The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-02
MANY ARRESTS AS
NEW YORK POLICE
RAID REPEATERS
Armed With Thousands of War
rants, Officers Swoop Down
on illegal Voters.
NO DISORDER REPORTED
THOUGH SCORE ARE NABBED
Heavy Early Balloting Taken to
Indicate Little Scratching
Is Being Done.

= NEW YORK, Nov. with the po-
lice in possession of thousands Of war
rants, more than a score of arrests
were made today for illegal voting.
Little disorder was reported and more
than half the total vote had been cast
before noon.
When the polls opened at 6 O'Clock in
many of the precincts of the lower
East Side long lines of men were on
hand to cast their votes. Voting pro-
ceeded quietly In the early hours, and
the police reported no disorders.
Robert Taft, son of President Taft,
came down from New Haven last night
with several classmates of Yale, to
do duty as a Republican watcher at a
voting place In little store in Third
avenue. A big crowd was waiting for
him and finally the reserves were called.
Young Taft finally decided not to serve
and went away.
For more than three hours there was
no let up, the votes coming in with a
rapidity that indicates little scratching.
A surprising feature was the big early
vote in the so-called aristocratic Sec
ton on the upper West Side, the
otAVh6 hOl4 VI liic lllQtpcIlQtHlS III pull
tics. The ballots were being cast at
the rate of ono a. minute, while down
on the East Side along the Bowery and
in the Ghetto the average was vote
in minute and a half.
Before the polls opened it was con-
servatively estimated that between
$3.50, ,o0tand s1,0O0o00 have been wagered
on the result of the municipal election
Gaynor ruled a strong favorite up to
the opening of the polls, the prevailing
odds being 21a to l. The odds on Ban
nard, the Republican nominee, were
to Is and on Hearst. the Civic Allianct
candidate, 1 to s. Many bets were re-
corded at to that Barnard woult
beat Hearst Some OF the bets record
ed are as follows; $4,000 at 2 to i that
hGaynor would be elected; s1.400 to 81. 00I
/ that Barnard beats Hearsts;' 1000 t.
$1,000 that Barnard wins; 81, 200 to 81, ,00t
that the candidates finish in .fhis or.
der: Gaynor Barnard and Hearst; $500
! tu S100 that Hearst will be defeated
$1,000 to So 900 that Gaynor loses; $4,000
| to $500 that Gaynor wins; $4,000 to $1,000
| that Barnard beat Hearst; $1,000 to
$500 that Hearst will not finish one
| two -'..t't...s.'f 'f'ts.'r
Nearly three-quarters of the regis
tered vote in New Yorks triangular
Mayoralty election had been cast by
o'clock this afternoon. Managers of
the campaign declared that it had been
one of. the quietest elections in the
city's history and one in which few IL
legal votes. had been cast.
| The, weather was cloudy during the
day. but that did not deter the voters
from coming out.
| Cloudy and threatening weather
throughout New York State. together
with the fact that no State officers were
being chosen, kept the vote to normal
proportions or less. The chief contests
were for members of the Assembly, in
many of which the direct primaries
| issue was involved.
Superintendent of Elections Leary
said this afternoon that there had been
little If any, colonization of voters this
year and that few votes illegal because
of the voters non-resdence were being
| offered.