The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
BY Decisive Majorities the People
Of North Yakima Endorsed the
Candidates Supported by the
Law and Order Organizations
THE NOMINEES

1t Is the will of the people of North
Yakima that law and order shall pre-
vail
At the primaries held on Monday,
to select two candidates for mayor
and four for commissioner, the ticket
of the Commission League and other
organizations, consisting of A. j.
1plawn for mayor and William II,
Redman and Wilbur Croker for COM
nissioners were selected by maiori-
lies that put them far in the lead of
their opponents. The other nominees
are Pat Mullins for mayor. and J. G.
BROKER and Simon Dupree for com
missfoners. On September g. the
final election will be held, and it is a
foregone conclusion, justified by the
majority given them. that A. J..
Splawn for mayor and Redman and
Crocker for commissioners will be the
mccessful candidates.
A. ]. Splawn. who led the mayor-
atty ticket with a vote of 1896, had
n majority over all the other candi-
dates Pat Mullins. his nearest op-
ponent. polled vote of 1,061, P M.
Armbruster S12 and Leigh r. Free
man 1862, the last two named having
the distinction of standing at the bot
tom of the entire list of candidates,
for all offices. The only other can
didates coming anywhere near the
head of the ticket in the number of
votes received We're William H. Red
man, who resolved a total of 1874,
and Wilbur Crocker, 1894. The
others in order were j. C. BROKER,
n,,~r n
Brown, 512; Charles Wenner, AIS;
Henry c. Kohls. Abs, and James r.
Coe, $40.
Thirty-five hundred and thirty-one
votes were cast. being eighty-two per
cent of the total registered vote, a
fact that showed the intense interest
of the people in one of the most in
teresting and important elections ever
held in North Yakima. Voting began
early in most of the wards. the COM
mittee of the various candidates get
ting out with automobiles, and car
riages to carry voters TO the polls. In
this manner a considerable number
of voters, especially women, We're en-
abled to get to the polls and do their
duty when otherwise they might have
neglected to do 80 or been prevented
by other more pressing duties. Up
to o'coclk in the afternoon when
the men began to appear at the polls
in greater numbers, coming from their
work, the women cast half of the
votes and it is estimated for the en-
tire day that their proportion of the
ballots was one-thiro. a proportion
that meant success to the law and or
der element.
Good Work of Women
This was the first election in North
Yakima in which the women had their
say, and the splendid victory is due
to their good work and judgment as
well as that of their husbands. The
victory for law and order was the re-
suit Jointly of other conditions that
men who stood at the top of the tick
were hard to defeat. All three of them
could not have done so had 1t not
been that they were known in the
community, where they had lived for
years, as upright, honest men of
judgment, character and business
ability. These qualifications counted.
because the people who Joined them
selves together to bring order out of
them solidly at the pools
The Voting
BY 4 p. m. half the vote in the first
precinct of the first ward had been
cast, and half of these voters were
women, who left their pressing Mon
day work for the more pressing duty
of selecting a good government The
story was told of one woman voter,
who asked to go to the polls. said she
was too busy and asked them to call
fort her tomorrow In the second
precinct the ratio was about the
same.
Two candidates for mayor Messrs.
Mullins and Freeman We're VOTERS in
the first precinct OF the second ward
Mullins ran far ahead OF Splawn.
polling 121 votes 10 63 cast for the
latter. The proportion of women vot-
ers in this ward was about the Same a =