Evening star., 1904-05-03
THE LOCAL ELECTION
Republican Primaries Taking
Place Today.
PROGRESS OF VOTING
IN SOME DISTRICTS POLL Is NOT
HEAVY.
The Result to Be Made Known by the
Returning Board-Van Wickle-
Patterson Ticket Ahead Now.

of the District opened today at - o'clock
noon, and will not close until 6:3O o'clock
this evening. Owing to the registrat ton
rules, requiring each voter to give his
name and address. the total vote polled
I probably will not exceed 10000 as COM
pared with about 14O00 polled four years
| ago. The leaders are counting on voting
one man per minute, as an average The
| total time available Is six and half
| hours, or 800 minutes which allows 800
votes in each polling place. There are
| twenty-nine polling places which, if the
average of vote minute is maintained,
| should produce in the neighborhood of H.
800 votes There only three tickets In
| the field-Van Wickle- Patterson which
| names Gen George III. Harries for national
| committeeman; Simmons-Poe which names
Chapln Brown as national committeeman,
and Reyburn-Cook, which practically has
| no platform, and names no one as a menu
| Der of the national committee. AT a late
hour this afternoon the Van Wickle-Pat-
terson ticket had everything its own way,
and its friends were confident of success.
Enough time remains. however. to turn
the tide. and the fight has been waged
hercely all the afternoon. The Simmons
Poe ticket is well in the running, and the
third ticket is by no means out of the con-
test. The ballot boxes in each of the poll
! ing places will be sealed when the polls are
closed and carried to the Masonic Temple,
9th and f streets northwest, where the
returning board, consisting of W. Riley
Decide, Mr.. George Truesdell and Whitfield
Mckinley. Will count the ballots and pub
lcly announce the result. At the conclu-
sion of the voting the judges in each dis
trict Will announce the result in the
spective districts, and this total must tally
with the total announced by the returning
board.
The Voting Places.
The voting places in the districts are az
follows:
| First district Give places)-Anacostia,
d. c., No. 541 Nichols avenue; Benning.
d. c., Liberty Hall; Ivy City, d. c., premi-
ses of Mrs. NJ. Jordan, corner Capitol ave-
| nue.; Brookland, D. c., Town Hail. corner
Bunker Hill road and 9th street; Garfield
ID. c.
Second district -four places)-BIight-
wood, d. c., Donaldson's store, opposite
Brightwood Hotel; No. 2264 7th street
northwest. F. M. Dickinson's store; MI
Pleasant d. c. No. 312S 14th street north
west; Tenallytown, ID. c., I. j. Giles
office, next to drug store
Third district-No. 3256 NJ street north
west.
Fourth district-No. 14l7 2sth street
northwest.
Fifth district-No 213l X street north
west.
Sixth district-No. 11oo 2oth street north
west.
Seventh district-No. 1901 NJ street NORTH
west.
Eighth district-No. 100 Vermont az
nue. northwest.
Ninth district-No. 1903 New York ave-
Tenth district-No. 3O2 18th street north
west.
Eleventh district-No. scs G street south
west.
Twelfth district-No. $50 d street north
west. .
Thirteenth district-No. 1911 10th street
northwest.
Fourteenth district-No. 1893 4th street
northwest.
Fifteenth district-No. $50 4th street
northwest.
west Hotel Brunswick.
Seventeenth district-No. 329 F street
southwest. - -.
Eighteenth distrlct-No e54 suee'
southwest.
Nineteenth district-No. s2e 10th street
northeast. - ~ -.
Twentieth distrlct-No- oio Oh suees
Twentv-first district-Corner l4th and b
streets southeast, Lincoln Hall.
Twenty-second district-No. 1229 ID street
southeast.
Progress of the Voting.
The polling in some of the country dis
tricts is very light and in some 1t is very
heavy In the fifth district only "a votes
were polled in the first hour. In the sew
enth district more than twice as many
votes were recorded by 1 o'clock. The
Georgetown districts-Nos. 3 and I-seemed
to be strong for the Van Wickle-P Patterson
ticket ard but very few opposition ballots
are seen on the streets In the twelftn
district the situation is reversed, the sim
mons -Poe-Richardson combination dppar-
emily having full sway. In the sixteenth
district the Van Wickle-Patterson ticket
seems to be more than holding its own,
and in the South Washington districts the
fight is about even. From conditions ex-
listing at late hour this afternoon IL is
not probable that more than 10000 votes
1aa in al n ipgiS-
lative districts.
A Disquieting Rumor.
The partisans of the Van Wickle-Patter-
son ticket were thrown into a state of ex-
citement this morning by rumor which.
though vague, held the disquieting news
that some manipulation of the ballot boxes
would be attempted by the opposing fac
tions which would prevent the fair express
sion of the will of the people. The rules
and instructions governing the primaries
provide that any ballot box that comes in
with the seal broken shall be thrown out
and the precinct represented by it shall not
be counted.
To counteract any attempt to tamper with
the seals special precautions have been
taken and 1t is now declared that the cleo
ton will be fair In every particular. The
Van Wickle supporters claim that when
the votes counted tonight 1t will be
found that they have elected their candi-
dates by 5000 majority.
The Benning Precinct.
In the Benning precinct the polls were
not opened at noon as set forth in the gem
eral announcement and they were stu
closed at o'clock this afternoon
Two of the judges appointed for this
place, Messrs. Aukam and Gordon. failed
to put in an appearance at the appointed
time, and the opening of the voting place
was postponed until they arrive. Up TO q
late hour this afternoon they had not ar
rived, and the polls remained closed
Voters in the colored section Of the first
district comprising Garfield and Hillsdale,
where several hundred negroes live, were
provided with a polling place In each viii
iare today Heretofore but one such place
has been provided and that IN Hillsdale.
AS a result of the two polling locations
there was not so much overcrowding at
one point. Interest In the voting appeared