The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-26
new PRIMARY LAWS
FIRST TRIAL TO-DAY
In This County Roosevelt Is
Backed by Local
Insurgents.
NO COUNT BY TIE POLICE
So the Republican County Committee
Will Collect the
Returns.
no COUNT BY TIE POLICE

Interest in the primary election to-day
in this county IL chiefly on the Repupli-
can side. since the Democrats elect only
local committeeman and district leaders
and have only two contests. Tho polls
will he open from o'clock until y o'clock
7. NJ, in each primarily district A pri-
mary district is made up of two election
districts. In each primary district there
will he two polling places, one for the
Democrats alone and the other for the
Republicans. Independence League. 40
cialists aud Prohibitionists. There will
be separate ballots for each party Hose
ballots to be of Il different color. The
Democrats will use green ballot. the
Republicans cherry eolored ballot. the
Independence League a canary coloret
ballot. the Socialists a bun ballot and the
Prohibitionists blue ballot
The voter who goes to the polls this
afternoon or evening will be confronted
with % good deal OF evidence that there
ia new law on primary elections. In
the first place he will be likely to get
ballot very much larger than he has ever
seen before In the Twenty-third dis
trict the Democratic ballot Ia almost
fourteen feet long The law provides
that candidates for all OF the different
committees must be on the ballots and the
Twenty third district sends a lot Of men
TO the Tammauy committees. The Re
publican ballots are not nearly so long,
however.
In the case of all parties the ballots
hauded TO voters to-day must contain
the names o. candidates for the different
committees which later on. under the new
law. meet to designate candidates for
Congress Senate and Assembly and otner
vacancies. county committees and county
executive commit teemen or district leader
The Republican ballots in addition con-
tain the names of candidates for the
State committee and for two delegates
and two alternates from each Congress
distric, TO the national convention at
Chicago The Democrats name the mem
bers Of their state committee and the
delegates to their national convention az
their State convention.
The ballots which will contain these
names will be folded and have numbered
stubs like those used at u general election
Furthermore rhere will be found AZ the
top OF the columns tho party emblem and
other emblems which opponents OF the
The Roosevelt emblem is 4 large black
square There is also a blank column in
which names NAV be written. The dele
gates TO the national convention come
last on the Republican ballots This
| means that in a majority OF the districts
| there will be a large blank under the
Roosevelt emblem until almost the bottom
of the ballot il reached. 40 that the voter
must unfold the long ballot il he wants TO
look over the names OF the Roosevelt
candidates AZ the bottom
The same rules obtain for marking
ballots as al u general election. A cross
in the circle under the emblem with no
other marks means a straight ticket.
Split tickets can be voted in the usual
way by putting mark before the names
of individuals. In the districts above
referred TO a cross III the circle under
for only Roosevelt delegates to Chicago.
Only enrolled partisans can vote. Il is
a party election. not popular election.
Although to-day's primary election
10 intended 10 assume almost the i'm
portance of a general State election in
the Republican fold there IL no provision
in the primary law for any immediate
official tabulation of the results. The
polio. do not handle the figures. The
Board Of Elections makes the only official
tabulation at leisure. Because Of the
interest in the Taft Roosevelt fight the
elaborate plans for handling the figures
as they come in from tine different dis
tricts and expects to know the result
very accurately before anybody else does.
On account OF the mammoth ballots in
some dist riots special ballot boxes have
had TO be made. The total expense of
printing the / .lO.OOO ballots for this city
has been $40 600.
Sheriff Hamburger has made plans to
have a lot of his gilt edged special depu-
ties ready TO help the police keep the
peace In Brooklyn, where the fighting
is in the Democratic camp chiefly. Sheriff
Law sent out notices to 500 deputies to
be on hand for duty to-day.
In Manhattan and The Bronx the Re-
publicans have some kind of fight in
practically every district, due to the
efforts of old time hostiles to utilize the
Roosevelt issue. Fourteen Congress dis
tricts wholly or partly in the county will
elect two delegates and Two alternates
each 10 the Chicago convention, and in
each district the Taft-Roosevelt issue
has been joined. The Eleventh Congress
district includes Staten Island, where
there is the largest proportion of the
Republican vote. The Twenty fourth
includes part of Westchester. taking in
the cit lea OF Mount Vernon and Yonkers.
and is controlled by the Westchester
voters. Under an agreement made the
candidates for this district were named
by William l.. Ward the Republican
boss Of Westchester county, but ara TO
be uninstructed. The following is
list of the other candidates for delegates
and alternates:
TAFT ROOSEVELT.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
Delegates. Delegates.
Chauncey Depew George s. Husch
George Cromwell W. W. Mills
Alternht.s. ANernates.
Russell Bleecker \. J. Anderson
John 1imiin, Jr. Hugo Nowak
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
Delegates Delegates