Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-04
ALLISON WINSCOUNCIL BLUFFS
Returns Are Incomplete and Exact
Figures Not 0btainable.
FEW RETURNS FROM COUNTRY
Ballot SO -Cumbersome Result OF Con-
test for County omcers VIII Not
ne Known before some
Time To-day.

Unofficial and Incomplete reports late
last night Showed that Senator Allison had
carried Council Bluffs by a safe majority
over Governor Cummins. Authentic figures
from the country precincts could not be OBJ
tanned last night, although Senator ALI
sons supporters felt confident that he had
carried Pottawattamie county.
Unofficial figures gave Allison a majority
over CUMMING OF @ in the First ward, 3
in the First precinct and Is in the Second
precinct.
In the First precinct Of the Second ward
Aliison's majority was. reported TO be a.
In the First precinct of the Fifth ward
Allison's majority was given as 26.
owing to the length of the republican
ballot and the fact that the polls did not
close Until 5 o'clock. definite figures from
the city precincts viii not be obtainable
until some time this morning.
The successful candidates for the repub-
licans nominations for the county offices
viii not be known until some time today.
Few Democrats Vote.
There was little II any excitement at any
Of the polling places and a comparatively
small vote was cast throughout the city.
There being practically no contests in their
party, the democrats Gid not generally take
the trouble to go to the polls and conse-
quontly a small democratic vote was the
result. 1t was reported all over the city
that a number Of democrats voted the re-
publican ticket at least SO far as the sena-
torial contest was concerned. The impress
sion prevailed that these democrats who
asked for and were given republican ballots
voted for Governor Cummins.
The following shows how few democrats
voted their party ticket yesterday: In the
first precinct of the Second ward there were
29S republican ballots cast and only fifty
three democratic. In the second precinct
OF the Second ward there were 300 ballots
cast, OF which only tweEty-eight were
democratic.
In the second precinct Of the Fifth ward
there were ninety-four republican, twenty
eight democratic and ten socialist ballots
cast. In the third precinct Of the Fifth
ward there were ninety-five republican bal
lots and twenty-three democratic. In the
first precinct of the Sixth ward of the AIS
ballots cast oriy forty-three were demo-
cratic.
The republican ballot was an unwieldy
affair and in many of the precincts the
spoiled ballots were numerous In some
instances the voter placed a cross against
the names Of both Allison and Cummins
and again others voted for the candidates
of both the progressive and standpatters.
In several instances the name OF but one
candidate for some particular county office
was found to be marked.
Democrats Openly Vote.
Several democrats made no secret about
voting the republican ticket. In one pre-
cinct a well known democrat, whose name
was on the list OF delegates 10 his party
county convention, asked for and was given
a republican ballot by the judges. There
were no challengeFs ih~any OF the polling
places and the judges took the stand thai
they were required to hand a voter what
ever ballot he called for.
I'd TO noon the vote in nearly every city
precinct was extremely light, but toward
evening, and especially during the last two
hours, the polls were open things livened
up somewhat.
All Of the candidates for the republican
nominations for county and township Dimes
were to be seen working at the different
polls, but there was a noticeable absence
OF any undue excitement. There were no
carriages bearing banners of the different
parties or candidates and whatever work
was done was done more or less under
cover.
Allison carried the city by about 300 and
the indications are he Will nave between
600 and 600 in the county. T~wenty-eight out
Of forty-two precincts in the county give
Allison ANA. Cummins liza. Cummins car
ried Avoca by los, Walnut by 20 and Nicola
by Is. Allison carried Oakland by IS and
Carson by 40. Cummins carried only one
precinct in the city of Council Bluffs, the
First OF the Sixth. by Is.
Senator Saunders is renominated by from
500 to 1000 and County Attorney Hess 10y
from 1000 to 1900.