Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-11-04
BUSY DAY AND A BIG VOTE
Heaviest Polling IL the City's History
Follows The Campaign.
JEALOUS suwRrts MAKE TROUBLE
Go from PoiI 20 Pom ana Challenge
Votes on All Sorts of Pre-
te1ts-ABdnN save
Nearly All.

All records were broken yesterday IN the
vote IN This city u every precinct the total
vote east showed q gain over that Of 'our
and Two years arc. one remarkable feature
q The hslutiuE was The early hour 81 which
most Of The voters came 20 the polls. IL
all the precincts over half tie vote was IL
al noon. and in the First precinct Of the
Fourth ward this mark had been passed be
fore 70 O'Clock The percentage o. stay-at-
homes was decidedly small and in some o.
the precincts d!5 not exceed h6lf dozen
There was also considerable challenging, the
free silver men eyhGustiuE every means TO
stop the votes OF any republican on the
slightest technically In the first precinct
OF the Second ward there were but six chRl-
IeuEes i've by the democrats and one by
the republicans These were all voted OF
sffdgvi;s.
The requests Tor instruction in marking
the ballots we're more numerous thar ever
before This was lccaElursd ty the i'm
uCuse size q the ballot. There were seven
tickets ia the field with az extra column
10 make room Cor The name q 7 Wal
Ecr fur justice @! The peace The general
impression was during he day that Ike ma
joritv Of votes would be straight; as the men
remained but minute iu the bor:hE. The
scratching that was done was on the cnur ;
and township ticket Many free silver men
who voted FOR the head Of their ticket
switched when IL came 20 The county officers,
as they were but poorly satisfied Win tLg
fusion tickle; 10 PU-tswartEmle
one man IN the Second district o. The
Second ward created st.r by bringing on.
the two FRS columns ~ names from his
ballot having torn Of The res; and thrown 8:
away de said that was all he wanted o.
the big piece OF paper. He was given az
q hot nj D. rlEF finsF 2 hrw %
Nearly the solid vote o. the coiored men
IN Council Bluffs went for Mckinley. There
vas some trouble N the Sixth ward about
eleven Of the Pullman porters voting They
have been making this city their hendquHr-
ters fpr years and when reEist eriuE decided
that the ward Ia which they had their wash
ing done was the proper place 20 qualify.
They selected the Second district o. the Sec
ond ward, as they have heir washing done
In that part OF the city When their votes
were challenged they decided 10 try the
Sixth ward. Here they were followed by
some q the free silver men and they were
ruled out. The incident created considerable
In. lCuEtl-u among the COlUred voters and
they hustled every man left in line FOR NJ
kiuley.
The polls closed promptly at c o.clork.
with no one trying 20 squeeze In late bal
lo-. The Judges FOR the most part stopped
Tor supper and then settled down for al
all night job
RESULT PLEASES REPUBLICANS
Council Bluffs republicans were wild with
Joy last night as the returns came iu show
ing that William Mckinley was elected
beyond q doubt The interest in the local
campaign was practically lest sight Of aul
a. the count was rather SLOW owing 20
the size % the ticket. all attention was
given 10 watching the returns from outside
Of the state. The Indications at midnIEh,
were that the city viii give the republicans
small majority. with two precincts 70
hear from the republicans have q lead OF
about thirty. These figures are on the head
OF the ticket and the republicans have the
better OF Il on the county and city tickets
At midnight County Chairman Dawson
claimed the county by $50 majority showing
a gain o. over 100 over the vote Of two wears
ago on HaEer and Weaver. All The townships
heard from up 10 midnight show good
gains and the prospects are that the re-
publican majority IN P0ttawattamie will
run considerably over Mr. Daws1ns as innate
The vote in the city is