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TIIE SUTAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 2, 1013. COLLEGE STUDENTS THREE MEN MOST PROMINENT IN NEW YORK POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, NOW DRAWING TO CLOSE. FOE GIVES SULZER Overcoat Time Is STORMY - GREETING ere We Have Unique Experiences Told by 1400 Employes for "Hon est Ballot." Eggs and Vegetables Thrown, Fire Engines Called, Fist Fights Are Many. The Overcoats PROMINENT MEN BACKERS M'CALL ALSO ASSAILED CLEANSING GOTHAM H Fifty Thousand Illegal Votes Are Cast In Xew York Every Elec tion," Says Jolm Pnrroy Mitch el, Candidate for Mayor. BT ARTHUR GEART. NEW YORK. Nov. 1. (Special.) While President Wilson and Billy" Bryan were doing foreign missionary work in Mexico In regard to the election just held there, 1400 college students in the employ of the Honest Ballot As sociation were watching the registra tion booths and checking up "un knowns" In the endeavor to give New York the unique experience of an hon est election. A call for 8500 volunteers has been Issued to the universities, young men's business clubs, and militia to aid the home missionary workers by serving as watcners at the 1700 polling places In the city on election day. "Fifty thousand illegal votes are cast In New York every election," Is the statement of John Purroy Mitchel, for mer expert investigator In the corpora tion counsel's office, now the standard bearer of the anti-Tammany forces In the Mayoralty fight, to be Bettled next Tuesday. Different from Mexico, the corrupt voting at the polls of late years has been carried on In a civilized and semi peaceful manner with the practice of but little Intimidation and "rough work" n the immediate vicinity of the booths. The hiring of "floaters" who register and vote In 40 or 60 districts and the casting of ballots for those whom the political "captain" thinks will not vote because of death, sickness or removal from the district since reg 1 1stration are the methods pursued. Old Darky "Gives Away" Gang. A gang of 50 "floaters" from Balti more, who registered in five districts, were discovered at the last election through the Ignorance of an old darky, 72 years of age, who had been freed by Lincoln. Upon close questioning, the old man fell on his knees and said that he was old and Boon to die, but that he prayed the Lord to spare him until election day as he needed the money. Just before election, political "cap tains," and near relatives of the multi tudinous candidates for small offices, go into the boarding-house business. Numbers of mythical men are regis tered from these prima facie lodging houses. Two years ago 40 were reg istered as living In a seven-room house, 10 from a famous prize-fighter's saloon on Fourteenth street, and six from the basement of a church, the janitor of which had been paid 75. On checking up the records, employes of the Honest Ballot Association learned that 45 cripples with the same names had registered in the districts of the city, but that none of them had voted. It was found that the 45 registrations had been made by one Individual, who was prevented from voting by an arrest on a larceny charge, shortly before the election. The cripple had received 50 cents for each registration. Bule Lo,ni Votes. Pheland Beale, now on the executive committee of the Honest Ballot Asso ciation at the last election lost his vote because another used his name before his arrival at the polls. Often, an honest voter, coming late to the booths, finds that the wily "captain." who keeps a list of those who have not voted, has slipped somebody Into the booth In his place. In the lower East Side and other ten ement districts, those who cannot be cajoled by the Tammany captains or bribed by excursion tickets for the children, free dances of the "check your black-jacks outside" type, and free bail when arrested, are often Intimi dated and kept from the polls. But a a few years ago "huskies" were em ployed right at the polls. Burdette G. Lewis, chief of the bureau of estimates and proportions, while acting as a. watcher, was attacked by the late Her man Rosenthal, the gambler, and the late Spanish Louie, both of whom by violent deaths, have followed others whom they no doubt have sent to the "happy hunting grounds" and who were at that time engaged in handling "floaters." The system pursued by the collegians on the days of registration, while the professors addressed empty seats at the colleges, was to describe In a book of record each person that registered the color of his eyes and hair, his age, his estimated weight, his name and his address, and the length of time that he had been a resident of the dis trict. Previous to the days of registra tion, each student had been provided with a list of names taken from the records of the previous year to investi gate. ThOBe who apply for registration wno nave Deen found to represent fic titious people, or those that have died or moved away, are challenged. In great numbers these refuse to take the oath and leave the booth. Forty five only have been Indicted, an r Between the days of registration and next Tuesday, the students will have Investigated all new voters