The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-08
Fight in Haynes Ward.

a heavy early vote. In the second, the
voting was lighter. This is a. ward in
which the voting is generally done late.
The battle between Haynes and Jones
In the ninth ward, a flood of voters
began at noon, the shops and factories
of the ward closing for the day at that
time. The most interest in the ninth
conferred around the aldermanic fight
between Lundquist and Cashier.
By 10 am. there were seventy-fve to
one hundred votes cast in every pre-
cinct Of the fourth ward. AS com
pared with former elections, this is an
exceptionally heavy early vote in this
ward.
By noon it was reported over half
the registered vote Of the fifth ward had
already been cast, that Of the eleventh
precinct, where 31S votes were cast out
of 500 registered, being typical. In
the downtown precincts of the fourth
and fifth wards, the Jones managers had
watchers on hand to see if any attempt
was made to- cast the vote OF the men
whom the Jones detectives could not
find few days ago at the addresses
they gave when registering, but up to
l o'clock this afternoon none OF these
men had appeared on the scenes and
all was quiet. -.
Powers Men Oppose Jones. 49,.
The eighth ward seems to have cast
the heaviest early vote, the record up to
noon Of all the precincts in the city for
precinct Of the eighth ward. Here 24o
votes had been cast out Of reglstra.
ton of but 266. Other precincts Of
the eighth ward showed a good half OF
the vote cast by 1890. A feature of
the eighth ward fight was the report
that the Powers mon were knitting Jones
because he worked against Powers two
years ago. This was somewhat counter
balanced, however, by a rumor that In
very heavy, J ones seemed to be gaming
ground, The third has been looked
upon as a Haynes stronghold.
The women, few of whom were regis
tered, seem shy today in coming to the
polls. In many precincts up. TO- noon
not woman had voted, altho each pre-
cinct had some registered.
Ballots Were Cumbersome.
Voting was rather a slow operation
today because of the complexlty OF the
ballots. The mere making of all the
necessary crosses was no easy task. Az
a result. there were at all Of the pre-
cincts during the early morning and al
noon, men in line awaiting chance te
get a vacant polling booth.
The democratic county committee hae
carriages out in every ward, most Of
them labeled with Haynes signs, an |,
carving democrats in the interest Of al
democratic candidates, but seemingly
with a special effort at advancing TIT
HAYNES interests. The republican
county committee had four double car
riages and one single rig for each o:
the wards, the "Vote for Dunn sig1
Indicating what most of them wer'
especially busy about.
| Candidates Won't Guess.
This afternoon George Douglas
chairman Of the democratic county com
mittee; Thomas H. Girling and A. A
Rain, chairman and secretary Of tn
republican county committee; D. T
Jones, republican candidate for mayo
and A. M Geesaman, his manager, wer
all out in carriages making the round
, Of the voting places. None Of the lead
ers had any statements to give out a
noon, the general feeling being that i
was too early for anyone to max
claims and that this election emo on
| knows till the votes are counted.