The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-05
VERY FEW CONTESTS
IN BARRE ELECTION
License Issue is Stirring Up Great Deal
of Interest Although There Is Not
Much Public Manifestation.

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in their respective polling places for the
annual election and while there has been
but little excitement created, quiet cam
paignlng has been going on and some in
lteresting contests will have been decided
| by tomorrow night This year 2,ll0
citizens are eligible to vote and num-
Der of women are entitled to exercise the
| suffrage on school matters in the first
ward and third wards. The polls open at
a. m. and all boxes will be turned at
3 O'Clock in the afternoon, Polling places
will be established as follows: Ward
!, Church street; ward 2, Spaulding
school; ward 3, Summer street school;
ward 4, Brook street school; ward 5,
Woodchuck knoll school; ward 6, city
court room.
All told there are 2l candidates who
are to go before the people for support.
In addition, voters will express their
preference on the license question and on
the fifth class license referendum also
on the proposal to introduce free medical
inspection in the city schools. First
and third ward voters will receive four
ballots when they enter the polls, the
ballot, on which its printed the names of
candidates for city offices. the local op-
tion ballot, and ballots for school COM
missioner and alderman. In ward 2. 4
and neither alderman nor commission
ers are to be elected and in the fifth
ward there is an alderman to be elect
ed.
Three contests stand out prominently
in the list of candidates. For the may
orally Alderman Z. C. Glysson, the citi-
zen's candidate, is opposing Fred w.
Suitor, the labor candidate, who filed
papers after losing the nomination in the
citizens caucus. The outcome is much
in doubt and the same is true in the
contest between I. j. Denning, an indie
pendent candidate, and A. l.. Noyes, citi-
zen's candidate, for the assessorship. The
fifth ward, where Stephen Rizzi is con-
testing Alderman A. NJ. Rossi's seat at
city hall, furnishes the only ward con-
test and there the issue viii not be de-
termined until the votes are counted.
Speculation over the license question
is rife, although campaigning this year
has not been noisy. Each side has been
getting in some telling licks in the past
fortnight, but the public has been spared
a few of the features that have marked
the contest in previous years. Those
who believe that the licensed saloon Of
fers better medium for regulating the
liquor traffic say that the business has
been conducted without disturbance this
year and argue that regulation should
be continued. On the other hand, op-
ponents of the saloon say that there is
no moral justification for the existence
,f the saloon and promise TO use their
accordingly. Careful observ-
,rs, who say little but see much, opine
hat the vote will be close, very close.
Apparently there is little interest in
he fate of the referendum on free medi-
al inspection. although one encounters
,lenty of sentiment both for and against
he measure. Nevertheless, il is not a
BURNING issue and people do not talk
bout il of their own volition.
Candidates for the various Offices are
,iven below in recapitulation: For may
II. f. c. Glysson. citizen, Fred w. Suit
T, labor; for city clerk and city treas
urer. James Mackay, citizens; for first
Unstable. George L. Morris, citizens; for
econd constable, Harry F. Jeffords, in
ependent, George w. Parks. citizens;
or assessor three years., t. J. Den
ing, independent, A. L. Noyes, citizens;
rustees OF French's library, r. S. Cur
ier, John w. Gordon, F. G. Howland,
itizens; for auditors. W. b. Marion,
William stephen and d. J. Sullivan, citi-
ms; for school commissioner in ward l.
ohm C. Booth, citizens; for alderman in
ard l. Alexander A. Milne, citizens:
IT Alderman in ward 3, Arthur J. Loran-
er. citizens; for school commissioner
ward 3, James T. Marion; for alder
an in ward ), Stephen RiEEi, citizens,
nd A. NJ. Rossi, labor.