Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-09
Tammany Hall Charged With
Falsifying the Returns so as
TO Eject Met Il Han.
.MlNALs TO BE PROSE .UIFD
Substantial Business Men Come to the
Editors Aid. and jerome. Too, Has
Promised to investigate the Glaring
Frauds-Present Mayor Has Only
a,4s5 Plurality.
DIV Nssocin,on l.ress.,

ON Associated Press.,
NEW YORK, Nov S.-Thc city ci
New York. complete but unofficial
gives Mcclellan 3.iS5 plurality over
Hearst. The total vote was McClei
Ian. 22S,d51:' Hearst. 225,iGG: Twins
i"z.0i9.
The vote for mayor Ivy boroughs was
as follows:
Observation-Disclosures and Bronx
1io,6S2; Brooklyn, 6S,G55: Queens, IT,,
l'3; Richmond, d.l2l; total. 22S,G51.
learst-Nanhattan and Bronx. 1873.
500: Brooklyn. Sl,603; Queens. 1867
Richmond. 1856; total, 2o5.l6G.
Evins-Manhattan and Bronx. Ca
oSS; Brooklyn. GLOSS: Queens, 1861;
Richmond 1901: total 1909.
NEW YORK, Nov. S.-That a bitter
fight will be waged in the courts to
decide whether George b. Mcclellan
or VIM. Randolph Hearst is to he
mayor of New York for the next four
years is now assured. The complete
returns give Mcclellan Il plurality Of
3.lS5 votes, the smallest ever recorded
for successful mayoralty candidate
and result which might readily be
reversed by n recount OF the ballots.
Mr.. Hearst today announced his in.
lcntion 70 make an immediate appeal
to the Supreme Court, his managers
having declared that they had secured
evidence of illegal acts against 900
inspectors of election and that 10000
Hearst men, who went TO the polls 10
vote for Mr.. Hearst had found that
their names had already been voted
Murphy in Bad Light.
Most of this fraudulent voting is
said TO have been III East Side as
sembly districts. especially in the
Eighteenth, Charles Murphy's homo
district, and in the Sixth. of which
Timothy Sullivan is the leader
District Attorney Jerome expressed
himself in terms of strong approval OF
Mr. Hearsts program and declared
hat he would investigate the alleged
Democratic frauds.
ira G. Darrin. the newly elected dis
trict attorney OF Queens county on
the Republican ticket made similar
statement. William NJ. Wins. the de.
fested Republican candidate for mayor
also commended Mr.. Hearst's action
and expressed the belief that a re-
count would show that Mr. Hearst had
been elected.
Tammany Hall intends to put up Il
fight against Hearst and will attempt
TO sea. Mcclellan.
Result Cannot he Changed.
Attorney General Mayer said that he
had information that Illegal votes were
cast in several assembly districts, In
any event. however," said the attor.
ney general even should we discover
thousands OF cases of illegal voting.
II would not affect the count for the
reason that the ballots cannot be de.
Quoted. So far as we are concerned,
cur jurisdiction ends with the prose.
cntion of the criminals where the
crime of illegal voting has been com.
mitted."
Tammany's Defeat Crushing.
The board or aldermen Is lost To
Tammany, they having but IS mem
hers OF the board. against 50 Repub.
lican, nine Municipal Ownership mem.
hers.
Bird S. Coler, Municipal Ownership,
and Joseph Bermel, Republican and
Municipal Ownership. elected respec-
lively from Brooklyn and Queens
Boroughs, have membership on the
city's board of estimate and apportion-
ment which controls all expenditures
of money. This Is of great importance
giving the Municipal Ownership
league. voice in the city's financial
affairs and also in the granting of
franchises, which power also is lodg-
ed in the board.
In addition to losing the board II
aldermen. Tammany lost 10 members
OF the State assembly from New Yorl,