The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-14
NOTES OF THE CONTEST.

IA NJ, March IA The polls are closed
for to-day.
The following is the order:
willard I. Lansing. Carpenters lumber
yard, Providence.
r.. j. Watson, Jr., weaver, 81 Manton
avenue.
Richard DIcGuy, weaver, 1913 veazey
street
Charles Collin, assistant treasurer, Prov
idence Opera House.
Alfred Dawson, messenger, Merchants
National Bank.
Robert Greaves, weaver, ii Pope street.
Frank Duffy, Phcnix.
Wheaton Miller East Providence Ice
Company.
Henry Barker. overscer weaving depart
ment, Lorraine Mills, Pawtucket.
Joseph u. Holmes, carpenter, Phenix.
r. j. Ambrose, o. c. Il. r., conductor.
Montague Gabriel. Jeweler, with Potter
g. Burlington.
G. ii. McCIunc, conductor "gilt edge"
train, Providence.
Tomorrow will be mid-March day and
n good date for a new departure in the
ballot contest-namely, the printing each
day of the total vote and the vote for each
candidate, corrected up to II A. NJ. Ii is
fair TO assume that all the candidates are
we'll under way now, and that the daily
printing of the figures will be convent
ence TO them as well as of interest to the
public.
AS the contest is now past the initiatory
stages and may be considered fairly under
way, no transfers of votes from one can
didate to another will after tomorrow be
allowed. IL is quite usual in such con-
tests to allow transfers, and possibly no
harm results from them as "A rule, but
there is at least a possibly of working in
justice and creating hard feeling. The
NEWS wants the genuine choice of Rhode
Island workingmen for this delicate and
important mission.
There is little OF interest to chronicle
this morning. From Woonsocket "IA n.
j." sends fifty votes for Watson. From
Olneyville come one hundred and fifty for
Mr.. McGuy, got right under Watson's
nose, so TO speak. These are accompanied
by this letter:
To the Editors Of the NeCs
Please record $50 ballots for Richard Nc
Guy for your Free Trip to Europe" Beliov-
ing him friend of the workingman. and es-
pecially to weavers, | wish him success, l re-
main, Yours respectfully,
AN OLNEYvILLE WEAVER.
1t is understood that these votes came
from u weayer who works directly in
front of Watson in the Riverside Mills,
and who had enlisted in McGuy's cause
before he knew that his fellow workman
was in the ring. These little local rival
ries make the contest all the more inter-
esting.
Mr.. Dawson is the candidate whose can
vass moves right along most steadily.
Votes came for him to-day from Wash
ington, ID. C., and he has friends every
where in Rhode Island who are roofing
for him soulfully, rs the base ballists say.
The Count.
The ballots are informally counted from
day TO day as they come in, and the num-
Der entered IN the record book. They are,
however, all preserved, and can. with the
book itself, be seen at any time. The con
test will close with the closing of the
NEWS Office on April 80. The result of the
informal count will be Immediately an
nounced. An official count, by a commit
tee, including representatives of the lead
ing candidates, If they so desire, will be
promptly made, after which the ballots
will be destroyed. its report being accepted
as final.