Show TOU H OLD GANG GANGIS GANGis IS DYING HARD Contest in Pennsylvania Has Been Bitterly Fought Fr ni Start to Finish S WILL GAIN CONGRESSMEN f PEOPLE NO LONGER ein TT AND CONTENTED P l Philadelphia Nov 3 One of ot the most bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign campain in this state for many years a h closed with the speechmaking tonight Local contests throughout the state stat have been lost sight Ight of in the tIght fight foe ro fo governor between Lewis ewis Emery Jr jr the candidate and ancL Edwin Ed in S Stuart the Republican can candidate candidate The Th campaign has been fought on the tha same sam lines hines as the one which swept Wil liam H Berry the Democratic candidate into the office oC or state treasurer trea last fall The fusion leaders have been directing the atten attention attention tion of the voters oters to the alleged graft in fl connection with the th furnishing of the time new state capitol at Harrisburg claim claiming claiming ing that between and have been stolen or wasted wast d State Treasurer Berry has been the chief ac accuser accuser accuser cuser but as an a yet has not furnished th attorney general what the latter latte deems sufficient prof pr of the alleged overcharges Big Majorities Claimed The Republican state committe commutes claims that Stuart will have a majority of over Chairman Hiles RileS of the time Lincoln party parly is sanguine of the election of Mr Emery and says saya that the fusion candidate wilL wilLbe willbe be elected by at least east In this city the real issue is between D Clarence Gibboney and Samuel P PRo Rotan Ro n for the district attorn The Tha former is the fusion candidate and the latter the regular Republican The fu fusion fusion sion managers declare declaI that the fact that Mayor Weaver has come conic out o t for Stuart and Rotan will not affect affe t the Gibboney vote The congressional situation is inter interesting interesting interesting esting In this city the Republicans will almost surely elect all of their can candidates candidates candidates but In the interior of the state the fusionists fusi are likely to be victorious in half a it dozen districts distri 5 Ai A present there is only one Democrat in congress from Pennsylvania but it would not be surprising to see at least lease lea five in the next delegation delegationS S REMARKABLE CONTEST John B Moran Making Things Live Lively ly in Massachusetts Boston Nov 3 The Massachusetts campaign camp ign which closed Its last lost week with many rallies tonight was the most re remarkable remarkable remarkable political contest In the state in inmany inman inmany many man years The issues were sharply and unequivocally drawn on one side be being being being ing unique questions raised by John B Moran candidate for governor of the Democrats Prohibitionists and Independence ence league and on the other the pointed answers of Governor Curtis Gould jr the of the Republican party part Interest in the state ticket has almost eclipsed the contests for members of con congress congress congress gress and state legislature Last year ear Governor Gould carried th the state by a plurality of 8 over Charles CharlesW W WT Bartlett the Democratic candidate Chairman Talbot of the Republican state committee tonight predicted the time election of the Republican ticket by a plurality of from to providing that the full party vote comes out Chairman Feeney of the Democratic state committee claims that Moran willbe willbe will willbe be elected by a plurality exceeding and that the other Democratic candidates also will be successful OFF YEAR IN ILLINOIS t NOIS Democrats Confidently Expect E to toMake toMake toMake Make Great Gains Chicago Nov 3 The actual work of the state and county campaign was finished tonight with mass meetings in all parts LI of the city it and state The apathy which characterized the campaign in the early stage has vanished and during the tho last three weeks much mu h more fervor has been shown It has been decidedly an oft off year ear politically however In the state the only officers to be ba elected are state treasurer state super superintendent of public Instruction and three trustees of the state university Con Congressional Congressional gressional elections will be held in all o othe othe the districts and in some of them the fight has been hot Chairman West Vest of the Republican state central committee said today that he lie ox o the Republican party part to carry carr the state by an overwhelming majority He also predicted a victory victor for his party part in iii Cook county count and asserted that the Re Republicans RepUblicans publicans would carry the tho great majority of the congressional districts Chairman of the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic committee declared that tho the Dem Democrats Democrats Democrats will surely carry eight congressional districts probably ten and possibly fourteen He also claimed that the Dem Deal Democrats Democrats will win make substantial gains an in the next legislature which is to elect ja a suc sue successor successor cessor to Senator Shelby Shelb M 1 Cullom CONCEDED TO REPUBLICANS Democrats Apparently iI Look in in iTI Michigan Detroit Nov 3 Republican victory vict r in inthe Inthe inthe the election in this state next Tuesday Is la generally conceded the tho only question be being being being ing apparently the size of the majorities and the number num er of members of the tho state legislature the Democratic party part will S 4 4 Mormon church as its president ent will elect a successor to United States Senator R A Alger is conceded to the Republicans Victory to all aU Republicans in all congressional districts is conceded also The only features of the campaign for forstate forstate forstate state officers was the charge made by Charles H KImmerle Democratic candi candidate candidate candidate date for governor and the Democratic state committee that Fred M L Warner Varner a candidate for reelection r and several other state officials have used their po positions positions positions unfairly to enable them to pur purchase purchase purchase chase state lands at cheap prices Gov Governor Go Goern Governor ern or Warner and the time officials denied the charges The most interesting feature of the time po political political p situation for several months has been the campaign for United States sen senator senator senator ator William C of Detroit Congressman Smith of Grand Rapids Congressman Charles R B To Townsend oi o Continued on Page 16 S lu 1 TOUGH OLD GANG GANGIS GANGIS IS DYING HARD V Continued from Page 1 Jackson and Arthur Hill of Saginaw are the Republican candidates Each has conducted a strenuous campaign and the friends of each express confidence In distinction to the apathy of the state campaign has been bee the municipal campaign in Detroit where the question of a new franchise for the Detroit United tinted Railway has stirred the voters |