The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-07
NoTABLEs CAST VOTE.
John n. Rockefeller Was Early at
 the pOlla.

the Polls.
 New York, Nov. 6.-Exceptionally' favorable weather conditions after a campaign of almost unprecedented &C., tivity on the part of the two leading lcandidates for gubernatoriai honors,
 iwsured an unusually large vote. Tn this city the ballotting started vita
 rush as soon as the polls were open
 ed. and In many sections new records | for the early hours were made. In one election district in the Bronx 132 ballots were deposited in the first
 ninety minutes of voting.
 Service of thousands of warrants sworn out by Superintendent of Eler- tions Warren was begun early in tho prisoners from the polling places to police courts. Tn nearly every case, in
 the first three hours, however. the prisoners proved their right to vots and were permitted to go back and deposit their ballots.
 john D. Rockefeller was among the early voters> He reached the pollinE place in Sixth Avenue at $40 o'clock
 and deposited his ballot two minutes later.
 "what do you think of the election he was asked as he was leaving the polling place.
 T hope for the best,s replied
 Mir. Rockefellef, as he stepped into his Iautomobile and was whiTled away Charles F. Hughes, Republican cans
 didate for Governor. voted shortly be. fore o'clock in an Amsterdam Ave. nue barber shop. Mfr. Hughes walked
 down from his home in West End
 Avenue. He was greeted with a cheer as he approached the polling place | and greeted the inspectors, polling clerks and watchers with 8 cheering Good morning"
 MT. Hughes was given ballot num- Der 14S, which he took only a moment to mark in the booth. When he had voted, Mir. Hughes walked back to his home. About ten minutes after
 wards, the candidates father, the Rev. Dr. D. c. Hughes, who lives with his son, came to the polling place and voted ballot number 156.
 In this district there are about 500 voters and the vote was reported to
 be coming in at the rate for the first part of the morning, of about seventy 1 five ballots an hour. Sixty arrests on
 charges of Illegal voting snd regis tratfon and offering and accepting money for votes were reported at the
 office of the State Superintendent of
 Elections during the first two hours
 after the polls were opened.
 This is the greatest number of ar- rests reported III So SuOFl time since the bureau was established. Among the early morning arrests was former Police Captain Diamond. He voted from his home in East 18th Street When the Morgan men went to verify the address they found the
 house boarded up. The arrest was
 made on the allegation that Captain 1 Diamond had lived all summer in Put | nam County, this State.
 William R. Hearst sent the follow | ing telegram early today to the State Committeeman of the Independence League:
 We will have at least 100000 plu-
 rality in Greater New York. feel
 that our chances up the State are very
 bright, thanks to your efforts and the
 efforts of our friends.
 There is only one possible danger, and that is that an attempt may be made to count us out up the State and
 as they counted us out in this city last fall. urge you to take extra ordinary precautions to prevent re- beating and particularly miscounting. T thank you for your valuable aid in this campaign and I congratulate you on the victory that I firmly be- lieve we will achieve"
 Dispatches from cities and towns up
 the State indicate that a large vote is
 being boiled. Everywhere the wealth CT is favorable and the country roads are in dne condition. In all the in- dustrial centers the early morning vote was unusually heavy.