Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-01
BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS.

The polls opened at the usual hour this morning and while the rush around the booths has not been so marked as in for mer years the stream of voters seems 10 keep coming in pretty steadily. The dsy | | was one of the pleasantest that the electors | of Waterbury have had in a good many | years and this no doubt accounts for ths | | large number of old and infirm voters who | called at the polls early, relieving the hackmen of their accuetomed trip. Ac- cording to tradition it was republican weather. The women voters were early in coming to the polls. At the first ward it was diff cult to tell who was the first woman to de- posit her ballot, but it was generally con ceded that the honor belongs to Miss Ellen Mulyille with Mrs Bolger and several others close in her footsteps. At the second ward Mrs A. Jackson led the
 women voters with the wife of Officer
 Michael Sullivan a good second. The
 third ward was we'll represented at the bal
 lot box for first place. It was so close that
 the checkers did not care to say whether
 the hoLor belonged to Mrs Drayer or Mrs
 John Hunter of Jackson street, or Mrs Hanley of Simon street and her daughter.
 They were all there waiting for the ballot box to open. At the fourth the wife ot John $. Fay was the first woman at the polls with ten or twelve others at her back. l The women they knew where they were going and what to do when they reached the voting booth and after casting their ballots re- turned to their homes in good order. At the first ward the wife of E. A. Moree was on hand in the interest of the republi- can school ticket and the no license vote. A woman emerging from the voting booth at the fourth ward remarked 'I wish we had chance at that license vots. We'd l chn xrhathaF NVa IrnnEa | not. And we will have a vote at it before long," she added shaking her hand at a couple of fellows who stood on the other , side of the walk.
 At noon the vote stood as follows: First | ward. G50. including 100 women; second : ward, between five and six hundred votes. Il with only 30 women; third ward, 437 votes. As there was no private checker n for the women it was difficult to tell how . their vote stood. Fourth ward. 620, in- Il cluding loo women.
 It stated that the populist ticket s was drawing most of its strength from the t democrats in the fourth ward. In the e other wards the men around the polls did K not seem to think it would amount to
 much.
 z There was some pasting done on botl ,s sides. Perry c. Morris, the democratic ,f candidate for fiIst selectman. received a. many republican votes, enough to elect st him by a handsome majority under ordi le nary conditions, but E W. Pinney is nC 3. ordinary politician and received the vote n of many democrats who have been caugh n by "molasses" dispensed by the astut Il stlectma1. The friends of George A " Boughtop, who refused to play seconC r. fiddle to MT Pinney this year. are no h. rking with old time zeal. If the demo De crats succeed in getting out their full vot Id Mir Morris will be elected beyond a doubt h. MT Pinneys son created n breeze of ex y, cItement in the second ward by tearIn n down one of the posters printed by tn la democrats. calling attention to the reckles re expenditure of money last year by the fir Dn selectman.
 ill An idea of where Mir Finney gets hi in strength and how was given to the rc ,s. porter this morning by democrat, wh IT. made no secret of the fact that he Wa 'Hl going to give his vote to the republica ay candidate MT Pinney gave me job. re he said. 'and I'm going to vC te for hin ng that settles it. Id vote for him if he WI k- an A. F. A. I don't care whether | cy squanders the town money or not" le- The vote for town clerk may be clos,
 Eddie Belden was probably the mo-
 available man the republicans could pT
 forward He is popular with the boys II and Is getting some democratic vote be Thomas F. McMahon. on the other hand.
 depending upon his record of the pa,
 year to carry him through and as it is a
 eminantly creditable one he will probab ce be elected.
 iot At ? o'clock the democrats of the fouri ne ward felt some what discouraged. the Vol
 being much smaller than on former year
 At that time the count stood: First way, . 500; second 7On; third. S53; fourth S0 IT. At 3 o'clock the vote ito d as follow lls First ward. 9SO; of which the dt mocra Ii. sAt
 and cutting PInney right and left but vii
 the regular republican majority (
 straigtts;" third. 0O0; about evenly q ns vided; fourth. ,lO5. democrats $50. T m publicans 255
 Dr Last year att o'clock the vote was m- follows: First ward. 900; second. 1 ,O5 Ter third. 9S0; fourth. IFS.
 On the populist ticket the name of Wa
 ter F. Hinckley appears for member of Il
 boar of education while it ia William ng- Hinckley for the same office on the repu II lican ticket. This means the loss of q red vote of the republican ticket for Walt nd F. Hinckley there being no man of tn ath name in the city. The populists clsi vas big vote in the fourth second and thi
 wards. A conservative estimate. howevt
 gives the populists not more than l5O vot
 Tn the town.
 ith The need of another voting place in t
  aid than to-day. It is said that over one hu of dred voters. and they were not A. P. ,ns either, could not get access to the polls by tween 12 and l o'clock. Many of the eve returned later. but many did not and tn, ter votes were lost. Last year there We will nearly fifty democratic voters in line at t s. fourth district polls when the boxes We
 closed st 5 o'clock and it is feared tn
 there will be repdtition of the scene u
 evening.
 by The women's vote at 3 o'clock was
 follows: First ward, 3S0; second. + of third. POO; fourth. 2S5 At the four ing ward a prominent populist wanted one
 the women to vote the populist schc K ticket. The woman indignantly refus of saying she knew what ticket to vote wit ,on out his instructions. That's all right on. he said. I suppose you want to follC inc Father Mulcahy. Yell, she said. thi ca, he is a better guide than you are, and ons would take a little more notice of Ical counsel and less of others you would pe- better Ethan you are. I'll follow my O,
 conscience. and let you follow the dey try just what you are doing
 ced At o'clock about 300 votes had be per- cast in the fourth ward, and the electi ate: of Mir Morris was predicted by 200 n
 jority.
 his ITALIANS TO ORGANIZE. ons Rev pr Martin of st Cec,lln,, to Fo,