FORGOT TO OPEN THE POLLS.
Commissioners Were Slow About
Sending Books to 2430 Jackson.
"Wonder what's the matter, aren't we going to vote today?"
"It don't look like it I have been waiting here for an hour or more and no one that looked like a judge or clerk has put in an appearance yet."
"It's a scheme to get ahead of Cary, that's all there is to it."
Such were the remarks which were heard in the large crowd of Republican voters of the Thirteenth ward, which was forced to wait two hours for the polls to open at 2430 Jackson avenue yesterday afternoon. By 1 o'clock, the time scheduled for the opening of the polls throughout the wards which were holding primaries, fifty or sixty men had assembled in front of 2430 Jackson avenue, to cast their votes, but no one had appeared to take charge.
At 2 o'clock, nothing having been done about opening the polls, many of those who came early went away. A messenger was sent after Cary and that candidate hurried to the scene of non-action. He called up the election commissioner's office and was told that no one had called for the ballot box or the necessary papers. A messenger was sent to the office forthwith returning within an hour with the long waited for judge, clerks and challengers. J. D. Carter was sworn in as judge.
