The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-03
LIGHT VOTE POLLED
 IN CITY ELECTION
THE TOTAL VOTE POLLED VAS
 1887.

Majority of SO9 Voters Favor the Use
 of Voting Machfnes-QuestiOn as to
 Term of Office for SeIectmen and Con-
 stables an Issue--A Majority of s32
 Favor t Two Years Term-Fifth
 Ward Opposed to Voting Machines
 Tenth Ward FavOrs.
 Yesterday there was an election in this city, but owing to the fact that the total vote of the fifteen wards which comprise the city of New Haven was l only 1,S16 on one of the issues, and only 1887 on the other, it is self evident that very few appreciated that it was election day or thought the matter of too small consequence to bother with it. The election was held for the purpose of. giving the people of this state a chance to express their opinion on two proposed constitutional amend ments. The first was concerning the election of selectmen and officers of To- cal police. The second was concerning the use of voting machines. The first ] question:, as far as this city is con- cerned, deals entirely with selectmen and constables, and the proposed l change simply makes the term of office for these officials two years instead of one. In. order that either of these amendments be passed they must first receive majority vote of the entire state in their favor In this case the first amendment means that at the election in this city next April the se- lectmen and constables will be elected 1 for eighteen months, and then after that the two year schedule will become operative in each and every town where it is desired by popular assent. Practically the same condition pre- vaiIs concerning the voting machines, for in neither instance does it become necessary for any town to take advan- l tage of the changes unless they so de- | sire. Tn the case of the voting ma chimes, however, majority vote from all over the state Iegalizes their use | in state elections in the future. The voting was very light all over this city yesterday, and the proposed amendment concerning selectmen and constables received a total vote of 1924 in it's favor as against 492 in opposi- tion, thereby giving a favorable major ity of 832, and total vote cast of 1,S16.
 1 There was slightly more interest 1 taken in the voting machine question, i Il more votes being cast than on the | other amendment. The total vote cast was 1887. Of this. number 1,09S of the voters favored the use of the machines,
 while 789 voters were opposed to their use. This leaves majority of 309 in favor of the machines.
 Tn this city voting machines were tried in the Fifth and Tenth wards and it is an interesting fact to note that yesterday in the Fifth ward 43
 voters favored the machines and 50 were opposed to them. On the other l hand, in the Tenth ward 105 voters fa- vored the machines, while only 23 op- posed them. Another interesting thing yesterday was the fact that both the Twelfth and Fourteenth wards cast ex- actly the same number of votes both for and against the use of the ma- chimes. The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards all showed by their votes that
 they did not want the machines, as did also the Fifteenth ward. The wards favoring the use of the machines were
 the First, Second, Third, Seventh,
 Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth.
 The vote by wards appears in full elsewhere in this paper.