Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-05
Polls Open in twenty-five
Election Districts of the
District of Columbia.
MANY AT HAND EARLY
TO PUT BALLOT IN BOX
Open Until z O'Clock Tonight.
Three Tickets in Field-Automo.
biles Carry Workers and Voters.

Voting started al noon today for ths
election Of delegates and alternates -
represent the District of Columbia at
the republican national convention TO be
held in Chicago June =. 1t is to continue
until I o'clock this evening. when the
polls will close and the Votes will be
counted.
There are three tickets in the field.
They are:
Frank j. Hogan and DR. Edward ID.
Wiliston for delegates and Julius I.
Feyser and George w. Robinson for alter.
mates.
Aaron Bra dshaw and Dr. Charles II.
Marshall for delegates and Angus Early
and l.. Melendez King for alternates.
Robert |. Miller and w. Calvin Chase
| for delegates and Arthur b. Hayes and
, DIR. Albert r. Collins FOR alternates.
Twenty-Five Election Precincts.
The voting i, being done by districts
The District of Columbia is divided into
, twenty-five election precincts, each with
at least one voting place. Two precincts
have three voting places.
| The qualifications which constitute
| eligibility to vote We're set forth in the
| call issued recently by the election
! board. composed of Charles Linkins.
Charles n. Bauman and Jesse II. Fos-
ter. appointed by the republican ma
| tional committee. follows:
| Every male citizen of the District OF
| Columbia twenty-one years of age
| over, without regard to past political
affiliations, who believes in the princi-
Piles of the republican party and in
dorses its policies. and who has re-
| sided in the District of Columbia for
+, one year next prior to the date of the
registration and election herein pro-
months next prior thereto in his voting
precinct, and who does not claim citi-
zenship elsewhere, shall have the right
to vote.
Urges Supreme Balloting.
| The voting at each of the polling
iplaces is being supervised by a board
of three judges named by the election
board. When the polls close at o'clock
this evening the judges will count the
Votes at the polling places and then
bring the ballot boxes containing the
Votes to a returning board composed of
three judges. which will then recount
1.-THE votes This board will report in
turn to the election board, which shall
lannounce the result of the election
| The election board is keeping secret
1.-THE place where the returning board
lis to meet. in order to avoid the pos
the place and any disorder that might
result. Charles Linkins said today that
the election board had adopted TINS
course i'm order to insure as fair q
lcount of the votes as possible.
The headquarters OF the three tickets
were busy places this morning. Up
until short time before noon they
were crowded with henchmen OF the
various candidates who had assembled
to receive their final instructions
about rounding up the boys" When
the candidates arrived at the head
quarters they were greeted with cheers-
| Workers Watch Ballot Boxes.
The largest number of henchmen ap-
peared to be assembled at the head
quarters of the williston ticket
in the old Central Bank building. at
It'll street and Pennsylvania avenue.
This ticket had at least three repre-
sentatives at each of the voting places
when the polls opened. The Bradshaw
Marshall and the MillerChase tickets
also had their workers out in big num-
beers. Each party was determined TO
see that the voting was to be con-
Quoted in a fair manner. and that there
was to be no "stufhng.
~ ook at those ballot boxes carefully
and see that there is nothing in them
when the voting begins was the IN
s,ruction given one group of watchers by
a lieutenant at one Of the headquarters
| At the majority Of the polling places
the voting started off with a rush, pros
pective voters having assembled In readi-
ness for the beginning Of the polling IT
is not expected that the major portion or
| the voting will be done until late In the
| afternoon between the hours OF 5 O'Clock
and the closing hour of o'clock.
| The candidates all appear to be well
supplied with automobiles to move their
partisans from point to point and To
bring in voters to the polls. Sightseeing
automobiles were employed TO carry the
| Topan Williston workers from their
headquarters to their stations this morn
ing.