Evening star., 1937-11-02
ELECTIONS TODAY
WATCHED FOR CLUE
TO RACES IN 194O
Victors in New York and
New Jersey Likely to Be
Pushed for Presidency.
22,600 IN ANTI-FRAUD
ARMY WATCH POLLS
G. I. O. Seeks to Elect Candidate
as Detroit Mayor and Con-
troll City Council.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Personalities rather than national
issues dominated today's off-year elec-
tions to the extent that some of the
winners may receive consideration as
1910 presidential timber.
Political observers mentioned three
men especially in that connection:
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New
York, seeking reelection with the
backing of an unusual coalition of Re-
publicans, Laborites, Socialists and
Communists.
United States Senator A. Harry
Moore and State Senator Lester H.
Clee, contesting for the governorship
Of New Jersey. Moore, a Democrat, has
been Governor twice. Clee. a Repub-
lican, is Presbyterian minister.
In New York an army of anti-fraud
election watchers, 22,6O0 strong,
mobilized at polling places today as
the vanguard of voters marked their
choices. Widespread talk of vote
stealing, aired by candidates of both
camps in the flve-borough election,
led to the posting of $4,000 police, $500
special deputy attorneys general and
1,100 volunteers, mostly lawyers
Ten arrests in connection with the
hotly disputed election we're recorded
within three hours after the polls
opened. Police Commissioner Lewis
j. Valentine said applications for 2,075
warrants had been made. Illegal reg
istration was charged. A total of
7,437 registrants already had been dis
qualified.
Mayor La Guardia made a personal
all-day tour of the city's 1910 election
districts to look for any evidence of
"strong-arm" intimidation.
Voters were selecting Mayors in
more than 80 cities, Legislatures in five
States Governor in Virginia and
four Representatives to fill vacancies
In New York and Virginia. ssss
Roosevelt Takes No Sides.
Opposing La Guardia was jeremiah
T. Mahoney, running on a Democratic
ticket with the support of Tammany
Hall, Democratic Chairman James A.
Farley, Gov. Herbert Lehman and
Senator Robert F. Wagner.
Both candidates are supporters of
President Roosevelt. The President,
voting at his family home in Hyde
Park, N. Y, has taken no Sides
Special Rackets Prosecutor Thomas
E. Dewey, La Guardia man and a
Republican, opposes Harold w. Hast
ings, Tammany candidate, for district
attorney of New York County. A ma
5ority of New York newspapers pre-
dicted victory for both La Guardia
and Dewey.
The voting-following a record mu-
nicipal registration of 2,483, ,387-was
carried on under the eyes of thousands
Of police.
The polls opened at am. (E. S. T.)
and will close IL hours later.
Barton Runs for Congress.
Bruce Barton, advertising executive
and Republican, was running for Rep
resentative of the 17th silk stock
ing" district, New York County.
against Stanley Osserman, Democrat.
and George Backer, American Labor
nominee, for the seat left vacant by
the death Of T. A. Peyser.
Control of the New York Board of
Estimate, one of the two governing
bodies of the city, was at stake in
the election of a controller, presi-
dents of the five boroughs and presi-
dent of the City Council who, with
the Mayor, constitute the board. The
La Guardia forces won control of the
board four years ago but lost it last
year when Frank j. Taylor, Tammany
candloate, was elected controller.
Taylor is opposed in the present cleo
tion by Joseph D. McGoldrick. Fusion
list.
The city voted also for a City Council
replacing the present Board of Alder
men, councilmen being chosen by pro-
portional representation, which is being
tried m New York for the first time.
p. r" was designed to bring leeisla- |
tive representation to minority Qroups.
which would give Tammany a lesser
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