The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-10-29
HEARST PICKED
TO RUN LAST
CLAIM CITY FOR
GAYNOR by 10000.
There Is Practically No Betting
$4,000 Was offered ut Even
Hearst Would Hum Last.
REPUBLICANS SAY BARNARD

New York, Oct. 29.-Never in the
history of New York city elections
has it been so difficult to get a line
on the vote as in the present con-
test, which will be settled next Tues
day. Leaders of the Democratic and
Republican organizations have sent
their lieuteuants out three different
times to make house-to-house can
vasses, and the figures brought back
have been incomplete and unsatis-
factory each time. No one can tell
with any degree of accuracy what the
count next Tuesday will show.
There are political wise men who
say that Gaynor will be elected by
$50, 600 plurality. and there are
others who with all sincerity declare
that Barnard, the Republican nomi-
nee, will be elected by polling his
party vote in addition to thousands
of Democratic conservatives who re-
gard both Gaynor and Hearst as rad
icals
There are others who assert that
Barnard will make a miserable show
ling; that Gaynor will lose thousands
of votes and that Hearst will be
swept into office.
Those who take the broadcast kind
of view of the situation believe that
Judge Gaynor will be elected by
something like 10000, and that it
will be nip and tuck for all the other
places on the ticket. with Tammany
losing probably half OF its county
ticket.
Bets Not Taken.
There is practically no betting.
Ten thousand dollars was offered
yesterday at even that Hearst would
run third, but no takers appeared.
Wagers which are placed on the head
of the ticket are 2 to /, Gaynor
against the field. The present con-
test is the more Interesting because
II may mean the downfall of the Muir
ply regime in Tammany of the cleo
ton to high leadership of Congress
man Herbert Parsons, who Is the Re
publican leader of New York county.
Murphy is fighting desperately
realizing that IL he loses the rebelli-
Gus element in his organization will
rise up and demand a change of lead
ership. He has been playing a hard
game for four years. being at odds
with the mayor all that time. and be-
ing kept on a stingy diet of patron
age. and II is only by displaying
| flashes of genius such as most per
sons do not know he possesses that
he has kept himself intrenohed in
the chair which was held for years by
"Dick" Croker.
On the other hand Herbert Par
sons, who is the new type of leader.
and whose ambition Is to land in the
United States senate, will find him
self one of the big men in his party
If he succeeds at least in giving the
Republicans a substantial foothold in
New York county, for a half century
the fortress of Tammany hall He
has been working for six years, pre-
pairing for this very contest, and II
is generally believed that If he sue
ceeds his path to the United States
senate as the successor of Chauncey
NJ. Depew will be rose strewn.
1 Forcing an Issue.
Strongest kind OF efforts are still
being made to make the white slave
traffic the leading issue against Tam
many. Reformers from various parts
of the country are sending on state
|lments designed to show that the traf-
ic in human lives in the metropolis
is an actually and the statements
are eagerly accepted by the refoT
newspapers. Tammany declares that
the new issue Is a boomerang.
Judge Gaynor is making nightly
campaign tours which are truthfully
described as "whirlwind." SO mark
ed a contrast Is his campaign to the
tranquil life he has always lived
that he is showing signs Of WEAKNESS
lie is also chatting under the repeated
attacks made upon him. He Is man.
Tagging his own campaign and fire.
quently fails to appear at meetings
which have been arranged by the
regular organization.
Mr.. Barnard, the Republican NOM
inee, Is also showing evidence of IA
tigue from his nightly romps through
1.-THE borOughs. He has done no mud
lslinging leaving that for the other