Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-10-19
HEAVY VOTE
+. BEING CAST
IN NEWARK
Greatest Ever Cast in This
City for Special
Election.
SURPASSES PRIMARY
VOTE ALI. OVER
Predictions Pro and COn-Suf-
frage Orators Keep at II
All Night.

Supporters of both the woman suf-
frage and anti-suffrage causes visited
the polls in surprisingly large num-
hers today. For a special cleo
ton the total vote undoubtedly
will surpass the records of the past,
and early reports were that it was
normal, and in most cases heavier
compared with that of primary day.
That the stirring way in which the
campaign was closed aroused the In
terest of thousands throughout the
State is evident, but who will bene-
fit by this is matter of dispute.
Women challengers declared that
up to noon it was a two third
vote in favor of suffrage. At most
all of the polling stations women were
treated with extreme politeness, and
with one or two exceptions the men in
charge were for suffrage"
The early voting in the Third was
surprise to many about the polls,
more than twice as many ballots
having been deposited by 10 o'clock
as were voted on primary day before
the same hour In the Second dis
trict at 80 Broome street, twenty nine
votes were in the box, against only
nine at the same hour on primary
day. In the Third district at 213
Court street, thirty-five ballots. had
been cast at 10 o'clock; in the Fourth
district at So West street, forty-one,
and in the Sixth district at 145 West
street, forty.
Further up the "Hill" the ballots
were less numerous, but still the
early vote was quite bit heavier
than on primary day. In the fifth
district of the Fourteenth ward, at
12S Belmont avenue, for instance,
eighteen votes were cast before 10,
while only eleven had been cast at 2
o'clock on primary day
Early voting in tine italian section
of the First ward was quite heavy, as
shown by the forty-eight votes cast
at Garside street in the third dis
trict.
Along Sussex avenue and Central
avenue the early voting was light,
but further into Roseville the ballots
were coming into the boxes at q
more lively rate. Only twenty-six
were registered at 17S Sussex ave-
nue., the fourth district eof the Fiji
teenth ward, and seventeen in the
fifth district of that ward at 2sb Gen.
trail avenue, at 10 o'clock
At 142 North Sixth street, the sec
ond district of the Eleventh ward.
fifty-one voters were in the box at
10 o'clock; at 4296 Orange street, the
fifth district in the ward, forty bal
lots had been cast. and at 449 Orange
street, the tenth district of the ward,
thirty-e eight.
Late this forenoon the suffragist
watcher in the Tenth district, of the
Fourth ward, complained that the
barber in whose place, at Ala Broad
street, the voting was going on, was
interfering with the progress Of the
balloting by working. Almost at the
same moment the suffragist watcher
in the Tenth district, of the Eighth
ward, made the same complaint about
the barber at 9015 Belleville avenue.
Polire Captain Joseph Cardano de-
cided the objections were we'll taken
and started out in an automobile to
warn all BARRIERS in the district in
whose places polling was going on
that business must cease while the
balloting is on
In the Eleventh district of the Third
ward the men In charge refused to
allow the substitute for the challenger
10 take her chair. The election officer
declared that 1t was illegal and was
only half convinced when the rules
and regulations of a challenger were
pointed out to him.
MISS ttOSalle Jones, tle lOleu SUI
ragist hilSer, of New York, who lead
the hike from New York to Washing
ton, few years ago, was among the
workers. She came over from Man
haitian and went about with the suf-
frage workers visiting several polling
places advising workers and urging
a vote for the cause.
Political Leaders Parting shots.
The issuance of statement by
Newton A. K. Bugbee, chairman of
the Republican State Committee. in
which a vigorous and militant anti
position was announced, and the for
warding of a personal letter from
State Democratic Committeeman
James r. Nugent to hundreds of anti
suffrage workers in Essex county,
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