The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-18
READY FOR THE BATTLE
 TO BE FOUGHT AT POLLS
FINISHING TOUCHES OF THE
 CAMPAIGN

Applied by the Parties Managers Last
 Evening-Republicans Confident os
 EIecting Their Ticket = Democrats
 sanguine of Winning To-day-But
 Little Betting on ResuIt--The situa-
 tion Last Evening.
 To-day is election day. and every in- dication points to the fact that the 1ar- gest vote will be boiled in the history of a purely local election in this city. What is called as republican weathers is predicted by the weather man-that IS, clear, pleasant day-and the nern- pers of that party argue that it will be great advantage. It is conceded by all that if that condition prevails it win greatly help to swell the vote. The polls open promptly at o'clock and E VIII remain open until o'clock, at which time the battle will be over, All the leaders are urging the voters to vote as early as possible and thereby ciear up matters as speedily as poss5blA
 fiyerything was cleared up in the way Iof preliminaries last night by all the parties and naught now remains h,,e the voting and the counting. The town has been flooded this year with pastars ana ballots, also personal appeals from the various candidates, more so than ever before, and in addition to this many novel means of advertising have been resorted to. Nor is this the only Way m which the campaign this year allIers from that of two years ago. There was absolutely nothing doing in the way of betting last evening, and the few small struggling bets which We're made were made strictly In prf- Vate, as though the principals wished to keep the fact from the light of dav. A canvass of the usual places last niehf where the betting was so free two yeara I ago elicited the fact that there was but little doing in this line. There were a. lew republicans about the city last night who offered to bet, but no takers We're recorded. The only betting story worth recording occurred in a Grown street saloon. Two prominent demo- crats were sitting in there on Saturday night and one of them remarked to the other that Mayor Studley would be sWamped and that MT. Pardee would be elected. The other man said nothing. but, taking out a check book, drew d personal order payable to his friend for I$l,000. He then said that If his frienst
 would put up s250 against 1t the Mo00
 was his, if the prophecy came true. The Pardee man said he did not care to take the risk.
 Another difference this year from that of two years ago is the fact that, while the democratic leaders say they are go- ing to win, they say it half -heartedly, while, on the other hand, the rapubli- cans, who were somewhat doubtful two years ago, are now just the reverse and isay that they are going to carry the whole ticket. Nor is 1t merely a case of i boasting, as they all seem to be cor,fi- Ident of success.
 Chairman Theodore H. Macdonald, of } the republican. town committee, said last evening that he did not care to is-
 sue a formal statement about the elec-
 tion, and he then spoke as follows.
 We are going to carry the entire city 8 tomorrow and elect a clear republican, ticket. Of this I am confident, because 1T am assured that the voters of this lefty realize what is to their best inter~ tests. There can be no doubt that May Tor StudIey's splendid service to the a public since he has been in office is ap-' ipreciated, and that the appreciation twill be shown by the voters at the polls lin giving him a handsome pIurality larger than ever before. It will be the lsame with the rest of the republican
 ticket; they will all be elected, and the Eboys are going to do it. 2
 MT. Sanford, chairman of the detno-9 Ecratic town committee, when interviews led last evening, also said that he did
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