The daily sentinel., 1909-06-08
A QUIET DAY AND LIGHT VOTE
CHARACTERIZE THE ELECTION
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blow at the movement and show a
lack of support and interest on the
part of the people if a small vote was
recorded many different kinds of sub
terfuge have been employed by the
Morning Yellow and some of its ard
ent followers The story that an or
ganized effort was to be made today
to defeat the ticket was Just one of
the many schemes employed to get
out large vote and today this game
has been worked TO a finish. 1t is
known that people in charge of sew
eral carriages have gone to many
residences today and being informed
that the voters therein did not care
to vote in the election they were told
that they should vote by all means
as il was certain that the other side
would be out in big numbers this
afternoon and might defeat the Char
ter League ticket.
Many other schemes were employed
in carrying out the desperate efforts
to get a large vote recorded.
Apparently the repeated admoni-
tions of the Morning Yellow for early
voting and the frantic appeals to ev-
cry voter to vote very early had ex-
ceedingly small weight with the vot-
ers for during the forenoon the votes
cast were few and far between and
the judges and clerks of the election
found the hours dragging heavily and
YEARLY by. At half past ten O'Clock
less than score of votes had been
cast in the first ward and less than
60 in the east third ward The
vote in the second and fourth wards
was under so at each place at that
hour and in the west third the vote
at lO.3O was abOut N
At noon a total of less than 300
votes had been cast in the city.
The most prominent feature of the
election during the forenoon hours
was an automobile bearing TX. A.
Bickel and A. b. Campbell from poll
to poll. They made repeated rounds
of the voting precincts presumably
to see that the judges and clerks
were awake and to see if ample po-
lice protection" was provided.
This afternoon the Charter League
somewhat disappointed
at the little interest manifested and
the light vote cast during the morn
ing, went after the members of the
league and the Candidates in vigorous
manner and succeeded in getting
vehicles out to carry voters
and strenuous indeed were the after
noon efforts to get the voters out.
a number of the regular election
judges and clerks were unable to
serve today and substitutes were ap-
pointed early in the morning.
There has been no excitement
around the polls at any time during
the day. 1t is quite contrast to the
regular city election on April g.
The voting is practically all one
way, with just one ticket in the field
Hundreds of qualified voters of
Grand Junction made no effort to
cast ballots today in the special char
ter convention election.
II is safe to predict that the total
vote cast in the special election today
will not exceed 80 per cent, of the
total registered vote in the city of |
Grand Junction.
The polls close at o'clock this
evening.
The following are the men who |
will be elected today to constitute the |
charter convention: j. W. Bucl<lin, |
G. r. Barton. H. r. Bull A. r. Gull |
len. William Campbell. w. f. Dudley, |
w. p. Ella, G. w. Fletcher. e. NJ Gil !
patrick, w. c. Herman, S. B. Hutch
inson. w. H. Lee. C. p McCary, John |
Murphy. w. j. Meyer, Frank Sawyer |
NJ. NJ. Shores. d. 7. Stone. T, M