Arizona republican., 1914-02-12
GOOD GOVERNMENT
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| | everywhere but this did not deter the machine men, the straight dem ocrats and the socialists from work ing steadily.
 When the question of counting the ballots came up with the close of the polls. a great task confronted the clerks. The involved nature of the rotary ballot was such as to 1 make the job of counting the votes somewhat simple but nevertheless a tremendous one It was finally de- cided to take every ballot and tally all the candidates right down from beginning to end.
 So slow a job was this, however that it took longer to count the ballots than it had to vote them. At midnight, six hours after the close of the polls. four hundred bal lots remained to be counted.
 Third Ward
 For a few minutes after the polls in the third ward were opened 1t looked as though a merry time was in store for the voters and for the members of the election board. Two or three alleged representatives of candidates, the identities of whom were not made known, took up van tage points in the polling place and announced they would be there all day to challenge persons who ac- cording to a list they pretended to have, were illegally registered or were for some reason or other not entitled to vote They brought along l c.tn 1y,l n af ha rulings of the election judges if con- tests arose. First off, a couple of challenges were made, apparently at haphazard, but these availed nothing. One man was challenged who had resided in his own home in the third ward for eight years. Another who had roomed for a year and a half in the third ward was challenged on the ground that he took his meals OF the north side of Washington street, which is not in the third | ward
 Finally the challengers were dis covered in the act of accosting pros- pective voters and were directed to | subside, and the stenographer, who appeared to have no particular aim | except to make copious notes, was ! asked to do his amanuensis work on the other side of the fifty foot limit. Thereafter peace and quiet reigned in the polling place although the challengers made feeble efforts on four other occasions to prevent men from voting. Usually registration affidavits were shown and the voter sworn as to residence. In no in- stance was a challenge sustained
 The voting began just as soon as the polls were declared open There were times when there was quite rush, and for an hour at mid day ballots Were being handed out at the rate of ten in every five minutes by actual count.
 In all 6S6 people were qualified to vote. In the count of the ballots however it was found there were but 6S4 in the boxes. Women were out in good numbers and seemed to take great pride in the fact that they were permitted a voice in sucn an important proceeding. It is es- timated that of the total votes cast not less than twenty five per cent were ballots of women.
 Many of the ballots when taken from the ballot boxes were found to include no preference for mayor, some only supporting the candidacy of one or two prospective commits Sioners. One of the surprises Of the day in the ward came when the final count had been made and it was found that George U. Young, for mayor, Frank Woods and M J. Fo- ley each had received 315 votes, with George N. MacBean running close on the heels of these three.
 The count of the ballots was gone about most systematically and before eight o'clock the count for mayor had been completed. About eleven o'clock the entire vote had been lights turned out.
 Fourth Ward
 The fourth ward vote at the city hall was the smallest of all the ward votes, only 402 votes being cast dur ing the 12-hour period allowed by law. The count was finished by } 1O:00 o'clock. It showed that the combination was stronger than the Good Government League in that ward and that the appeals to ward prejudice and partisan political af- filiation had borne some fruit Bar hey Kersting showed strength in this ward early in the day but the bal lots were so badly split up that every candidate, even those who had withdrawn from the race, received some votes. MT. Young led Judge Lewis in this ward nearly all day and when the final count was made still showed a good lead. The scenes around this polling booth were less animated and the crowds consider ably less than at any of the other wards.
 In all of the wards the women of l, ficials conducted themselves as to the manner born. While to the new