Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-09

Henry Chriatemyer, was rejected for
the same reason, Mountaineering the
fact that he has voted &C every election
held in recent years.
In precinct No. 4, Id Rttchie ,dissrict'
Louis Neidermyer, well-known Ger
man employed 81 Sehmnioacns
brewery, came down TO vote
In the afternoon. A crowd
OF Republicans watched him Closely
and sent United States Marshal Devine
In the voting precinct to watch aim
and arrest him IL be attempted to vote.
Mr.. Neidermyer was not awed oy tne
presenos of the marshal, as he knew
he was q legal veter. He produced his
papers and the ballot was deposited. :.
1t was reported that man attempted
to vote In the East End, who was cnai-
lenged on the ground that ne was .
psuper, and had received county ala
within the past thirty days. When THIS
was shown to DO true, and legal advice
secured, the ballot VAS rejected. An
other old citizen in Clay district, 81
wears old, was challenged, and after
some hot arguments the vote was taken.
THE NEW SYSTEM OF VOTING.
There seemed to be o diverttty Of
opinion as to the workings OF the Aus
tralian ballot law, and at the various
precipcts some curious mistakes would
occur either in the marking or the fcid-
ing of the ticket. All agree, however,
that It obvistes any attempt at trickery,
and does away with much LOBBYING
around the polls, the new system tend
Ing to purer and more houest elections.
As one man expressed 1t yesterday,
"a man under this new system votes
for himself, or, In other words. votes
himself, unhampered by any outside
parties who hang around the polls. 1t
often happened under the old system
that q voter is almost wholly Coded by
some other minds, but here under the
Australian system, you have the various,
tickets eli en- one slip OF paper, and
each man make his own decision and
does his own voting. an inclined to
think the process is rather too expen-
sive."
While nearly all agree that the sys-
TEN is a great improvement over the OLD
method, they also believe there is room
for Improvement, as there naturally
would be after the first trial, not few
object to the abbreviated quarters. cay
ing there Is not sufficient elbow room,
and that a man weighing $50 pounds or
more would have to back out OF the
booth II he once got In. There Is no
doubt but that at another election the
booths will have to be larger, and the
desks wider, as with such cumber-
some tichet, it becomes difficult to man
pulate it In such cramped quarters.
Notwithstanding all that has been
written in the newspapers regarding
the method of voting under this system
there were not a few who failed 70 catch
the combination, and some amusing In
cidents occurred. Some got the Ohio
and West Virginia method COMPOUNDED,
the Ohio method being to simply to
draw a cross at the top Of the ticket
opposite the name you desired to vote,
the West Virginia process being to draw
lines right down through all the tickets
except the one you desire to vote. One
or two instances occurred where this
process was reversed, the parties voting
getting 1t in their head that the way to
express the preference was to mark q
line through the ticket you
wanted to vote. It is said that one man
In the Fifth ward took ticket, walked
into the booth, folded 1t up and then
had II ground into the box, afterward
saying that he'd be darned II be was
going to scratch his ticket; he was just
going to vote it straight, and he never
put line or mark on it. The result
was that ticket was counted as blank.
AMUSING ERRORS.
Another instance occurred whore the
voter marked line all through the
tickets be did not want to cast with the
exception OF one name, which he did
not scratch, and marked 10 over another
name on the ticket he was voting. The
correct way, however, was to draw
q line through the name
he had transferred from the other
ticket just the same; In other words, the
lines drawn should extend through the
entire ticket. Such votes as these were
also left uncounted. But such mis-
takes were probably about equallzed on
both sides. In some Of the booths,
where candles were burned owing to
the insufficiency Of light, ballot now
and then consumed by the flames. The
voter would become 80 enRrossed In
marking the ballot that he would keep
pushing it up in order 10 draw the line
way through 1t, when, owing to the
narrow shelf, the top OF the ballot
would flop down upon the candle and
catch fire. In these cases the ballots
were returned to the clerks and new
ballots furnished. Still, upon the
whole, there were few Interruptions,
considering that 1t was the first time
the new system had been operated.
The Republicans up in Hancock
wanted Mr.. VIII G. Young, formerly OF
Harper 81 Bros, to vote there, but he
said he claimed his residence in this
city, and jumped on q train and came
down to this city, and voted In precinct
No. 5. of the Island, where Mr.. Young's
residence and all his household posses
sions are. Last night the Republicans
were threatening him with arrest for
"'illegal" voting.
Dan. Heiskell was challenged on the
ground that be was q resident OF Glen
dale, and had not been In Ohio county
sixty days, and r. s. Dalzell on the
question Of age.
BEEcHAM's PILLS for o bad liver.