The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-23
VOTE IN WARDS.

The re-districting in Kenosha is top
heavy. If you have any doubts as to
the truth of the statement just ask the
election officials of the first ward who
worked until the wee small hours of
the morning counting more than
eleven hundred ballots while the men
who were drawing the same pay and
working in a lot of the other wards
were at home tearing off beauty sleep
III great shape. The complaints were
also coming in thick and fast from
the second and third wards where the
election officials insisted that they
were getting more than a just share
Of the counting. This, however, is
only one primary election and in some
Of the wards which turned out small
votes on Tuesday it was declared that
when the real vote was polled that the
counters there would work pretty near
ly as late as they did in the wards
which are numbered Gone, /" "Two"
and "Three"
Evidently Kenosha is growing, for
the number of votes cast at the pri-
mary on Tuesday reached the $500
mark and only a little over 400 of
them were cast by women. In the
first ward there were 1119 votes cast
813 by the men and 306 by the women.
The vote in this ward was larger than
in the seventh, eighth and ninth wards.
1t was greater than the vote in any
two of the other wards in the city
combined with the exception Of the
second and third. Out in the ninth
ward which since it was christened by
the council has had the largest vote
il the city, the total vote on Tuesday,
both men and women, failed to reach
the three hundred mark and the men
in charge were through counting the
ballots by a little after ten O'Clock.
The seventh ward is still decidedly
small one and but 307 votes were cast
in this ward at the primary. A de-
cided falling off was also shown in
the fourth and fifth wards.
In the first ward, however, it is de-
clared that pretty nearly every vote
was brought out for the primary.
There was hot fight Oh between the
candidates for alderman and the
women of the ward took a great inter-
est in the nomination of candidates
for school commissioner. The 500
women votes cast in this ward was
fifty times as many women votes as
had been cast in the old first ward
and much larger number than had
ever been cast in any ward of the city
by the women. The man vote in the
first ward was also pretty close to a
record. At this polling place the sup
ply of ballots was threatened and
with the voting place crowded at the
closing hours the ballot clerks began
to sign up the sample ballots which
had been held in reserve, but it
was not found necessary to use
any of them.
The second ward did not cast near,
ly as many votes as had been expect
ed of it and the third ward proved al
most as much of surprise as the
first. It is probable that the fight
for the aldermanic nomination in this
ward also was reflected in the large
vote cast.
Politicians who sought to size up
the wards to determine their political
standing were much at sea after the
primary was over. There was no way
to guess political afiliation of the
voters. In some places Republicans
and Democrats ran together as top
notehers and it was evident that the
great mass of the voters paid no at
tention to political affiliations of the
candidates. The total vote among the
women of the city was 472 and it was
limited largely to the south side wards