The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-11-14
MURPHY MAY Be
FORCED OUT As
TAMMANY CHIEF

or McCleiIan's Plurality
Would Have Been More
Under a New Leader.
The Newly Elected Exec
ecutive is the Choice
for the Head-Hearst's
Contest Stirs Interest.
New York, Nov. 9.-As the hours
go by the muddle resulting from Tues
days election in the city of New
York grows more and more complicat-
ed and already there are indicated
legal actions which will keep the var
ious courts in this vicinity busily en-
gagged until very nearly January first,
when the new city officials are sched-
uled to assume Office
Following Justice Gaynor's order, Is
sued late last night, directing the po-
lice to turn over all of the ballot boxes
containing the ballots cast at the cleo
tion to the city board of elections, the
police proceeded to the headquarters Of
the board in the several boroughs pre-
pared to leave the receptacles and take
receipts for them from the officials in
charge.
Chairman John II. Voorhis, of the
board of elections, was routed from
his bed at o'clock this morning by
clerks, who told him that the police
were waiting for receipts from respon-
sible parties. He at once notified his
subordinates under no circumstances
to take the boxes, claiming that they
belonged In the custody of the police
pending the fling of the official count
and the canvass of the votes. Inasmuch
as the police were obeying writ is.
sued by the supreme court of the state
they could not return the ballot boxes to
the police stations and the spectacle was
presented in the five boroughs of the
city Of patrol wagons, piled high with
ballot boxes, standing in the streets
adjacent to the Offices of the board of
elections under heavy guards of po-
lice. When the Hearst lawyers learned
that the board of elections refused to
receive the ballot boxes they were FOR
a time nonplussed, but late this after
noon secured a further order from
Justice Dickey Of the supreme court
compelling the board to accept the
boxes, which 1t did and they are now
stored away in the care Of the officials
of the election board.
| State Attorney General julius n
Mayer and District Attorney Jerome
both got busy this afternoon and after
ent of elections George w. Morgan
decided to prosecute nearly thousand
cases of alleged violations of the elec-
ton law of last Tuesday. Among the
men who are to suffer are election
officials who served at the polls, and
who 1t is claimed, permitted the de-
posit of illegal votes; policemen who
are alleged to have interfered with
and refused to aid deputy inspectors
; Of election and legally appointed
watchers; men who are alleged tC
have voted Illegally and Tammany dis
trict captains who are accused of hav.
: ing assaulted watchers opposed tc
their own political belief.
Following these developments cam,
a meeting tonight of the executive
: committee lof Tammany Hall which
was held in the Fourteenth street wig
: wan, and at which the situation wa.
thoroughly canvassed. 1t was an
nounced afterwards that the leaders
: were a unit in their belief that tn,
count had been an honest one; tha
Mayor Mcclellan had received a plu
rality, and that 1t was up to the organ
, ization to see that he was protected
in his rights.
Former candidate for president ant
former chief judge of the state cour
of appeals, Alton b. Parker will b,
the chief of the Tammany counse
] who will combat every move made b,
the Hearst lawyers in their effort I,
: have the result thrown out and tn,
: New York editor seated in the mayor.
chair. Mr. Parker said today that tn,
: Hearst contestants have no lega
. ground upon which to base their de
Q mands for recount of all OF the bal
lots cast in the greater city last Tues
: day. He will oppose the Hearst law
lyers at every stage and a legal fight
I second to none in the history Of tn,
state, may be confidently expected.
1t became known tonight that ther,
Is a general demand from nearly al
OF the Tammany district leaders fol
l the withdrawal of Charles f. Murphy
! as leader of Tammany Hail. Mer
strong in the party councils openly de
e clare that had he been eliminated from
the conduct OF the campaign one month
I ago. McClellan's plurality would hav'
= beAn nearly 100 600 instead of the nal