The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-07
ALL GUESSING
NO ONE KNOWS
Result of Election Causing
Great Deal of
Speculation.
BIG VOTE IS BEING CAST
Socialist Candidate F o +
Mayor Expects to Poll
Large Vote.
Ballot or Delegate to Constitutional
Convention win he Counted First
and Result win be known Early.
Then VIII Come City Ticket.

Today's election promises TO go
down In local history as one of the
most unrathomublc ever held in Mar
ion. 1t is believed that some unusual
conditions win ha developed by the
vote and the effect of certain in
rucnces IS thing which has kept the
voter specializing all day
Unlike many Cf her neighhors.
where local option elections have been
held within the past two weeks. Mar
ion is recording a rather heavy vote.
In Upper SanduslSy. for instance, II
s. stated that the vote is just about
cne-half its normal strength But
the recent election seems only To have
intensified matters in this city and
county
a dozen city precincts showed bet
ter than one-third the vote out by $3.50
this morning. Just what this migh;
Indicate is problcmatical. The largest
number of ballots ever cast by wo-
men i'm Marion viii be counted out
tonight That is another feature
which will have marked bearing on
L the struggle FOR positions on the board
Ce education. At noon today II was
/ freely predicted that two women hcG
almost certainly won places on the
board. Many staid business men who
b We tired of the constant pickering
g. the school board cast their ballots
for the ladies ana We're rather proud
TO announce the fact.
The candidacy of l.. Z. Hahn. the
socialist representative Tor mayor was
g matter which no one undertook to
I MA 1.U
that Hams vote would be surprising
ly large, some dissatisfied members
OF both the old parties going Sc
far as To- declare their belief i'm his
election. Just what the so-called dry
vote would do was a matter for orgu
mont wherever men congregated in
the downtown places OF business. It
was asserted that the dry vote
lwoGTd go almost solidy to Walters.
the Democratic candidate, while
Brockctt partisans claimed their man
would get nearly all the dry votes.
Another set Cf fellows figured that
the "drys' would vote for neither, but
Hahn. the Socialist candidate would
get the dry" vote. There was every
variety of option; you took your choice
and made guess, but there seemed
- strange unanlmlty I'm the BELIEF that
some hig surprises We're in store.
The ccunty hght for delegate To the
constitutional convention was also q
lmatter which furnished material for
much discussion.
Political complexion seemed To form
mo- part of the basis upon which pre-
ldicuons were made. Republicans were
1gmng m Hardness would be the
man; that he would poll a surprising
lis large vote, while others We're just
rv strong for H. r.. Snyder and Judge
Norris Here again, the dry" vote
was the troublesome fly i'm the ONT
mont of the fellows who like to fig
ure' That seemingly was the trouble,
there seemed to be no sound basis for
logical computation.
Just before noon, rumor spread 10
the effec, tbat in precinct B OF the
First ward. the election officials were
30 busy they were not writing the
lanes of voters on the ballots, sim
rly placing the registration nnmbet
uf the voter az the top OF his ticket in
lieu Of his name. This condition, It
vas claimed, might inyaiidate the
entire vote IN that precinct should
some dissatisfied candidate cure 10
protest.
Another pleasing, though rather un-
Usual condition was found in the fact
that Walters, Democrat ana Brockett,
Republican candidates for mayor
ma de the rounds of the voting places
IN the same automobile. Their cam
Iaign, fortunately has been unusually
clean and free from mud-slingng
: The two men are standing on their
merits and are~proad enough to sink
their differences beneath the surface
COR this day, and work from the same
automobile. II was thing that
coused much merriment
II Is believed that the result in the
struggle for delegate to the contitu-
tional convention will be known by
eight o'clock tonight. The board OF
elections has requested the presiding
Judges of all country precincts, as
well as city precincts, to telephone
the result as soon as the count is
made, and to count the delegate tick.
cts first in the various precincts. The
rext result wanted by the board is
the city election ana then the Ivott
On the township ticket
1t is generally believed that the So
cialists will poll surprising vote
not because of the normal strength ol
the party in this city. but because o.
differences arising out OF the recent
local option election.
Taken all IN all, the day has beCf
enc Of little excitement although
there is an undercurrent Of mysfery
which wiseacres have failed tof pro-
perly dope" out