The Washington herald., 1906-11-05

New York. Nov. f.-JTdluaTltV q cam
paign for governor closes on the Satur-
day night before election, but there has
been nothing ordinary about this one,
and neither side viii quit the work Of
addressing the voters till a few hours
before the polls are actually opened on
TUESDAY. The Tammany people did not
even take "a rest over Sunday. and to-
night several big mass meetings are be
ing held 10 advocate the candidacy Of
William R Hearst.
one of the speakers at the Bowery
meeting is Former Representative Tim
othy L. Sullivan, better known as Rig
Tim, who is supposed 90 control moro
votes thaa any other single politician in
New York He IS virtually the Demo-
cratic leader OF al the Tammany forces
living in Manhattan south of Fourteenth
street, and the fact that he speaks f0r
Mr.. Hearst in public will secure q good
majority iu that territory Tor that cam
didate.
The Republicans win hold many meet
ings tomorrow night at which Hughes
viii speak winding Up with a demon
stration in Garlands Riding Academy.
But the main question is. Who Is soine
20 be elected
All Kinds OF Answers.
one csn get all sorts OF answers 70 THIS
question. Nkrer was such o widc dis
similarity the opinions of the election
prophets. g.. Hearst is still declaring
tEat he win be elected by q plurality of
29.Qo9 lie says that he arrived AT the
conclusion from studying the returns Of d
careful canvass OF counties i'm the state
as well as numerous polls Max r. Ihm-
sen. M Hearst's chief campaign man
ager. also SAYS that the Democratic can
didatc viii have plurality Of a0.G)o Of
which he expects that New York CITY viii
furnish 1-n,os. Chairman William J. Con-
uors. Of the Democratic State committee.
figures Hearst viii be elected by 15lg0.
His estimate oref1s Hughes with
plurality of but +.e-g above the Bronx.
NIr. Counare thinks It viii Doe Hearst
tidal wave sure.
Charles T. Murphy stil insists that
Hearst viii have from Sn6p0 20 10000 in
tho greater CITY and that. if hc does rs
reports from upstate indicate. De VIII
boz elected sure. Many of the district
leaders who made reports to Murphy yes
trrday do not SgToo with him. and point
to the significaHt fact that Murphy has
refused To make public the figures turned
iu Icy the district dealers. II is the be-
lief of some OF these men that Hearst
viii not have over 41009 plurality IN the
whole city. They ascertain that Hearst
VIII lose Brooklyn Richmond, and
Queens.
Hughes Gives No Figures.
on The Republican side. Mr.. Hughes
has expressed himself several times re-
Gently as being confident Of his election.
H viii not talk about figures. William
Barnes. jr., state committeeman. from
Albany. gives rs his opinion that Hughes
VIII have plurality Of 2Co0Cq He says
his prediction is based on reports from
every county In tho state Chairman
Timothy H. Woodruff. however. is Civ
ing out Ho figures. but declares that
Hughes aHd the rest Of the ticket will
DC elected 10y q safe plurality
There is no use of claiming every
thing in sight" said Ea. in his last formal
statement so long as one is sure OF the
result. ] might say that the election Of
about as much reason as the other side
makes its extrayagant claims for Mr
Hearst"
Tho Drift toward Hughes has been uu-
'nistakable during the past week or 81.
This Is apparent 20 al impartial OBJ
servers. Jp to that time Mr. Hearst
seemed TO have long lead The danger
IN tho situation was admitted i'm private
at Republican state headquarters. Re
port after report came I'm showing that
many WOrkiuEmen In the manufacturing
ccntcrs and factory towns who usually
stood by the Republican party in Stale
and national elections We're drifting 10
Hearst. There were also reports of
apathy among the rural voters.
Farmers Net Interested.
The farmers showed no sign of goins
over TO Hearst. but all the same it was
hard to get them interested in Hughes
lie had never before been Il candidate for
public office. and those knew him either
vaguely or not at al. vt any rate ne
was not of the big heroes Of the party
ike Roosevelt. nor had he wiped ont the
STATE taxes they used to pay. rs did
OdeIl. Theu there WAS scarcity of
funds such as the Republicans had not
seen for years. In the counties. To pay
the expense Of getting the voters from
their farms 20 The polls
slowly. however, the tide began Ia
turn. Tho work th&t Hughes himsell
was doing had thc effect of dispelling
TO soSne extent the lethargy which seem
ed to bes"t the Republicans upstate
and the tide toward min kent incrcaS-
ing. altaoUgh not FAST enough to suit
the managers of the campaign
Then came tho dogbl" thunder clap OF
secretary Roots speech in Utica, in
which ~ q representative of Tho Prcsi-