The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-01


or forty votes which Smithfeld will get
on the general ticket will come to them
on the Assembly tickets and they claim
about 100 votes for their candidates for
the Senate and House. No one admits the
possibility of such a thing, however.
The Republican State tickets plurality
in this town will be about 90.
EAST GREENWICH.
In Speaker Aliens town the Republican
plurality of nearly 200 which the State
officers received a year ago, will be re-
peated, and the same vote, OF course, will
go TO Senator Lamphere and Representa-
There is stlff fight in progress over
the liquor question.
JAMESTOWN.
The only interest In jamestown Ia in
the election of town officers.
Governor Lippitt is sure OF about two
thirds OF all the votes which Will be cast,
candidates for the General Assembly
Senator Weeden and Representative Cot
trell.
The total vote will not exceed 100, and
one-hslf OF that is out now.
scITUATE.
No one can tell at 10 o'clock this fore
noon how the town OF Scituate is going
in today's election. The town has the
reputation of being Democratic, but the
worst that can be said OF it is that il is
uncertain.
Although the Democrats elected their
candidates for the Senate and House a
year ago, the totals in the three districts
gave Governor Lippitt plurality of just
one vote, the figures being 300 for Lip
pitt and 304 for Littlefield. In 1894 the
town gave Governor Brown plurality of
75 over Hon. David $. Baker and Repub-
lican Assemblymen were elected.
Today there ISN'T much activity and the
Democrats are rather lukewarm in the
third district where they usually hope to
win enough to counteract the regular Re-
publican pluralities of the first and Sec
ond. The reelection of Senator Page
and Representative Battey is by no means
a sure thing.
GLOUCESTER.
The usual vote of this town is 300 and
nearly third of il was out by noon to-
day and it is Republican by two TO one.
Senator Read is all right for reelection
and Lucius 3. Steere will win in the fight
for representative The independent
movement is Tot making much oil a stir
at the polls.
EAST PROVIDENCE.
In East Providence there is one OF the
hottest fights in the history OF the town
in progress today over the election OF
town officers and in the question of
"yes' or "no," for liquor licenses.
The local fight Is between the regular
Republican party and the so-called good
government faction recently stirred up by
the malcontents of the town.
The polls did not open until o'clock
this forenoon and at noon less than 200
votes had been cast.
The straight party town council ticket
will oubtedly win but the no license
question is anybody's fight at this stage
of the game.
The plurality for the Republican State
ticket will be over 500 and the Republican
candidates for the Assembly will win by
practically the same figure.
EoPKINToN.
The voting in both districts of Hopkin-
ton is going on smoothly and quietly and
there is hardly Democrat in sight. Lit
tlefield may get 40 votes for Governor in
the entire town but il is doubtful.
The Prohibitionists are making some
thing OF fight and saw that their Assem-
bly, candidate will get -l50 votes. The Re-
Representative Hill, will be reelected by
twice that number and Governor Lip
pitts plurality Will be over 200.
CRANsTON.
Stanley men and Merrill men are try
ing to outdo each other in the gathering
of voters ell over the town and there IS
as much interest in the contest between
the rival candidates for the Senate as il
Presidential election was in progress.
Both ere aiming everything, and the
fighting will be hard up TO the time of
closing the polls. Senstor Merrill Is re-
ceiving good support in his own district,
but outside of that the voters talk in favor
of the nominee Of the party caucus, and
If they vote rs they talk Representative
Stanley will win the fight and go TO the
Senate. For the other two places on the
Assembly ticket Joseph l. Sanders ana
Arthur +. Austin have sure thing.
The voting mp 70 noon today Is suffici-
emily heavy to warrant the statement that
the plurality for the Republican State
ticket in Cranston will run over 800.
CUMBERLAND.
DIR. Garvin and his Democratic col
leagues are not so sure of reelection TO
day as they would like TO be- and John
Mel aughlin, the Democratic candidate
for the Senate, is not in the tight mt all.
The voting in the second, or Democratic,
district, is below normal. but the party
workers are hopeful and say that the mill
vote this noon will do the business.
There are about eco votes cast in this dis
trict so far. The friends of William Boil
sler, and Charles Il. Fisher, the Republi
can candidate for the House, are doing
effective work i'm the first district. Gov
ernor Lippitt will have a small plurality.
BURRILLvILLE.
The report from the polling places in
the third district Of Burriliv lie, the
towns Democratic stronghold, are not
encouraging for Representative Inman,
the present Democratic member from the
town in the Assembly. The vote there
Is light, and Mr.. Irman Is not likely to
get enough of a plurality TO affect the Re-
publican figures in the other two districts
where a big vote Is being brought out.
Senator Andrew Luther, Republican, is
assured of reelection, and Burrillville
will vote for the Republican Ss>se ticket
by plurality of 125 votes or more.
MupDLETowN.
Mlddletown Is sure Republican thing
among the towns OF Rhode Island as Ver-
mont Is among the States, and there is, OF
course, no sort of a question as to the re-
suits OF tUday's balloting. A.Herbert Ward
and James X Chase, the Republican can
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