The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-07
ELECTION CALLS
OUT LARGE VOTE
Over 900 Ballots Were Cast
in BrattleborO by
Noon Today
AUTOMOBILES BRING
IN LARGE NUMBER
Moro than 100 Voted Between 6 and z
a. m.-Comparison Of Vote in Previ-
GUS Years When DR.. Lynch Was Rep
resentativc Candidate.

With over 800 votes east in BrattIe
boro at noon there were MANY predic
tions by old timers who make it their
business to keep tabs on everything do
ing on election day that Brattleboro' 3
record vote of 1861 polled il Novem-
Der, 1917, would be exceeded today. The
voting began at 6 clock this morning
and over 100 votes were cast in the
first hour
At noon the 80 booths provided for
marking ballots were all occupied by
men engaged in placing check marks on
seven separate ballots handed to each
voter, and there were ~ men standing
III line with their market ballots wait
ing to be checked off and to hand their
handful of variegated colored papers to
one or the other of the two ballot
clerks, Constable Chauncey |. Knapp
ald Constable Herbert f. Harris.
While this was the case inside Festi
val hall, where the voting took place,
steady stream of men were ascending
and descending the stairs and automo
bilcs were driving up to the curb and
unloading their complement of voters
1t was the town representative con
test between George l.. Durham, Re
publican nominee, and Dr. Edward R.
Lynch, the choice of the Democrats, for
the honor, that resulted in many be-
ing brought to the polls in style.
DIR. Lynch was standing in front Of
the town building this noon when he
was asked how many automobiles he
had in use to bring voters to the polls
| He replied that for the first time since
! his connection with active politics he
had been offered the use of private au-
tomobiles to aid il getting out the
vote and that he had more than he
| could use advantageously.
The same is true of the Republicans,
Automobiles were being used freely
from IL O'Clock by both sides and the
main aim was 10 get voters to the polls
IN the interests OF the town representa-
tive candidate of the party represented
| by the automobile.
Twice before Dr. Lynch has been q
candidate for representative, and once
he was defeated for the Democratic
| nomination b. NJ. J. Moran. In 1910
when a total of loo votes were cast for
town representative, he was defeated
by }. G. Stafford by 81 votes. He was
again candidate in 1912 in a three
cornered fight against Solon A. Rich
mold, Republican candidate, and Ed
ward G. Crosby, Progressive. Mr.. Cros
by finally won on the fourth ballot
with 1914 votes against 635 for DR.
Lynch and So fer Mr. Richmond. The
first ballot in that hard fight stood
Crosby 5s2, Lynch 467, Richmond 3s7
Back in 1908 Il total of 1928 ballots
were cast at the presidential election
and Taft had 1,034 to PA for Bryan
but it was different four years ago II
the three-cornered battle which "Ted
dy' forced upon the nation. Taft hao
626, Roosevelt 564, Wilson 435, ant
there were 36 scattering votes.
\ Democratic enthusiasts freely pre-
dicted today that Wilson would worry
the Republicans by the large increast
in his vote in Brattleboro and the Re
publicans grudgingly admitted tha
there were many normal Republican,
who were not saying anything abou
their votes and there was much specu
! lation as to whether that meant the'
were leaning towards Wilson or would
as matter of course, follow the usua
trend