The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-06

Al o'clock this afternoon it looks
like Sam Parker and the Republican
tioi<et of oahu w4h be elected, most of
the men by very large majorities.
This forecast issbas ed upon the known
and EXPIRE 50 ID intentiOns OF most of the
voters In the various precincts as they
appeared at the polls.
A few of the Republican candidates
for the Legislature. VIII run lower than
others, but it IS Believed that they are
on easy street."
1t is almost equally plain this after
noon that Robert Wilcox and a part of
his ticket will be second tn the Repub-
licans, the Democrats q close thin d.
Some of the Democratic candidates Will
run ahead of the Independents.
AT no0p, leading Democrats conceded
the da nahead of them. 1t Is true
they SAID However, that many of their
men i'm I'll the precincts had not yet
voted.
Mithal, II will take q great deal dur
) ing the remaining hou:s of the contest
to turn the tremendous Republican tide.
Z The first American election d. dawn
ed bright and cool this morning. The
auguries were for splendid day, and
naturally large vote. The opening OF
the oils gave further promise of this.
There were large numbers of voters at
opened.
1t had been planned by the High She
riff to get the police to the polls early
so that they could vote at the head of
the line, as they were to be on duty all
day. For this reason the police detail
ed to each polling place were sent out
at $3.50 o'clock. But even then there
were some citizens ahead of them and
the officers of the law had to take their
turn in the line.
The voting early developed the weak
ness and strong points of our election
system. In those precincts were there
are a large proportion of white voters,
the voting proceeded very rapidly.
Where the proportion of Hawaiian
voters was larger the voting was very
much slower. In the fourth precinct OF
the fourth district, there were $50 votes
cast in the first 120 minutes. But OF
these, some voters were in the booth as
much jas eight and ten minutes. In the
third precinct of the fourth district, one
voter occupied booth for a half hour
In the first precinct of the fourth dis
trict, several voters occupied booths as
long as twelve minutes. With all the
additional booths provided at those pre-
cincts where there is a large registered
vote, it is clear that,it will take the en-
tire nine hours of constant voting &c
poll all the votes. In some of the
smaller precincts outside of Honolulu
where no additional booths have beer
provided, the voting is going on so SLOW
that it is a question whether all theil
votes will be cast or not.
There is a probability that there will
be a good many spoilt ballots, which
will add considerably to the length o.
time required to count the votes. Thest
spoilt ballots will be due to severa
causes besides the ignorance of voters
AT several polling places, voters repor
that they found official ballots in thu
booths. The probabilities are tina
these were left in there by voters WHIT
took specimen ballots in with them as
guide to mark their own ballots, anC
then in their haste and confusion fold
ed up and voted the specimen ballots in
stead of the official ballots. These will
be detected in the counting and mus
necessarily be thrown out. If the spe
cimen ballots had been printed on diff
ferent colored paper from the officla
ballots, this error If this inference I
the correct solution. would have beel
detected at the time the voter offere
his vote to the officers of election
and the mistake could have been re
medied. The question is, what figur
does the existence of official ballots 4
the booths, other than the one the vote
was entitled to take in with him cut I
the result of the election.
Another cause of spoilt ballots wa
the fact that in some booths the She
on which the voter had to mark hi
ballot was of such rough lumber tina
the pencil would slip in marking an
the marks extend into other spaces o
the ticket than the one containing tn
name of the candidate for whom tn
voter intended to vote.
UP to noon there We're no disturbance
of any kind serious enough to be wort
considering. Interest in the election
intense. The bushes part of town
locked up and bushes men, their clerk