The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-09
ELECTION QUIET
AND VOTE LARGE
Fine Weather and Workers
Activity Bring Out Crowds.
NO DISORDER AT THE POLLS.
CITY THROUGHOUT GOES ALONG
SMOOTHLY.


Never was there a more pleasant cleo
ton day so far as weather conditions
were concerned. The sun was warm.
but there was snap in the atmosphere.
hint Of coming frost. that made it a
pleasure to be out Of doors. The roads
were good and most people entered into
the business OF voting as though it were
holiday affair, Many persons walked
in preference to riding Walking was
wholly unnecessary, however. as il is
estimated that there were couveyances
enough at work to haul all the voters
O. the entire city from one end Of the
corporation 20 the other and back if
the work could be properly distributed.
The Americans were especially weil
supplied with automobiles. carriages
and workers. Women played an espe-
ciaiiy active part in getting out the vote
Tor the Americans. They seemed to
take hold of the work with more enthu-
siasm than did the men. The Republic
ans came next i'm the matter of equip
ment for getting out the vote. The
number of workers about the polls was
p matter of general remark Many OF
these workers were recognized as former
Democrats. The Republicans followed
the same policy as in former campaigns
of bracing up the Weakened and wav-
ering by putting them on the pay roll.
Scratching seemed to be the order of
the day from one end of the city TO the
other. II was the opinion of the watch
ers at the polls that not 10 per cent of
the ballots were voted straight. The
scratching was confined to no party
and no section of the city
The size of the vote cast was a mat
Ter of remark. In many of the districts
the rush was to get the vote in early.
III the Second district 200 votes were
cast by o'clock in the morning, in 120
minutes. In others of the districts, es-
pecially where wOrkingmen pTedOmi-
mated. the voters were slow in getting
cut, waiting until the close Of their
days labors. There was no trouble of
q serious nature reported from any dis
trict. There was little political discus
sion, and little outward enthusiasm.
First Precinct.
First District.-The Democratic work
ers were much in evidence In this dis
trict all day and got out the full Dem
ocratie vote by o'clock in the after
noon. Checkers around the polls were
of the opinion that the Democratic vot-
ers would stick to their tickets better
than In any other district in the pre-
cinct. At p. m. 450 votes had been
cast out of the $40 registered.
Second District-This was the banner
district Of the city in getting votes out
early. Fifty-five minutes after the polls
had opened 100 votes had been cast The
district is one of the largest on the
slate and strings of voters lined up to
the voting booths all day In the morn
ing nearly every vote was a straight
one, but in the afternoon scratching be-
gan. AS early as p. m. 465 votes had
been polled out of the 745 registered
Third District.-AIl three parties were
confident of victory in the district The
American party made the claim early
III the day that they would poll the
largest vote. The Democratic workers
appeared confident that the American
party votes were all coming from Re-
publican ranks and worked hard to get
out their full vote. Checkers around
the poles claimed, from the length of
time it took TO cast a vote, that a great
amount of scratching was being done
Fourth district--NOting in the dis
trict was somewhat slower than in the
others down i'm this part of the city. 1t
was not until 3 o'clock in the afternoon
that half the registration had been vOt-
ed. While the morning voting was
nearly all straight. like the other dis
1Tlcts, the scratching began shortly
after dinner and kept up until the polls
closed. During the day il looked as il
the Republicans were getting the votes.
, and both the American and Democratic
, party workers admitted as much.
Fifth District.-The Republicans were
especially busy in this part of the city
and appeared TO have twice as many
workers as the other parties. AS early
as , O'Clock 34S votes out of a registra-
zion of 629 had been cast When the
POLLS closed in the evening 500 votes
had been cast. leaving only twenty per-
sens registered who had not voted. IN
dications were Republican all day long
Sixth MISUNDERSTANDING ballots was
4 common in the Sixth district as the
other parts of the city. The polling
place, which was located under the
Federation OF Labor hall at Fourth
South and State streets, contained only
four booths and often voters had TO
wait until others VINO were writing out
or crossing out names on their ballots.
Thetwomen's vote was about as strong
as the mems. The voting was steady
during the day, livening up toward sun
down. At 4 O'Clock 212 vores had been
cast out Of total registration OF 419.
When the polls closed 372 votes had
been cast forty-seven less than the
registry list.
Seventh District-OWing to the fact
that the election booths in the Seventh
district we're at first arranged I'm dis
orderly manner in the polling place. the
court room of the civil division of the
city court IN the basement of the city
and county building man took his
own and lis wife's ballot into a booth
with him and marked them both
There were seven booths so put M mat
the entrances TO all Of them could not
he seen from the judges table. The
voting was heavy and persons had To
wait their turn 20 go into the booths
and mark their ballots one couple
came into the polling place early in the
afternoon and each received a ballot.
All the booths were occupied but one.
so the husband took both his own and
his wifes ballot into one Of the booths
and marked them both while she waited
outside. Then he handed in his own
ballot which was put into the box by
one OF the judges. None OF the Off
Gals knew Of the occurrence until after
ST had taken place. One of the work
eTs at the poll saw the incident but kept
81 10 himself until after the couple mad
gone. as he noticed that cross had
been placed on one OF the ballots he
caught a glimpse of and the cross was
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