Weekly journal-miner., 1914-09-23
AMUSING SIDE LIGHTS
 ON PRIMARIES
(From Fridays Daily.)

Prescott was not the only place in Arizona where many funny in cidents happened at the voting plac- es on primary day. Neither can all the ridiculous or laughable in cidents which happened be charged up to the women. For instance, read the following story from Phoenix:
 William NJ. Fickas, president of the Greater Arizona League, says that some women do queer things when they go to vote. Since elec- ton day he has been gathering stories about women at the polls.
 The women really did surpris- ingly well, considering the fact that they never voted before in Arizona" !" MT. Fickas said They made few mistakes and displayed truly com mendable familiarity with our sys- tenn of government. But here and there the women added to the gay ety of nations in no small degree.
 For instance there was the wo- man in Phoenix precinct No. 9, who insisted on voting for President Will son. She took a democratic ballot into the booth with her but hurried back and complained that she did not see any place thereon to vote for president. I don't care about anything except voting for Mir. Will son. she said.
 "'But this is only primary and, besides. we don't elect a president this year., one of the judges told her.
 "'Wcll, I want to vote for him now, just the same, and have 1t counted when we do elect a presi- dent she returned.
 There was another woman who complained that she did not see any place on the ballot to vote against the eighty per cent bill. She said that she had a Swedish kitchen girl and was afraid that she might lose her if the bill became law.
 At one of the Phoenix polling places was a woman who simply in sisted that a progressive voter mark democratic ballot. There are the popular ones today" she urged. Everybody is using them
 Instances of women asking the officials to hold their babies while they went into the booths were numerous. Usually the judges gave them permission to take the babies with them, although the presence of even the tinest infant in a booth with voter is a technical violation of the law Now and then two wo- men would insist on helping each other vote and could not understand why that was not allowed.
 Tn Tempe woman left the booth on run and lodged out of the building as though running to a fire. And. she was, for she had just re- memebered that she had left cake in the stove at home. She returned and voted later.
 Because a fuzzy lapdog was sud- denly stricken with collie, deliriums trcmens or something like that, liar " Johnson. candidate for the state senate in Maricopa county, lost one perfectly good vote. Harry proudly rode up to one of the Phoenix poll ing places with a striking blonde and volunteered to stay in the car with her dog while she voted. She NOuSlS uGu lliC CdIlllC lO HIS lCluCl care Hardly had she complied with the preliminarics and entered the booth before the dog set up howl and began to paw Harry's spotless linen coat
 You should have seen that blonde come tearing out of the booth, a ballot in one hand and a pencil in the other. She dropped both in the street seized the pup and began to cuddle it in her arms, at the same time boring out baby talk of the most mushy description.
 q suppose the dog really was sick. Anyway. the blonde thought so. She leaped into one of the front seats. paying absolutely no at tention to Johnson, and ordered the driver to rush to a doctors office
 But aren't you going to stop long cnought to vote" Harry inquired.
 "'Votcp she ragged Stop to vote when my little Snookums is ill? You brutcp
 And Johnson went right off the back end"