Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-03

enracy. The figures indicate the cleo
ton of Judge Mccall and his assoc
ciates on the Democratic ticket.
situation Improved.
During the past week the situation
has greatly improved. Information
has come TO me from all sections of
tho city that the Fusionists and their
reckless and lying mouthpieces have
pverdone their slanderous work, that
they have tired and Disguised q great
many of orr fair-minded citizens.
Our figures are indeed very encour-
Bgjng and indicate q substantial
Democratic victory"
The telephone and telegraph ae-
counts of Ex-Governor William Sui
ger, charged to the state, as made
aoublic in dispatches from Albany
printed yesterday morning, support
tho statement of Judge Edward %.
Mccall chat it was Sulzer who was
calling on Mccall repeatedly for AID,
land not Mccall who was going to
ssulzer, as the latter has charged, as
asn ernissary of Charles II. Murphy.
Judge Mccall, having told of these
ssufnmonses at some length III recent
public statements, had nothing to ada
Yesterday. His friends. however, took
sup the list of telephone calls as pub
1ished and explained some OF them.
The first call on the account, put IN
from the executive chamber at O:2s
n. IN. on January % last, they SAID
was the occasion when Governor Sui
kzer asked Judge Mccall to como TO
zAlbany on the trip when he offered
him the Craftsmanship of the Public
Service Commission. The call at
Slt:20 on the night of February :,
sfhey said, also had to do with the
Rppointment, which Mccall had ae-
accpted the previous night after a
personal Interview with the governor.
seek Removal of voorhees,.
The summary removal of John f..
Voorhees,, superintendent of elections.
% Democrat. Is asked In a letter adj
dressed to Governor Glynn today by
Francis W Bird. chairman OF the Ma
tional Progressive party of New
York county: l.. j. O'Reilly. chairman
of the city cornpaign committee of
The Independence League, and Glenn
eut J. Dfiscoli. president of the Vo-
fers' League.
The letter charges voorhees, with
Failure to investigate violations Of
thc election law, with permitting his
office to he used tor partisan pur
poses and with general incompe-
fepcy and ine1ieicncy.' II alleges
that the superintendent failed to take
ection ION lists of fraudulent regis
aration submitted to him Il year
ago" and permitted the same nones
10 be registered this year, and that
be appointed as deputy superintend.
rpts men totally untitled and of bad
reputation" some of whom, the let
Ter stateA he equipped with revolvers
and permitted ito suppress and in
firnidate electors"
Eugene .. Wood, the politician
sought by District Attorney Whit
man as Witness today at the John
Doe investigation into the charges of
Tammany corruption made by John
"a. Hennecsy, could not be found this
afternoon Friends said he was out
OF town and would not return for
several days. Hennessy, chief fighter
against Tamn1sn5 In the municipal
campaign. testified last week that It
was Wood who gave him most Of the
material for his charges.
May Call Mclaughlin.
One report had 1t that Wood had
gone to Albany to vote. In his abb
aeneo it was thought that w. w
Mclaughlin. jr.. would be called as
d witness. Young Mclaughlin recent
Is made affidavlt that his father, an
ex police inspector, lent SCI 900 to Ed
ward II. Mccall, Tammany caudidatc
for mayor. about the time Of Nc
Calls nomination for the State SUI
premo bench In 1900.