The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-05
BIC VOTE BEING
 CAST IN CITY
Six Parties Compete For Favor of Electors at Thirteen
 Polling Places
Best Prophecy of Experienced Political Workers is That
 Democrats Sweep City


 Bridgeport is having the biggest election day in it's history.
 Six parties, four with chance to elect somebody are competing for the ballots. Of the voters.
 The result promised at noon. today to be a record breaking vote, quite the biggest in the history of the city.
 Nor was this result difficult to pre- dicate. Presidential elections always bring out more votes than the biggest election immediately preceding them.
 Since the last presidential election in 1903 the population of Bridgeport has increased many thousands and the voting list has swelled accordingly.
 The only question was whether the normal presidential vote would be sweIIed by the abnormal number of parties enthusiastically competing for votes.
 It is safe to say that never be- fore were so many men in this city actually employed at the pollss and that, for the most part without conn pensation.
 The Democrats were working like we'll organized phalanx- The Republi- cans were without order, or discipline and seemed entirely discouraged. Ward workers of long experience on the Republican side openly declared amount of cutting of their ticket that was being done in this election. and some of them estimated that out of every hundred Republicans brought to the polls in party automobiles 55 were voting the Bull Moose or Democratic tickets.
 The red badged. Socialists were work ing with energy, and were employing teams. something new for them.
 Their vehicles carried large plaeards instructing everybody to vote, Pull carried the Democratic candidates seemed much the most popular throughout the city.
 Neverthefess much cutting was be- ing done. Notorious workers for the corporations were buttonho11ng vot< CTS to cast a ballot against Wilson and McMurray, the Democratic can dfdates for representative, In several districts.
 1t seemed. likely, however that both would come through with plura1ities. owing to the large. independent vote they were receiving. - Archibald McNeil, Jr., Democratic tr1ct. spent the day at. the polls and in the voting districts comprising this senatorial. district. an extraordinary effort was being made to get out the vote. ....ss.s.. S] It seemed. likely. that before night some 16.000 ballots will be boiled, 17,oOO might be reached, owing to the enthusiasm of party workers and the increase in the number of persons en- 2 In every district the Bull Moose were working with enthusiasm using volunteer forces, and they wereJ as sanguine of carrying the city at noon today as they have been since the party was formed.
 But experienced Democratic lead ars, after watching the ballot for a ew hours were convinced that the Democratic vote was coming in al- most solid, and that the Pfogressives, Republicans and Socialists were fight ing it out for the Republican vote and a small fragment of the Democratic vote.
 The morning vote was lighter than usual. This was due to the fact that several large factories. were to shut down at noon, and that WorkInen who would ordinarily vote between and ing until the noon hour.
 Town Chairman w. w. Bent visit ed the Democratic committee rooms a number of times during the day
 Former Mayor B. T. Buckingham also put in the day at the polling places.
 At noon the Republican workers had about given up hope and were devoting themselves in many cases to The highest estimators scarcely gave the president of the United States more than $500 in Bridgeport and the general opinion seemed to be that Woodrow Wilson would carry the city by a considerable plurality. though an occasional enthusiast. could be found to make similar prediction for the Progressives or the Socialists.
 The figures of the vote cast at the 13 polling places. up to noon today,
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