The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-03
NEW YORK.
Voting Proceeds Almost as Fast as
Under the Old Law.


New York. Nov. s.-Exceptionally fine
weather for the season makes the east
ing of an unusually large vote in this
city lively probability. The 1892 poll
ing places in New York city opened at
[ o'clock and even at that early hour
there were people waiting at most Of
the polling booths. In fact early voting
appeared TO be the general rule In one
of the uptown precincts where there
were 1I5 names registered 81 ballots
has been cast at $50 o'clock. In an
other precinct out of 242 registered, 81
had voted by o'clock.
Party leaders and watchers at the
polls were making all sorts of claims
as to what the early vote meant The
Bryanites claimed that the early vote
was the labor vote and that it was go
ing for their candidate The Republic
cans, on the other hand. saw i'm the rush
the desire of the people to lose no time
in asserting that they We're for the Re
publican ticket and platform
AS the counting of ballots does not
begin until o'clock at which hour the
polls close and as the voting is under
a system that affords the greatest Sc
crecy, there can only be conjecture be
yOnd the narrow bounds within which
voters may choose to inform the watch
ers at the polls of the way in which
they have chosen to cast their ballots.
Up to 10 o'clock. no word had reached
police headquarters of any disorder. IN
al ticket The indications are that the
voting is on lines which leave little to
be told by the records of previous cleo
tfOns.
Albany N Y. Nov. 3-The weather
here is perfect, crisp and sunshiny and
the vote is being polled in a phenom-
enally rapid manner By o'clock in
some districts One-half the registered
vote had been cast.
Brooklyn. n. Y Nov 3.-With a fine
late autumn morning. the early voting
in this city was unusually large today.
Something like 50 per cent of the regis
tered voters of the city had cast their
ballots by O'Clock and the Indications
point to the total vote of the day being
considerably larger than that which
was cast four years ago. Tt is partic-
ularly the case in the precincts where
working people reside that the voting
has been done early The polls are open
from a. rn., until p. m No disturb
ances had been reported up to 10
O'Clock this forenoon.
Syracuse. N- W., Nov. 3.-The weather
is ideal for election. The early vote has
been unusally heavy in this city and in
the towns Of OnandagO county.
New York. Nov. 3.~The poll clerks in
some districts found trouble in instruct
ing voters. put not so large a percent
age of spoiled ballots has been received
up to III a. M. as were i'm evidence at
the sama hour at the last election. The
poll clerks, however, are fearful that
because Of the large number of candi-
dates and the breaches and cOntrOver-
sizes in the several parties the voters
Will get mixed on the marking and that
there viii be a vast number of ballots
thrown out on account of errors In
dlcatlOns so far as Obtainable at this
writing. are to the effect that the Gold
Democratic ticket is getting but mea-
gre support and that the Democratic
detection is toward Mckinley
There is also an indication that Crit
fin is running ahead of Palmer and
Buckner in the state which would seem
to indicate that Black, Republican can
dldate for governor is running slightly
behind the Mckinley electors
Senator David 3. Hill was down at
the polling district in the Ninth ward
before 100 ballots had been cast 1t
was just 1870 o'clock when he entered
the polling place, and less than min
ute when he emerged. He declined to
state how he had voted, but certainly
he did not have much time to do any
cutting