The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-07
BROOKLYN GOES FOR HEARST.
MS PLURALITY OVER HUGHES
rs 1869.

Great DISAPPOINTMENT 10 McCarren and
the Republicans The Latter Claim the
Election or All OF Their Eight Ju-
dietary Candidates I'm the District.
The election In Brooklyn passed OF very
quistly, good order prevailing all over the
borough. There were over forty arrests
for alleged illegal registration, but
few Of the prisoners were held. The
two Supreme Court Justices who sat all day
to hear election squabbles had very little
to do, and the few cases brought before
them were u~nimportant. The feature Of
the day was the rush Of early voters to the
polls.
A larger vote was cast in the morning
hours than probably at any previous cleo
ton in Brooklyn. Before 10 o'clock more
than half the registered vote had been
polled in a couple Of hundred districts
The voting was generally expeditions, in
dicating that there was much less scratching
than the political managers had anticip ated.
There was "a vex atious mixup in the ballots
in the Thirteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty
first diet rictl, because the wrong ballots
had been sent TO some Of the Election dis
tricts in these Assembly districts; prob
ably a couple of hundred wrong ballots
were cast before the mistakes were dis
covered and the correct ballots obtained.
Only the local offices were affected.
just as soon as the vote began to come
in IL was evident hat the race between
Hughes and Hearst for supremacy in
Kings county would he a close one, and that
neither would have anything like the ma
"a. aI,su-al L., IL KraVn - rNsaa ~.
OF the rival candidates. The totals from
time to time were almost even, but when
about half rho vote wa recorded, Hughes
led slightly. and the Republican Managers
claimed that he would have IA majority of
over 5 200. This was conceded early in the
night by senator p. II. McCarren, whose
action in repudiating Hearst, had the
effect Of losing him, according to the opin-
ion OF the experts, at least 10, 900 votes.
1t is significant that both at Democratic
headquar era in he jefferson Building
and at the Kings County Democratic Club
there was more qualification over the returns
in favor of Hughes thar over those in which
Hearst was ahead, the chief interest APP
parently in both places being in he contest
for the eight places on the Supreme Cour
bench. There was little expectation from
an early hour in the evening that a single
candidate on the Republican ticket would
I've beaten in view OF the fact that the vote
for Hughes exceeded that on the Demo-
cratic and Independence League tickets
combined, Even the friends OF Luke ID.
Stapleton. for whom such a big and vigorous
fight had been made. despaired of his being
able to slip through a corner in the triangular
judiciary race.
The vote for Governor in most Of the
strong Democratic districts showed up so
favorably for Hearst that it became evident
that the anticipation that Hughes would
have a small lead was misleading. and when
three-fourthS OF the vote was recorded,
the county was conceded TO Hearst. This
was a great disappointment to the Republi-
cans and the true blue Democrats who had
stood by McCarren. The Senator's own
Assembly district, the Fourteenth, Qave
Hearst only a majority Of l $40. although
the district is normally Democratic by 2 900.
The Republicans were much elated over
the election Of their judiciary ticket and
also in the reelection OF the present four
Republican Congressman, Dunwell, Law,
Waldo and Calder, leaving Lindsay and
Fitzgerald, Democrats, in the possession
of their old seats.
There was an even split in the contest
for Senators, zach aide winning out in four
districts.
The figures in the Assembly were not
entirely complete in two districts, hut the
Republicans on the figures received at
Police Headquarters at | o'clock claim
twelve of the twenty-three Assemblymen. !
Luke ID. Stapleton claimed at an early
hour in the morning that he was ~elected
on the Democratic judiciary ticket by he
votes in the outside counties and he placed
his probable majority at about 1000. The
managers, however, said that
there was no doubt of the election Of their
entire judiciary ticket.
These were the winning candidates for
the Supreme Court bench in the Second
judicial district:
Edward b, Thomas,R Lester W. Clark. n.
Walter II. Jaycox, r. George b. Abbott, D.
Joseph Aspinall, h. William j. Carr, ID.
+. 4. Crane. r. Townsend Scudder, ID
The three last candidates ran on both
the Republican and Democratic tickets.
vote in the other counties of the Ju-
dicial district cannot, IL il estimated, pos
sibly change the result. Robert NJ. john
ston, the Republican candidate for Justice
OF the Municipal Court in the Third dis
triof UNA ala0 alaCfad