The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-14
LIGHT VOTE, BUT
SAY AMENDMENTS
WILL Be SWAMPED
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called. because lawyers, judges, mer-
chants, ministers and wealthy men
live in it, e%ighty-one ballots were in
the box at 1U:45 o'clock, the largest
number cast at any polling place. The
election officers at the polling place in
Broad street opposite Washington
Park said the men made no secret of
how they voted.
"All but two men said they voted
against the amendments" said one of
the election officers, land a lawyer said
that If the constitution was TO be
amended, he believed that ii o be
done by the people, through a owen
ton to which they could elect delegates
to carry out their wishes in regard to
amending the constitution
AT he Fifth district polling place
of the First ward. only thirteen votes
were in the ballot box at II O'Clock.
The man who put the thirteenth ballot
in the box said he had voted for all
the amendments.
Then You are the third man Of thir-
teen," said an election officer, who
said he voted that way. The others
said they voted against the amend
ments.'
1T Is a shame said III man, that
men do not go to the polls and vote
one a or another Men ought TO take
more interest In UGH an important
matter as amending the constitution of
our State"
In the First district of the Fourth
ward only three ballots were in the
box at 1890 o'clock, though mechanics,
laborers and men employed in Centre
Market live in the district. The poll
ing place Is In Mulberry street, oppo-
site st. Johns Church. The election
officers had nothing to do but read
newspapers. At the Third district
polling place in Mulberry street, near
Mechanic street, eleven votes were in
the box at 1915 o'clock.
The voting place in the First district
of the First ward is in the Catholic
Institute in New street. The voting
here at regular elections shows gem
orally how the voting is going on in
the other districts. At IL o'clock to-
day only sixteen ballots were in the
box, and the election officers said men
were not taking any interest in the
election.
.Winton c. Garrison, treasurer of the
Republican State Committee, and
Richard Franz, treasurer of the Essex
County Democratic Committee. said at
IL: 80 o'clock that the vote was very
light in the Eighth ward. AT $3.50
o'clock only eleven ballots were in the
box at the polling place for the Third
The vote cast up to noon today in the
districts Of the Second ward
was very light. In many cases the
number did not reach twenty-five. In
the Fifth district the vote at noon was
twenty-four. In the Sixth district the
vote was fourteen. In the Seventh 1t
was nineteen. In the Third ward. OF
seven districts out Of nine. the total
Of ballots cast was 147.
In the First district of the Fourteenth
ward the election board were having
an easy time up to II O'clock, for only
four votes had been cast and they we're
by the election board. The fourth dis
trict seemed to be a bit more awake
and had ten votes cast at the same
hour. The Seventh district of the same
ward had the largest number, IA. /
The election board Of the Eleventh
Seventh ward, were making
the best of the light vote, and when a
representative of the STAR called they
were having a game of pinochle, while
the ballot-box was nesting in a corner
of the room. In this district 10 votes
had been polled. The Sixth district had
many men standing idly about the
place, but only ten votes had been re-
corded. The Fifth district of the sixth
ward had the unlucky number of Is
votes cast up to about noon.
A Republican Assemblyman, who
added that his name be not printed for
.-.A.. a-o, .ntl he lotinxa1 fha |
amendments will be defeated by a
large vote. II voted against all of
them,' he said, "and l believe the other
Assemblyman voted against them, for
we were not treated right by the
last Legislature. We favored some of
the amendments and were opposed to
others. but We had to vote on them
as a whole. The people did not under
stand the amendments until they were
so well explained in the STAR. Intelli-
gent men are now pretty w~elhsposted
and know how to vote"
City Hall employees who went to
their homes In different wards for din
ner. and voted, said on their return
that though a light vote was being
polled the belief of the election Off :
GERS at the voting places was that the
amendments will be swamped. One
man visited the polling places in five
of the thirteen districts of the Four
teenth ward. He said the largest vote
polled in any of the districts at II
o'clock was IL. and that In the other
districts Is to q ballots were in the
boxes.
The ballots are so large, the amend
ments being printed on them, that the
election officers had to open the small
trap-doors in the wooden tops of the
old-style ballot-boxes to get the ballots
in the boxes, the slot in the centre of
the wood top being too small. The
ballot- boxes are those now used at pri-
maries.