The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-05
WISCONSIN,.

MILWAUKEE, Nov 4, lSneciall-
o W men the polls Gle .Aca ut o'clock this
u ,,oiitias' .ne inc ,st unique and exciting
c;t ,t'i can sur -sglc in the history of the
10y "a" - to end. The feature of the
10y "a the activity of the Catholic and
lutheran clergy i'll marshalling their
forces against the Bennett law.
AT the polling both, ut the corner of
Gseenbush and Mitchell streets, on the
south side, almost in the shadow of the
Catholic church, two Polish priests
busted themselves in seeing that each of
their countrymen voted as early as
possible, and examined their ballots to
make sure that they were cast.
Little School House" Father Grueze,
hustled around in the crowd carrying
little silver headed cane, which he
swung in an animated manner From
this place he posted oil to the Fourth
precinct of che Twelfth ward, on Grove
street Ills church is outside the city,
in the Town Of Lake, and he stated tri
umphantly TO all his friends that when
he left his precinct, there had been only
! one or two Republican votes against 100
! Democrats.
Some Curiosity was manifested in the
| second precinct OF the Sixth ward, where
! the Capuchin monks had registered.
About 10 o'clock they appeared twenty
! thrco Strong, headed by the ia thcr guar
| dian, the crowd gathered at tho corner
while they drew up on sidewalk and
won't into the booth ono by one. Each
one was allowed to cast his ballot with
ont molestation from Republican ohal-
lcngers, as it had been ascertained that
tAey had all been naturalizcd. Quietly
Is they had come, they went away and
Shero were twenty three more Demo
cratic taleots in the box.
Most o; tho Lutheran churches hold
meetings last night, ut which Demo
cratic jackets were distributed. At the
booths Lutherans were wild and would
not hove anything to 10 with peddlers.
Some of them would take anything put
| in t.rir hands and shove it into their
pockets, whore it was presumably left.
The character OF tho vote, cast Is cOnsc-
quently mystery. Democrats, of
cosrsc, claimed that every Lutheran
WHO appeared with his tick,t in his
packet put in straight Democratic
vote. But tho Other side claimed lust
as confidently that the reason why
a.utherans acted 80 mysteriously was
~ hat they wanted to fax their tickets tc
s'suit themselves witGut letting anybody
! know it.
at nearly every polling place. some
LuthcranS, rcnncraE.y IA 81 hool teacher
was stationed to see th,t5 their people
did not allow themselves to DO per
suadcd to accepts ticket from Rcpubli
can pNddiers. Is'ohibition and labor
votes generally'syent tn Republicans
At most polls there was no labor ticket
and pcddler at-all. II some precincts
no straight labor ticket could be had
even at booths. A number of Rcpubli
can pud6lers iisad union labor tickle,
with names of Hoard; Spencer and re
spectivc Rcpuh iican g lndidatcs for As
sembly.
Split tiokets.of ever Imaginable k8r 4
could be found in mosS precincts. 1lc
favorite was a Demos ratio ticket with
Republican, Congressional and coint,
candidates pasted over it. and these
seemed to be in considerable demand
among lutherans. , astcrs of all differ
ent cal,didataawcrc distributed in an
told quantities.