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EMLIxE . CITIZEN I THI WtATHER ' FAIR.. ALL THE NEWS, f the WoHd ALL THE TIME. THE VOL XXI NO 26 x ; ASHBVTLLB N. C WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 8 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS Mayor McClellan and Jerome Ride the Crest of Victory's Wave VVVVXffcnjTJXruVtfUVVVVU'xriAAl WMWMWWNAMAAAWWWMMVWVMVWWWMMMWVMVMVWWMWMMVWVMH JiJlJlJLnjJUVUlJJVA mmm si siess saseeeasssisseW STAR OF DEMOCRACY, EMERGING FROM ITS LONG ECLIPSE RISES TRIUMPHANT O'ER ASHES OF REPUBLICANISM i 4 AMD POINTS OUT THE WAY TO AN ERA OF VICTORY WITH OHIO STATE SOUNDING CLEAR TRUMPET GALL, Hearst Forces Are Routed By The Tammany Stal warts In New York, While Jerome Affer Running Close RaGe With Osborne, Lands on Top With Fair ly Safe Margin. MAYOR WEAVER SCORES BRIL LIANT TRIUMPH IN PHILADELPHIA Maryland Takes Backward Step By Refusing to Ac cept Constitutional Amendments-Massachusetts Apparently Returns to Ranks of 0. 0. P. While Virginia Does Her Duty In - the Good Old Way. Wlwwvwvvwwswwvwwvwv ,rr -. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. CI: 45 a. m.) Latest returns at this hour are complete in.. Greater New York In the mayoralty contest; with the exception of 61 election dis tricts, scattered through the city. The vote on these re turn gives McClellan (dim) 221.815; Hearst (Municipal Ownership) 218,657; Ivlns (rep) 132,317, a plurality for McClellan of 3,158. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Returns to midnight Indicate that George B. Mc Clellan, Democrat, Is re-eleoted mayor of New York by between 3,000 and 4, O0O plurality over W. R. Hearst, Mu nicipal Ownership, anr that William T. Jerome, independent, is ire-elected dis trict attorney lay about 8,000 over Jas. W. Osborne, Democrat. At midnight Mr. Hearst declined to admit his defeat and declared his in tention to contest the election. At that time returns from 184 election dis tricts had not been received. McClel lan had 205,598; Hearst 203,370, and J vina 130,326 votes. Later with twenty-three districts missing in Manhattan, the vote was McClellan, 118,442; Hearst, 101,691; Ivins, 54,656: giving McClellan a plur ality of 16,752. In the borough of Brooklyn with fourteen election districts missing, Mc Clellan has 66.975: Hearst. 82.908. and Ivins, 69,488 votes. Hearst plurality of 15,333. I In Queens, with four districts miss ing Hearst had a plurality of 721 votes, and in Richmond McClellan won by 1,620 votes, the borough complete. The .following statement was issued at midnight by W. R. Hearst: "We have won this election. AH Tammany's frauds, all Tammany's cor ruption, all Tammany's Intimidation and violence, -all Tammany's false reg istration. Illegal voting ami dishonest count have not been able to overcome a great popular majority. The re-count will show that we haw- won the elec tion by many thousands of votes. "I shall fight this battle to the end, in behalf of the people who have cast their votes for me and who shall not toe disfranchised fcy any effort of crimi nal bosses. "WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST." Contest Was Close. The extent to which the Tammany organization was shaken may be Judg ed from the fact that there was no . fusion of the opposition parties, the means by which the organization had been combatted heretofore, but that Jerome running as a candidate of no party and with his record Jrr office as his platform, succeeded In overcoming the former prestige of the Democratic organisation, and William Randolph Hearst, standing as the nominee of the . Municipal Ownership League, a new factor In New York politics, came within a, few thousand votes of being elected mayor. At 11 o'clock when about half the returns for New York county iwere in K appeared that Jerome had woo by several thousand. His triumph was al most entirely a personal one and show ed that an appeal may be made suc cessfully to voters on the strength of personal honesty and persistent, ays- tematlc denunciation of graft and pol itical bossitm. Mr. Jerome's campaign was conducted with especial opposition to Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tarn-mans- Hall, and tils reputed wealth, and Ue result practically Is a defeat for Murphy as well ois for Osborne. Up to 11 o'clock Mr. Hearst, who car ried the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, refused to eonceda his defeat and his campaign manager declared that a contest would be made. William M. Ivlns, the Republican nominee was third in the race for mayor, and ran far behind Hearst. Bird S. Coler was elected borough president of Brooklyn, on the Munici pal Ownership ticket and Hearst car ri?d that borough by a plurality of 15,828. The returns up to 11 o'clock only In dicated that MeClellan's pluralities in Manhattan and the Bronx and Rich mond would more than overcome the Hearst pluralities in Brooklyn and ueens borougs. Hearst's Vote. An analysis of the vote for mayor shows that Hearst polled a little raon than 200,000 votes, and that apparently these votes were drawn almost equalb from the Democratic and Republican parties. Meridian's vote this year was about 110,000 smaller than his vote of