The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31
VOTE IN DOUBT
FOR NEW YORK
DESPITE ABUSE
Noisy, Dull and Vituperative
Campaign for Mayor Leaves
Electors BewiIdered
Managers for Barnard, Gaynor
and Hearst Claim Victory
for Their Candidates
[Seeeiol Dapolch 70 The Call

NEN lOhk. OCT 0W--1 ne nolSiSsLs
duIIest ana most vituperative cam
paign for mayor in the history of New
York city was brought TO an end to-
night 10 the intense relief OF this af
hicted town. and with everybody guess
inE as 10 what will happen Tuesday.
II is tvue that meetings will be held
tomorrow night and even Monday
night. but tine biz noise and the telling
work have al been done and the
country fondly hopes the last bucketful
Of campaign fNh has been thrown.
It has been q trying ordeal for the
poor voter and, ds7ed and bewildered,
he is irving 10 find out what it is All
about. II has been stream of vitu-
peration. bir1er personalities and
abusive sz1acRSs from the hrst and the
real Issue, if there was one, has been
completely lost sight of.
CAMPAIGN IN CONFUSION
The campaign closed as it 5egan--in
confusion. Thozagh the most extrava-
giant claims are made by the managers
~ the three pozttScaI camps, it Is no
secret 10 anybody who has been IN
close touch with ek1her one of those
camps that the managers have no deep
faith in those claims and are prepared
for the worst Bile cssnvasses which IN
former wears hare brought to the lead
ers more or less dedrLttsnses and GER
rsintF have only served 10 confuse the
situation. The most striking thing
shown bv the csnzasss& is that Ban
uard seems 10 be running very much
stronger tnan any one has given him
The credit for
II this is the state of mind of the
suanaEers who are supposed to have
fingers right on the pulse OF the situa-
ton every minute Of the day, what
must be the opinion Of the average
outsider ,
ODDS FAVOR GAYHoR
The betting odds-if the insignificant
amount OF betting that bas been done
can be said TO have established any
odds-pick Gaynor TO win at TO /,
but II a confident Hearst or Barnard
booster happens TO stroll into the Hoff-
man house with q bunch of money no
body is a bit certain that those ODDS
would not fade away in minute Less
than $4,000 has been waEered by
Charlie Mahoney Of the Hoffman house.
where IN previous years half q million
has been stalred az this stage Of the
campaign
Perhaps .be anti-betting law may
have mace tae sporting men a little
nervous and IL is reported in upper
Broadway that the men who like to
lay ODDS have sent their commissions
10 Chicago
FORECASTS FAR APART
How far up ir the air the political
managers are is shown by the fact that
no two of their forecasts" are less
than 1Oe, 600 votes apart This in to-
tai Of $4,000 votes. which is the num-
Der the experts estimate will be cast,
is pretty well a-oft even for the hot air
OF q Hearstized campaign.
Boss Murphy of Tammany said today
that Gaynor would receive more votes
than Hearst and Barnard combined and
that not a man on the Tammany ticket
would be defeated. Barnard himself
said that he would beat Hearst by
leo 600 and Gaynor by 10000 to $4,000
Charles E Gehring, head campaign
groom for Hearst, said that Hearst
would get 27o,0OO votes and Gaynor
would be very bad third. Murphy
saws Barnard Will run third. Barnard
says Hearst viii run third.
CLAIMS or MANAGERS
If Murphy is correct about Gaynor
the latter will poll at least 2s5,Ooo
votes and Barnard will get less than
.z40. 0Og votes. which is only 5000 above
the sorry showing made by William
NJ Wins four years ago
II Barnard is correct he viii re-
-ceive at least 240, 900 votes and Hearst
ronly about 14o. 600, just 100000 less
than Hearst claims.
II the Hearst men are right then
fCaynor, who is a to l favorite in the
betting, win not get over lS0.oe0
votes.
since Hearst capsized. the regular
smachine vote Of both parties two
knot been an easy thing in New York
~city, and tonight ive-sixths of the
speculation over the results on Tues
day hinges as it has since the begin
sning Of the campaign upon the prob
liable strength of the Hearst vote.
a8EARST LOSES SUPPORTERS
Upon the surface Hearst is making
almost if not quite as big a disturb
sance as he did four years ago. His
meetings have been noisy and well at
tended. 1t is true he has only spoken
on alternate nights and has not at
tempted to make any whirlwind cam
paign. He is not spending money as
he did four years ago, most of what
he IS spending apparently going TO
rival newspapers 10 advertise his
speeches. He has no organization, the
hastily improvised civic alliance being
a mere shell. Hundreds of his former
prominent followers are openly sup
porting Judge Gsynor, and almost the
only prominent man openly supporting
him Is William NJ. Wins.
Parties Battle for Prizes
CINCINNATI. O., Oct. 30.-For sew
eraI reasons the approaching municipal
elections are regarded as of peculiar
importance by politicians OF both great
parties, and they are putting forth
every effort to win.
Beginning the FIRST day OF next year
all Ohio cities will be governed under
a new code of municipal law which
makes mayors all powerful Under the
present system control of streets, fire
and police departments and the mu-
nicipal Improvements are vested in
boards Independent Of the mayor.
The mayor elected this fall will have
full control OF these various depart
ments, including the letting of con-
tracts through directors to be ap-
pointed by himself. AS viewed by
politicians, the prizes at stake are
precious They are leaving nothing
undone to win them.