Arizona republican., 1909-06-11
The Tempe Site Has Apparently Failed by a Narrow
 Margin Which UnPepoPted Precincts Cannot Fill
The Former Carried by Majority of Probably Less Than 100---The No Bridge" Vote Was Largely Kept at Home by Having Weather.

The fitful dream is over and out O. the nightmare of it all emerges the peoples demand for a bridge at thC Center street site. The proposition wor handsomely. The vote for the Temp, site was strong but probably not strong enough to aggregate a majority of ali votes cast for any bridge or nc bridge The votes from nine precinct. last night were lacking, but it is not believed the votes in those precincts if cast sOlidly for the Tempe site would overcome the difference as il now appears from the recorded fig ures, and it is hardly plausible to as sume that the outside vote was SC cast Rather, it is feared a majority of the outside vote will be found to be for no bridge at all.
 The Tempe bridge committee ac- knOlwedged the defeat of its project about o'clock last night and sent a message to The Republican for publi- cation, cOngratulating the Center street committee, the tenor of which should do a great deal toward the wiping out of all the bitterness of the campaign, engendered by vigorous and. possibly sometimes thoughtless, statements made on both sides. That the Phoenix committee will meet the Tempe com mittee with a sentiment equally as magnanimous may well be predicted, and it is not too much to hope that even now the ill feeling of both sides has already been buried. The Tempe message was as follows:
 Tempe, Ariz.. June 10, 9:34 D. m.- The Tempe bridge committee presents it's compliments to the Center Street Publicity committee and congratulates it upon it's successful campaign for a bridge. Let the will of the people be done. Tempe Bridge Committee.
 The vote counted and reported to The Republican last night appears in the accompanying table. It shows the total vote cast and counted thus far to be 1436. Of these the Center street site received S16, or 9S votes more than half of those counted. The Tempe site received TOP, or Is less than half Of all the votes counted. The pre- cincts not heard from are Agua Cali ente Gila Bend, Morristown. Cave Creek, Johnstone, Murphy, McDowell, Peoria and Meridian. The vote from these places in the biennial election is
 
 is bound to be much smaller. It is doubtful in fact if any election was held in some of the precincts, and it is not believed they will all total fifty votes, while a part of them will be against any bridge.
 The mo" vote columns are most likely incomplete, as from many pre- cincts they were disregarded by those sending in returns. That fact, how ever. is immaterial as to the result if the returns given in the total vote cast column have been correctly re ported in this sort of an election there is not way of checking the total vote by the affirmative votes on the different propositions but as all real ize the necessity of knowing the total vote it is presumed those figures were returned correctly.
 The election in Phoenix was the live Hest one the city ever saw in which only the property owners participated. The number of registered voters was so small as compared with those of an ordinary election that the automobiles at command were able to do all the necessary running about and there was an absence of the many carriages seen when there are a score of competing candidates for office. But there was no lack of interest and everybody in town knew that there was something