Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
TO CAST BALLOTS
Washington Men Who Have
Franchise in State.
GOING HOME TO VOTE
SEVERAL HUNDRED GOVERN
MENT EMPLOYEES.
Those Whose Leaves Are Exhausted
Will Have Their Pay Deducted
While Absent.
GOING HOME TO VOTE

INQUIRY at the State, War and Navy De-
partments shows that about the usual num-
ber of employees will go to their homes next
week to vote at the presidential and state
elections Secretary Hay is credited to
the District of Columbia, and consequent
ly has no vote 1t is estimated that not
more than twenty of the employees OF the
State Department will vote at the coming
election.
Secretary Taft who is now engaged in
active campaign work in New York state,
is expected to return here next Sunday. He
has arranged to cast his vote at his home
in Cincinnati, Ohio. Gen. Oliver, assistant
secretary of war. will go to Albany, N ~
to vote. Altogether there are about l,'oo
employees in the War Department. including
women and other non-voters. and the pres
ent indications are that between two ana
three hundred will exercise the right OF suf-
frage at their legal residences next Tues
day That is about the same number VINO
voted at the last presidential election
Secretary Morton. whose home is In Cnl-
cago ILL., and Assistant Secretary Darling,
who resides in Montpelier, VT, are not go
ing to vote at this election, but it is not be-
lieyed that their failure to do so VIII nave
any effect on the result of the election IN
their states. both being conceded TO the re-
publican ticket There are about oOO EN-
ployes in the Navy Department and 1t is is
estimated that about one-fifth of these Will
go home to vote next Tuesday.
From the Post Office Department.
About two hundred clerks of the Post
Office Department in the city have applied
for leaves to cover election day and Will
go to their legal residences, presumably 10
vote All leaves for such purpose must,
in accordance with the rules and regula-
tions of the postal service. be taken from
the annual allowance, and if all such has
been used by a clerk and he is desirous OF
exercising the privilege of the ballot he must
take the leave, if it be granted him, With
out pay This does not apply to the as
sstants to the Postmaster General, who
are all classified as indirect representatives
of the President and who may take leave
when they wish, with the sanction or the
Postmaster General. Others. such as divi-
sion chiefs and the like, come under the
general classification and are not accorded
leave except at the discretion of their su-
periors in office.
Quite number of the woman clerks or
the department also taking leave at
this time, but the average is not higher
than usual at this period of the year. Many
of these have saved their time allowance
from the summer months and will take ad-
vantage of the cool of the year to spend
little time away from their work.
The certificates asked by those men of
the postal service who are going home to
vote are being made out in the office of
the chief clerk of the department and are
for the purpose of Identification at the
various railroad ticket offices, where lower
rates have been made. in order that the
clerk and voter may purchase his ticket
at the reduced rate without difficulty.
Postmaster General Wynne will go to
Philadelphia to vote. He will leave Wash
ington Monday evening and will return the
next morning after having cast his ballot
to swell the republican majority of Penn
sylvania.
Perhaps 1000 From Treasury.
In the treasury building about two hun
dred certificates to voters had been issued
up to o'clock this afternoon, but it was
expected that the number would greatly in
crease in the next three days. At the bu-
reau of engraving and printing which
comes under the treasury, the total issue
to this afternoon was 400. 1t was expected
that the number would reach 600 from the
bureau before election day, and at the
treasury the total was expected to reach
300 400.
At the Department of Justice, which has
only about 200 clerks, including a consid-