Arizona republican., 1908-04-05
MIXED RESULT OF PRIMARIES
The First Ward Produced
 a Contest
The Proceedings There Opened and Closed In 1nharmOny.

went to the polling place yesterday morning apprehensive that the threat of MT. Kersting the night before that his election board would even up mat ters, would be carried out. Their ap- prehensions were not misplaced, as they very quickly learned.
 Soon after the opening of the polls a young man presented himself to vote. He was evidently a minor and he was challenged on that ground. The challenge was disallowed Soon after that q young Mexican came who it was known would vote the caucus
 ticket and he was challenged by the Kersting people. Though he was
 known to be of age and was willing
 to swear that he was of age Inspector
 Kersting refused to let him vote un- less he could bring better proof that
 he was qualified by age. It was sug-
 gested that if he could produce his
 mother and his sister his vote might be accepted.
 Soon after that a colored man ap- peared. He was challenged on no par ticular oround; in fact. he was not challenged al all; he was simply told that his vote was unacceptable and
 that was all there was to it
 These three incidents were con- strued to mean that the threat of MT. kersting the night before was in force. | The majority therefore proceeded tO do what they had intended to do in this event and opened another polling place for the filing of protests against the high handed course of the in structionist' minority. Rooms were opened three doors north and in the course of the day l5l votes were cast.
 In the count il was found that two Of
 the ballots belonged to the fourth ward The rest of them were cast for the regular caucus ticket.
 After the opening of the protesting
 primary matters proceeded smoothly in this ward until the close of the bal
 loting and the count had been finished when the officers of the protesting primary went to the other polling place to watch the count. They at first found the door barred but it was later opened and it was discovered that the tickets had been laid on the table in two piles. the regualr ballots in one and the bolting ticket in the other. It seemed that there were about a thousand of them though the
 tally sheet showed that I91 persons had voted. IL was suspected that "Wags" had gained access to the bal let box and J. C. Adams and tlte other
 officers in charge of the regular eau GUS ticket demanded a count after the
 officers of the polling place had sized
 up" the two piles and said that it was
 plain that the bOlters' ticket had been elected so that an actual account was unnecessary. A certificate 10 that ef- feet was signed by two of the officers though it is reported that Inspector
 Kersting left saving that the work was too crooked for him.
 The demal for count and a com parison of the ballots with the tally sheet was renewed and was again re- fused when S. J. Tribolet moved by just indignation seized the mass of tickets and scattered them about the floor at the same time expressing his views of the manner in which the pri
 maries had been conducted The bal lots were gathered up from the de-
 bris on the floor and stuffed into an envelope. These uncOunted tickets and the tally sheet constitute the re- turns. This election was therefore plainly without result and contest will certainly follow
 There was some little interest in the fourth ward primary where two tick cts were in the field, one the admin istration or instruction ticket and the other the anti. It is hardly worth while to mention that the sympathy of the election board was wholly with the former ticket and no other was dis played at the polling place. The Mex ican voters whose ideas were not quite clear as to the issues were led to be- lieVe that the prime qualification of the voter was possession of one of the administration tickets with the pur- pose of voting it. There were no workers about the polls for the other ticket except at irregular intervals and as a result received only 23 votes. The vote for the other ticket ranged from 155 to IFS.
 There was no contest in either of the other two wards. In the third ward there had been no contest at the caucus which adopted a mixed ticket of representative republicans. The primary was a formal ratification of it.
 It had been agreed in the second ward that the voters at the primaries should accept the result of the caucus and the caucus ticket was therefore elected by unanimous vote of about 100.
 The net results of the primaries are somewhat indefinite but leaving out the contested first ward the instruc tionists have some advantage. Of the outside precincts not much has been heard. The Mesa delegation is against instructions and q majority of the Tempe delegates are for them.
 Whatever may be the attitude of a majority of the delegates at the cOun- ty convention. it is quite unlikely that an effort will be made to carry the in- structions movement any further since all the other larger counties, Pima, | Cochise, Yavapai and Gila have de- | clared against the proposition. There is little doubt that majority of the smaller counties have taken the same | action
 The tickets voted for without deci- ! sive result in the first ward were:
 Regular Caucus Ticket-B. A. F'oW-