in their districts or at least have made an at tempt at It. Students' Pay Good. Kach student employe of the Honest Ballot Association Is paid ?5 or $8 a day. Seven hundred are from Columbia University and the other half are from jroranam j-iaw uouege. New York TTnl versity and City College of New York. According to tne stories told by the students, a number have been offered bribes to permit false registration or to lose their book of record. Some, who have disobeyed orders and taken time off for lunch, have found 15 to 20 new voters registered during their absence. Many of the students work only for the money that they are get ting and do not properly investigate names on the suspicious list. On the whole, however, they form the most efficient and trustworthy body of men that could be gotten together for so short a period of time. The Honest Ballot Association is In corporated and has a directorate of 30 wealthy New Yorkers. Cleveland H. Dodge, Democrat; R. Fulton Cutting, Republican and noted philanthropist; W. Averell Harriman, Republican and Bon of Edward H. Harriman, and George W. Perkins, progressive, are the underwriters of the corporation and furnish a goodly proportion of the sin ews of war. Talcott Williams, head of the school of journalism at Columbia University. Is the president and E. Stagg Whltin! the noted advocate of prison reform and holder of the degree of doctor of philosophy from Columbia University, is the managing director. Two promi nent vice-presidents of the organiza tion are Vincent Astor and Frank Mun sey. The Honest Ballot Association Is strlotly non-partisan. - V'fc j . ;;Ss-' I FU V V z 4 - vX H - ' - ' II MITCHEL IS LEADING Fusion Candidate Not Popular but Will Have Votes. DAYS FOR MURPHY DISftIAL Man Who Rudely Ignored Sugges tion It Was Bad Policy to Im peach Snlzer Xow Believed to Be "on Run" In Gotham. Contlnued From First Page.) rf. fey Stlllwell was accused of grafting, but the Murphy Senators gave him a coat of whitewash. This was followed by an indictment secured by District At torney Whitman, and on the same evi dence Stlllwell Is now in Sing Sing, serving from four to eight years. StUI-well "Takes Orders." "Stlllwell took Murphy's orders, that is why the Senate stood by him," they will tell you on the East Side. It Is worth while to travel down on the East Side these eights. The streets are full of people. Suddenly one or more men will point oft and give the long drawn out cry that means ex citement on the East Side. This is followed by shouts of "He comes. Our Martyr." ' From every tenement house, mobs of people pour out. and point down the street. Enter a large touring car. In the tonneau is the former Governor, hat In hand and bowing right and left. The people crowd around, grab his hand, and go entirely mad. The chauffeur stops because he cannot get through the crowd without danger of reducing Sulzer's majority. The candidate Is called upon for a speech. He complies. Then he tells them of other engage ments, and Anally a way Is cleared through the crowd, and the auto pi o ceeds at a snail's pace. Further down the block the scene is repeated. Sulzer talks everywhere. Sometimes he gets into halls, more often his forum is the auto's tonneau. His audiences are enthusiastic. They cheer every thing he says, and carry on like mad men. Hennessey Real Orator. Hennessey is without doubt the most effective orator in the present cam paign. Sulzer appeals only to his fu ture constituents, but Hennessey car ries the torch of war all over town. He speaks In Manhattan. In the fur thermost sections of the Bronx. In Brooklyn and even In benighted Staten Island. He whacks Murphy, McCall, everyone he thinks of. Ha reels off figures about graft in road building, graft in architect's plans, graft in canal construction, graft here, there and everywhere. And the next morning the men he has pilloried come out and deny what Hennessey has Bald. This does not affect John. He simply comes back with some more figures and some additional charges. The firm of Sulzer & Hennessey Is alone carrying the fusion cause to vic tory. Mitchel speaks, of course, but no one pays any attention to him. There are other orators, but the public does not know their names or care anything about them. The papers carry pages of political news each morning, but It Is usually divided up about In these pro portions: Thirty per cent, what Bill Sulzer Is doing; 50 per cent, what John Hennes sey is saying: 10 per cent, Tammany denials of what Hennessey Is saying, and 10 per cent of the other political news of the day. Tammany to Be Burled. A few weeks ago there were thou sands of Republicans who had deter mined to vote for McCall. There was likewise an army of Gaynor men who said that between McCall and Mitchel they preferred McCall. Now these men are going around proclaiming that the one thing to do Is to bury Tammany so deep that there will be no resurrection. "Murphy believes In the recall by the telephone of the Boss," Is one of the popular campaign cries of the day. Everyone has a brick to throw at the fat boss of Tammany Hall. He Is still in the ring, but it must be admitted that he Is badly dented. Tammany men privately say