The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-04
WOMEN HOLD
THE WHIP HAND
Newly Enfranchised Voters
Expected to Swing b Te
Election
CHIEF CONTESTS
ON LICEN ISSUE
Sharp Contests Tomorrow
Between Glysson and
Reynolds

One of the quietcst municipal elections
in decade seems in prospect for to-
morrow, and while IL is true that COM
paratively little interest in the outcome
of the ballots TO be taken has been de-
veloped in the past few weeks, IL is also
| true that the situation with respect to
the license question and the mayoralty
election is of nature not 10 encourage
predictions. Beyond a doubt Barre will
cast large vote for the county tuber-
culosis sanatorium, and rs the referen-
DUN is countrywide, il is essential that
this important matter shall not be over
looked. That, apart from the license
question. the election Of mayor, and
an aIdermanic contest in the fourth ward,
is the only issue of more than passing
Importance on to-morrow's slate. There
is total of 2,592 names on the checklist,
as against 2,l07 year ago, the enfran-
chisement of women accounting largely
for the gain.
Among IL offices to be filled by the
voters there is more than one candidate
for only two of them. The caucus nom
nee for mayor, f. c. Glysson, is opposed
by Alderman Clyde II. Reynolds of the
fourth ward, who filed nomination pa
pers as an independent candidate The
mayoralty campaign this year has been
unusually torpid, so far as surface APP
pearances have indicated, although each
candidate has conducted something of
quiet canvass. For the very reason that
open expressions of opinion ON the re-
spective merits of the two candidates
have not been numerous, election proph-
cts are pretty much at sea, forecasts are
few, and the outcome is much in doubt.
Down in ward 4, Duncan Mcmillan, jr.,
the caucus nominee for alderman, has an
opponent in the person of Charles r.. Gall
lagher, who filed papers. Mr.. Mcmillan
made strong showing in the caucus and
old timers in the fourth look for Me-
MILAN victory. However, ward 4 has
been known to develop some surprises,
and the outcome of the voting there
cannot be predicted with any measure of
A large proportion of the electorate
seems TO be centering its interest on the
liquor question. No-lcense people have
made a spirited campaign and are rather
confident that the mastering of many
women to their banner will swing the
city back into the dry column. Wom
EN- vote ON all municipal questions to-
for the first time, and it is gem
orally conceded that they hold the bal
ance of power. People who favor the re-
tention OF regulation in handling the
liquor traffic say that the practical pro-
hibition of spirituous liquors has taken
The most Objectionable feature away
from the open saloon, and their argu
nent has it that hereafter so-called first
lass licenses will mean only beer and
light wine licenses. Advocates of reglI-
ba, c,t oI bn paaJ IN
IN effort to show that a no majority
will mean a bone dry Barre.
Over against these arguments Barre
'oters who have consistently opposed
INV legal extension of the liquor traffic
rgue that the war, if no other reason,
5 sufficient to cause all patriotic people
o vote out the saloon. But there are
ther reasons, they assert, and good
nany of the arguments which have op-
rated to the determination OF the saloon
lsewhere have been used with apparent
ffectiveness in the past few weeks. The
pen saloon, it is said, has failed to
lstifv its renewed lease of life in Barre,
nd among its opponents there is a real
this year to end the traf-
Tomorrow the polls open at a. m.
nd close at p. m. The polling places
re: Ward /, Church street school; ward
Spaulding school; ward 3, Summer
treet school; ward 4, Brook street
,hool; ward ), Woodchuck knoll school;
ard g, city court room.
The list of candidates follows: For
ayor, +. c. Glysson, citizens, G. H. Rey
olds, independent; for city clerk and
easurer, James Mackay; for first con-
able, George l.. Morris; for second con-
able, c. +. Foley; for assessor, three
Ears. Martin Riley, sr.; for trustees of
rench's Barre library, r. S. Currer,
,hn W Gordon, Frank G. Rowland; for
iditors, William stephen. D. J. Sulli-
In and Lee o. Tracy; for alderman,
ard ,, J. \. Healy; for school COM
issioner, ward ,, DR.. William McFar-
nd for alderman, ward 4, Charles r.
aliagher, independent Duncan J. Me-
illan, lr., citizens; for school commits
,ner, ward 4, William T. Calder; for
ierman, ward 6. Henry Alexander