The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-06
STILL CLAIM It.
Both Candidates in New York
Looking for Victory.
Each By a Plurality of 100000
Over His Opponent.
OVER 200 ARRESTS.
Nearly All the Prisoners We're
Later Allowed to YOte..
Detectives Guard Ballot Boxes
All Over the State.
Late Election News From All
Over the Country.

New York, Nov. 6.-Weather con-
ditions which could not be improved
together with an unusual interest in
the contest between Charles z.
Hughes and William R. Hearst, lead
| ing candidates for governor, brought
out an unprecedented large early vote
/ in all. sections of the state Advices
from widely scattered districts detafi
without exception flood of ballots
/ during the morning hours and In many
places nearly the full vote had been
pol1ed by noon today New York city
was no exception and except in scat
! tered districts the forenoon voting was
/ remarkably heavy. In Brooklyn,
! where Patrick H. McCarren. the Dem
ocratic leader has been making de-
termined and open fight against VIII
/ liam r. Hearst there were indications
/ that the regular Democratic voters
were holding back early in the day.
| Whether this was due to orders or
/ because in many Brooklyn manufac-
1 turing establishments the employees
are given afternoon rather than morn
! ing for voting it not known.
The fine weather which favored the
voters seemed to please all the party
/ leaders. The Hughes managers called
! it good Republican weather. and de-
/ clared that every hour made the pros
poets of their candidate more bright.
! On the other hand the Hearst mana
gers professed to be fully as well sat
/ isfied as the Republicans. They were
sure that the farmer vote would favor
i their cause. they said. This afternoon
both the candidates were claiming vic
tory by approximately 10000 plural
1 ity each
One OF the features of the election
was the extreme vigilance of watchers
at the thousands Of polling places
throughout the state. In many towns
and villages hordes of private detec-
tives guarded every ballot box to pre-
vent illegal voting.
In New York city more than zoo ar
| rests had been made before noon but il
nearly every case the prisoners were
able to prove their right to vote and
| were released. Among those arrested
: were many we'll known men, whose win
! ter homes were found closed when the
! police sought to verify their registra-
ton. All of these were permitted to
( vote after proving their residence
Charles z. Hughes the Republican
| candidate for governor, was one of the
early voters, deposfting his ballot about
8 o'clock. It was nearly five hours la
/ ter when William r. Hearst went to
the polls.
Il am making no prophecies said
/ Mr.. Hughes, after voting today. Il am
content to wait until the vote is count
4 ed. I am glad indeed that the strain
/ a most strenuous one. I have a great
deal of work on my hands which my
/ campaigning has prevented my attend
ing to. I shall spend today hard at it,
catching up"
William r. Hearst voted just before
/ I o'clock at an undertaker'S shop in
East Twenty ninth street He voted
ballot No. 446. On the way to the
/ polling place he was repeatedly cheer
ed. He shook hands with several chill
/ dren and on his way back to his home,
he greeted good many people.
Mr.. Hearst said he would remain in
/ his home all the afternoon resting and
gave the newspaper men who had been
| waiting for him the run of the house
Its such a fine day said Mr
! Hearst, that I don't want any one to
be waiting for me outside my DOORS
While driving in a closed carriage at
Columbia and Livingstone, Myer
Schoenfeld, manager for the Hughes
1 volunteer campaigners and his son,
/ Abraham H. Schoenfeld, were attacked
/ by a gang of roughs who threw rocks
! and bricks at the carriage. One brick
| crashed through the glass window and
smashed Schoenfeld's hat. At the same
/ time Samuel Maltz, a Republican work
er, was attacked while standing near
the carriage and beaten about the
head.
There was much dissa tisfaction
/ among the street car employees of Man
haitian today as a result of a nnotice
| which appeared yesterday at the car
barns of the New York City Railway
| company The notice reads:
| NO man viii be excused tomorrow,
November 6. Any man reporting sick
or losing his car viii be dismissed. pro-
4 vided circumstances warrant it. Any
/ man losing his car will report to starter
I as soon as possib ible--George Laird,
general division foreman
The men claim that this order will
/ deny them an opportunity to vote, as
/ they had to be on duty at 7o'clock this
morning and will not be at liberty until
after the polls are closed
The First Returns In.
Boston Nov. 6-The first town in
Massachusetts to be heard from in to-
DAYS election was Mashpee, in the
Fourteenth congressional district which
cast IS votes for Guild. Republican for
governor. to for Moran, Democrat.
Last years vote for Mashpee for gov
ernor was Guild, A3; Bartlett, Demo
crat. :.
Tried to Vote Twice.
St. Louis, Nov. 6.-After a hard fight
Joseph r. Hatton, former city detee-
tive, was arrested in the Fifth ward
today on a charge of attempting to vote
twice Hatton was arrested in the line
of waiting voters He knocked Police
man Corcoran down and split the Off
GERS ear. The judges and clerks went
to the officers aid when Corcoran club
bed Batton into submission
His Name Is 81udd.
Baltimore Nov. 6.-In Congressman
Mudd's district the labor vote which is
heavy was reported to be going strong
3 " for his Democratic opponent.
Onered Vote for Quarter.
New Haven. Nov 6.=At Hartford a
man offered to vote the Republican
Il ticket for IS cents with which ITO buy