that If McCall Is defeated. Murphy's scalp shortly will be hanging on the outer wall of the wigwam. Murphy Is blamed all around. He is blamed for removing Sulzer on the eve of the city campaign, he is blamed for naming his "messenger boy," McCall, for Mayor; he is blamed for not having shot John Hennessey a month ago. No one Inside Tammany Hall has dared to tell Murphy just how bad things are. His lieutenants, however, have practically given up hope. They are figuring to save something out of the wreckage, but are not confident. Their one remaining hope is that the Republicans will stay away from the polls and thereby give McCall a chance. What Fusion Victory Means. When one looks at it, there Is little reason why Republicans should exert themselves this year. A fusion victory means the strengthening of the Pro gressive party, a strengthening of the Woodrow Wilson faction or the De mocracy. It only will be patriotism that will cause the Republicans to come to the polls on November 4. Upon the size of the Progressive par ty vote depends whether the next As sembly will be Democratic or not. In many aistricis tne Progressives are running candidates of their own; in others they have fused with the Dem ocrats. A Progressive vote anything like that of a year ago will keep Tarn many In power at Albany. The general Above Left, John Pnrroy Mitchel. Fa- lonlst Candidate for Mnyorj Right, John S. Hennessy, Salver's Graft in vestigator. Below Charles F. Mur phy, Leader of Tammany Hall. belief Is that the Republicans will win the Assembly by a narrow margin. The Senate, which Is Democratic by a two thirds majority, holds over. z The only state officials to be elected this year are a Chief Justice and an Associate Justice of the Court of Ap peals, the highest judicial tribunal In the state. Justice Werner probably will be elected to preside over the court, and Justice Hiscock become an associate member of the court. Both are Republicans. Matters may be com plicated and the Democratic nominees win if the Progressives poll a large vote In New York City. It Is a strange battle that Is going on In our city. Sulzer has organized the militant Hebrews against Tam many Hall and In past years they have been one of the organization's greatest sources of strength; Hennessey has stirred up the taxpayers, and the rest of us are worked up on general principles. BAY STATE FIGHT ON Administration Sends Help as Lewis Enters Race. F0SS ASKS FOURTH TERM Governor Running as Independent, WWle Two Party Xomlnees Are Campaigning in Defiance of State Machine. (Continued From Klrst Fa ire.) QUICK ACTION" ASKED SULZER APPEALS TO POLITI CIANS GIVES OUT. i Effort to Prevent Impeachment Through Others Appear In Let ters Sent by Flat. ALBANY. N. Y.. Nov. 1. Telegrams signed "Chester G. Piatt," the name of former Governor Sulzer's private secre tary, sent from the executive chamber the day before Sulzer was Impeached. which sought to Influence the votes of assemblymen, were made public today. Another telegram signed "William Sulzer," which urged Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of the Navy, to interview the President as soon as possible and make an appoint ment for him to see Annisdale, Mitchel and some other friends at an early date, was given out. There was noth ing to Indicate whether Roosevelt compiled. That Sulzer frequently called Edward EL McCall by telephone was shown by large slips from the telephone company. Only one of these calls was made after the Impeachment charges had been voted. Both the telegrams and teleDhone charge slips were revealed by state employes who are auditing the accounts of the executive chamber during Sul zer's incumbency. ' A telegram signed "Chester C Piatt," and sent to Henry P. Burgard at Fulton, N. Y., August 1, read: "Will you telephone or telegraph As semblyman Geoghan Immediately. He votea tor iTawiey report yesterday, but I think If you can reach him you can prevent him from voting for Impeach ment. Answer. Can you help us with our Assemblymen? You ought to be in Albany." Burgard is a Democratic leader In Buffalo. Geoghan Is a member of the lower House, from that city. Telegrams sent to J. J. Cumminers. George H. McGulre, M. Z. Havens and William H. Kelly, of Syracuse, read: l-an you bring influence to bear bv telegraph or telephone on Represent atives ivelly and Daly, to prevent them from voting for the impeachment reso lution? Quick action necessary." The telegram sent to Roosevelt, dated July 21, said: "Please Interview the President as soon as possible and make an appoint ment for him to see Annisdale. Mitchel and some other friends at an early date. Am writing particulars." ASSEMBLY TO BE REAL TEST Parties Concentrate In New York on Election of Legislators. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. The voters of New York state will choose next Tues day two Judges of the Court of Appeals and a new state Assembly. As factors other than partisan politics enter into the election of Judges, the contest for control of the lower house of the Leg islature Is expected to be the real test of party strength In the state. Thirty-four cities will elect Mayors and nine Supreme Court Justices will be chosen. Among the cities that will elect Mayors are New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Schenec tady, lit lea, Binghamton and Elmira. Governor. Edward P. Barry, a member of the Governor's council, opposed the machine, made a redhot canvass and won, -and has conducted his campaign for second place independently of the state committee. Gardner practically wound up his campaign at a mass meeting in Tre- mont Temple tonight. i am more contident of victory every day," Governor Foss said tonight. The Governor will close his campaign with a tour or the cape towns on Monday. Lieutenant-Governor Walsh, in hit figures given out tonight, allowed Mr. Bird and Mr. Gardner jointly 24,000 votes. To Governor Fobs he allowed 40,000, claiming 165,000 for himself. Charles Summer Bird, last year's can didate, had been named again, for Gov ernor by the Progressives. l'he efforts of the Administration to elect Walsh were in,, evidence today. when James Hamilton Lewis, Senator from Illinois, entered the campaign hurriedly at the request of President Wilson. While In Chicago on Thursdav he received a telegram from Secretary Tumulty and immediately cancelled several political conferences to hasten to this state. "Just now before the nations of the world tremble two serious problems.' the Illinois Senator said tonight at a rally. "One is the effort of President Wilson and his Administration to main tain before the Orient, particularly Japan, that kind of home rule which our fathers In Massachusetts obtained as the fundamental theory of the Amer, lean democracy the right of the state to regulate and control their own af fairs, their schools, their lands, the manner and kinds of people who should mingle In their citizenship to increase or dilute it. This question as to whether this privilege shall continue as against the Oriental theory of government, or whether our National Government shall attempt to override It merely at the demand of a foreign nation is the great problem at Washington which Presi dent Wilson is seeking to solve. Mexican Situation Delicate. "Again in Mexico, as is known to all. we have a most delicate situation. The public press brings us the information that England and Germany doubtless misunderstanding the issue have been about to join with Mexico against us. The President has asked these govern ments to wait until they can be fully Informed on the situation in Mexico and thus be advised as to our policy, known as the Monroe doctrine. "Foreign governments do not under stand your state Issues, but they do Know xuassacnusetts. You decide the election against the Democracy, and tne morning arter this declaration the Japanese In the Orient, recalling the fight of Massachusetts in behalf of the liberty of the black man, will cry aloud that Massachusetts has repudi ated her President on the yellow ques tion; tnat sne has defeated him In his purpose to protect California and Mas sachusetts In their right of state rule and home government." JERSEY OOXTEST IS S-SIDED National Leaders Speak for Rival Nominees for Governor. TRENTON, N. J Nov. 1. The cam paign in New Jersey, which Involves principally the election of a Governor, practically ended tonight. It has been marked by the presence of several men of National prominence. Secretary of State Bryan. Senator Jones, of Kentucky, and Congressman Glass, of Virginia, were among those who spoke for James F. Fielder, the Democratic candidate for Governor. Senator Borah and other Republicans of progressive tendencies spoke for ex Governor Edward C. Stokes, the Re publican candidate. Ex-Senator Bever- ldge, of Indiana, and Governor Johnson, of California, were among those who spoke for Everett Colby, the Progres sive candidate. Ex-Governor Has Hot Reception in Tammany Territory Minor Can didate Mobbed by Foreigners Witb. Cries of "Death.!" NEW YORK. Nov. 1. Of the many spirited episodes of the New York mu nicipal campaign, now near Its close, William Sulzer, deposed Governor, and now a candidate for the Assembly from the Sixth district on the lower East Side, met with one tonight that caused him to accuse his political enemies of adopting a new method of campaign warfare. Sulzer went Into the Second Assem bly district to denounce Alfred E. Smith, Speaker of the Assembly, who is seeking re-election. Sulzer found himself in a strong Tammany territory. He took his place in an Improvised balcony diagonally opposite the local Tammany headquarters. Four wagons bearing McCall and Smith signs drove Into a crowd of sev eral hundred persons gathered in the street. Men set on the wagons, tore off the signs and warned the drivers to leave. They had hardly gone when fire engines dashed up, someone having sent a fire alarm. When Sulzer finally was able to speak three giant fire crackers were set off In rapidi order, Madison-street' cars, which run ordi narily at about 30-minute intervals. began to pass through the crowd, each loaded with passengers, who insisted that the conductors stop where the tnrong was most dense. A bevy of girls in a doorway began a campaign of shrieking when Sulzer tried to talk. A fife and drum corps came on the scene. A hundred men carrying Tammany banners marched