The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-08
HEARST SWEARS
he IS ELECTED
Municipal Ownership Candidate
Will Contest the Election Of
McC Clellan as Mayor.

New York, Nov. 8.-Whether George
B. Mcclellan or VIM. R. Hearst is to
be the next mayor of Greater New
York. must be decided by the. courts.
atrict, give Mcclellan plurality Of
1886, but it is SO small
only little more than one-half
Of one per cent Of the vote cast-that
a recount and reinspection Of the bal
lots might easily sweep it away and
show Hearst the winner.
Indignant at what he believed to be
suspicious holding back of returns last
night, and reused to passionate. resent
ment by stories of violence at the polls
told at his headquarters by scores of 6
his followers, Mr.. Hearst refused to
admit defeat, and declared that Aa
! would see that. every man that voted
Jerome Supports Hearst
In his demand for recount Mr..
ney William T. jerome, himself vica
torlous in his single-handed fight
! against the great Tammany machine.
Mr.. Jerome said today:
shall Immediately institute an in
yestigation Of the frauds perpetrated
by sTammany at the polls yesterday. If
the facts warrant, I shall begin an i'm
/ " o'SSuOio1I GllOSS
| guilty of crime.''
Bird S. Coler, elected president of the
borough of Brooklyn, in the Municipal
| Ownership league ticket, also supports
MI: Hearst's contention that he was
rightfully elected. Mr.. Coler said:
MIR. Hearst has been elected by
10000 votes. He has been cheated By
! the tremendous frauds of Tammanv
/ hall. There is no doubt whatever OF
! his election. [ shall work night and
day to see that Justice is done. The
/ people OF New York have elected him
mayor and it has only been by the most
outrageous, brazen and rotten fraud
that | ever heard of that Tammany is
trying to keep the high office away
4 Hearst Pale With Wrath.
I Pale and shaking with anger, Mr..
Hearst announced his intention to con-
test, in these words:
| u don't give a damn to be mayor,
but, by God, | am going to see to it that
every man who cast his vote for me
gets it counted. | am going 20 contest
this thing and fight it out to the Bit
ter end. y
AS the late vote came in showing Nc
Clellan only a few thousand ahead, and
as it was noticed that figures from
some Of the East Side districts were
missing, Mr.. Hearst sent out call for
the members of the law committee of
the Municipal Ownership league and
.. soon they began to arrive, many Of
; been found at social gatherings or at
, the theaters.
Stories Of Outrage.
At the hotel waiting for the lawyers
+ were scores. of Hearst voters with
stories of violence and outrage at poll
! ing places, where they had gone to cast
their ballots.
Men were coming into the hotel con.
/, stantly with bruised and bleeding faces
One man had a broken arm dangling in
f his sleeve. Aother had his head cut
> open and the blood was trickling thru
: his bandages. Tammany thugs in the
$ lower East Side district had all bli
{ killed them.
| John Palmieri, candidate for judge Of
' the court of special sessions on the
!, municipal ownership ticket, is in hos
n pital severely injured as the result OF
: an attack upon him at the polls. He
E escaped a bullet fired at him, only to bs
e set upon and beaten.
!. Joseph Cody, candidate for sheriff
q was saved only by his own great
y strength and ability to fight the crowc
that set upon him.
Worst Violence City Ever Saw.
i From many parts of Manhattan re
g ports poured in of the greatest vio
i lence and crimes at the polls that New
X York has ever known. The actions Q.
f John McKane in his stronghold il
8 Gravesend were declared to be mile
l. compared to the deeds committed to
e day in the Tammany districts led b,
Thomas Foley, stBig Tim Sullivan
F; .sLittle Tim Sullivan. Joseph f. Oak
J, lev and Charles T. Murphy.
d Murphy refrained from appearing j
person during these attacks, but Oakley
J. commissioner of water, gas and electric
e, ity, led his own band thru the four
teenth assembly district, and with club
4 and fists beat the Hearst and Jerom
II men without mercy.
r After considering the situation fully
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