The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04

Beat 7--Bryan. 200; Taft. i4; sociai-
 Beat s-Bryan, 2s; Taft. none; so- cialist, none: for all amendments Ss' against. none.
 Beat s-Bryan. 24: Taft. none, and for all amendments, 14, against. none;
 Beat 1s-Bryan, 1T; Taftr IL all amendments carried by about two
 Beat fs-Bryan, 2s: Taft. none; for county amendment, aS foR ana fo against; for biennial sessions. TOT ana 1s against; for good roads, 2S TOT ana 15 against.
 Beat 2o--Bryan, 30; Taft l; all amendments carried by big maJorities.
 Beat 2l-Bryan, 1e; Taft. 1; is for each amendment
 Beat 22-Bryan; 2s; Taft. none. and unanimous vote for each amendment
 A worse day for an election than Tuesday was in Montgomery could hardly be imagined. It rained orr and on through out Monday night. when the election officials and the early oir1 voters walked at daylight the rain was steadily falling and the clouds were laden-colored and lowering. Nor was there any break in the morning. The rain fen steadily. shortly after noon the rain ceased to fall and there were throughout the af- l ternoon occasional periods. when um- | hrellas were not needed but the ground | underfoot was muddy and soaked and l the dark. clouds hung threateningly. A l small vote under the circumstances | was expected and to many of those | yersed in politics, it was surprising l that so many Democrats got wet and made sacrifices to get to the polls. There were no hacks about the poll | ing places. The voter had to pay his I xNIA l mud to get to the polls. In municipal | and county primaries where there have | been warm contests the various candi- | dates always had buggies and hacks | to see that every man got chance 70
 vote. Moreover. they had representa-
 tives who checked off each voter as he
 cast his ballot and when late in the
 afternoon 1t was discovered that this | or that man had not voted hack was
 sent off for him. But as. Alabama was 1 not a doubtful state there was nothing
 of this at the polls Tuesday,
 The city of Montgomery unfortu~ | nately. has only a few permanent poll l ing places. In several of the wards 1t seems that the polling places move ev- 1 cry election. There were q number Of I the removals in the polling places l Tuesday and a consequent ehbarrass-
 ment. 1t was no little trouble for l voter to have to plod around in the | rain hunting place to vote.
 To make bad matters worse the
 county authorities In ., fit of economy | had deprived the people of the south
 ern end of the city of an opportunity ] to cast q convenient ballot by tempo I rarily abolishing the voting place in
 the Cloverdale end of Ward [. Nor
 mally this box polls something over
 200 votes. The removal of the box | Tuesday probably cost the Democratic
 ticket 100 votes.
 For man living in Cloverdale or in | the south end of the city to vote he
 had to ride a mile and a half to Court Square in the rain. walt for another
 car and ride another mile and half
 to Highland Park. After he had voted l he had to wait again in the rain for a l car to ride back te his work In the i city. 1t was q most inconvenlent ar-
 engagement. and the kicks that were 1 registered went up into the hundreds.
 As matter of fact probably half the
 voters did not have the time to make
 the long trip to Highland Park to vote.
 It would have been just as easy for
 them to have, voted at Riverside or | West End.
 In the national election no enthusi-
 astic interest was manifested. The
 Democrats went to the polls, voted for
 Bryan and hoped for the best, The | DO~ l tween. The other tickets got so few | votes that they barely counted.
 No little interest was manifested. ! however, in the three proposed constt- tutfonal amendments. All three re.
 ceived earnest support in Montgomery | County. The one providing for bieh- nial sessions of the Legislature seemed | to draw more fire of opposition than
 any other. Probably half the voters | of the county voted straight for all | three. But now and then either one | or another of the three was scratched l <. Tn the meanwhile the voters were more interested in what was going on | in the doubtful states. They had an 1 ear open and question ready for any | possible news from the real seat of war. A few bets were registered du- l ring the day. The Taft men usually 1 gave the Bryan men big odds.
 l The voting was easy in spite of the l big ballot. If a, man had his mind made up his ballot could be marked in thirty seconds. Nor was the count p1 tfSe ballots difficult. It was quickly l completed after the polls closed. MOBILE AND OHIO R. R, As1f Effective Nov. 2nd, this eomKnasy 1 will dfsc0ntinue handIinE nassenRefn 1 and bNKRaRe Om all HrNfRhf awmamm. Flf9