San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-03
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Precinct No. New County Court
House. At 1910 this afternoon 70
votes had been cast and % had been
counted. No irregularities were re-
ported.
Precinct No. 5.-Old County Court
House, on Soledad street. OF 1856
votes cast at noon two were challeng-
ed. Twenty votes had been counted.
Precinct No. 10.-Sommers' garden.
At 11:3O o'clock 200 votes had been
cast. One vote was challenged and
the voter placed under oath. About
80 votes were counted. The race is
considered very close between sound
money and free silver as well as the
local and state tickets.
Precinct No. 12.-At II a. m, 279
votes had been cast and no irregular
tiles reported. Counting had not yet
begun.
Precinct No. 9.-At l p. M, 1896 votes
cast. All parties represented. Count
began at 1870 a. m.
| Precinct No. 11.-DawsOn and Cher
ry streets, 100 p. m, ia votes cast.
Counting not begun.
Precinct No. 6.-Corner Romano
street and San Pedro avenue. The
vote at this, the largest precinct in
the city up to l o'clock was exceed
ingly light, and the opinion was gen.
eral that the entire vote Of the pre-
cinct could not be gotten in by 6
o'clock. The fault is due to the slow
manner in which the official ballot
| is prepared in voting. 1t requires an
hour to vote 100 tickets, especially
where there is such a liberal use Of
the lead pencil; as the scratched con-
dition of the ballots indicate.
The poll was opened promptly and
only the judges and clerks and repre-
sentatives of the various tickets in tn
field were permitted inside of the rail-
ing and up to IL o'clock but 300 votes
! had been cast. At 1 o'clock this
number was augmented to 600. The
precinct casts about 1900 according
to the last registration and owing to
the large amount of scratching that is
being done, it is difficult to gain an ac-
curate idea Of the way things are GO
ing. This precinct is in Mr.. Stay
denis ward, and his workers are en-
deavoring to make a good showing
and the Noonan people however, are
coming in thick, and the early indi-
cations are that Mr.. Slayden's precinct
will show up handsomely for his OPP
ponent, Judge Noonan, and this pre-
cinct is also the home of large num-
Der Of lawyers who are working for
the Independent ticket, but they are
unable to steer many straight, I'M
scratched tickets for the combination
and some of the best workers for the
Independent ticket are at this poll,
but from the scratched ballots and
expressions of the voters awaiting
their turn, it looks as if Boerner is
not the one who is suffering.
Precinct No.7.-This precinct casts
over 800 votes, but up to noon 210 Of
this number were cast. Bielstein for
commissioner and Boerner for col
lector are reported running exceed
ingly well. A heavy negro vote is
cast in this precinct, and it is being
pretty generally cast for Noonan. A
large part of the railroad vote in this
precinct however, will go for free sill
yer. The presiding officer is W. A.
Howell, judges: Fritz Russi, Modesto
Torres and ]. r. Davis, cOlOred;clerks;
Geo. Lester, N. A. Young, P. ]. Kerr,
and VIM. Daugherty, cOlored. AT
noon the judges began the count.
Precinct No. S.-Cloud's store, cor
ner Perez and North FriO streets. At
this precinct HI. Brendel presided.
The judges were ]. T. Dixon, W. G.
Wagner and @. Dunn; clerks: L. A.
Harper, S. III. Locke, Ed. Dillenberger,
| "hu DaNlu bOudluSUu. Up W IV'oV
o'clock 105 votes had been cast, which
was swelled to 194 by II o'clock. The
ballots as in the other precincts, were
badly scratched.
Precinct No. 27.-Riyer avenue,
Rapid Transit Railway power house:
at p. m. Is votes had been polled.
This precinct only registered 80 votes
this year.
Precinct No. 3, E. p. ClaudOn's
place, 20S South COnchO street
The vote in this, the stronghold in
years gone by of the county
courthouse combination, shows
up badly for the political disci-
pline which formerly character
ICED the voting at this poll. The
Independent ticket leaders were
present in person, but the ballots