Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-02
GOING HOME TO VOTE
PRIVILEGE EXTENDED EN-.
PLoYEs OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Every printer. bookbinder and other en-
ploye of the government printing Office who
is entitled to vote in the elections now near
at hand will he given an opportunity to do
so. In order that all the employees of the
p"intery may enjoy their constitutional priv
ilige of casting their votes for the candi-
dates of their choice, Public Printer Stiliings
has promulgated general order No. 10.
follows:
Employees desiring to return to their
homes for the purpose OF voting are at lib
erty to do so, and will be given the neces-
sary time for that purpose
Where leave of absence is due to en-
ployes the time so taken may he charged up
against the same, where leave of absence is
exhausted the employe will be locked
up TO the present time approximately 10
per cent of the male employees of the gov
ernment printing office have requested leave
of absence for the purpose of going home 10
vote
The public printer desires IT distinctly
understood that the condition OF the work
! i'll this office Is such that very large pro-
| portion Of the force can be spared from the
| LIST TO the 18th of November. more or less
Employees desiring to avail themselves OF
this opportunity may he paid the amounts
due them before leaving by applying imme-
| diately for leave"
1t is expected that nearly 1.OOo of the work.
| erS in Uncle Sans big print shop will take
| advantage of order No. Is and go to their
| homes to participate in the coming battle
of the ballots
had been issued in the appointment divi-
sion of the treasury to voters who are
going home to cast their ballots. That is
far below the number usually going away
at this tine of the year. 1t is presumed
that this afternoon and tmorrow will sea
the number largely increased. as the voters
most interested are those in New York and
Pennsylvania. nearby states. Those going
to these two states W II not have to leave
here before Sunday or Monday
Just seven certificates had been issued
at the Department of Justice
1t was the opinion in both these depart
! ments mentioned that there had been a big
| lack of interest this year in political af-
| fairs.
| five votes to Hughes in New York. in addi-
! ton to that of the Pres dent. Mr.. Loeb will
go to New York with the President, both
voting in Oyster Bay. There four other
New York voters who are preparing to go
| to their homes. two of them being in Oyster
Bay.
Downtown Departments.
Not more than $50 clerks employed in the
Post Office Department will go home to
vote next Tuesday. One hundred and fifty
will cover the absentees from the pension
Office on election day and half of that will
just about be proper estimate for the
census office. In the Office of the Secretary
of the Interior twenty-five political en-
titles have arranged to leave town to ballot
for home and country and in the general
land Office the estimate is about thirty.
This proportion runs through most OF he
government departments
1t isn't a bit like the old days when a
male clerk who was prevented. even by
the most unavoidable of accidents, from
journeyfng homeward to his election dis
trict to vote, shvered in his shoes for
many day after II all over, 1t was
stated today. Government jobs weren't so
secure then as now, and in these days many
Of the men who still have a grip on the
voting privilege have become careless.