a recount
would show that Mr.. Hearst had been
elected.
After a secret session of the execu-
tive committee of Tammany Hall, held
this afternoon, the following was
issued:
1.-The executive committee of the
democratic organization protests
against the outrageous published threat
of the defeated candidate of the Mu-
picipal Ownership League to overthrow
the will of the people, as expressed by
the vote cast on election day, and di-
rectS the law committee to exert its
best efforts and take such steps and
institute such proceedings as will safe
guard the election of George B. Nc
Clellan as mayor of New York.
I'VE also call on the commissioner
of police and the custodian of the bal
lots, to preserve the same intact grom
all interferences by any one from any
unauthorized source"
Some of the leaders, after the meet
ing expressed the opinion that the re-
turns showed cenSure of Mr. Murphy S
leadership and that he should as a re-
suit step down and out and make room
for man against whom nothing could
be charged They thought that it was
time for George B. Mcclellan to as
sumo the leadership himself.
Superintendent of Elections Morgan
said tonight that while doubtless many
illegal votes were cast he would ex-
press no opinion on the contention
made by the Municipal Ownership
League managers that they amounted
to 10000. He had made, he said, many
arrests, but only thirty of the prison.
ers were held by the magistrates.
Attorney General Mayer said that he
had information that Illegal votes were
cast in several assembly districts.
SIN any event, however" said the
attorney general, 'even should we dis
cover thousands of cases of illegal vOt-
ing, it would not affect the count of
the reason that the ballots cannot bt
deducted. So far as we are concerned
our jurisdiction ends with the prose.
cution of the criminals where the crime
of illegal voting has been committed
That the city is profoundly stirred
today by the charges of fraud and tn
manner in which returns were brough
in last night may be judged from tn
fnIIouinc aYtract from The Eynnins