two years ago, while Ivlns' vote was about 120,000 smaller than Low's vote of two years ago. These figures, how ever, may not be entirely accurate, ow ing to the fact that a number of Repub licans probably voted for McClellan. in order to aid in the defeat of Hearst. Hearst's large vote shows that the Municipal Ownership League must be reckoned with as a factor in city poli tics. Coler's election as president of 'the borough of Brooklyn, gives the league representation on trie board of estimate and apportionment, which has control of the city's expenditures. It is estimated that this board will direct the outlay of $900,000,000 during the next four years. v The Month's Campaign. Less than a month ago when Hearst accepted the nomination of the Munici pal Ownership League, MeClellan's re election was regarded as a certainty and the mayor himself declared that he intended to make only a few speeches. Whh the sudden outburst of enthusl astic support for Hearst, however, the situation changed so swiftly that the Democratic leaders were startled out of the repose of their quiet confidence to engage in one of its hardest fights. Hearst wound up his campaign Sunday night at Madison Square Garden with the garden crowded to the doors and tens of thousaud of men stood outside for hours cheering fo the municipal ownership candidate, tl was felt then that the vote would be close and that Tammany must fight. The weather today was Ideal, aiding greatly in the polling of a large vote. There was little disorder and although many arrests were made they frequent ly were due to misunderstandings or clerical errors and only a few men were held for trlaL More splitting of tickets was done probably than ever before, yet the voting was unusually rapid. An incident of the day was the desertion of several hundred of Mr. Hearst's poll watchers, who went over to the opposition. Crowds in Streets, In spite of the absorbing interest taken from the opening to thee lose of a remarkable campaign, replete with sensational features, the announcement of the results on the various bulletin boards tonight was received with com paratively little enthusiasm, the crowds being considerably smaller than on pre vious occasftHis of tljp kind. On Park Row, usually the center of Interest on election night, the gathering in front of the newspaper offices, which ordinarily throngs City Hall park, barely sufficed to form a deep fringe along the side facing the row. STRAY ELECTION BULLETINS. f f flfflfff W DEMOCRAT VICTOR. (By Associated Press.) ROME, N. Y., Nov. 7. Albert R. Kesslnger, Democrat, was elected may or today by 171 majority over Dr. T. O. Nock, Republican, the prewnt may or. Mr. Ke?singer is managing edi tor of the Rome Sentinel. GAUS ELECTED. (By Associated Press.) ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 7. Tim Re publicans carried Albany county and city by large majorities. Mayor Chas. H. Gaus was elected for a third term by 6,000 majority. BAY STATE IS BACK IN THE RElj. COLUMN Republican Nominee for Gov ernor Elected byMaJoflty of About 30.000. AMENDMENT IS DEFEATED IN MARYLAND State Refuses to Disfranchise Illiterates by 20.000 Majority. CHIEF JUDGE HARLAN ONCE MORE ELECTED Race for State Comptroller Is Close One and Result Is In Doubt. LIEUT. GOVERNOR IS BEHIND HIS TICKET 8CHMIT2 IS IT. (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 7. (6:30 p. m.) The Indications are that Eugene Schmltz, the union-labor candidate, has been re-elected mayor or this city by 15,000 majority. With six precincts to hear from, the count stands Schmltz 42,202; Partridge 28.108. GOES DEMOCRATIC. (By Associated Preess.) CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 7. If twen ty-three precincts in Cincinnati not heard from, (maintain the average gain of others, Pattlson will carry the city by 1,500. AMERICAN WINS. (By Associated Preess.) SALT LAKE CITY, rtah, Nov. 7. At 10 o'clock the election of Ezra Thompson, American, or anti-Mormon candidate, for mayor, seems certain. Returns from 17 of the 53 election dis tricts give Thompson 2,834; Mayor Mor ris (Dem.), 1,493, and Chief of Police Lynch (Rep.), candidate for mayor, 1, BOOK WALTER WINS. (By Associated Preess.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 8.-The election of former Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter, as mayor of Indianapolis, is conceded. At 12 o'clock tonight the returns from 234 of the 246 precincts give Bookwalter (Rep.), 23,775; Holtz man (Dem.), candidate for re-election, 22.177. Bookwalter's plurality 1568. Democrats Have to be Satis fied With One Member of Executive Council. BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 7. Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston, the Republican candidate, was elected governor of Massachusetts today by a i.ilurality of 29.435 over Gen. Charles W. Bartlett, of Boston, the Democratic candidate. For the second place on the ticket, for which there jt ns an unusually warm contest,' Eben 3. Draper, of Hopedale. the Republican candidate, won over Henry M. Whitney,, of Brooklne, his Democratic opponent, and the leading advocate for reciprocity, by a plurality of 3,042. Complete reiurns from all the 354 cities and imvns give: ' For governor Burtlctt-(Dem).. 