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Show Tha Japanese at ths rolls. Not long- ago Japan held ila lirst parliamentary par-liamentary election, and tho manner in which the balloting was conducted created cre-ated much favorable, comment and ud-nhration ud-nhration among tha foreign residents of Tokio, who nppnrnnMy expected that to ee Japanese voting would be equal to n circus. Ta this they were disiiiMiintol. There wens at tho poll none of thoso pHnreHfjiudy comical scenes that had been looked for. Everything wan practical prac-tical and business liko. Tho qnulilh-il electors cams to tho polls, deposited their bttUota and wont away. There was about the samo sort of cloctioneer-ing cloctioneer-ing that one iwy in tho United Hiates. minus the purchasing of votes that is reputed to prevail in some district. Tho polling places wore open from 7 in the morning to 8 at night. Then the ballot bal-lot boxes were locked up and taken away to be opened and tho votes cuuntwl at leisure the next day. Thus was accomplished accom-plished with signal U''s one, of the most remarkablo experiments iu all tho history of government. |