The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-29
CRY. OF FRAUD HAS STARTED
 IN NEW YORK

| New York. Oct. 29.-With the care
 ful canVass of their districts. leaders and campaign managers to-day began the preparation of the official fore casts which they will issue tonight i and prove to the uninitiate ted just wht will be elected next Tuesday. That is the managers for Barnard and Hearst will do so. but Charles F. Murphy will refuse and Murphy has a good reason. While he believes privately and in- sists publicly that Gaynor will be elected. he is noI sure about the re-
 mainder of the city ticket. This is due to the leaders in their reports declar- Ing that the s"singie vote" this year will be the largest in the city's his
 tory. Every effort to line up this vote has been useless and Tammany hopes Tor the best but is preparing for the
 worst.
 We may strike a landslide that
 will swing through our entire ticket declared one of the Tigers chiefs to- day, "and we are doing all we can to Iget2 it but thes cry of a Tammanyized board of estimate is having it's effect
 eral offices are stalwart business men EaTith the best reputation I personally F'thfnk they wffT be defeated. Gaynor. I think, will be elected mayor" When Leader Murphy of Tammany
 was, asked about this statement he
 eharaeterized it as absurd 1.-The en-
 tire Tammany ticket will be elected g
 chancesS'
 He refused point blank however, to
 give out any figures and became
 peevish when asked who he thought
 would get the mayoralty.
 Congressman Herbert Parsons will
 issue his final estimate tonight. Last week he claimed Bannard's election by 22G00 but it is understood in his state
 ment this evening he will raise the ante. He will claim Barnard by be- tween 54.000 and 457.000. the balance of
 the; Fusion ticket by nearly 100000 and the election of the Fusion ticket in every single borough. According to Parsons way of figuring. Hearst will finish a bad third.
 William M. Nins. personal manager for Hearst. will not give out his final figures until tomorrow. He stated to- day that his early forecast in1icates the election of Hearst by almost 100.- 900. "The tide is running stronger our way than it did four years ago.' he said. "and this time all votes will be counted. /Hearst's election is al- ready assured"
 A sensation was caused to-day by the publication of a statement in the World which is supporting Gavnor fer election. quoting D. Clarence Gibboney. the Fusion candidate for district at torney in Philadelphia as declaring that the Republicans in that city and Tammany leaders here have arranged n offensive and defensive alliance whereby gang of thugs will vote the Republican ticket in the river wards in the Quaker City next Tuesday and then be hurried to this city to vote the straight Tammany ticket. Gibboney is declared to have said:
 "An agent of the Philadelphia gang is now in New York consulting with Tammany agents for the employment of fraudulent voters in the two cities on election day. The present arrange ment is for the morning work to be done in Phi!adelphia and the men then hurried over to New York for that the bosses of one city operate under the guise of Democracy and in the other fpass as Republicans. They both seek the same ends. Both desire the patronage and the plunder of election. Both are ready to operate in harmony for mutual pro- lection and benefit
 None of the leaders here would en- dorse Gibboneys statement to-day. Both Parsons for the Republicans and Geherine for the civic leagua dec'ar the Tammany plans frauds but they insist they have all arranged to check mate them. The Tamm any lea7ers the story as foolish. They point to the fact that when a voter registered at the regular time he was kept for the purpose. He was given a. certificate showing his number on the polling list and when he goes to vote Tuesday he will have to gn this certificate in the, presence of the board If elections,