174.390: Guild (Rep.). 203,834. Guild's plurality, 29,435. For lieutenant governor: Draper (Rep.), 184.534; Whinny (Dem.), 180,592. Drap er's plurality. 3.942. The Republicans also elected seven of the elfihi members of the executive council, and tiie usual large majority in both branches of the legislature. ADAMS FIRST. (By Associated Press.) BALTIMORE, Md., .Nov. 7. The election In Maryland today was for a state comptroller, legislature and coun ty officers and in Baltimore for a Judge of the Supreme court, sheriff, city clerk and surveyor. The Issue which en grossed popular attention was a pro posed constitutional amendment, the avowed purpose of which was to dis franchise negro voters but which aroused widespread opposition among many Democrats and foreign voters in both parties. Owing to the extreme length of the ballot the count has been slow, at a late hour tonight the votes In some of the city precincts and re mote county districts have not been counted. The returns so far received, however make certain the defeat of the proposed constitutional amendment toy a decisive majority of 20,000, or more, and very probably the election of Mc Cullough Hep.), state comptroller over Atkinson (Dem ), and the election of Republicans In three out of four of the city legislative districts. The Repub lican candidates for sheriff, city court clerk and city surveyor In Baltimore, are also elected. Chief Judge Harlan (Dem.) Is re elected by 10,000 majority. The Re publicans did not nominate a candidate against Judge Harlan, though there was an, Independent Republican candi date. The political complexion of the next legislature Is uncertain and will not be known until the official count has been completed. DEMOCRACY CLAIMS OHIO FORPATTISON Latest Returns Indicate Tha State Will Give Him Big Majority. BOSS COX CONCEDES THAT HE IS BEATEN Notorious Machine Man Says He Will Retire Perma nently from Politics. (By Associated Preess.) COLUMBUS. O., Nov. 7. At 11 o'clock tonight the Democratic leaders In this state claimed the election of Pattlson and the entire Democratic ticket by substantial (pluralities, while the Republicans simply refused to con cede such a claim, insisting that the returns were Insufficient at that hour to indicate anything except that the vote had been very heavy and that the amount of scratching had made count ing very slow. In the cities the Republican exceeded 100 to the precinct, but as the loss per precinct outside of the large cities was so far as reported only about thirty, there was no certainty that the loss would run , high enough . to wipe out the 230,000 Republican plurality with which comparisons were made. Less than 300 of the 4,200 precincts had been heard from at 11 o'clock. COX SURRENDERS LETTON AHEAD. (By Associated Press.) BUFFALO. N. Y., Nov. 7.: J. N. Adams (Pen) Is elected mayor by 8,- 981 majority. (By Associated Press.) OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 7. Seventeen out of 56 precincts In Omaha and Douglas county give Letton (Rep) for Supreme Jude, 2,392; Hastings (Dem ) 1,323. Sufficient returns are In to Indicate the election of the entire Republican county ticket. Omaha issed voting ma chines for the first time today. ilk - (CONTINUED ON PACE THREE.) WHAT HAPPFNED IN PHILADELPHIA YESTERDAY, (By Associated Press.) CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 7. -George B Cox, the well known Republican leader tonight gave out the following state ment, withdrawing from active service In the Republican party: "Now that the election Is over and the people have signified their choice for city, county and State officials, and I sincerely trust th yhave selected wisely, I wish to announce to the pub lic that from this day, after twenty five years of active service In the ranks of the Republican party, toy personal activity shall cense. I will continue to vote tlve Republican ticket, but others must bear the tmrdert of future cam paigns. "To the local , Republican organiza tion and the many friends that have stood with us In the past, I tender most grateful thanks for their un swerving loyaHy and support. I hope for their future good1 will. "Respectfully yours, (Signed) "GKORGEJ B. COX." WEAVER WINS FROM RING IN PHILADELPHIA Reform Party's Candidate Elected by Unprecedent ed Majority. '-"; t , , i.i'irTlilJ ELECTION PASSED OFP WITH LITTLE TROUBLE Police Supervision Prevents Many Clashes Between Opposing Forces. : t- DEMOCRATS LEADING. (By Associated Preess.) CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 8. At mid night the returns from only ninety pre cincts out of 240 In Cleveland had been reported, the delay In the count being caused by the general scratching of ballots. In these ninety precincts Pat tlson (Dem.), for governor, had a plu rality over Herrick (Rep.) of 3,425. The Republican leaders concede that with the possible exception of Alexan der Hadden (Rep.), for probate Judge, the Democrats have made a clean sweep of all the city and county candidates. DEMOCRATS STILL CLAIM 8TATE. At 2 o'clock Chairman Garber said that he would not give out any formal statement at this time, but that from the reports