Show TAMMANY HAS BADLY PUN uy i hearst men met with violence and outrage at the polls election is to be contested to the bitter end FRAUD IN NEW YORK t mew york nov 8 it was announced at th e hearst headquarters today that the contest over the office of mai or would ba taken at once to the courts over the heads 0 the board 0 county canvassers it was also said that evidence had been secured upon which about 1000 election officers could bo sent to prison and that at least hearst follow erg when they went to the polls found that their names had been voted on by others whether george B mcclellan william R hearst is to bo the mayor of greater new york must be decided by the courts full returns from every election district give mc clellan a plurality bt but this Is so small only a little more than one halt of 1 per cent of the vote cast that ie count and inspection re 0 the ballots might easily sweep it away and show hearst the winner indignant at what he believed to be suspicious holding back of returns last night and roused to passionate resentment by stories of and outrage at the polls told at his headquarters by scores of bis followers mr hearst refused to admit defeat and declared that he would see that every man that voted tor him got a fair count of his ote in his demand for Q recount re count mr hearst is supported by district attorney william T jerome himself victorious in hla single handed fight against the great tammany machine mr jerome said today 1 I shall immediately institute an investigation of the frauds perpetrated by tammany at the polls yesterday it thet acts warrant I 1 shall begin an prosecution against those guilty of crime bird S coler elected president of the borough of brooklyn on the municipal ownership league ticket also supports mr hearses contention that ie was rightfully elected air coler said 1 mf hearst has been elected by 10 00 votes he has been cheated by the tremendous frauds of tammany hall ther js ay doubt whatever of bs election I 1 shall work night and liay justice Is done the people of new york have elect aed him mayor and it been by the most outrageous brazen and act ten fraud that I 1 ever heard of that tammany Is trying to keep the high office away from him the stock market showed some sen to the hearst voto and to the fact that the municipal ownership will have on the board of estimate and apportion nent which controls municipal tran chases stocks of several of the local corporations orp orations operating under city franchises ran off rather sharply oh a feeling that the hearst representation will be able to interfere in the cites policy in the granting of future mr hearst has contended that the city haa not been properly compensated tor valuable privilege granted to corporations in recent fears new york nov 8 election day came to a close with a dramatic scene at the hoffman house where william R hearst gathered hla friends and ad around him and began the preparation of hla legal contest of the returns which indicated the success of his democratic opponent mcclellan As the aate vote came in showing me clellan only a few thousand ahead and as it was noticed that the figures from some of tho east side districts missing mr hearst said he believed ie waa being cheated out of a hard fought and hon earty won victory and announced his intention to make a contest in the courts he sent out a call at for the members of the law committee of the municipal ownership league and soon they began to arrive many of them in evening clothes they having been found at social gatherings or at the theaters at the hotel batting for the lawyers were scores of hears t voters with stories of violence and outrage at polling places where they had gone to cast their ballots men were coming into the hotel constantly with bruised and bleeding faces one man had bis arm broken and another had his head cut so badly that mr hearst had him put to bed in the hotel deports were brought in telling of a man having had his eye gouged out aadot a hearst roan whose fanger had been chewed off in a polling place after considering the situation fully mr hearst gave out the following statement which Is repeated today in his newspaper the evening journal we have won this election AH fraud all Tamm anys corruption all intimidation and violence all Tamm anys false registration illegal voting and dishonest count have not been able to overcome a great popular majority the recount will show that we have won the eleo alon by many thousands of votes f shall fight battle to tho end tn ot people who have cast their wies for me and who shall not acs disfranchised dis franchised by any effort of crim inal bosses signed william ran dolph hearst the evening journal also prints a neace that beta on the should hotbo paid declaring that tho official count will show hearst elected mr hearst in making bis contest may each of the 1948 ballot boxes used in the diction be brought before the board of election and a count ot the ballots made by that body then it dissatisfied mr hearst may throw the whole matter into aba courts for decision and it abat la done the battle probably wll be a long and intricate one la addition to the proceedings ce before the aldermen and tb i regular contest la the courts mr hearst may of course bring the attention of the authorities to each andl vidigal case of fraud or violence may be discovered district attorney jerome announced today that he will do all he can to see that there Is a fair count of the vote for mayor he gave orders to hla assistants si stants that the returns from the and ath assembly districts bo guarded carefully tammany leader charles F murphy is leader of the and congressman timothy D sullivan is leader of the ath district mr jerome said take the returns from the and ath assembly districts and lock them up guard them carefully they may cut a big figure in ahls count I 1 purpose to see that there is a fair count in this mayoralty contest no matter whom it hurte although mcclellan on the face 0 the complete but unofficial returns was elected by a plurality of the democrats lost heavily in yesterdays contest the election of william T jerome independent as district attorney is a severe blow to the tammany organization which exerted all the force at its command to defeat him ills victory is remarkable when it is considered that be was the candidate of no party and made bis appeal for votes on his record of the last tour years and that every man who voted for him voted a split ticket the board of aldermen too Is lost to tammany they having but 25 members of the board against 38 republican and 9 municipal ownership members bird S coler municipal ownership aad jos bermel republican and municipal ownership elected respectively president of brooklyn and queen boroughs have membership on the cites board of estimate and apportionment which controls all expenditures of money this of great importance giving the municipal ownership league a in the cites financial affairs and also in the granting of franchises in addition to losing the board of aldermen tammany lost ia members of the state assembly from new york county and the assembly when it meets in albany on january 1 next will be republican by more than 3 lo 10 L the democrats elected their candidates foa comptroller president of the board ot aldermon president of manhattan borough president of bronx borough sheriff clerk and of new borr county and all tao coroners in manhattan and the bronx the following supreme court justices are elected in new york county A gildersleeve democrat george L ingraham democrat and republican and jos E newburger democrat and republican in brooklyn jos A burr republican and municipal ownership league was elected supreme court justice in kings county the municipal ownership league elected its candidates tor sheriff county clerk register and coroners by fusion ath the republicans it elected a district attorney in queens county in brooklyn it elected one justice of the municipal court and by fusion with the republicans elected two municipal court justices in new york county for soma days past the stocks of local traction and other corporations doing business on municipal franchises were somewhat nervous on the presumption that the municipal ownership ticket might succeed it was expected that these stocks would be strong on market in view of McClel lans election reelection re but this expectation pec tation was not realized in full consolidated soli dated gas and metropolitan street railway opened a point or so higher than mondays closing but immediately began to sell off on a feeling that the heairet representation on the board of estimate wll necessarily have an effect on future franchises metropolitan opened at 12 1 2 to and quickly declined to 12 1 2 metropolitan seemed to be vulnerable on the argument that the companas comp anys plans for subway lines may be interfered witla through municipal ownership influence in the board of estimates mayor McClel lans plurality of is the smallest by which any mayor ac new york has ever been elected tha vote for mayor of new york by boroughs iras as follows mcclellan manhattan and brooklyn queens richmond total i hearal manhattan and bronx brooklyn queens richmond 2966 total 2251 66 ivans manhattan and bronx brooklyn queens richmond total |