New Britain herald., 1916-11-11
Cantornia so long in doubt gave !
Wilson thirteen electoral votes.

Cahfornia, SO long in doubt gave |
wilson thirteen electoral votes.
That well known song california, !
Love YOU is certainly popular
ballad nowadays, particularly with
those who wagered their hard earned
coin on Wilson.
During the few days of uncertainty
Immediately following election day it !
was amusing to those in the game to
notice the sudden an Increased popu-
larity of the reporters. Men who
every other day in the year try to
avoid these hounds of the press
end who, when cornered give
but curt and uncivil answers to peril
nent questions, put the welcome mat
in front of their Office doors, beamed
"A welcome smile when approached
and ever had the glad hand out for
these same reporters. They were hail
fellows we'll met and many were the
friendly slaps on the back that the
reporters received from those who had
heretofore been but Iukewarm at the
best in their manifestations of friend
ship. And why this sudden change?
IT was simply that the tables were
rorters who sought the news and the
roen who were consulted, then it was
the reporters who had the news and
| TIE men who wished to be Informed.
Rut the reporters were not fooled.
! They realized the cause of their sud
| den popularity and they also realize
| that as soon as the election is over
! they VIII still he persona non grata.
| But in the meantime they have
| heaped Goals Of fire on the heads of
the aforementioned by setting an
! example of courtesy and civility by
hlch they might we'll profit.
The new law regarding the voting
| Of non-residents was taken advantage
| of for the first time in this city on
| Tuesday. This law provides that any
! voter who has moved away from the
| town or city in which he was a regis
! tered voter can return on election dav
| and cast his ballot providing he has
| not been away for more than five
| months and twenty mine days. Here
! tOfore if a voter moved his goods and
| thatte1s from a place on the day be-
fore election day he was disqualified
rs voter and would have to esta blish
! a, right by six months residence be-
!
| q great many voters took advantage of
! this law, which, incidentally, applies
! orly to state or national elections It
seems to be a very just law too, for
| it was eminently unfair to rob a citi-
zen of his vote on one of the big Dues
tons of the day just because circum-
stances had made him take up his
| abode elsewhere than where he was
! I egistered.
There was little trouble at the vot-
! ing booths on election day and few
! misunderstanding Just as the polls
/ closed however, there was quite a
dispute in the fifth ward where a
! foreigner, armed with his naturaliza-
| ton papers, appeared to vote. His
name was not on the lists and on in
vestigation showed that he had never
been made. When he appeared be-
! fore the selectmen, registrars and
, town clerk it appeared that he could
| not read we'll enough to be made a
! voter, so was advised to go home and
! practise some more. The man evident
| ly thought that because he had ap-
| peared before the board he was a
| bone fide voter and it required con-
| siderable effort to convince him that
he was not.
Also, in one of the upper wards
! there were certain limitations made
that one of the machine tenders was
| giving instructions to the voters that
! tended to make them vote a straight
| ticket, one way or another. No Off
! cial protest was made however. The
tender, it is said, as soon as a voter
entered the booth told him to draw
| the curtain and then said pull down
| the party lever which was perfectly
| proper. Then however, with what was
apparently an effort to encourage
| straight voting, he said pull the par
I ty lever''-"now pull the red lever to
get out" A person at all undecided
| Or nervous would naturally do as ad-
vised and as soon as the red lever
was drawn the vote was locked and
straight ticket had been recorded.
The democratic advertisement vote
for Hughes If you want war and all
it's misery certainly made a pro-
! nounced impression on all members
! Of the fair sex, mothers, sisters ana
| others The thought of their loved
| ones possibly being called upon to go
to war was a big argument for the
| democratic party. Of course the Wo-
men here do not have a vote, but VINO
| is there to deny that they 40 not
| have a big influence?
If that democratic advertisement
| had an effect on the vote as against
| the republicans, hardly less etectlVe
| against the G. O. P. was their own
advertisement che has neglected me
and NINE" That was offensive 10
every fair minded voter and mace
friends for Wilson.
Two years ago it was New Britain