Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-02
Interest Ceners in New York City, Where Ban.
nard, Gaynor and Hearst Each Claim Big Plural
ity--M%Sachusetts Safely Republican Phil
ade| phia SCampagn Hot TROUBLED in Kentucky.
NEW YORK CITY.

| New York, Nov. 1.-New York's tri-
angular political campaign ended TO-
NIGHT. William J. Gaynor. the Demo-
cratic candidate for the mayoralty.
| mde his final speech in Harlem. Otto
| r. Barnard, candidate of the Republi-
| can and Fusion forces. closed his cam
| paign with a monday address ON the
waterfront and a brief talk to Negro
| voters at downtown Baptist church
| in the evening.
| Hearst. the Independent candidate,
| had wound up his formal speechmak-
| ing lats night at Madison Square Car
! den, but some of the lesser lights OF his
| Independent campaign burned red fire
and espoused his cause with a final
| burst of oratOry at oDen-air meetings
| in the four corners of Manhattan to-
night, while many of the minor candi-
dates on both Democratic and Repub-
lican tickets had meetings of their own
| in the doubtful districts.
| III each of the rival camps, complete
confidence in the result was expressed.
Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany
| leader, said:
We are Well satisfied with the re-
SUIT VI lbit ISlIlotl tlll CstilIl)dlSil. Sdy~
nor will receive more votes than both
| of the other candidates for mayor and
| he will carry the whole Democratic
ticket With him in every borough"
Herbert Parsons, the Republican
| leader said:
Our fight against Tammany mis-
rule has won. Reports from every AS
sembly district in the greater city
show that Barnard will be elected by
| 900 plurality. The entire Fusion
ticket will go through with Il landslide
| vote"
Charles s. Gehring. for the Hearst
forces. SAID:
Hearst viii get more than 100000
votes, winning by Over 100000 plurality
over the Tammany candidate. | look
for Landslide to Hearst"
| All three sides We're agreed tonight
! that about 100000 votes would be cast
tomorrow out of the total registration
of 644500. OF his number about 10000
| will be scattering votes for candidates
on Socialist. Prohibition and other
minor tickets. leaving about $4,000 to
be divided abong the three leading
candidates.
About $125.C00 was Wagered on the
result Of the mayoralty contest in New
York today. In the financial district the
prevailing odds favored Gaynor by
about to /.
Barnard in his closing appeal to
the voters at the noon meeting today,
said: Il have fought this campaign
against Tammany Hall, against cor
ruption. waste. graft and improper
| Dbl ip1prnNAr,nrtU must
be solely for the public good and not
! for plumber. Petty graft must be
STAMPED out ! have favored as liberal
personal liberty as constituted IN the
law and order | believe that / can
serve YOU well. and that tomorrow you
will choose business man, man VINO
will attend to the duties of the Once
to which he is elected.
The final word by the Hearst cam
paignerS was brief statement from
Hearsts headquarters expressing con-
fidence in the result and promising
clean and independent government o:
the city for four years to come.
'"The victory tomorrow is certain.
this final campaign document SAID.
."The vote for Hearst will be enor
mons If will mean the end Of Tam
MANY and a new era of government in
This CITY. Mr.. Hearst viii be the next
mayor
There were big roundups of alleged
repeaters today as result OF the IN
vcstigation of the registration rolls
| by the state superintendent OF cleo
tiors and his men. one man, convicted
OF Illegal registration was sentenced
! to three years in Sing Sing, While two
others received indeterminate SEN
fences of from six months to four
wears A special grand jury in the
borough of Queens Hond IslanO re-
turned 50 indictments tonight, against
men alleged to have registered illegal
| ~.
| The courts are prepared to handle
Great volume of election day business to-
morrow Four justices of the supreme
court were assigned to sit in special term
of the New York county court house.
Eight other justices announced that they
would hear election cases in other parts
of the city.
| Among the watchers at the polls Will
| be nearly 2000 student volunteers, 500 OF
them recruited from Columbia, 300 from
| Yale and go from Princeton. 1t was
feared that the presence of these watchers
would be prohibited by a ruling of the
CORPORATION counsel that only legally quail
flied voters could act as watchers under
the state law, but this opinion was over
ruled today by a signed declaration from
the state attorney general, declaring that
ANY person, voter or not, male or fe-
male, minor or otherwise, resident or
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