behind it. After a few fist fights the police di verted the parade into a side street. Sulzer was then assailed with eggs and vegetables. He retired Into a building, his auditors following. When he left after his speech the- disorder was resumed. Edward E. McCall devoted most of his attention tonight to the East Side districts, where Sulzer has been cam paigning, and had as almost an ex citing time at one of his meetings as the deposed Governor. He was inter rupted by opposition sympathizers and fights were numerous as disturbers were ejected. One of the minor candidates for of fice. Thomas C. Press, running for Dis trict Attorney in The Bronx, had an exciting campaign experience when sev eral hundred foreigners whom he was about to address rushed toward the platform shouting a foreign word for death. Press friends came to his aid and a free-for-all fight took place un til police reserves arrived and rescued Press, whose clothing was torn, al though he escaped uninjured. Among the Interesting developments of the day was the denial by Edward E. McCall, Tammany's candidate, of a charge that he had borrowed $21,000 from ex-Police Inspector McLaughlin, presumably to meet a "campaign as sessment," when he was nominated for the State Supreme Court in 1902. Mc Laughlin made a similar denial. The story touched on In campaign speeches by John A. Hennessy, Sulzer's graft Investigator, and brought up again by Hennessy yesterday In the "John Doe" inquiry into campaign charges of graft and irregularities, be came public in its latest form today through a published affidavit by Mc Laughlin's son, William W. McLaugh lin, Jr., who related that his father had a hard time recovering the money from McCall, and finally it had been repaid In the form of a check, of which his father had a photograph taken. The ex-inspector, in an affidavit given out tonight at Democratic head.' quarters, said his son "was mentally Irresponsible" and had been made the "tool" or McCalls enemies. Young McLaughlin was an attendant in the Supreme Court when McCall was on the bench. Chester C. Piatt, Sulzer's secretary, gave out a statement tonight with the approval of the deposed Governor, In which he said that John Purroy Mitchel owed, the certainty of election as Mayor to Mr. Sulzer. Until Mr. Sulzer and Mr. Hennessy entered the campaign it was spiritless, he said. Mr. Piatt pre dieted Sulzer's election to the Assem bly by a big majority. KETSTOXB STATE IS . QUIET Philadelphia's Reform Mayor Con ducts Fight for Council. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 1. The state political campaign, which has been a quiet one, ended tonight. The electors will select two judges for the Superior Court and will vote on five proposed constitutional amendments. More Interest was shown in the prop osition of a $60,000,000 bond Issue for roads than In the Superior Court elec tion. Councllmanlc fights in this city closed tonight. Independent Repub licans, led by Mayor Blankenburg, the reform Mayor, conducted a fusion cam paign against the regular Republicans, the Mayor desiring to have council manic bodies friendly to his adminis tration. The regular Republicans vig orously opposed the fusion candidates. The decrees of fashion make SHORT overcoats on the style of the one illustrated here the favor ites for this season. Your taste may call for another model. We have that too no matter -what it may be. The price -will be one you'll gladly pay. Or if your needs call for a rain coat We have these in smart models well tailored service-giving mate rials. Schloss-Baltimore Overcoats Mandelberg Raincoats $15 $18 $20 $25 And Up "The Store That Sells and Recommends" Schloss-Baltimore Clothes Phegley & Cavender Fourth Street at Alder Successor to Salem Woolen Mills Clothing Co. To Automobile Owners We could not get ready to make 'tEe special announcement for today. Full particulars vrill be given in next Sunday's Oregonian. The White Company E. W. Hill, Mgr. Broadway, Near Oak "In the Business District for Your Convenience" FIGHT 1X3 C A L IX KENTUCKY Legislative Seats Conceded Largely to Democrats. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Nov. 1. With the legislative seats conceded to the Demo crats in almost every district in the state. Interest in next Tuesday's elec tion In Kentucky Is confined largely to municipal contests. A bitter campaign has been waged In Louisville between Democratic! and Progressive organiza tions. A constitutional amendment propos ing the use of convicts on county roads in lieu of present convict labor system will be submitted to the voters. Edlefsens' sell Hiawatha hard cofX -Adr, Edlefsens' sell Hiawatha hard coal. -Adv. A hard, stubborn Cold that hangs on is broken up by Humphreys' "Seventy-seven." Catching Cold is always preceded by lassitude, a feeling of weakness, as if some serious illness was pending; this first sigr. of a Cold is seldom noticed or hee4ed, though this is the time "Seventy-seven" is most effective. If you wait until your bones begin tc ache; till you begin to cough and ineezc, it may take longer. All Drug Stores, 25 cents and $1.00, or mailed. Humphreys' Homeo. 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