Evening star., 1905-11-03
new YORK POLITICS
All Interest in Disposition Of
Republican Vote.
MAY DECIDE ELECTION
HEARST AND MCCLELLAN EX-
PECT TO GET THAT SUPPORT.
Candidate WINS Novel Situation and
His Own Party-Some of the
Striking Cartoons.
MAY DECIDE ELECTION
Special From Staff Correspondent.

NEW 1OhA, november d - All Interest
centers around the probable disposition Of
the republican vote. The casting of it will
probably decide the election. 1t can de-
feat Mcclellan or 1t can elect him. Tam
many hopes and has great reason to think
that 1t will get the bulk of 1t. 1t is known
that men of the stamp of Joseph H. Choate
openly advise voting for Mcclellan and Je-
rome. but the unknown quantity is how
many of the humber members of the party
will follow his lead.
1t must not be forgotten that Hearst has
Indorsed fourteen republican candidates for
legislature and several candidates for
board of aldermen, and it is reasonable to
expect that in those districts these candi-
dates on the end of the ticket speak kindly
of Hearst AS against this is the fact that
a number of republican district leaders hold
jobs under Tammany which they desire to
retain, and they will naturally work quietly
for the Tammany ticket.
With honeyed words and engaging smiles
both the candidates for mayor are going
after the republican vote. Hearst and Nc
Clellan are sending the best men in their
ranks out in search Of republican recruits.
The republican employers of labor tell the
Tammany men who come around that they
cannot swing the men in their employ
either way as they have been able to do
in the past and as they did in notably the
Bryan campaign.
WINS Trying to Hold Republicans.
While these frantic efforts are under way
by both campaign committees Mr. WINS
continues to try to hold republicans in line
and keep the votes from going to McClel-
Ian. He calculates losing a small per-
centage of republicans to Hearst on ac-
count of the municipal ownership cry and
the other influences which turn a class of
the population to Hearst, but he is very
bitter over the threat of republicans to go
to Mcclellan.
The week is coming to close marked by
further effort of Mr. Hearst to stir the
masses with enthusiasm and keep his men
warmed up to the work. and by Tammany's
underground work with the leaders in the
various precincts and districts. Mr., Hearst
set the East Side afire last night and made
trinmphal procession down the Bowery
cheered by thousands. In the course of the
evening he addressed audiences aggregdt-
ing some ten or twelve thousand people
and reiterated his promises to bring cheap
gas. cheaper street car fares and the other
blessings embodied in his municipal owner
ship program.
Tammany is conducting the secret poll
always made just prior to election. with
the object of locating the hostile vote in
each precinct. This will wind up by to-
morrow night, and Sunday and Monday the
Tammany lieutenants and captains will 60
after the recalcitrants with graphing
hooks. The Tammany workers report that
they find that a good deal of the Hearst
froth is blowing off, and that their vote
shows signs of bracing up from the state
of generalization in which it has been for
ten days or two weeks.
Sample Campaign Cartoons.
Here is a sample of stuff Hearst uses in
his campaign: A cartoon represents Muir
ply and Mcclellan dining at Delmonico's.
hill
them through the window. Beneath the
cartoon are these lines: This is a scene
from the outside of Delmonico's.
There is some difference between the
street cleaner outside and the gentlemen
inside. They are fatter and seeker than
he. He seems funny to them in his white
working clothes with his broom. Inside
of Delmonicos sits Mcclellan who vetoed
the bill TO give the street cleaners $50 a
year raise-about 81 a week-and their pay
hasn't been increased in fourteen years.
Mcclellan said the city couldn't afford IL
He was indignant. But he did sign the
hemsen gas steal. And he did sign the
fraudulent gas contract, stopped by w. K.
Hearst with an injunction.
Inside sits also Mr.. Murphy, the boss
who pays his workmen S1.39 per day, lir-
ing them in droves from padrones And
there sits also j. Sergeant Cram, who
teaches Murphy to call himself G. Francis
and to pronounce pate de fol grass
through his nose.
How the Workmen Feel.
at puzzles the old street cleaner as he
looks at the men inside that have so much,
and think of family at home that have so
little. And he feels as he turns away that
justice comes slowly in this world
$50 1t does, but there is some of 1t COM
ing next Tuesday Murphy, the boss, who
feeds himself at Delmonicos every day OF
his life and gives starvation wages to hls
workmen, will be punished. No more Dig
blackmailing contracts for him, with Dig
profits and low wages, after next Tues
day
And as for Mcclellan, who signed a bill
to rob all the people and vetoed bill 10
help the street cleaners, when he sits down
with Prince Louis of Battenberg and the
English officers to dine at the taxpayers
expense two days after election, the prince
and the English officers will know that
they are dining with a beaten man. And
they can learn, although ii would interest
them little that this pathetic figure of the
old street cleaner looking in at the men
that live on him and despise him had a
good deal to do with their hosts defeat"
Tammany's Secret Work.
Tammany is doing It's work with unusual
secrecy, but with great thoroughness. 1t
is exceedingly difficult to obtain informa-
ton of the results, but a few at the head
of the organization know how things are
going, ana lHty say tOuay tnat tney are
very much encouraged and that the pros
pect Is materially brighter than 1t was at
the beginning of the week.
This feeling is reflected in the election bet
ting in Wall street Odds were to / on
Mcclellan, whereas last Wednesday even
money was prophecied for the end of the
week. Another notable change in the sit
uation is the diminution of talk over the
election. seeming to indicate that the public
had pretty well made up its mind, and was
turning Its attention to other things. This
does not apply, however, to the republicans,
who are still in ferment as TO whether
they shall vote the republican ticket or go
to Mcclellan.
There Is to be a big meeting OF stalwarss
at Cooper Union tonight, to be presided
over by Horace White, at which earnest
cxhortations will be made TO the repupIi-
cans to stick by their candidate.
odell Keeps Out of Sight.
Boss odell does not attend to any meet
ipgs and does not show himself In the
campaign at all. He comes down from