The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-01
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
TT IS ELECTION DAXl TT SURELY IS CLARK.

Unless all signs fail, the count of the vote tonight will disclose that the Dem ocratic rooster has despoiled the Republican chantfcler of his longest and gaudiest tail feathers. The in dicatiofs are for pronounced Dem ocratic victory. In the first place the weather has been of the kind usually regarded as suspicious for Democracy The only event which could be considered out of the ordinary cleo ton day programme, occurred in the First precinct of the Second ward Harry McE1roy was stationed in the both by the Independent RepubH- cans to give out ballots to those wish ing to vote that ticket. It had been understood beforehand by all parties concerned that the Independent Re publicans should have such repre- sentation in all wards, and nobody ques1 toned that under the law it was not entirely proper voting. had been in progress nearly two hours when George Love 1 joy. the Republican registrar in the second, noticing that Independent Republican ballots were being freely used, suddenly came to the concIu- l sion that there was something trregu- lar in the proceedings He demand ed that McElroy leave the booth and when asked upon what he based his | demand said that the law forbade more than the representative of the | P being in the booth.
 MoElroy refused to leave and l L.ovejoy appealed to Thomas Farrell, the Democratic registrar. The latter decided that while under the law | there should not be less than two men in charge of the booth there was l nothing which denied the right of representation therin to a third or 1 fourth party or an offshoot of @ party. l ILove5oy finally called upon the police la 5oa land appealed to Moderator Joseph w. I Johnson who declined to interfere As the registrars were divided in their opinions, the police decided that they
 could do nothing and McE1royA re-
 mained.
 1 A WOMAN MRS JOHN -ERHARD t-registered Marguerite Erhard- cast the first vote in the First ward.
 The vote was light in this ward, only
 575 votes being cast up to 10 o'clock,
 1o1 of which were women. Clark
 and Mullins pastors seemed to be
 freely used.
 PASTERS.
 Never before have the booths con-
 tained such a quantity of pasters. The
 walls of some of the boxes were fair
 ly frescoed with pasters. It was 1 charged that in the First and Second
 wards some miscreants tore down all
 of the Coggswe11 and KinsIey pastors
 in the first hour. They were quickly
 replaced and a sharp watch kept for the rest of the day.
 SELLING VOTES?
 A shameful spectacle in the First was gang of strikers looking for 9 purchaser for their votes. A Water
 street bartender whose name was not , given offered both committees Q block of 75 votes for 25 cents , apiece. He made himself scarce up
 Some of the wfetches then raised . their price to a dollar. However, mo- ? body wanted to buy.
 l WOMEN IN THE FOURTH.
 Let no one say that the women o1
 the Fourth don't know anything
 about voting. They evinced far less i, hesitation and uncertainty than the l, average green male voter. Nearly
 500 registered in this ward and there ; remained less than 75 to vote at 1:3o ] A number of bets were made in thi. : ward this noon that CIark's rnapori l ty would reach 2,O00. A number o. , Republicans bet on him for a win A noticeable feature at the Tow1 lJ clerks office is that women of ~'ad 7 vanced thought on female suffrag'
 register always by their own Chris
 tian names, thus showing their inde
 pendence of their husbands Chris tian names. The total number of wo men registered up to p. m. today il : 2,120.
 2 The day was remarkably quiet il police circles. The first trouble oc , cured at 1:30, when John Fee1ey anC Charles Haley fought near the ThirC
 ward polls. They were arrested by
 Officers Ruggles, Hall and Costello.
 At 3:00 betting on Clark as tn,
 next mayor of Bridgeport was yer.
 much in evidence with very few takers, he having been practical! conceded the winner.
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