The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-07
ROOSEYELT'S BALLOT NO. "a.
PRESIDENT VOTES AT OYSTER
BAY AND GREETS FRIENDS.


Republican Votes Home Altogether
President Roosevelt got to Oyster Bay
yesterday morning in time to cast ballot
81 in the polling place OF the Fifth dis
trict, upstairs over the fish market on
East Main street. The President vent in
smiling, and it took him about as long 10
record his choice as it would any fairly
quick mar to walk into a both. make a
cross mark in a circle and get out again.
As the President handed in the ballot a
photographer took a fiashlight of the scene.
Gosh! The President didn't take much
time at il " remarked one of the bystapders.
ITS a cinch he voted straight and voted
for" "Bang!- went the iashlight, and
Gus Hills, the baker, who was in n of the
booths, jumped so high that his head came
in view over the top. Almost every
in the polling place stepped lively for a
moment. but the President hardly winked.
He took his cue without an i%nstant's hesita-
ton and remarked, az he smiled broadly
at Hiss efforts TO get out of the booth
without using the door:
Il guess that man never went up San
Juan Hill"
The President left Washington at I2:3O
O'Clock on Monday night in the special
car Signet, attached to a regular Penn
sylvania train, No. 80, Of the Atlantic Coast
Line. He reached Jersey City at 7:ll
o'clock yesterday morning. He was 40
companied by Secretary William Loeb, Jr..
DR.. j. c. Pryor, a naval surgeon; Stephen
Connell of the Secret Service and several
messengers and clerks from Washington
whose voting homes are in Oyster Bay.
DIR. Alexander Lambert Of New York joined
the party at Jersey City.
On leaving the train the President fol-
lowed his usual custom of shaking hands
with the engineer and fireman and then
gave himself up to Chief Murphy and Jersey
City's police squad OF honor" to be escorted
to the tug Lancaster, which was TO carry the
party TO Long Island City. As he passed
through the corridors the President raised
his soft hat in acknowledgment OF the
cheers and h~andclapping. OF the crowd.
Tn President was dressed in a long gray
overcoat and looked rugged and hearty
after his recent turkey hunt.
At Long Island City Capt. Ha yes and a
squad of police escorted the President
through a large crowd that kept him bow
ing right and left by repeated cheering.
When the President reached the special
train that was TO make the run 20 Oyster
Bay he was greeted by his cousin. W. Emlen
Roosevelt, who with Congressman Cocks
of the Presidents district, Emlen RoOsevelt's
daughter Christina and Miss Lorraine Roose-
welt, daughter OF j. West Roosevelt, had
come down from Oyster Bay to extend an
early welcome.
The train pulled out at 8 o'clock sharp,
but made a slow run owing to a local ahead.
A stop was made at Jamaica 20 pick up
United States District Attorney W. J .Youngs,
who was secretary to Mr.. Roosevelt when
the latter was Governor OF New York.
The special reached Oyster Bay at s:lO
o'clock. There was a large crowd Of the
village folk headed by Sheriff johnson
waiting at the station. and the President
stopped to shake hands wlLu everybody
before getting into the carriage which
Noah Seaman, the Sycamore Hill foreman,
had in waiting, m driving 20 the polling
place. Secretary Loeb went with the
President and voted ballot No. e6 almost as
quickly as the President had No. %.
After shaking hands with his old neigh
bors and listening to their opinions of the
outcome Of the State fight, the President
stepped into a carriage in which Mrs. j..
West Roosevelt had driven up and went
out to Sycamore Hill. Secretary Loeb
remained in town TO talk with his friends
and listen 10 their prediction that Oyster
Bay would go Republican for once-the
Presidents home town 10 normally Demo