Show MANY ARRESTS IN PHILADEL PHIA philadelphia nov 7 bright crisp weather marked election day in this city and the first hour indicated that the vote will he iby as heavy as thai polled at any presidential election before the polls were opened lines of voters in some casemore than stood writing to vote never has such interest been displayed in a municipal election here and the managers of the city party the reform body organized to defeat the republican organization express the opinion that tho heavy vote indicates a victory for the reform movement mayor weaver distributed his extra force of nearly 1000 special policemen sworn in yesterday in the wards where disorder was anticipated and in one ward the fifth 27 alleged re were arrested during the first hour in the suburban precincts the vote is said to be tho heaviest on record the polls opened with disorders at several places in the fourth ward charges of illegal voting at one precinct resulted in a disturbance which the police were unable to subdue and a riot call was sent in all persons at the polls in this precinct including election officers were arrested but all were discharged by the magistrate in tha eighth ward fifty men accused of attempting to vote on bogus tax receipts were taken into custody and during the disturbance consequent upon the arrest three polling places were temporarily closed there were about 40 arrests for alleged repeating in the fifth ward the polls do not dose in this state until 7 samuel G maloney harbor master and organization leader of the fifth ward was arrested today in his club on a warrant charging him with conspiracy to conduct an illegal election the warrant was made out in the name of john doe on the affidavit of reginald johnson of counsel for the city party maloney has been storm center during the campaign the city party charging him with various brauss against the ballot he was released on bail at noon the city party managers claimed a majority of in the wards east of th schuylkill river chairman edmonds also claims a substantial majority for the city party in his own ward the twenty ninth up to noon more votes had been cast in a majority of the wards than had been cast during the entire day last election the turbulent condition in the wards in the southern section of the city was reported to judge bregy who with judge beitler sat to hear complaints it was charged that in the eighth ward tho election officers in three precincts were unable to perform their duties because of the in ter ferenc of the police and that the polls were therefore closed judge bregy said he wag without jurisdiction in these cases but advised the election officers to continue with the election john P miller who was appointed an inspector on petition of tho city party in the thirty second precinct of the twentieth ward complained to the court that the judge of election refused to swear him but insisted upon swearing george gilden meyer majority 1 inspector who had been disqualified by the court the polls were closed until acting on judge breggs advice miller returned to the precinct and was in wilson H brown city party candidate for sheriff at noon today after receiving reports from all over the city predicted his own election by from to majority he expressed surprise at the unusually heavy vote in the downtown down town wards and accepted this a an indication that the city party vote in thoe wards would ba correspondingly large up to 1 p m more than men charged with attempted illegal voting had been given hearings at the central police court |