The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-27

tlOn BUREAU tnat no DdllOlS were OIl manu-
the complainants were advised to use
sample ballots.
In nearly all the distric Is throughout
the city whore any ballots arrived at all
the Democratic ballots were on hand
earliest. for there had been few court
proceedings with respect to them. In
Manhattan and The Bronx the Socialist
and Prohibition ballots were far behind
the Republican ballots. which arrived
long after the Democratic ballots This
was due to the desire ot the printing firm
to get the ballots distributed in districts
where there were contests.
Tho Independence League ballots did
not arrive until very late in many dis
tricis in New York county. and under
orders from headouarters typewriter
ballots we're prepared in the Twenty
third and Thirty-third Assembly dis
tricts which will be deemed valid under
the circumstances. The Prohibtionists
got no ballots at oil in The Bronx, and the
majority of the districts there had no
tally sheets and other election stationery
fer any of tho parties.
Al $50 O'Clock yellow taxica b tore
up 10 tho East roth street station with
districts in tho 1hirtieth Assembly dis
trict. and the taxi still had u load of ballots
80 deliver for the other half of the dis
tr.c. in The Bronx end over on City
leland from all accounts tho machine
go, lost on its way 10 city Island.
IN the Twenty-siNth district half the
election districts got their ballots at
$50 o"lDcE. The police were instructed
throughout the city TO see that the
doors or Tho polling places were closed
promptly a. ociock ballots or no bal
lots, afhough ell persons inside had a
chance to vote.
In the Twcntv-seventh Assembly dis
trict. whore otto Y. Pannard is m organ
bation candidate for delegate TO the
national conN Ncntion, the Republican
baliots were not sighted in half the dis
tricts until after ! o'clock. In this dis
trlct Leader y. ". u. Brown has a contest
with Louis :. Granner. Mr.. Brown fig
ured that many of his supporters would
not vote a. all if they could not do 40
on the way home to dinner. SO he got a
printer in tho district TO strike off u num-
ber ot unofficial ballots. which were used
until the ot hers camc. The Independence
League polling places saw no ballots until
Just as the clerks were putting on their
coats before ococi, to go home in dis
gust.
The Third election district Of the Fourth
Assembly district rot no Republican
ballots at all. so the election officials went
10 the nearest place that he'd some and
borrowed them, changing the num-
her at the top. The entire district had
no tally sheets.
Roosevelt Republicans in the Twenty
seventh Assembly district complained
that in some of the election districts the
names of Daniel p. Ritchey and William
". Armstrong. the Roosevelt delegates
othe nat ional convent ion. did not appear
on the ballots they received. while the
names of the regulars, job Hedges and
Ezra Prentice. and their alternates did.
Disiranchisement in Brooklyn.
Tn Brooklyn. n a vast number OF cases,
not until s end 6 o'clock, and in many
,iista noes not until few minutes before
o O'Clock, did the ballots arrive. This
condition applied to both the Democratic
and Republican organizations and caused
great amazement in both political camps,
being the first mixup of the kind which
hay ever occurred either in primary
or election day in Brooklyn. In some
of the Assembly districts where sharp
contests were sch eduled the voters go5
to the polls ca rly and We're treated to a
surprise when they found that there We're
no ballots on hand. Al through the after
noon and evening telephone messages
came into Police headquarters, the
Board OF Elections and the two political
headquarters from all sections Of the
borough complaining OF the 60 ntinued
absence Of ballots from various polling
places and asking what should be done
Tne only information which could be
sent back was to the eject that the
ballots were all on lheir way from the
printer in automobiles and wagons and
would ia delivered at their respective
destinations At the earliest possible
moment Close up 20 the time OF closing
the polls messages confined to flood
Police Headquarters, still complaining 4
oi the failure of the ballots to come to
hand and it il estimated that from delay
and ia ill - 10 deliver the ballots not more
than half the enrolled voters voted.
Election Commissioner Livingston said
that the situation was the most confused
in the political history of the borough
IL cannot" he said, give any detailed
statement in regard 10 the particular T
Assembly and eleot districts affected
] have been here since o'clock. and all
along reports have been coming in about
the failure to get the ballots. Up till
CLOCK " OF VI SuIElt IdllOl NdS OtilNtTSu
in my own Assembly district the Twenty
second and two hours later they We're
still missing from nearly half the fifty
election districts. ! have had "a message
q few minutes ago from the Twenty first
Assembly district saying that not a single
ballot is delivered there. These con-
ditions prevail all over the county and
/ understand there are similar conditions
in Manhattan. How the matter is TO
he straightened out will probably be a
problem for the Legislature or the courts
TO solve. A more reliable printer than
Brown could not have had the job, but
] suppose he was hampered in getting
them out owing to the numerous squabbles
in the courts over the tickets. 1t may
be that the primary will be declared void
and the Legislature will amend the law
and fix another primary day"
w. W. Wingate, chairman OF the Re-
publican law committee, said:
at IL probable that as section So of
the new primary law regarding the de-
livery of ballots and the opening of the
polls has been violated the courts will
declare the primary nullity and order a
new one"
Secretary George Young, who is in
charge at Democratic headquarters. said
that their organization was similarly
affected as the Republican. The com
plants, he said, over the failure to deliver
the ballots came in so rapidly from all
directions that he made no record of them
Polls Closed on Time.
Naval Officer F. j. Ii. Kracke. Republi-