The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-03
READY FOR THE ELECTION.
HOW AND WHERE THE VOTERS
WILL CAST THEIR BALLOTS.

Instructions Given the Managers by
supt. McIntire-The Registrars
CompIete Their WOrk-TwO Bets
Made Aggregating $3,OOO-A Good
Deal of Money VIII Change Hands.
Meetings Held Last Night-A
Change in the Democratic Ticket.
General Political Gossip.
The arrangements for to-day's election
were completed yesterday afternoon, and
at the appointed hour this morning every
thing will be ready for the voting to be-
gin.
| The weather indications at midnight
were for fair, about stationary tempera-
ture; easterly winds"
There are four national tickets offered
to the electors Of Georgia, the democratic,
| thee republican, the national democratic
and the prohibitionist, the populst cleo
| toral ticket having been withdrawn.
The voters of this county and congress
sional district Will also vote for con-
| gresham, Col. Rufus e. Lester, demo-
crat, Mr. Joseph F. Doyle, republican, and
Mr.. George II. Miller, populist, being the
candidates.
The managers and clerks of the election
held a meeting in the afternoon at the
county commissioners office, and the in
structions as to their duties to-day were
read to them by Mr.. j. w. Mcintyre SUI
perintendent of the election.
The managers and clerks will assemble
at the court house at $50 o'clock this
morning, and will be arranged at their
proper boxes at once. At 1920 O'Clock the
managers will open the windows, at which
the ballots are to be received, and the
boxes in which the ballots are to be de-
posted will be opened and shown to the
voters assembled. They will also be turn
ed upside down, so that ii may be shown
there are no ballots in the boxes when
the voting begins. Promptly at ia
O. clock the boxes will be locked and the
managers will begin to receive the votes
Each faction or party will be allowed to
have one challenger, as usual, and in fact
all the other arrangements for the cleo
ton are practically the same as those fol-
lowed in the state election. The votes
will be counted in the most expeditions
manner consistent with accuracy, and
as there are only the electoral tickets and
congressman to be balloted for, 1t is like
ly that the count will be an easy and
quick one.
The voters will vote by districts, just
as in the state election, and the boxes
will be arranged in the same manner, as
follows
First District-Box No. /, tax collect
or 5 office, York street, to L inclusive.
First District-Box No. 2, tax collect
ors office, Bull street, NJ to z inclusive.
Second District-County attorneys Of
fee. Bull street.
Third District-Tax receivers office,
President street.
Fourth District-Box No. l, county COM
nissioners office, President street. A TO
NJ inclusive
Fourth Distribution No 2, ordinary's
office, President street.
Fifth and Sixth Districts-County treas
urers Office, York street.
Seventh and Eighth Districts-Clerk of
superior courts office, York street.
The polls will close exactly at 6:24
o'clock, and the counting will then begin
in the rooms in which the voting is done.
| When a box has been counted the returns
| from it will be locked up and handed over
to the superintendent of the election in the
| office Of the county commissioners. There
| the consolidation will be made just as soon
as all the boxes have been counted.
The work of the county registrars was
| completed last night and the voters lists
were placed in the hands of the superin-
| tendent for the managers of the election.
| There We're exactly forty-seven names
| scratched from the list of whom fifteen
are white and thirty-two colored. The
| largest number was twenty-five colored
| from the four country Districts these
| having failed to respond to the subpoenas
sent them to come up and show why they
| were not disqualified.
| The number of names stricken in all
! these districts, but the First, was only
slightly larger than that stricken from
| the First district by the former registrars,
| who in the time they had only succeeded
in purging the First district list. The reg
| istrars have done some good work. and
under the circumstances they easily ar
| ranged to save the county the expense of
again having the lists printed.
There was little talked of anywhere
yesterday but the prospects in
| the election, and enthusiasm ran
so high that numerous bets were
the result. Some of the wagers that have
| been made are quite respectable in amount
two of them being $1,000 to $500 on Nc
Kinley. The gentleman who holds the
stakes has a cool $9,000 in his hands, the
| sum of two bets of the above stated figure
There are several other bets of good fig
ures scattered here and there, several of
them being as high as $500 In almost every
| instance the odds being given on McKin-
| ley. A party Of well-known gentlemen
sat around in the De Soto lobby last night
and for sometime carried on an interest
ing discussion on the subject of national
politics. the result being several small
but interesting bets, such as s. 10 $15 that
| North Carolina would go for Mckinley,
| and even money on such states as Ken
lucky, Maryland and West Virginia. 1t
has been the same way everywhere. and
| there is no doubt that big pile Of money
will change hands with to-morrow's sun
Everybody will be watching the returns
tonight, and about twenty wires will be
! carrying them to as many different places.
The Guards Club, the Hussars CLUB,
the Harmonic Club, the Oglethorpe CLUB
and the Commercial Club will all have
| special wires, on which they will receive
the Western Union bulletins, and their
members will sit around and discuss the
situation as the returns come in. There
! win be a dozen other special wires run
ming to various places, and each will have
| it's own crowd around waiting to hear
| what Is going on.