Evening star., 1912-11-05
FINDS BALLOT HARD
Wilson Is Puzzled in Locating
Democratic Electors.
VOTES STRAIGHT TICKET
Presidential Candidate Spends Four
Minutes in the Booth.
APPEARS IN HIGH SPIRITS
Jokes With Photographers and
Election Oficers-Returns at
His Home Tonight.

Irti1>.-l lloIS. N j., November 5-GOv.
Woodrow Wilson voted the straight DEM
ocTatic ticket at 1851 o'clock in the in
terror of an engine house He was in the
voting boot.i four minutes and remarked
as he came out that the ballot was so big
he had hard time finding lie demo-
cratic presidential electors
The governor left his home here about
1890 o'clock in high spirits On the way
to the voting booth he stopped abruptly In
front of a little frame house.
when / was a freshman in college,"
he said. \ used to eat in that house.
One night l got a fishbone in my throat
and jumped off that piazza six times in
an effort to jolt it out, but it wouldn't
jolt"
The governor took a short cut to the
polls going through the yard of Col.
William Libbey, TT. a member of his
staff.
Photographers at Polling Place.
When the nominee arrived at the poll
ing booth he was greeted by a group of
photographers and SPECTATORS.
half dozen photographers had
perched their cameras in the interior of
the little engine house.
I'll enforce the law If you like. and
you know" the nominee said, laughingly
to the te,ers, but they were enjoying the
scene too much to be literal.
The governor had to wait a few min
utes before one of the three polling
booths was vacant. Norman Armour.
Princeton. 1877. was in one of the booths
Governor" he said. when l was in
New York l saw banner headed will
son national progressive republican ticket.
That's the ticket | voted"
u Feel very much complimented." an
5wered the governor You know l have
always wondered at those banners that
said regular progressive nominations l
had always thought the progressive nomi-
nations were Irregular
Forgets to Get Ballot.
The crowd laughed and the governor en-
tered the voting booth. He thought the
ballots were inside.
You'll have to have one of these first"
called one of the tellers. all of whom
were oId-time friends of the governor
and the nominee was handed his ballot.
Woodrow Wilson, No. Cleveland
lane, ballot H." announced one of the
tellers as he recorded the governors vote.
The governor was in the booth just four
minutes AS he came out he spoke of his
difficulty in finding the democratic presi-
Dental electors.
They're buried down at the bottom of
the sheet somewhere" he said, plain
lively.
out of a total of o96 registered in the
governors precinct almost half had voted
by IL o'clock.
Poses for Camera Men.
The governor posed for the camera men
beside the ballot box. They took two
fiashlight pictures as he stood there, his
head barred and revealing a pink plaster
over shaven spot, a consequence of his
recent automobile mishap.
AS the nominee strolled up the street
where the engine house is situated many
friends stopped to shake hands. He
walked back to his home after voting and
sat down with a stenographer to answer
letters Soon Vice Chairman William G.
McAdoo of the democratic national cam
paign committee and National Commit
teeman Josephus Daniels of North Caro-
lima arrived at the house.
On a day in which he is conspicuously
before the nation, the governor was asked
how he felt.
Feels Like Schoo1boy.
II feel like a boy out of school," he
replied with a sigh of relief, for he ad-
mitted that the campaign had been a
hard physical strain. His scalp wound re-
ceived in the automobile mishap two days
ago, did not bother him, he said.
II haven't had much time to be with
my wife and daughters, he added, "or to
get much rest"
Most of the day the governor planned
to spend in answering letters. Tonight
a small party will be at the Wilson home
to hear the returns by private telegraph
wire. Besides the governors Immediate
family his brother-in-law, Prof. Stock
ton Axson; two cousins from Columbia,
S. c.; Capt. G. IL. McMasters, U. S. A.,
and James Woodrow and Joseph r. Will
SON younger brother of the nominee,
will hear the returns at the Wilson home.
| Gov. Wilson had planned to get to bed
| early, but the students of Princeton Uni
verslty have other ideas on the subject.
| They intend to have i noisy parade to
| the governors house if the trend of cleo
| tion results should point his way.