Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-09

New York yesterday, in place of George B.
Mcclellan, was inaugurated at a crowded
meeting of Municipal Ownership league
leaders today. At its close Mr. Hearst said:
We are going to fight today, tomorrow,
next month and next year to make IL
possible for a man to cast an honest vote
and to prevent in the future conditions as
disgraceful as they were yesterday, espe-
tricts, and we will invoke every legal
means to have every ballot honestly
counted We are receiving voluntary Of,
fers Of money from business men to aid
us in this appeal.
Mr.. Hearsts lieutenants then an
nounced that with evidence that 10000
Hearst men were defrauded of their right
to vote yesterday, and that 900 election
inspectors were guilty of illegal acts, the
contest would be carried Immediately over
the heads of the Board of County Cam
vassers into the supreme court. They
said the object of this plan was to secure
a speedy and final answer and that money
was not to be spared in engaging special
counsel in all parts of the United States
to make this plan succeed.
The leaders said that i'm less than
twenty-four hours after the polls closed
the Municipal Ownership league had Sc
cured over 1000 affidavits charging illegal
acts against about 1000 election inspectors.
These affidavits state that the inspectors
in question were Tammany men. Mr..
Hearst himself said that within a year
"a chain of these men" would be sent to
Sing Sing. 1t was also stated that in
East Side assembly districts, including the
Eighteenth, Charles F. Murphy's home
district affidavts had been secured to
show that at least 10000 votes were
illegally cast yesterday on the names of
voters who went to the polls to vote for
Mr.. Hearst and the Municipal Ownership
league ticket, but when they arrived
found their names voted upon already.
Many support Hearst
That the city is profoundly stirred today
by the charges of fraud and the manner
in which returns were brought in last
night may be judged from the following
extract from the Evening Post, which
paper opposed Hearst throughout the
campaign:
Proffers of support have been coming to
Mr.. Hearst's office all day. Men who did
not vote for him or his ticket, who, in
deed, on the day before Yesterday were
themselves against what they term IAN
intolerable offense against order and the
the offense is, in detail, is being told in
affidavits.
At Williamsburg an election official who
took the ballots into a closet and locked
himself in there with them to count them
has been arrested and the ballots seized
and sealed for examination later. Staten
leading suddenly were ntermitted and
then showed Mcclellan in the majority
being Looked ss The for
at the moment when Mcclellan was rum
ming 1000 behind and keeping them unan-
nounced for two hours, is being irvesti-
gated.
District Attorney Jerome announced to-
day that he will do all he can TO see that
there Is fair count of the vote for mayor
He gave orders 20 his assistants that the
returns from the Eighteenth and Sixth as
sembly districts be guarded carefully. The
Tammany leader, Charles Murphy, is
leader of the Eighteenth and Congressman
Timothy D. Sullivan is leader of the Sixth
district. Mr.. Jerome said:
Take these returns from the Eighteenth
and Sixth assembly districts and lock
them up. Guard them carefully. They
may cut big figure in this count. I pro-
pose TO see that there is a fair count in
this mayoralty contest, no matter whom
It hurts"
The Evening Journal also prints a notice
that bets on the mayoralty should not be
paid declaring that the official count will
show Hearst elected.
Mr. Hearst, in making his contest, may
demand that each of the 1.94S ballot boxes
used In the election be brought before the
Board of Aldermen and count of the
ballots be made by that body. Then If
dissatisfied. Mr.. Hearst may throw the
whole matter into the courts for decision,
and IL that is done the battle probably will
be long and intricate one. In addition to
the proceedings before the aldermen and the
regular contest in the courts, Mr.. Hearst
may Of course bring to the attention OF
the authorities each individual case Of
fraud or violence that may be discovered.
Tammany Receives severe Blow.
Although Mcclellan, on the face OF the
complete but unofficial returns was elected
by a plurality Of 1885, the democrats lost
heavily in yesterdays contest The cleo
ton of William T. Jerome as district at
torney is a severe blow TO the Tammany
organization, which exerted all the force
at its command to defeat him. His victory
is remarkable when It Is considered that
he was the candidate of no party and
made his appeal for votes solely on his
I record in Office for the last four years and
that every man who voted for him voted
split ticket. The Board of Aldermen,
| too, is lost to Tammany, they having but
! twenty-five members OF the board against
| thirty-eight republican and nine municipal
| ownership members Bird S. Coler, mu-
| nicipal ownership, and Joseph Bermel.
! republican and municipal ownership
elected respectively president OF Brooklyn
and Queens boroughs, have membership
/ on the city's board of estimate. and ap-
| portionment, which controls all expendi-
I lures Of money. This is OF great i'm
/ portance, giving the Municipal Ownership
| league a voice in the city's financial affairs
and also in the granting Of franchises,
| which power also IL lodged in the board.
In addition 20 losing the Board of Al
| dermen Tammany lost twelve members
OF the state assembly from New York
county, and the assembly. when il meets
| in Albany on January / next, will be re-
publican by more than 3 to /.
stock Market Affected.
| Fer some days past the stocks Of local
| traction and other corporations doing bus-
ness on municipal franchises We're some-
what nervous on the presumption that the
municipal ownership ticket might succeed.
II was expected that these stocks would
] be strong on todays market in view OF
! McClellan's reelection, but this expecta ton
was not realized in full. Consolidated Gas
| and Metropolitan street Railway opened a
! point or so higher than Mondays closing.
| but Immediately began 70 sell OF on n
feeling that the Hearst representation on
| the board OF estimates will have