The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-03
WARNER CUT HEAVILY IN WEST SIDE:
TREMENDOUS VOTE, WITH LITTLE FUSS
Usual Election Day Squabbles Are
Absent Despite Keen Interest
Which Locally Centers in
MayoraI Fight
considlns In Control.

and I am going to see that they a. 3
not vote here" he said. Il
considins In Control.
VIM. II. Considine was appaxently''
In control Of the second district Of the
First ward. The workers claimed thn4
this precinct will go heavily fo<
Thompson. MA
George Clark, a state employe, wnl
at the first district booth In the oeosi
ond ward. WI
Opposition by the liquor msA III
going to hurt the Republicans hefo
he said. B:
A canvass Of downtown precine1~ I
between $3.50 and $40 showed No.
following votes cast: First ward Ak1<<
district. 46; Second ward. nrst AZ
trict, SO, second district. 50; IMN
ward. second district. IS, third dietr1D \;
49,; Fourth ward, first district, 80, u4
ond district, 20; Fifth ward. third o1e'
trict, So, fourth district. "a. a.
In several places the booths h9y4
been moved and this caused coufumo1
In those precincts. particularly IN t1o
first Of the First &
Reports from the outer precincto
are that the voting IL heavier than
usual
Look out about o'clock. thero
will be something doing then" W.
the assertion Of a number of ThomB-
son workers. The labor vote VIII ~
getting out then and the excitement
II any IL likely to come after dark.
This amt an election; this 10 =
prayer-meeting," said one disgusted
worker who had stood 10 minutes
without q chance to even talk to
voter.
Warner Cut Heavily.
In the fifth precinct OF the Sixth
ward at a quarter to ten One-third Of
the registered votes had been cast
There was no concealment of the fact.
that Warner was being cut heavily ana
that Breitmeyer was getting almost
solid vote. I'VE will clean up 81
hnlk Of the vote In time for tn
o'clock count said one OF the boox
Both sides Confident.
Confidence II alive In both camp
Republicans figure that. with = -
vote, the chances of BreitmoyQ4 .5
election are greatly lmproHo4f
stay-at-home vote having bo1m
two years ago when Codd was
ed by Thompson. It II figured
Republicans that the hard v01I
the past week has Offset Breit1n
early mistakes. m
Mayor Thompson's supports
the other hand, say that ~ oor
has been the list he ever lu
that his record entities him
Ederation which means olect1c
have spared no means to COW
publican and Independents W
There are enthusiasts VIII
that DIR. Alfred Lowther, thG
ton candidate, has chance. ~
are not many.
It IL a peculiar election In e.
terest centers on the mayornlty a
exclusion Of state and national ~
There Is very small chance az =
carrying Michigan, although thet
every evidence that be win CT
the Roosevelt plurality.
Hemans will get big votev uo
ly In Wayne county. and he ~
Warmers vote down % much .
danger the latter's chances &C.
for third term unless Tazt r
prisingly well In the staxe.
kilograms sent out By lQuu9
Detroit to points throughout e.
indorse Warner. This II = On
to the anti-saloon indorSeunon9
mans. Other liquor msn coD1u
sending Of thess telegrams . &
political trick by Warner ~ ~
the X. Y. n. 8. W
Thompson 1setino raSopc11
Betting on the mayora1ty en-
tinues at 100 to 90. with 1Aom1
the favorfte.
The conceutration Of eGurt -
Thompson makes Il ~ Iur1v
any Of the other Democrats G1M
ers-Mahon for congroo1, X0I
sheriff, 0nau for reg1Soog .
and Cunningham for go
overcome the normal neDobI
(Coatins~d e. rnOe Y1cr1&