Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-04
IN NEW YORK.
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bearer Information reaching police
headquarters that strong arm men,
gun men. guerillas and thugs gener-
ally We're to be employed to intimi-
date voters, tomorrow, resulted in
promises, tonight, of police activity un-
usual for election day in this city. Sew
en- hundred picked policemen familiar
with under world characters. will be
assigned To ali parts of all boronghs,
Police Commissioner Waldo announced
At midnight. tonight, every police.
captain was shifted from his regular
precinct To another, the change To be
effective for a hours
The commissioner gave these orders.
acting upon communication from
Mayor Kline, who had been visited a
few hours previously by John Purroy
Mitchell, the Fusion nominee for
mayor. Waldo said he had been in
formed of the threatened invasion
of election districts by gangsters by
both Mayor Kline and former Cover
nor William Sulzer, who is the Pro-
gressive candidate for the State AS
sembly in the 9th district. In addi-
ton to the police measures for pro-
lection for voters, warrants We're is
sued for the arrest of 5000 persons and
will be served as they appear at the
polls. The warrants charge Illegal
registration.
Economy and lower taxes, described
early in the campaign by Edward f.
Mccall, Tammany's mayaralty candi-
date as the issues before the voters,
disappeared as campaign topics with
the advent of SulZer and his one-time
graft investigator, John A. Hennessy,
on the political scene. Their attacks
on Charles #. Murphy, and on Mccall
as his candidate, were taken up by
the Fusion municipal nominees and
from the Fusion viewpoint Tammany
and alleged graft became the issue.
Suffers removal by the high court of
Impeachment overshadowed all else
Of campaign importance. Mccall being
asSailed as a go-between for Murphy
ard SuIzer in the events that led up To
Suffers removal
"fhe people are ready To administer
a striking rebuke To Charles +. Muir
ply" was the comment tonight, Of
Mitchell who said he had been inform
ed that Tammany district leaders We're
secretly predicting his election by h.
600 - The financial district, today, and
about town. tonight, the betting ODDS
faVaf ed Mitchell 3 to | and To /, with
TamrianY men asking . TO L. Murphy,
however, made Il similar prophecy de-
spite the trend of the betting that the
whole Tammany ticket would win.
The filthy campaign" Murphy assign
e.. as his reason for his confidence de-
claring ii would react against the Flu
sion candidates.
Mr.. Mccall said, tonight. that he
was confident of the city. Il am comb
dent that New York is going to febtke
the unfair campaign methods of my
opponents | am confident that ma
iority voters will judge me on my rec
ord rs a citizen and public official.
The Fusion ticket is being backed by
Republicans, anti-Tammany Democrats.
| Progressives and members of a num-
Der of independent political organi2a-
tions The Independence League has in
dorsed Mitchell for mayor, and Charles
| s. Whitman. the Fusion and Democratic
nominee for district attorney. but has
selected it's own candidates for several
| places on the ticket. including eonptrol-
1
! Ter and president of the board OF alder
men, 1t also has endorsed several of the
| Tammany judiciary nominees
The many charges of Sulzer and Hen
messy are under investigation by Dis
| trict Attorney Whitman. A new charge
was made against Mccall, today, by th'
Fusion managers. 1t was to the etfec
that the Democratic mayoralty nomine'
drew his check for s2S,000 to Cornelius
! N Bliss, treasurer of the Republican
| National Committee, in 1900, as a cam
paign contribution to help defeat thu
candidacy of William Jennings Bryan
for President and also the New Sorl
state Democratic ticket.
1.-THE records of the Hughes invest
cation will show about the check wa
:. McCalls reply to this attack He re
ferred to the insurance Investigation o
United States Supreme Court justice
Hughes before he became Governor o
New York.