The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-04
Entire City Stirred by Con-
test to Reclaim Board of
Estimate Control.
1,O79,256 ON POLL LISTS
G.. @. p. Confident La Guar
dia and Curran Will Win
by Fair Majorities.
TAMMANY BOSS Is SILENT
Outlook Good for Newburger
and McCook-Haskell, Wet,
to Win in Brooklyn.
TAMMANY BOSS is SILENT
This Is election day.

This Is election day.
The polls are open from 6 A. NJ. to 6
Pm.
Voters will cast their ballots at the
same places that they registered.
The Board Of Elections has issued a
warning to voters to go to the polling
places as early as possible as the reg
istration is heavy in many of the cleo
ton districts and there is strong pos
sibility Of much congestion in the late
hours.
Great efforts will be made by all
parties to get out a heavy vote. and II
the weather is good there are indica-
tons that the election will be a record
breaker for so-called "off year"
The total registration is 1,079. 1855, d.
vided as follows: Manhattan, 3s6.427;
Bronx, 150.637; Brooklyn, 407,12s:
Queens. 11o.475: Richmond, 24,5Ss.
The ctywide issue is that raised by
the Republicans of breaking up the close
corporation into which the Hylan-Tam-
many combination has turned the Board
Of Estimate. This could be done by the
election of Representative F. H. La
Guardia, the anti-Tammany candidate
for the Board of Estimate.
In Manhattan this issue has also been
used in the campaign for the election OF
Major Henry H. Curran. anti-Tammany
candidate for President of the Borough.
who is running against the chairman OF
the Tammany General Committee, Ed
ward F. Boyle.
Would Block Tammany Grabs.
The President of the Board of Alder
men has three and the President of the
Borough of Manhattan mas two votes in
the Board of Estimate. the Ave votes
being able to block all financial grabs
which the Hylan-Tammany combination
night try TO put over.
"Ler IN the light" has been the cry,
and there are evidences that 1t has been
effective.
In the First judicial district the big
fight has been on the election OF Justice
Joseph f. Newburger to the Supreme
Court and the defeat of Irwin INTER
myer. the thirty-three-year-old son OF
Samuel Untermyer. who was put on the
ticket by Boss Murphy to supplant
Justice Newburger.
Major Philip ]. McCook. Republican.
running with Justice Newburger for the
Supreme Court on the anti-Tammany
ticket, may be pulled in II there is
general sweep against Tammany and
the Democratic party in general.
In Brooklyn the bitter fight of Rep
resentative Reuben l.. Haskell. Repub-
lican candidate for Judge of the Kings
County Court, against the opposition of
the Anti-Saloon League has overshad-
owed the campaign for the other county
offices. 1t is predicted by all sides that
Haskell will win.
Tiger BracinE for Defeat.
In spite of the fact that the Demo-
Gratis express supreme confidence and
the betting in Wall Street favors the
Tammany candidates, they were brac-
Ing themselves last night for a severe
blow that they feared might be coming.
The Republicans said they sensed,
rather than calculated. a victory that
might carry in the major part of their
ticket all over the city.
As one Republican expressed it last
night:
When things are going one way.
when there is a general undercurrent
IN one direction, IL Is hard to calculate
the extent to which 1t will carry a move
ment We all realized last year that
Gov Smith had things turned in his
direction. But who would have pre-
dicted that he would get a plurality of
10000 in Brooklyn? Or who would have
bought Frederick c. Tanner could have
is1en defeated for Congress in a sure
republican districtr
Samuel S. Koenig. Republican leader,
repeated his prediction that La Guardia
ild Curran would carry thirteen OF the
-Venty-three Assembly districts and the
'ammany majority in the others would
Nn cut materially.
Charles f. Murphy maintained n dense
H'ence. Representative Thomas f.
NTH, secretary of Tammany Hall, de-
nied that the leaders were glum.
Tammany Figures withheld.
That Is the usual time worn cam
paign lie,' Mr. Smith declared. "Its OBJ
pct is manifest. The truth is that our
organization has neither sought nor re-
t'ived any estimates. except those Gus
t9narily submitted by the leaders on the
hAturday before election.
notwithstanding their anxiety to
EnoW, we regret we cannot see our way
tlear to disclose our figures TO our
va .'arst-RepubliCan opponents"
John H. McCooey Tammany leader in
~ ooklyn. coitt nted himself with claim
ig a victory for his county ticket.
Continued on FIth Pd0e.