Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07

tues II uc Was Oue. I1e Ndo LAC.Siy admiring the beautiful face of the mechanism.
 Mayor Thoms made three attempts to vote before he succeeded so great was the throug around him. He cast his ballot at 10:45 and the swish and ding and s-r-r-r of the machinery told he was in the booth sacrcely five seconds.
 The republicans were fearful dur ing the day that the democrats would capture a couple of aldermen in the first and were spending much of their time at this ward getting out their full vote.
 The voting districts looked rather lonesome without the usual number of heelers distributing pastors and ballots. Still there seemed to be just as many workers around as on other days when jobs were easier to be had.
 Charles A. Colley entered the booth next to that occupied by Judge Cowell. He was under the canvas. so to speak for quite a while, too, Some of those present said he was only doing a good turn for west side bill where his property is located.
 This afternoon James H. Freney, chairman of the democratic town committee was also confident that the republicans would be defeated. He said the fourth was doing sur prisingly well and that the fifth would roll up big majority for Thoms. He expects the whole ticket to go ill.
 Mayor Thoms was confident at 1 o'clock that the democratic ticket would win out. He still maintained that his majority would be at least 800 and had not much doubt as to the result. He was visiting all the wards and this afternoon remained for some time in the fifth.
 Attorney NJ. J. Byrne had no busi- ness and no right to be among The checkers at the third ward. yet there he was, whispering to the moderator and trying to get some man past the checkers. The moderator in the third made no attempt to remove Mr Byrne, but suffered him to hold up the line of waiting men for a minute pr two. ! Benjamin R. Kelsey held up the election in the third ward few min utes in the forenoon. He had no business inside the official lines of the polling booth after he had cast his vote, yet he was on deck trying to push some man through. Finally the man behind Kelsey's friend maintain ed his right to be not delayed and Kelsey and his friends stepped aside.
 Walter l.. Holmes was one of the record voters in the second ward. The moment he was behind the screen, swish went the lever, ding went tho bell, s-r-r-r went the lever again and it was all over. He was probably quarter of a minute in the booth. E. l.. Frisbie, jr was another who under stood the mechanism of the machine thoroughly, and voted in about ten seconds.
 People who went to the polls at 6 o'clock this morning thinking they could vote the whole ticket, were very much disappointed when they found that they could vote only on the constitutional amendment. The fact that a constitutional amendment was to be voted upon made it necessary to open the polls at 6 o'clock. but nobody could vote for city officers until s o'clock. so that there was no use going there at the earlier hour.
 In the second ward about 10 o'clock, it was observed that on the machine chart which was intended to show the face of the voting machine and the respective places of the candidates the first two dozen of the democratic candidates occupied not only their own positions, hut that of the first half dozen republicans also. There was such an uproar when the discovery was made that the identity of the discovere was lost. No one could account for the error. It did not amount to very much anyway, but the republican officials at the polling booth raised such an outcry one would suppose they had even at that early hour feared for the election The chart was corrected in a few minutes.