Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-08-02
Indicating that a Pope Was
Not Chosen Yesterday
RUMOR OF THE BALLOTS
Rampolla Is Said To Be In the Lead
with Twenty Votes-Tkere Is An
Impression That an Election Will
Be Made Tomorrow.

Rome. Aug 1.-The first day of the
conclave has ended and no pope Is
elected Both this morning and this
afternoon all the members of the sa-
cred college except Cardinals Herrero
Espinosa, Cretoni, Langenioux and
CouIlie who were confined TO their cells
by illness, entered the Sistine chapel,
where, after the solemn ritual adopted
for the occasion, they dropped their
ballots in the chalice. That these gave
10 no candidate the necessary forty
Two votes was made known to Rome
and TO the world by the smoke of the
burning ballots which issued from the
Sistine chapel. Tomorrow the cardi-
mails will vote again. both in the morn
ing and afternoon. but what the
chances Of their arriving at decision
before Monday. are, none can tell.
1t was reported this evening that the
Ra1npolla party was in the ascendant,
but this cannot be taken as any indi-
cation of the final result. as the vote
of Pope Leo's secretary of state may
be split up or given in its entirety to
some other cardinal. Apparently re-
liable information which. however, =
is impossible to verify, is to the effect
that Cardinal Rampolla received at the
first ballot this morning twenty votes,
Serafino Vannutelli II, Gotti 1, Orgelia
>, Di Pietro 4. Pareolatro and Agliardi
8, the remainder being scattered.
Rumor generally assigns Monday as
the most likely day upon which
election will occur. 1t was not seri-
ously expected here that the cardinals
would select a pontiff on the first ballot.
hence this morning few of the populace
were present in the piazza of st. Feter,
though in the immediate neighborhood
a thousand troops and gendarmes stood
idle in the shade of the colonnadeS- In
the afternoon the sun blaZed down and
St Peters at o'clock was just as de-
serted as on the day Pope Leo died
Soon after four. however, the crowds
began TO gather. By five o'clock several
thousand persons, including many
American tourists. hundreds of priests
and anxious Romans of all classes.
gathered at the steps of the basilica
and along the left side Of st. Peters
square, from which points only was
the Sistine chapel visible. Every eye
was turned toward the long, narrow
tin tube. with a conical top. which
rises crookedly from one end of the
chapel 1t might we'll be an improvis-
ed outlet for 4 hovel instead of the
world watched beacon which alone can
give the sign awaited by SO many
millions of people.
AS eve drew near the crowd increased
and the Roman princes and princesses
drove I'D and watched from their car
riages through opera glasses the tin
smoke stach which glistened in the
sun. Prince Orsini, the head of the
Roman loyalty who shares only with
Prince Colonna, the hereditary right
to stand next to the papal throne. SAT
on the steps of St. Peters beside an
old beggar woman. Like her. ne
watched intently for the smoke signal
When six o'clock rang out from the
big clock of St. Peters. there was
sea of upturned faces focused win
intense anticipation on the Slstlne
chapePs crooked smoke stack Three
minutes later from the conical top OF
the stack curled out tiny streak OF
smoke. Slowly the crowd dispersed
During the afternon workmen were
busy in St Peters preparing the great
window facing the interior of the basil
lica, from which the new pope. I'M
mediately after his election. Will give
his first Jenediction to the Cathohc
world.
The latest reports are TO the effect
that the condition of the cardinals
who are i'll has somewhat improved.
The rules of the conclave allow a car
dinaI who is suffering from Illness to
leave and to even return if he so de-