Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-19
and ton will Just walk away with the elee.

row, let alone one to sit around and
hold a window book. Some powerful
force appeared to have galvanized city
and rural Democrats alike to-day.
They were all adherents of the policy
waiting" for voters. They were drag
ging them in.
Farmers Not Voting
Telephone messages received in this
city from Perry, Juniata, Snyder, Cum
berland and York counties indicate
that hundreds of farmers will not go
to the polls to-day. Owing to the cool
weather. many farmers are away be-
hind in their work and fields have not
been seeded. Whole families are work
ing in the fields to catch up with the
ordinary spring operations and efforts
to get farmers and their sons to go to
the polls have been reported as of no
| use. In parts of Dauphin county where
the bulk of the enrolment is of farm
ers the vote is very light. Many farm
ers did not enroll at all and those who
did are staying away because of their
work.
Men who follow politics say that if
the same conditions prevail in other
! counties with a large rural population
the vote will run far below the enroll
ment and may upset some calculations
on results.
Assistance Blanks About.
But there were other interestine
phases to the primary election than
the multiplicity of watchers" for the
Democratic chieftains. They were a
delight to the eye when they were act
ing, but owing to their number liable
to block the sidewalks. when not occu.
pied Every now and then some one
would dart in with some story that
would cause a scattering of the cour-
iers. The Mccormick people were in a
pepperJig most of the day over fears OF
last cards"
one OF the interesting incidents was
the demand for assistance blanks
which swept over the city about noon.
There were a score or so of these
blanks. which enables a man to make
affidavit that he needs help to mark
his ballot, placed in each bunch of
supplies. No one for an instant imag-
ined that there would be such Demo-
cratic activity and the extra blanks
were in demand.
1t is fine day and the voters in the
city and many urban dwellers are vot-
ing, but in the country it's a case of
starting the crops.
Interest i'm Candidates.
1t has been so long since Harrisburg
has had any state candidates that it
was nardly accustomed to the idea q!
having three. President Judge Kun
kel, candidate for supreme court, who
has been backed by men of every
party for that nomination, is getting a
great vote, the attempts started on
Market Square to get support for End
Itch having reacted. The judge voted
at the Hope enginehouse, the polling
place of the Second precinct of the
Fourth ward, and was greeted by
many friends. Messages from over
the state to his friends told of voting
for him being heavy.
In the First precinct of the Fourth
ward Mccormick voted No SO. A
few hours later William K Meyers.
candidate for Democratic nomination
for Congress-at-large, who is aligned
with the Ryan forces against the ma
chine, voted at the same voting place.
Scrap for Empty Honors.
Backed by the Panic League
Charles s. Prizer. the Middletown
single taxer, is waging a fight in the
city and boroughs of the three
counties of this congressional district
against ID. L. Kaufman, who is
strongest in the countryside than in
the towns. Kaufman won in 1912 be-
cause he got the farmers. but this year
the frmers arc busy. No matter which
one wins Congressman Kreider, who is
unopposed for Republican renomina