The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-09-05
GREATER VOTE IS
BEING CAST TODAY
Primary Election Day Passing OF
Quietly Here; Results Should
Be Forecasted at Early
Hour This Evening


Primary election day is passing
away quietly in Winnemucca today,
with no particular activity to mark
it as different from other week days.
Here and there interested and anx-
ious candidates who have contests
are seen to be buttonholing voters,
but ir quiet manner. Drunken
ness and free drinks seem to be abb
sent altogether, and this may per-
haps make the day seem different
from election days of preceding
years. Rounders, gamblers and boot
leggers, as well as others having
monetary interest in the continual
ton of vice in this city, are earn
etsly at work, driving their automo-
biles about the streets to see that
every vote is cast that they are as
sured will be marked fright" Even
these have little interest in today's
election and their activities seem
slight in comparison to former
years. This may be, however, be-
cause the number of such men and
women has been largely cut down
in Winnemucca during the last year
or SO. There are still large num-
ber in these classes residing here,
but all are not engaged in election
eering today perhaps for the reason
that there are not more than one or
two candidates whose success at the
polls today could have a bearing on
their "business" betterment. 1t is
said by competent observers this
afternoon that voters who are gen.
orally careless about voting at pri-
mary elections are turning out in
good numbers, which bodies no good
for the classes formerly mentioned
and the success of their candidates.
There are just an even thousand
voters registered in Winnemucca
for the primary election-450 in
Winnemucca precinct and $50 in
West Winnemucca precinct--and q
total of 1924 names are on the Off
cial registration list in Humboldt
county as eligible to vote at the pri-
mary. This number will be in
creased by the time the general
election rolls around.
At 11:15 o'clock this morning
there had been 81 votes cast in
West Winnemucca precinct and 65
votes cast in Winnemucca precinct
At 4. o'clock this afternoon 223
voters had registered their choices
in Winnemucca precinct and 254
had voted in West Winnemucca. As
the heavy voting is done during the
last hour or so before the polls
close at 6 o'clock, it is probable
that the total vote cast here will
amount to 75 per cent of the total
registration, where it had been esti-
mated more than so per cent would
be cast. This shows a keener in
terest in the election than is usual
only SO per cent of the registered
voters having voted in the Califor-
mia primary election few days ago,
The contests before the voters to-
day have heretofore been carefully
covered in these columns, so it is
not deemed necessary to go into
state and national phases of the
election. Interest here centers in
county contests in the Democratic
primary, there being no contests in
the Republican ranks. First in i'm
portance, perhaps, comes the con-
test between Mrs. Cora Hoenstine
incumbent treasurer, and Mrs.
Georgia Rutherford, because which
ever emerges victorious today will
be the next treasurer of this county
Next is the contest between J. w.
Bell, incumbent commissioner, and
A. F. Treusdale, but in this in
stance whoever wins will have ia
face a whole flock of candidates for
the same office at the general elec-
ton. District Attorney L. G. Will
son, incumbent, has pitted against
him Harry Warren, and whichever
wins TODAY will he the district at.