The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-05
VOTE LITTLE LESS
THAN FORMER ONE
GENERAL APATHY RESULTS IN RE-
DUCING REPRESENTATION
AT NEXT CONVENTION.
MERCER LEADS TICKET
OPPOSITION CANDIDATES For Gov
ERNoR RECEIVE RrDICULousLY
SMALL yoTE--REDMoND GETS
OVER ONE HUNDRED

Nothing occurred to mar the seren.
| lily OF the occasion yesterday anG
sovereigns TO the number OF more
than three thousand sauntered to the
| polls and deposited their ballots ir
the respective boxes at twenty-five
precincts in Richmond.
The only incident in connection
with the election here was the fact
that the name of James b. Pace. city
treasurer, was left off the ballot. This
was not discovered, owing to the great
length of the ticket, until late in the
morning. Hence the great difference &C
between the vote for Mr.. Pace and
that for the other candidates.
Cause of the Error.
This omission was due, 1t was
stated In the office of Clerk Walter
Christian. to the failure of Mr.. Pace
to send to the office his notice. II
will be remembered that. because OF
similar oversight on the part of sew
eral candidates at the last election
several names were omitted from the
| ballot
As. soon as the omission had been
discovered, the clerks notified the
voters, and Mr.. PAGES name was writ
ten on the ballots.
The day was calm and quiet. Not
d disagreeable incident arose. The
vote was small. Naturally so, be-
cause of the lack of active opposi-
ton. Hundreds of citizens, taking adj
vantage Of the holiday HE'D them to
the country and the rivers for fish
and game
Little interest developed, locally.
but there were many inquiries as to
the results elsewhere, particularly in
Norfolk, Harrisonburg and Bristol. in
this Gf7tp a NJ fn tha nf Nayp
Jersey Maryland. Massachusetts and
New York city.
While the total was small. there
was little difference between 1t and
that of the last State election when
Governor Mann polled little over
1000. with active Republican oppo-
sition.
The vote in 1909 was for Governor
Mann: Richmond. 1894: Manchester.
BAT. The total vote cast at the late
primary was 9,466, divided by wards
as follows; Clay, asia; Lee, 1853;
Madison. 2,o39; Jefferson. 2.T62.
The vote for Mr.. Redmons was not
as large as he expected. but 1t was
no larger than was generally ex-
pected he would receive.
The city committeeman elected In
cluded; From Clay ward-Clyde w.
Sanders -p- Burnett u a444es--Afr
Hayes, Jr., w y. Jennings, L. O. Mil
Ter, John NJ. Purcell, b. w. Ragiand,
f. l.. Ryan. From Lee ward-J NJ.
Blanks, G. V. Darlington, w q. Duke,
Frank Ferrandini. w. r. Jones.
James Fl. Price and Writ f. Taylor.
From Madison ward--J. r. Bethel. l..
E. Crenshaw. George T. Davis James
f. Hart, Jesse A. Ladd. and John L.
Morris. From jefferson ward-~Phii
j, Bagley L. w. Evans, II. p. Gar
Der, T. f. Johnson. ". f. Lippard,
l.. Stage Powell and Mann T. Rogers.
The justices of the peace chosen
were From Clay ward--B. A. Jacobs,
G. s. Gates and James d. Lyle. From
Lee ward---W. A. Graves, r. G. Duke
and j. A. Purdie. From Madison
ward--James T. Connolly +. b.
Franklin and =. J. Mccarthy. From
Jefferson ward--J. W. Gibbons, J. O.
Phillips and d. S. Richardson.
Candidates Run Evenly.
1t was noticeable how evenly the
candidates for the Legislature ran, as
well as those for City hall offices From
1.-The unofficial returns, 1t appears, that
Sheriff Mercer led the ticket. while
the friends of City Sergeant Satter-
field were astonished at his vote.
which was much smaller than some of
the other city officials
The ballots Will be turned over to
the clerk OF the Hastings court today.
and tomorrow the electoral board will
canvass the returns and make it's Off
cial return. The board embraces An
drew Krouse. r. A. Cavedo. Leslie NJ.
Drew, NJ. A. Rightsall and Otis II.
Russell. Walter Christian is clerk OF
the board.
The accompanying table gives the
total vote as received from the pre-
clncts at the close OF business last
night.
As usual Clay ward led in the vote
producing. while Madison fell to the
rear.
According to the vote tho city will
have thirty-three delegates to the next
State convention slightly less than
that of the last convention.
The vote: