The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-21
Few Wards Show Ballots in
Usual Number; Negroes
Little Interested.
$4,000 TOTAL is SEEN
Campaign Leaders Predict
New Form Adoption by
Large Majority.

Large Majority.
Noon reports upon total ballots
cast in all parts of the city in to-
days city manager election indi-
Gated that a comparatively light
vote will be counted after polls close
at p. m.
Manager leaders were confident
of victory, basing their predirtions
upon the absence of organized 4SME(
position and the, fact that the %EB
normal voting was in wards re-
garded as their strongholds.
Frank S. Gates, city manager
campaign chairman, this afternoon
predicted q total vote of 10000 out
Of a normal city total of about
100000. Gates believed 10000 votes
would be cast for the manager plan.
Predicts $4,000 Votes
Claude H. Anderson, manager
campaign executive secretary, be-
lieved $4,000 votes would be cast and
the manager form would get 10000
OF them.
Others at manager headquarters
did not believe the total vote would
run much beyond $4,000.
A survey indicated that the voting
is normal in the First, Second,
Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, and
Ninth wards. and very light in the
Fifth, Sixth, Tenth. Eleventh,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth, with eXcep-
ton of few scattered precincts,
notably in the Fourteenth.
Few Negroes Voting
The voting places in the Negro
Fifth and Sixth wards were practi-
cally deserted.
Women we're taking a very active
part throughout the north side and
in Irvington, where the voting was
heaviest.
Hundreds Of telephone calls to
city manager headquarters, The
Times, and other information CEN
ters, asking for detailed instruc-
tions upon where and how to vote,
indicated that many persons not in
the habit of going to the polls were
coming out.
This stirred manager leaders to
greater hope of an overwhelming
victory.
Little Delay in Voting
The voting proceeded without
trouble, there being none of the
usual delays due to voting machine
mishapS, since small, simple ballots
are used.
The usual milling Of minor poll
ticians around the polls was missed.
The professionals, however, we're not
entire quiescent. In some precincts
blue dodgers, purporting to be
signed "a native born American and
Hoosier," arguing that those who
voted for the city manager would
be signing away their rights as
American citizens" were placed on
front porches during the night.
An automobile bearing license No.
520-916 was going about bearing a
supply of white dodgers.
Warning Dodgers Scattered
These dodgers were headed: "Be
Careful. Judge Hay Points to Evils
of City Manager Plan Law"
There follows brief quotation
from the decision of Judge Hay re-
fusing to stop the manager election
by injunction. The quotation, with
out explanatory matter which Judge
Hay also expressed with it, would
lead to the belief that Hay judically
was denouncing the manager plan.
Manager leaders took little cogni-
zance Of these tricks. Executive
Secretary Claude Anderson dis
missed incidents with the stater
ment:
"This is JUS the old dodge Of an
element which, knowing it is over
whelmingly defeated, resorts to false
propaganda at the last moment, in
the hope it is too late for refuta-
ton"
JOU
Election commissioners we're pre-
pared to straighten out any con-
fusion that might arise, he said. Any
complaints should be made to the
commissioners at their Office at po-
lice headquarters, Main 2780, Boyce
said
City Clerk Boyce ordered a deputy
election commissioner to stop cir
culation of anti-manager literature
within fifty feet of the polls at the
Sixth precinct, Sixth ward, w. New
York st. and Senate Ave.
In vivid contrast to its usual elec-
ton day activities, Republican coun-
ty and city headquarters in the X.
OF P. building was closed. No one
was in the Office.
sCustomarily, on election day, the
rooms are thronged and dozens Of
motorcycle riders pass in and out
bringing hourly reports Of the num-
Der of votes cast to George v. CONN
county and city boss.
Negroes Apathetic
Fifth ward figures on the total
vote at II a. m. showed the apathy
In Negro y precints. Fora instance.
r1.--A $4,000 "a - - avs i.