The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-09
CROWD POLLS
AT ZERO HOUR
Hundreds Of Voters Wait
in Line for one Hour in
Order to Cast Votes.
SCORES LOSE VOTE
Second Ward Polling Place
Closes at Eight Five with
Two Score Outside.

women on Tuesday and the bedraggled
ballot counters today are hoping that
before the national election something
| can be done to equalize the work for
| the city. Kenosha cast the largest
vote in its history. AS the polls were
closed at eight o'clock a total of47,702
votes had been cast or were waiting
to be cast and this was more than
| 1900 votes more than were cast in the
last general primary in 1918. 1t was
1 impossible to tell how many votes had
been cast by the women Of the city
but it was estimated that fully three
thousand five hundred women voted.
Only checking of the poll lists will
show just how many voted. In some
of the wards it was nine o'clock be-
fore the last ballot had been dropped
into the box by the waiting voters and
the counting of the ballots started lat
er than at any election ever held in
Kenosha.
Crowd Polls at Zero Hour.
AS the time for the closing of the
polls approached the precinct voting
places in practically every ward of
the city were crowded with people.
Every bit of available space was TAX
en- up by people waiting to vote. At
the Third ward when eight O'Clock
came the line of people waiting to
vote extended all the way from the
engine house to Grover street, but po-
lice officers kept the men and women
in line and they waited a. full hour
and every one of them voted. One
woman with a baby in her arms was
near the end of the line but she wait
ed it out and cast her ballot. Her
husband was just little ahead of her
in the line and he came back and held
baby while mamma" voted. The
family was hundred per cent in par
ticipation in the election. This Third
ward led the city in the number of
votes cast with a total of 1910.
Turn Voters Away.
At the polls of the Second ward at
the Durkee school two score of vot-
ers were unable to cast ballots. When
/ eight o'clock came all the voters that
could be squeezed into the voting place
were admitted and then the police of
| fcers closed the doors, leaving the
remainder of them-more than sixty
out with the right of suffrage denied
them. eve told them to come in,''
said the officer, "but they couldn't get
in and the, law says that the polling
place closes at eight o'clock. In or
der to give the full measure of this
time we kept the doors open until FIVE
minutes after eight"
The voters who had found it nm
able for them to get iato the polling
place went away grumbling, but the
one best bet IS that they will vote
| early on that November day when the
president is elected.
Vote Largely Republican.
If the vote at the primary is to be
taken as an indication Kenosha is
going to be one of the banner Repub-
lican cities at the general election,
Fully seventy-fve per cent of the vote
cast was cast for the Republican can
didates. In some wards which had re-
turned a Democratic majority of two
| hundred six months ago, less than this
| number of votes were cast for the
Democratic candidates. The examin-
alton of the vote cast in the various
wards drives home the need of re-
districting of the city and redistrict-
ting at once The woman vote was very
heavy in the south wards of the city
but in the north wards it was only a
minor feature. Here is the vote cast
! in the various wards.