The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-05
BOTH SIDES SURE ON ELECTION EYE Parties Confident of Mon days Issue While On- lockers Sayit Looks
 Very Close. MANY SPLIT VOTES
 APPEAR PROBABLE Seems That Many Will Fail to Heed the Call to
 Vote Straight
 Tickets.

With one work day and Sunday intervening between now and election day and with the main part of the work of both parties completed for the big event both parties appear to be en- thusiastic for their candidates and very confident that the result of the election for mayor especially will be the one they are working for
 Both parties have closed their cam p7igns so far as rallies are concerned and are devoting all their energies to the prosecution of an effective fight in the wards and individually. It is the opinion both of outsiders who have more or less general information and those who are on the inside alike that this election will be a very close one so far as the fight for mayor is con- cerned and that the result will be in doubt until the votes have been count cd despite the confidence expressed by DtNAl HlNSos " 10 ANiL lActl lllSlC VIII be q large vote which cannot be fore casted this year and which will hold the issue in the balance and which way this will fall is the way the elec- ton will result. There Is a great deal of quiet and private deciding on the candidates that win be voted for and this 1t is which makes the campaign such an interesting one to those who are watching.
 There is every evidence that this will be a great year for split tickets which will mean a late return of the count. Many voters appear to favor candi- l dates from one ticket for one office and from the other for another. In 1 spite of the. call which both organ- izations have sent forth and repeated 1 again and again to vote the straight ticket the counters will probably find 1 tEat the voters did not hear or hearing failed to observe the call.
 Both parties sent out their tickets | yesterday through the mail In addi- | tlon Town Clerk Whitakers office was busy handling and getting ready for distribution in the different wards the i ballot to be used in recording an opin- lon on the revision of the constitution 1 which is also to be voted on Monday by those whose interest in the city fight is not so absorbing that they, for get the state at large.
 | The democratic town committee and ward chairmen met last evening at headquarters, but there was nothing of public interest in their doings Plans for getting out the vote and for the work In the wards on Monday were the care of the meeting.
 MT. Martin issued a denial of the conjecture of Col. Ullman that his nomination at the primaries cost him in the neighborhood of $S,OOO. "As a fact says he, my expenses outside of regular primary assessment and bills for advertising and printing will not much exceed the sum ol $500, most of which was spent in hiring of con- | veyances with which to assist the vote to the polls This Is an inconsderabe amount when 1t Is remembered that the democratic primaries are conduct ed in all the fifteen wards of the city on the same plan as regular cleo. tion."
 Preparations are now under way for getting the different polling precincts in readiness for next Mondays city election. Chief Wrinn stated yes terday that the usual number of po- l lice officers would be distributed around the various voting districts 1 but he did not consider it necessary to increase the force at the polls on account of any changes made in the election laws at the last legislature.
 The board of registration will sit for it's last session to-day to put on the list those minors who become of age on that date, and also citizens wnc qualify on that date in regard to resi-. dence in this city There Is usually not more than half dozen candidates who come under these provisions.