which had readied him he considered the election of Pattlson and the entire Democratic ticket as sured. He said he bellevd that Pat tlson's plurality would approximate S6, 000, the figure he had give in his pre election estimate. As to the legisla ture he said that he counted on a large Democratic majority in both houses. STILL IN DOUBT. the the (By Associated Press.) CINCINNATI, Nov. 8. Since early reports, which' estimated plurality of Pattlson (Dem) for gov ernor at 10,000 or 12,000, In Hamilton county, and a like amount in Cuyahoga county, the returns have failed- to make sure the. election of Pattlson. (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7. Philadel phia has been swept by the reform movement of the City Party ticket, winning by a surprisingly large plur ality. While returns from only six ot the forty-two wards in this cty had been counted up to midnight, enough is known of the result la the remain ing wards to Indicate the defeat of the Republican local ticket by from (0,000 to 75.000 plurality. The victory of the City Party car rles with It the election of William H. Berry, the Democratic, and reform candidate for state treasurer. J. Lee Plummer, the Republican candidate, for that office, was badly cut through out the city and state, and he baa lost his own county, which Is usually Re publican. The result has every ap pearance of a landslide for reform, not only In Philadelphia, but ' throughout the state. Little Trouble. Contrary to general expectation, there was not very general disturbance In the city today. There was, however. trouble at some of the polling plaoea... especially In the thickly-settled wards where the city party put up a most determined fight. The mayor of the olty was, however; master of 4b city and trouble was quickly stopped by the deputies and police when it Oc curred. Several small riots developed, but after the disturbers had been leared away It was found no one had been seriously wounded. Complete ar rangements had been made to prevent the casting of Illegal votes. The storm center of the day was In the fifth ward where election day set- dom goes toy without trouble. Today In thin ward, there were several dls- turbances. The greatest trouble twaar ' In the seventeenth division, where not a, ballot was cast until after 6 o'clock. . The election officers refused to open tb polling booth until tha police left the r.ulldlng, and the election officers were hauled Into court. The judge Instruct- . ed the election board to return and open the booth. This they refused to do and1 a consultation was held for the selection; of a new board while several hundred people looked on and shouted. The voting place was then opened with the new board under the protection ot a cordon of police. Arrsstsd Leader. One of the Incidents of the fifth ward struggle was the arrest of Har bor Master Samuel Malorvey, on the charge of conspiracy to hold an il legal election. He Is the 'Republican leader of the 'ward, .and his followers were ready to storm the police station If he was not released. He secured ball , and will be given a further hearing. Similar scenes were enacted tn the seventh ward, the home of Israel W. Durham, the leadw of the organisation. and In the eighth, where United States ; Senator Penrose resides. The polling place -where the senator ' voted wsj closed for several hours because the election officers claimed the police In- , terfered. The number of arrests tnd op to a late hour tonight for electifon frauds was JtiboUt 500: Poe Magistrates were on duty In all parte of the etty " rlving the prisoners hearings. The scene at the central police station at city hall was without precedent. Mot than 200 prisoners were given hearings .. there for alleged brands against the ballot. As quickly as a prtaoner was brought in he was given immediate hearing, held in ball for a further hearing and promptly released ty walt- (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) MIDSHIPMAN, INJURED IN FIST FIGHT DIES FROM WOUNDS HE RECEIVED (By AssOoiatsd Press.) ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Nov. 7. Midship man James R. Branch, son of James R. Branch, of the Hanover bank, ot New Tork city, and secretary of the American Bankers' association, who was seriously Injured in a fist fight with another midshipman, died today. Midshipman Branch died from . in juries he had received in a fight with Midshipman Minor Meriweather, Jr., of Lafayette, ill. The fight took place by arrangement on Sunday night and was a regular pitched battle with a ring and seconds. It lasted twenty-three rounds and ended when Branch was knocked down and struck the right side of his head against the floor. , Meriweather Is In the hospital as a result of the injuries he racived In the fight and for that reason the authori ties have not put him under arrest. The quest loo of his accountability to the civil authorities on a charge ef manslaughter has also been discussed, tl is understood that the fight took place because Branch had, in his line of duty, reported Meriweather for a breach ot discipline. No one is al lowed to see the latter, but it is re ported that he feels the matter most keenly. .: .I .... . k -i M