Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-04
VOTERS ARE OUT
EARLY TO REGISTER
CHOICE FOR OFFICE
First Election Arrest Is Made
in the LOdging-house
District.
WOMAN CHALLENGER IS
ACTIVE in FOURTH WARD
Mistakes in Warrants Shown
When Old Residents
Are Halted.

HT6 T1dfIeQ.
They started early this morning
FOR the various polling places
throughout the county, did the voters
OF Essex. to cast their ballots for the
candidates of their choice. and in al
most every case citizens were on
hand at six o'clock, the hour for the
opening of hostilities. 1t cannot.
however be truthfully said that they
started bright and early, as there
was a heavy chilly mist, almost a
rain. falling prior to six o'clock.
The voting was more or less brisk
up to within short time before
seven o'clock, workingmen taking adj
vantage of the opportunity to de-
post their tickets and then to has
ten away to their various places OF
employment before the get-to- work
whistles sounded their familiar call
To duty.
Later the weather changed and
chilly mist was supplanted by sun
shine. There was a falling Oft in the
voting after seven o'clock and it did
not show renewed life until toward
noon.
Party workers were there at the
sound of the first gun and were ac-
tive in attending to the duties as
signed them
In many election districts police
officers left with the election board
warrants. John Doe and otherwise.
with instructions from Prosecutor
HIND hof
sons appeared to vote the election
officers should detain them and hand
them over to police officers.
1t developed that numerous mis-
takes had been made by the prosecu-
tors office. citizens under suspicion
showing that they We're not only ell
titled to vote. but that suspicion Ill
rected against them was unjust
! In all cases when proceedings had
been taken on misinformation, how
ever. there was no further trouble
from prosecutor officers, police or
/ election bords Printing in the regis
| try list was found to be responsftas .
for many errors.
q VOTE lis unccrtRsn.
/ .As TO @llich candidates were lead.
! ilsSs no one could tell witbz aHy fle.
gree 6f Fsniffteness. but eacii Dr.
trict captain claimed the honors fur
his own ticket.
Fielder. Stokes and Colby wei /,
each doomed by their individual adj
mirers.
1t was conceded that the Demo-
cratic Assembly candidates were
making n splendid showing. despite
/ the fact that some newspaper had
so unfairly criticised them. Patrick
ii. Ryan, Democratic Board of Works
candidate, wass aid on all sides to Be
running ahead of his ticket and that
in the freeholdership fight the fake
! Independent Democratic candidates
were hardly being heard Of
Toward noon a report went out
that steps We're being taken TO ascer-
tain who had signed the petitions for
| Charles W. NUM- and Jacob Stein.
certifying that they were Democrats
as the Geran law defines Democrats
sentitled to vote in the Democratic
/ box at primary, and what persons
took the required affidavit TO the
effect that they were Democrats.
NUM- and Stein. Republicans, for
the time being, under the law, are
candidates, by petition, for free
holder and posing as independent
Democrats" They are running in
conjunction with Harry S. Quinn.
| Those who certified, by affidavit, that
NUM- and Stein are Democrats are
said to be amenable to the law and
that it is the intention 70 proceed
against them.
Similar steps it is further reported,
are TO be taken against those involved
in like manner in the case OF Joseph
+, Quayle or Quoyle, better known as
Buck" Quayle. Independent Demo-
cratic candidate, by petition, for the
office of street and water commits
J sioner. Quayle, it Is pointed out
served as a Republican challenger in
the lodging house district under Re-
publican Leader Zemel at the last
/ election. He is an itinerant umbrella
! mender and rooms in ZemePs lodg-
| ing house.
| The vote in the lodging-house dis
I trict bounded by Market street. Null
berry street, the Pennsylvania rail-
road and Commerce stree was very
light during the forenoon. Less than
! so per cent. Of the normal vote was
cast.
The generally accredited cause OF
this showing was the number OF war
rants issued in advance by the prose-
cutor's office. They apparently had a
deterrent effect on the vote in that
! section.
In the Seventh district of the
Fourth ward. for instance, thirty.
nine votes had been cast by 1880 A
year ago the number by that time
| was eighty
| In contrast TO this. however. the
vote in the Hill" section was slightly
above normal In all the districts. The
most conspicuous feature was the
long time it took to poll the vote,
Almost without exception the voters
showed the utmost deliberation.
The record vote during the fore
noon was In the First district of the
Third ward. where eighty votes had
been east. twenty moro than last
year
Mayor Haussling cast his vote ~
II o'clock in the polling place of the
! Eighth district of the Second ward.
at SO Bank street.
In the so-called Down Neck" dis
triets the vote was fairly heavy The
Celluloid Guards, 500 strong. went on
an excursion to Paterson and most
of them voted before they left. IN
the First district of the Twelfth ward
forty-fve votes We're cast before
noon.
Woman as Challenger.
one of the most exceptional of cleo
ton day dramas was enacted In q
barber shop polling place at 81 Law
renee street. in the very heart of the
lodging house district. the Seventh
district of the Fourth ward.
There in the stronghold of Nick
Kline. the Democratic district leader,
and Meyer Zemel. who, besides being
proprietor Of a lodging mouse at ~
Market street at the head of the bend
known os .fAIIirderers, Row" is Re-