Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-04
HEAVY EARLY VOTE
FOR M'CALL MARKS
NEW YORK ELECTION
Tammany Districts Pour Out
Full Strength as Soon as
Polls Open.
BALLOTlNG AT THE RATE
OF ONE EVERY MINUTE
Police and City Officials Take
Extraordinary Precautions
to Prevent Fraud.

NEW YORK. Nov 4,-The regis
tered voters in Greater New York.
numbering $50, 762, began at 6 o'clock
this morning to decide for themselves
the mayoralty issue and the merits
Of hundreds of minor off1ceseekers.
including candidates for the state
Assembly and the city board of al
dermen.
About twenty-five arrests for al
legged Irregularities in voting had
been made up to noon Among those
arrested We're four Columbia stud
ents.
In the second assembly district,
where there is a hot contest between
Alfred l.. Smith, present Democratic
speaker cf the Assembly, and the
Fusion candidate, Morrie Cohen, the
voters were bombarded with eggs and
| vegetables.
Clement Driscol, president of the
Voters League, IN intereeding for a
challenged voter was set upon by
gangsters. Police reserves rescued
him.
Extraordinary precautions against
riot, bloodshed and fraud, which 1t was
feared would mark the climax OF the
! bitterest campaign that New York
has known for years, were taken by
! the police. the courts, District Attor-
ney Whitman, Mayor Kline and the
various organizations interested in
the purity of the. ballot.
/ Police Captains SiiEhted.
j For the first time in the city's his
tory every police captain was shifted
out OF his own precinct. Volunteers
and paid watchers we're assigned &c
every suspected polling place, the
magistrates courts announced all.
] day sessions, the district attorney as
signed several of his assistants tc
fraud cases. and Judge Grain in.
structed the grand ury for nprospee
| tive election cases.
| William Sulzer. deposed governor
accompanied by a bodyguard, today
made on early tour Of the Sixth AS.
senlbly district, from which he seek:
election TO tho State Assembly OF
the Progressive ticket. lie visited
i nearly all of the polling places ant
! at most of them was greeted will
! cheers. A heavy vote was being east
IN the, lower Manhattan Tamnfah.
strongholdH the voting was rapi,
I from the start Theaonly delays wer
when q voter who could not writ
was reached.
In Suffers district the vote up t,
midafternoon was larger in proportion
! than in any other in the city. Nor
1 than 80 per cent. of the registered dis
trict vote was cast before noon
Sulzer supporters said all indications
| pointed to his election by substan-
tial plurality.
Vote Every Minute.
Throughout the city there were in.
dications of an unusually heavy vote
eNidencing the great interest in th'
| fight between Tammany and Fusion
At one polling place seventeen votei
were cast in fifteen minutes. At an
other. FIVE voted in the first sever
minutes.
This was. about the average today
in the lower sections, and was con
sidered heavy voting for the start
| Inspector Schmittbergerf was at po
lice headquarters early TO have gen
] eral charge of the, police arrange
ments. The drill room on tie thirt
floor at headquarters has been con
yerted into barracks for today, an,
police reserves will remain CONSTANT.
on duty, to be sent to any part o
the city where they may be needed.
The police have GOO warrants il
their hands, about 100 OF them OF
indictments. The preparations for al
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