The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-06
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT
 OF VICTORY IN NEW YORK
REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS EXPECTS PLURALITY OF AT
 LEAST 2OO,OOO

Hearst Managers Anticipate IoO,OOV
 Votes to Spare in Greater New York
 and 5O,OOO More Above the Harlem
 River r- Betting Strongly FavOrs
 Hushes-Most of It Done at Four to
 One-EIabOrate Police Arrangements.
 New York, Nov. 5.--Fair weather and moderate temperature is the forecast for tomorrow, when the issue of the most extraordinary gubernatorial cam paign in the history of the state will be decided at the polls.
 The night-before predictions could not be said to throw any helpful light on the situation. Republican state headquarters confidently expected a plurality of not less than 100000, while the managers of the Independence league and democratic joint campaign committee anticipated 150000 votes to spare in Greater New York, and to which they added plurality of 5O,- GOO above the Harlem river.
 The political thermometer in Wall street varied during the day from odds of 1-2 to 1 on the election of a repub- lican governor to 5 to and back to I to 1, at which figures the greater num- ber or bets on the curb were placed.
 In spite of the confidence expressed on both sides tonight none would de- ny that never before could party lines be less confidently depended upon to deliver the regular vote.
 tCNI, IN ,,aT otd Inv tbp O.. publicans for governor, has received the endorsement of many old-llne dem- ocrats, who objected to the action of the democratic convention at Buffalo. Senator P. H. McCarren, democratic leader of the Kings county democracy, to-day prophesied republican plural ity of 5000 in his county
 On the other hand William Randolph Hearst, first candidate of the Independ- ence league, and then of the democratic organization, has invaded the upstate strongholds. That he will draw from the republican vote in certain sections is conceded.
 The republicans have always counted upon the upstate counties to roll up a vote to more than offset the democrat ic plurality in Greater New York, but this year upstate can hardly be de- Bcribed as pitted against the metropolis.
 Tn this city the minor issues are so involved and the candidates So many that the official ballot, 100000 copies of which were delivered by the printers to-day, is literally blanket sheet. Contrary to the usual practice of can idates, this years campaigners carried their canvas right up to the early hours of election day and it will be a short night for party workers who are to be early at the polls, Mr. Hughes spoke along the water front during the after noon, and six times up town tonight, closing his canvas with a meeting in Durland's Riding academy.
 Mir. Hearst contented himself during the day with sending out an appeal to election watchers to be on their guard but tonight addressed four gatherings on the East Side Both candidates were hailed with the boisterous enthusiasm that has characterized their every ap- pearance.
 Elaborate police arrangements were concluded to-day, inspectors and cap- tains being instructed by Commission CT Bingham and Superintendent of Elections Morgan to insure a fair elec- tion at all hazards. The police are armed with no less than 2,OOO warrants directed against those who are alleged by the managers to have illegally reg istered, and these men will if they at tempt to vote, be arrested. These war rants were issued after the investiga- tion of 4,000 complaints.
 All parties will be represented by counsel in the vicinity of the polls.