Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-07
NOTES ABOUT TOWN.


 The Voting Yesterday Remarkable
 Activity = The Republican Vote is
 Got I'm Surprisingly Early-Scenes at she Polls.
 But little outward excitement was mani fest at the several polling places about the city yesterday and the extremely early cast. ing of the ballots has hardly ever been equalled.
 At most of the polls the great bulk of ball. lots, in fact about five-ssvenths of the whole, had been cast by noon. In the Eighth ward, ont of 1 1900 voters, all but 160 had voted by o'clock.
 The day opened with lowering sky, but nc rain fell after the polls opened and remark ably full vote was deposited. The day was favorable to heavy Republican vote in this city and no means were neglected to bring out every voter. The early ballotiDg faciIi- tated the ward committees work greatly. In every ward throughout the city slight Republican gains were reported by the com mittees, and 1t was thought at noon that the Democratic plurality in the town could moi reach 2, ,500 at the most. despite the Demo- cratic claim of 4.000. In the Tenth ward out of about l. 400 ballots cast, there was Republican plurality of about 365. GVo4ybulnk 6UOUb buo DO11S was OIu0I1Y and but one or two cases of drunkenness were reported. Party workers were busy all day and the result will be fair test of the city's vote.
 Throughout all the wards the Democratic candidate for Congress, w. F. Wilcox, was badly scratched and it was prophesied had probably run SO far behind the ticket as to
 be almost if not completely defeated in this Democratic district. The work of the Lines
 men was very vigorous and gave some hope of his election. The Seventh ward was es- pecially bitter toward Wilcox.
 In the Fifth ward voting began 5riskly be- fore o'clock. In the Sixth Democratic ticket was being distributed bearing the names of Merwin and Benton. Another tick
 ct bore the name of H. Wales Lines for Con-
 gress and WAS voted by many Democrats.
 Many Republicans pasted the name of Morris
 over that of Bulkeley and good many dem- ocrats pasted MerWin's name over that of
 Kirkham. Up to 12 o'clock more than 800
 votes had been boiled and at that hour the
 voters were coming in very fast.
 Crowds early gathered about the polls in the First ward, but no disturbances occurred. In the Second H. Wales Lines name was pasted to some extent over that of Mir. Will COX. Gen. Merwin was running considerably ahead of his ticket. The same was said to be true concerning Herbert E. Benton, whose name was pasted on good many Democratic ballots.
 During the three hours from 6 to g o'clock $50 ballots had been deposited at the Third ward polls. Shortly after 10 o'clock a total of S05 men had voted out of a registration of a little over 1,S00. It was claimed by the Republicans that they had made some gains and the Democrats admitted that of the 800 votes casts their opponents had something over their proportion-200 to 250.
 The Fourth ward boiled it's vote early and heavily. Over 100 men stood in line when the polls opened. The rush continued for an hour, and when the whistles were blowing the call at o'clock 400 votes had been de- posited. This is one of the best records ever made in the ward. The voters kept on ooms ing at unprecedented rate, and at half past o'clock 750 had cast their ballots By noon the vote had run up to ], ,415 out of a total registration of 2,236. The Republicans claimed fully 600 of these, leaving the Dem oerats only about 800. The Democrats did not fully endorse this claim, but acknowledg- ed that their opponents were pushing them pretty hard. It is always true in this ward that the Republicans get their vote out earl fer than the Democrats. At 2 o'clock l, TOO votes had been polled
 In the Fifth and Seventh wards, voting was brisk throughout the day and Republi- can gains were everywhere counted upon. In the Ninth, the Republican ticket was rum ming ahead ot four years ago, the Irish vote turning fin tide to Harrison, although push- ing Morris way ahead of the rest of the Dem- ocratic ticket. In the Tenth ward, Republi- can gains were counted upon throughout the day. The silent vote was considered greater this year than ever before, and it was hard to tell how nine out of ten men voted. All tickets were literally scratched, liners and prohibition men voted for Harrison and Mor- ton and for CamD