The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-03
Almost Half of the
Registered Strength
Had Been Polled by
Noon To-day
HINTS AT TRICKS
BY THE WORKERS
Democratic Headquarters Says Marked
Ballots Are Being Used, Contrary
to the Law-Detectives Ordered to
Investigate

Figures obtained by the Star.Inde-
pendent from Il majority of the polling
places in this city indicated at noon
that the heaviest vote ever cast in Har-
risburg will be polled to-day. Almost
half of the registered votes had been
polled at that hour, as compared with
about 30 pei cent, the usual number
polled up to noon on an election day.
The total enrolled vote of the city is
almost $4,000.
The special interest manifested here
is attributed to the fact that two can
didates for leading State Offices are
Harrisburg men, Vance c. Mccormick,
running on the Democratic and Wash
inston party ticket for Governor, aud
Judge George Kunkel running for
Judge of the Supreme Court on the non
partisan ticket.
The trend of the voting in the city
up until / O'Clock this afternoon ind-
Gated generally that more than ninety
five per cent of the registered votes
in Harrisburg would 20 to the polls be-
fore the closing hour at clock to.
night. There were a few precincts at
1 o'clock in which less than forty per
cent. of the registered vote had been
polled although in many cases it
equaled OF exceeded fifty per cent.
In the First precinct of the Fourth
ward, the voting place Of Vance Css.Mc-
Cormick, candidate for Governor, al
most two-thirds of the electors had bal.
lOted by noon. At the same hour almost
half of the SOP voters had gone to the
polls in the Second precinct of the
Fourth ward, the district in which
Judge George Kunkel, candidate for
Judge of the State Supreme Court, casts
his ballot
While the election boards were hand
ing out the ballots the County Com
missioners, sitting in extraordinary ses-
sion, were qualifying voters who work
out of the city and who came home this
morning. The Commissioners original
ly decided to register no voters after
Saturday at noon. Yesterday they
sought legal advice and pursuant to
opinions received began at once to
qualify unregistered voters.
BY the time the office closed last
evening seventeen voters had registered
in the day and this morning fifty-four
applications for registration were ap-
proved by the County Commissioners.
The registration books were sent out
to the election boards yesterday after
noon and to-day Squire j. H. Strock,
one of the Commissioner s clerks, went
to the polling places by automobile and
wrote the names of the latest regis
tered voters in the books.
. The total registration in the city,
until noon to-day, was 1886. The
County Commissioners remained as
their Office for the purpose of register
ing voters up to $50 o'clock this aft.
ernoon. Some election officers said they
cannot recall when Harrisburgers dis
played so much interest in an election
as, to-day.
The voters were out early at all pre-
cincts. In the First precinct of the
First Ward 32 voters had east their
ballots by $50 o'clock and in the First
precinct of the Fourth ward fifty cleo
tors voted during the first hour.
Reports received at noon from TWEEN
ty-two of the fifty 1.-TWO city election pre-
cincts were as follows: First ward,
Third precinct, 1874 votes polled of 335
reglsIereuj oecOnQ Waru, F1rSJ pre-
cinct, 81 of 112; Third precinct, 81
of 229; Fifth precinct, 157 of $40;
Third ward, First precinct, So of 166;
Second precinct, SO of 143; Third pre-
cinct, "a of 107; Fourth ward, First
precinct, 207 of 343; Second precinct,
232 of 502.
Fifth ward, Second precinct, 1876
of 25S; Sixth ward, Second precinct,
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