The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-09
HEARST ID GO AT ONCE
 ID THE SUPREME COURT
CONTEST TO BE CARRIED OYER HEADS OF COUNTY CAM
 WASHERS.

District Attorney Jerome, Twins and
 Other Prominent Men Approve His
 .COurse-IVins Believes a Recount
 Will Elect Municipal Ownership Man
 --Tammany Resents as Outrageous
 the Threat of Defeated Candidate
 Some of the Leaders Think Murphy
 Should Gek Out
 New York, Nov. S.-That bitter fight will be waged in the courts to decide whether George B. Mcclellan or William Randolph Hearst is to be mayor of New York for the next four years is now assured. The complete returns give Mcclellan a plurality of 3,4S5 votes, the smallest ever recorded for a successful mayoralty candidate, and result which might readily be re- yersed by a recount of the ballots. MT. Hearst to-day announced his attention to take an immediate appeal to the supreme court over the heads of the county canvassers, his managers hay- ing declared that they have secured evidence of illegal acts against 1000 in- spectors of election, and that 30,0O0 Hearst men who went to the polls to vote for MT. Hearsthad found that their nmes had alraedy been voted on. Most of this fraudulent voting is said to have been done in east side assem- bly districts, especially in the Eigh- teenth, Charles F. Murphy's home dis trict, and in the Sixth, of which Tim othy D. Sullivan is the leader.
 MT. Hearst's proposition met with warm approval in many quarters, even among those who opposed his election, and he receiveds many assurances of support. District Attorney Jerome ex- proval of MT. Hearst's programme, and declared that he would immediate ly institute a searching investigation of the alleged democratic frauds. He also ordered the returns from the Eighteenth and Sixth districts to be closely guarded.
 Ira Darrfn, the newly elected dis trict attorney of Queens county on the republican ticket made a similar state ment. +f."
 William M. Twins, the defeated re- publican candidate for mayor also com mended MT. Hearst's action, and ex- pressed the belief that a recount would show that MT, Hearst was elected.
 After a. secret session of the exeeu- tive committee of Tammany Hall held this afternoon the Following statement was issued: s-a , @s .:" t*. ~'
 '.The executive committee of the dem ocratic organization protests against the outrageous published threat of the defeated candidate of the Municipal Ownership league to overthrow the will of the people, as expressed by the vote cast on election day, and directs it's law committee to exert it's best efforts and take such steps and institute such pro- ceedings as will safeguard the election of George B. Mcclellan as mayor of New York.
 we also call on the commissioner of police and the custodian of the ballot to preserve the same intact from all in- terference by any one from any lnau- thorized source." A
 Some of the leaders, after the meet ing, expressed the opinion that the re- turns showed censure of MT. 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 assume the leadership himself.
 Superintendent of Elections Morgan said tonight that, while doubtless many illegal votes were cast, he, would express no opinion on the contention made by the Municipal Ownership league managers that they amounted to 3O,000. He had made, he said, many arrests, but only thirty of the prisoners . were held by the magistrates.
 , Attorney General Mayer said that he had been informed that illegal votes were cast in several assembly districts. ''In any event, however" said the at- torney- general, "even should we dis cover thousands Of eases of illegal vot- ing, it would not affect the count, for the reason that the ballots cannot be deducted. So far as we are concerned, our jurisdiction ends with the prescott tion of the criminals where the crime of illegal voting has been committed