Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-03
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DESPERATE EFFORT
OF MCCORMICK TO
CARRY HOME TOWN

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will show big votes and Perry county
farmers and workers are going to the
polls.
This section of the State is going
to show something big in totals.
Multitude of Workers.
That Mccormick intimation that
there would be no money and that
the machine would have to get along
with one watcher to a precinct proved
to be a bluff. Mccormick watchers"
were so thick in some places that they
got in each others way. The Demo-
cratic headquarters, the Washington
party headquarters and the Palmer
Mccormick league headquarters
fairly hummed last night. Men were
designated" right and left to work
at the polls. In Pittsburgh, Bill Finn
gave out watchers certificates which
were redeemable afterwards. OF
course, this has no bearing on what
McCormick's managers are doing.
Even in the boroughs Mccormick
workers and watchers showed up
strong. They were loudly proclaiminS
that they were volunteers, but some
acted like mercenaries or conscripts.
The whole Mccormick effort is
being bent to hold the home ward,
the home town, the home county. the
home section. But the tide has set
in and his dollar marked bark is
headed for Salt River.
For President Judge Kunkel
While the interest in city and county
naturally centered to a great degree in
the gubernatorial and senatorial lights,
it's safe to say that the paramount
Idea in every voters head regardless OF
party affiliations when he entered his
voting booth this morning was the
Importance of attaching a cross behind
President Judge George Kunkef S
name.
In some precincts voters marked
that name alone-one man in one OF
the Twelfth ward precincts coolly in
forming q companion that that was all
he cared to vote and all he meant to.
The first vote to be cast in the
Twelfth ward for President Judge
| Kunkel and probably the first to be
cast in the city was slipped into the
box of the Third precinct of the
Twelfth ward by Jury Commissioner
Edward Dapp. The polls opened
| promptly at o'clock and the clocks
and whistles near by hadn't finished
announcing the hour when Mr.. DapI
asked for ballot. and a moment later
the first x for Dauphin eounty's pre-
siding judge for the Supreme bench
had been recorded.
Oh, OF Course, Your Honor, of Course
President Judge Kunkel himself
voted this morning shortly after
o'clock at the Hope enginehouse, the
Second precinct of the Fourth ward
after which he came down town, Joined
Additional Law Judge S. j. NJ. McCar.
rell and walked around to the polls
of the First precinct of the FourtI
! while the associate jurist cast his
| ballot.
"Why, that's a notable ward" OBJ.
| served a caller this morning who
! learned for the first time that the two
judges lived in the same bailiwick.
Yes. indeed. and it will be more
so after to-day" smiled Judge McCar'
rell. "One of the Justices of the Su
preme Court as we'll as the next Gov
| ernor of Pennsylvania will live there"
THE next Governor"
! Surely" said Judge McCarrell
Isn't the Executive Mansion in th'
Fourth ?"
| Father and Son
More notable voting occurred thii
afternoon in the Second precinct o,
the Fourth ward. President Judge
! Kunkel's son, George, Jr., went around
to the polls with his father and voted
/ for the first time-on age. The sol
of the presiding Judge is a Franklin
and Marshall collegian and he came
! up from Lancaster to cast his first vote
| to-day.
Party workers all over the city
talked enthusiastically of the big vote
| that was being got out and at tina
| the workers had little or nothing Il
! do. Somehow even the ordinary stay
at-homes broke a rule to day and were
out early. The prediction that so pei
cent. of the city's vote was recorded
] by noon was frequently heard.
City Registration, 1880
] The clarkS and the rnam harG Of fht
! Board of County Commissioners had {
very, very busy day of it, however
| When the clerks weren't receiving lat'
| registrations they were taking arounC
| the late names to the various pollint
places via automobiles and placint
| ers, after obtaining permission of th'
Dauphin County Court. decided to 81
until o'clock this afternoon to re
! ceive the late registrations.
| By noon 43O voters had been regis
! tered by the commissioners-fift five
since Saturday. This runs the tota
registration in the city to 1880, a
the number recorded by the boards o
registrars totaled 49, 400.
Baker Home to Vote.
W. Harry Baker, secretary of tn
Republican State committee, cam
home from Phila. to vote last night
He was confident of a Republican vic
tory to-day and said he would not b
surprised if it assumes the magnitude
of a landslide.
The county Republican headquar
ters were quiet to-day. Count
Chairman W. H. Horner, Secretary A
S. Cooper and State Committeeman
Frank A. Smith, on whom the burdel
of the campaign for the past fey
days has largely rested, were Il
happy frame of mind when the
closed their work last night and ex
pressed the belief that the day vii
bring forth big Republican vote.
The Republican speaking campaign
ran right up to the very close, wit
mass meetings at Millersburg, Viii
Jamestown and in the lower part O
the county. At MiIlersburg, William
M Hargest, deputy attorney-genera
twas the speaker and at Williamstowr
where the theater was packed to tn
door, Vice Chairman James E. Lent
presided and the speakers were Phi
S. Meyer, John G. Nissley, candldat
for the assembly; Congressman Aaroi
S. Kreider and Senator e. e. Beidle
man.
Betting Favors Republicans.
Betting Is all in favor of the Re
publican candidates, being as high a
ten to four on Brumbaugh. Mos
Democrats of the betting group re
fuse to do more than wager on tn
size of DIR. Brumbaugh's majority.
Hundreds of Democrats are Votin