The herald., 1898-11-09
LOS ANGELES HERALD. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER . 1898

had been made at that hour, both for fail
ure to secure transfers on the register when
removing to the precinct thirty days or
more previous.
The Fifteenth precinct, with voting
strength of $50, cast 2S7 votes for mayor in
1895, and at ll:05 a. m. $50 votes had been
cast. There one voter had been in the pre-
cinct only twenty-nine days and was not
permitted to vote, "bcing "shy" one day.
The Sixteenth precinct at l0:45 a. m re-
ported eighty votes cast That precinct
had l79 votes for mayor in 1896 and has a
voting strength of 207. Men engaged at the
oil wells could not get away from their work
until the moon shift" and so the votes
came in slowly.
Taken as whole, the vote was quite full
in the Second ward. Coming in steadily
from sunrise till 5 o'clock, there was no
crush and everything passed off smoothly.
THIRD WARD
No attempts at fraud were reported up
to noon in the Third ward and at that hour
good vote had been gathered in. The
Eighteenth precinct had 70 votes out of
voting strength of 250. Two years ago only
lo9 votes were cast there for mayor. Several
challenges had been made. but all on tech
nical grounds. The Nineteenth precinct at
II; l5 p. m. had cast S5 votes, sworn in nine
on account of jumbled addresses, and had
less than half its voting strength represented
in the box. At 1928 PM precinct twenty re-
ported l57 votes cast and only one challenge.
This voter sworc his vote in, though the
at the place where he said he re-
sided had previously reported that he had
moved. This precinct cast only 229 votes
for mayor in 1896 and had in more than half
its voting strength at noon.
With nearly 450 voters and vote for
mayor two years ago of 2S9, precinct twenty
one had only l34 votes registered at l2:4l D.
m. Few removals to the precinct had been
discovered and no evidences OF fraud. At
precinct twenty-five l52 votes had been cast
at l2:45 p. m., or much more than half the
voting strength. In precinct twenty-three
~ had voted at 1884 p. m. and there had
been very few challenges. The vote in the
Third ward generally was well distributed
'ver the day and free from sensational incl
lent. Throughout the residential parts of
he ward large vote was polied, the pro-
portion being much higher than in the bust
less sections.
FOURTH WARD
The Fourth being one of the largest Repub-
lean wards in the city it was expected that
full vote would be cast and it was not until |
ate in the afternoon that the Republican
managers realized that the Gage vote was
lot coming out. Every effort was put forth
o get out the voters but with all their eff
orts the Republicans lost fully 25 per cent
# their vote.
FIFTH WARD
g., IL
hough it will fall below the vote of 1896
'oth parties suffered alike at the hands OF
he stay-at-home contingent and, if any
hing the Gage men got thc worst of it.
SIXTH WARD
This ward suffered in company with other
ocalities but not to So great an extent as
IS neighbors. Some good work was done
ere for the union county ticket and when
ne polls closed the union workers were sat
fled they had more than held their own
SEVENTH WARD ,
lth, although the general vote was very {
ght. Senator Stephen NJ. White cast an j.;
lrly ballot. Late in the afternoon it was I
that less than 1900 votes had been
lst in the entire ward. There were twelve I
oting places and near closing time the &
orty-ninth precinct had registered the
ighest number of votes, 235 out of possi-
lie 423. In the Forty-eighth precinct l23
otes were polled out OF ward registration
554. There were rumors OF planned
Ich for the last minute In the Fifty-third :
recinct the vote was much higher in pro-
ortion to the registration than in any other
recinct in the ward. In this district, at {
clock lS4 votes were cast out OF possible
I6 At the same time in precinct tifty-four
lly 205 had voted out of possible SCI.
EIGHTH WARD
The voting in the early part of the day