Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-11-09
In The City and County.
The VGrllng Of The lustraliaa Ballo.,-
fhe Oifc.al Vote Of the City AID
CouatV-fhe District Major. ties FIR
Y0t and Tucker.
&c.. &c. &c.

The early morning of Tuesday was Gle II
and the familiar sight Of vehicles labeled
ssTucker'' and '..Yost' was early seen.
But that was the only familiar sight; the
Walton law had killed all the rest dead.
The crowd of lOungerS in the court yard,
the little knots of heelers. the groups of men
mellow with liquor, the badged canvassers
peared. The booths at each pol were
inside the buildings with the judges and
clerks, and nobody else was admitted there.
At the court house the booth, which per
mitted four men to prepare their ballots at
once in it, was placed inside of the lawyers
railing aud the judges sat on the Judges
bench. In each division of the booth there
was desk, a pen and ink, blotting pad
and, in the early morning, a lighted candle.
At the outer door of the court house was
policeman and there the voters formed i'll
line. AS fast as voter came out OF the
court room, another was admitted; the one
going in having his name called as he started
and his name was erased from list held
by the party challengers. On getting i'll he
went up to the clerk who handed him
ballot for congressman and one for the
amendment which he took to the booth,
pulling aside the curtain and going behind
it. If he was literate and, with it, careful,
he read his ballots over closely to see it he
had marked out the right names, then took
them out and handed them to the judge
who dropped them in the boxes. Every
thing was precise, orderly and quiet. The
voters place as he left was soon filled by
another.
The names for congress on the ballot
were in this order-H. st. Geo. Tucker,
Jacob Yost, e. r. Cooke, c. FL. Groves
and James Seldom Cowdon.
The judges at the First Ward were w.
L.. Olivier, J. 3. Coffelt and Edgar M.
Funkhouser, with Asher Ayres. Selden
Wake, Harry Burnett and A. II. Taylor,
as clerks. The judges at the Second Ward
were J. A. Templeton, VIM. A. Burke and
J. B. Amiss, with H. II. Fultz, Edward
Hall, Beirne Kinney and B. F. Terry as
clerks.
VII NlOiludy plC lNDlNA1Oh pCliSCtSo
it's arrangements for putting on its bulletin
board by telephone and telegraph and by
carrier, the county precincts. Superinten-
dent Shepherd of the Middlebrook telephone
line ran the line into the VINDICATOR
Office and put up phone there The other
phone lines to Highland and Long Mead
OWS were connected. Then our arrangement
with the Western Union Telegraph line for
news from this State and other States, was
admirably carried out by that company
By $50 Z. NJ. the returns from nineteen
precincts were on the INDICATOR bulle-
tin board under the glare of its big lamp.
The service from New Y ork was particu-
larly good, and before the VINDICAToR
people closed up, there were several columns
of news from that city and State and the
defeat there was known before 10 20 clock.
The crowds in search Of political news
naturally gathered at the VINDICATOR bull
letin, their old stand by, and they were not
disappointed. The service was excellent
and the phone service was particularly
good for the county people. Superintendent
Shepherd attended the phone in this office
and as the Long Meadows and the other
lines were connected with it, he sent them
the VINDICAToR news as well as received
it from them. At Hermitage Mr.. w.
Arthur Wilson sat in an easy chair in his
room with his phone to his ear and got not
only the news, but heard all the comments
of the immense crowd in our office. MI.
w. w. Sproul at Middlebrook and many
others had the same experience. They all
agreed that it was far more comfortable
than to come to Staunton election nights
and stand on the cold pavement in the big
crowds that gather at the VINDICAToR to
watch the bulletin board. It was quite a
night Of triumph for MI. Shepherd whose
phone worked admirably and its use was an
object lesson of its Importance.
Though the crowd around the Office re-
NAMED till 2:30 Wednesday morning, the
bulletin board had another crowd around
it from 8 o'clock that morning till evening.