The Washington herald., 1906-11-04
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u se-.i-s a p.aiai.s u aJOJI l20.00 in
The city. and Judge Herricx. who ran on
the Democratic ticket. also carried the
entire city by a handsome plurality, IN
spite CT the popularity OF President
Roosevelt. who headed the Republican
ticket.
Il am growing more confident every
hour" said Mr.. Hughes at State head
.narters to-day. that the people are with
me In this fght"
Pin Faith on McCarren.
AS far as Brooklyn Is concerned. the
Republicans are pInning their faith
argely upon the bolt of Senator Nc
Carren from Hearst to carry Brooklyn
To-day the senator took occasion to help
along the defec.ion from Hearst by ex
Jlaining that the votes OF the Democratic
candidate will not be counted separately:
hat there viii be no way of aseertalning
correctly how many votes he gets.
According to the election law of the
state, the parties having the highest
lumber OF votes are entitled to the frs
md second places on the ballot This
/ 'righ ened many Democrats who wanted
vote against Hearst, but were afraid
that their party would lose its place on
the ballot II Democrats cut him tcO much
tnd If ne sh wed a bigEer vote on the
independence League ticket. Mccarren
says this Is not 50, and that there is not
he 81 ghtest danger the Democratic par
y viii lose its j-int control with the
frlrfa Q An nln mn
Hhiaerv of tie ate
Nr. Hearst continues 10 repeat the pre-
dictio7 from The platform that he viii he
elected by 2o0e00. Charles F. Murphy re-
iierates his declaration that Hearst will
have 1Cfo0 plurality IN the greater cty.
MURPHY said to-day that Tammeny Hal
had not received a cent from Mr. Hears
for camp1ign expenses, and that no such
contribution woulG be accepted II offered
This indicates that the Independence
League managers are handling the Hearst
fund.
Ihmsen Fears Vote-buyIBE.
Max F. Ihmsen says Hearst will have a
plurality Ct a. least l5e, 900 If the election
is honestly conducted up the Safe He
declares the Republicans have a huge
campaign fund, and have planned to use
liz IN eor-Dting voters.
At this Chairman Woodruff and the
other high lights OF the State and county
committee merely laughed. They declare
that under the new law forbidding cor
poratio7s 10 contribute there is no way in
which to raise big campaign fund They
have declared right along that they
haven't got enough for the legitimate ex-
penses, 70 say nothing about vote buying.
It Is known, however. that the Republi-
cans have quite a tidy bit Of money. prob
ably one-half as much as they used TO
raise in a gubernatorial campaign
The odds II the betting market are
still Z 70 / in favor OF Hughes with little
chance OF q change on Monday.
Chairman Woodruff. Of the Republican
s ate committee refuses to-day o give
dera leo figures OF the canvass made Up
State. He did repeat however the state
ment that Hughes would be elected by a
plurality suTcien y large 10 make any
cry of fraud on the part OF Hearst
sound diculous.
Has No Detailed Figures.
While Murphy predicts a plurality Of
from sC 009 10 1o0C0 for Hearst In Greater
New York. he Acknowledges Re had no
figures from the assembly d.s ricts on
which 10 base his estimate. lie simply
expressed an opinion Late tonight he
will receive the reports Of the district
leaders Of New York County. and then he
may give detailed Cstirate or n)t-ac-
cording to the figures. The district lead
ers' reports are Usually ali right. bat the
leader Of Tammany Han may. In bis dis
cretion give them cut in the form IN
which they are received or modified to
suit the occasion
Fefore the last Presidential election
Murphy predicted a big maj for Par
EeT ia this city after be had received the
district reports Later. he acknowledged
that his predicti-n was a bluff and that
the district leaders reports showed nearly I
the exact election figures
reporter has had confidential talks
with q majority Of the Tammany district
leaders in the last few days. and has ais D
obteinsd confidential estimates from local
Republican leaders. Estimates "foT publ
GATOR" are worthless. To sum up the
opinione: the leaders on both sides, with
a strange unaniritv. asreed IN this p'in
that Hearst is not likely to get on s-half
OF Coler's plural - tn ISl2-that is, 123.0gl- /
and that II Re wins he must poll an eX-
tracrdiraTy vote UP the State The mana
gers on both sides have taken private !
polls IN Manhattan and the Bronx. They !
have fo-nd that Hearst has los strengf !
in Manhattan since last yea that the /
loss is mainly among labor men, and that /
only an upstate revolution can save him. /
Poll of Labor T~ Made.
The following statement may DC ac-
cepted a. absolutely correct A man high |
in the councils of Tommany Hall, who I
has. in almost every instance, predicted /
election results correctly. made. on his I
own account, a poll Of freight handlers /
and dock laborers IN ten different locali- /
ties in Manhattan These men were
polled in the municipal fight last year; so /
there was a basis CT comparison The re-
suit showed that an average of 90 per /
cent Of the men who were for Hearst last /
year are opposed 10 him now.
The result astCniShed the Tammany
man. If there had been some defections, 1
he would not have been surprised. But 4
Il 50 happened that IN every cne Of the !
ten canvasses the result was the same. 4
OF course. these straw votes are often 4
deceptive but this one was taken by q i
Tammany leader who desired earnestly /
to show that Hearst was more popular /
than ever. When the figures came in. he /