Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-02-03
HAYDEN LEADS
ENTIRE TICKET
Certificate Showing Result
Of Election Now On Its
Way to President Taft
Who Will Issue Procla-
nation Soon.

The board engaged in canvassing
the returns of the first state election.
held December =. has practically fin
ished its work. and by this evening
the result of the election. as officially
determined. will be in the mails en-
route to the president of the United
States The figures have all been
compiled checked. copied on tracing
paper. rechecked. general results
transferred To- condensed tables and
the results blue printed. The certifi-
Gates Of the result are ready for trans
mission The Republican was able
last night to secure the final result
Of the vote on all state officers and
members of congress. which is here
with reproduced The vote on county
officials and members of the legisla-
ture was not available last night
Attention is called At this time to
the rapid and satisfactory work Of
the canvassing board. as testimo-
NAL due its efficiency and close at
tention to business. Notwithstanding
the fact that democratic critics have
perpetually harrassed and irritated
the board from the time the count
started 1t has been engaged in the
work for % days. as against about
two months that was consumed for
similar work i'm New Mexico. To
those who are vet fearful that time
has been lost. it is pointed out that
there are fourteen counties in Ari-
zona. The count has averaged two
Ia,
election the supervisors more often
than otherwise take two DAYS for
carvassing the returns and in that
instance the blanks are ALREADY pro-
vided and there is nothing 10 do but
count. total and check. That was the
least rart of the work of this board.
which not only had all the copying
and rechecking mentioned 10 do. but
had to devise its own blanks and
ther make them.
The official board. Governor Sloan.
Chief Justice Kent and Territorial
Secretary George L. Young. has been
on the job all the time. one or an
other, or all three Of them. whenever
the clerks have been at work. In
the meantime they have had the
grOuOuS duties OF lItlI Ollt1tS " lD'iN
after. duties which were more than
usually voluminous. due to the early
change Of government.
No mention of the board should
pass without reference to the four
clerks who have performed the actual
clerical labor Of transcribing. check
ing and blue printing. +. J. Barron
and Paul Kruger are known the ter
ritory over as expert men. both as
accountants and clerks. clever with
the pen and lightning with figures
II may be said To their credit that
in totalling they did their work much
more rapidly than the adding ma
chine. due TO expert methods the or
binary man wOts not Of. or at least
has not mastered w p. Mealey and
Bert Clingan were able assistants IN
the counting and checking. being ca
pable OF talking as fast as the other
men could write. which is going some
And in the concluding ceremonies
they were especially well fitted as
expert blue print operators. Alto
sether. il is not likely another board
could have been secured in the whole
territory which would have turned
out AS fine work with actual perfec-
ton and in the same length Of time.
-, II Nota