Show I I ELECTION DAY IN NEW YORK PROVES QUIET Some Arrests fo for Illegal Voting but N No Dis order THREATENING WEATHER REDUCES VOTE C CAST ST Municipal l. l Contests Attract More Attention Than State Stat Elections NEW W YORI YORK YOEK Nov 2 Nearly three three- quarters of ot the registered vote In Now Yorks York's triangular mayoralty election had bad ad been cast by 2 o'clock this aft after after- noon Manager of the campaign declared de dared it had bad been ono of tho the quietest elections in the city's history and on one in which few illegal vot votes bad been cast The weather was as cloudy during tho day but that did not deter tho the voters from coming out A score of arrests were Tere made for il illegal iI legal al voting otin but man many of thc the alleged offenders were discharged is har cd by br tho the courts The Tho police reported no trouble Cloudy and threatening we weather throughout u hout New York state to together with the fact fart that no state officers were wera bei being OJ cho chosen n kept kemt the tho vote oto to to- normal proportions or less Tho The chief chief cont contests cro lor for of the tho ass assembly in many of which the direct primaries s' s issue was involved d. d Managers lana of r Otto Ott B fusion can candidate for mayor Judge Judges s William J. J Gaynor Democratic nOt nominee nomine for mayor mayor- and William B B. Hearst leading the time Civic Allian Alliance e ti ticket k f all 1111 confidently predicted d di i t ry rf There Thera was little HUl betting early toda today Gaynor Ganor was wims favorite at two wo wo to one Much splitting of ti tickets A was as reported in in all parts of the city Young Taft as as Watcher Robert Taft son of President ident T Taft ft came caine down from front New Ila haven IIan en last at night With Kith several ca classmates mates of Yalo Yale to do dut duty IH as a Republican watcher at i. i a voting place in in a little storo ste e J in iii Third avenue avenue- News that voting Taft would be at atthe atthe atthe the polling pollin place brou brought ht out such a crowd there thero that it was wa decided that Mr Taft would not act as us a watcher Tho The were ere called to disperse the tho crowS crowe Moro More than a t-coro t of arrests w wore were r made during tho morning for illegal otin voting but there was no disorder The leaders reported that moro more than half tho the voto ote r registered had been cast cat before be fore fore- 12 0 clock Rain began to fall faIl lightly toward noon Mr Bannard was the first of the candidates can can- for mayor major to vote ote ONE PICTURESQUE FEATURE IN PHILIPPINE ELECTION MAILA rAILA Nov No NoA 2 A 2 A general election was held throughout the Philippine islands today for members of the assembly assembly as as- f and provincial pro and aud municipal of officials Little interest was shown and it is doubtful if the total vot vote will vilI equal that of two years a ago op when only about ono one in thirty of the population regis regis- s toned Dominador or Gomez former r president of the Nationalist party who was oust ousted ed from the last assembly furnished the only picturesque features H of today's election in this city Following his election to tho the assembly two years s ago aso the tho courts decided that Gomez was not noL nota a a. citizen and Ind therefore was ineligible to hold bold office or to vote voto Accordingly Ac ho he was unseated d when tho the a at or Nevertheless Kc G Gome i insisted upon running for the as assembly today and probably has bas been ee defeated Independence Point of or Division As Asnas was nas the case rase at the first election in 1907 the contest for the tho tho assembly was T between the tho Nationalists and the Pro The rhe original iss is for which the Nationalists Nationalist stood was tho the immediate independence of at the islands while the thc Pro accepted American Ameri can suzerainty The Tho Nationalists won easily in 1907 but hut their policy of independence was blocked by tho the Philippine commission which constitutes the upper house of ofle le legislation and is composed of tho the governor governor gov gov- o general and ei eight ht commissioners of whom four ara are Americans and aud fo four r Filipinos Today there were no imp l' l r tant tont issues involved in the assembly and 1131 there were wore ninny many independent can cnn di ates The Tho provincial pro elections elections' were for a a. choice of oC governors and the municipal elections election for the tho selection of presidents vice presidents and councilors In Iu no instance was a sharp contest developed I IN OHIO INTEREST CENTERS IN CHIEF CITIES CITtE CINCINNATI 0 O. Nov 2 In In pr practically c c. every cit city and village in in Ohio the polls opened torla today for 1 municipal elections General interest is displayed in the tho fight waged in in Cinc Cincinnati by bythe bytho bythe the tho Democratic party to wrest control of the tho city cit from tb the Republicans Governor Gov Harmon has taken an a active ti c sharo share in tho the campaign John V Wald ld Peck Peek a young oun lawyer i. i ii the iho Democratic nomi nominee ee an and his o op Co Continued on pa page pago o 10 |