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Show IChatter Box i Dear Suzy, As of Wednesday morning there gathered in groups about the streets of Delta than at any other time since 1928. In fact it was not known that there were so many Republicans left in these parts. Most people thought that they had i gone the way of the quimps and the only ones left took for their holes, just as the few remaining quimps do now. But for some strange reason a small group of Rpublicans, aided by a large group of Democrats, cleaned tip the county election like a hungry boy at a picnic. This put the county on the Republican Re-publican side solidly and without deviation, for the first time in so many years that only the old timers can remember such a thing ever happening. There were some anxious moments mom-ents among the candidates as the results started rolling In, but as time went on the Republican tide grew stronger and they breathed a little easier. There were some anxious moments mom-ents at Deseret when A. T. (I Vote Straight) Black went in to vote. He was given a ballot and retired to the booth to put in just one X under the eagle, as he had always been taught to do, and as he has always done from habit of many times in a voting booth. As he folded his ballot he noticed that over tinder the rooster in the little cirle there there was already an X. Mr. Black is at a loss to understand under-stand why he happened to look at the Democratic side, as it was the first 4ime he had ever done so, and great was his horror when he saw that well-placed X. Things happened quite fast at this point. Mr. Black exploded from thA honth with fire in his eves. and his talk was loud and strong, aimed at the judges, counters, onlookers on-lookers and whoever happened to be within shouting distance of the polling place. Mr. Black said, "I have alvfays been taught that the only way to keep a ballot straight and be sure to get it counted is to put just the one mark under the eagle. Now some ninny has messed it all up and put an R under that rooster. What will St. Peter say to me when he confronts me with that record of his which shows I ever had a ballot with an X under the rooster? The judges, clerks and those in charge of the polls had little to say. For one thing they were at a loss to explain the X already on the ballot, and too, Mr. Black gave them little time for talking as he had the floor and was determined de-termined to hold onto it. They blaimed the X on the open fall this year, the printers of the ballots, bal-lots, the deer hunt, the high price of seed, and on a bunch of kids they had let play with the ballots. But this did little to appease Mr. Black. Somewhat later, as tempers cooled, Mr. Black was given a nice new clean ballot and he put his X in his usual spot, somewhat mollified, but muttering that next time he voted -he was going to take some scissors in to booth and cut away everything but the eagle and put that in the ballot box so that no one could cross him up. Deseret was the last precinct to report the voting, which was probably prob-ably caused by this unforeseen event. Arthur Godfrey on his early morn program said, "Interviewing Dewey on his race for the governorship of New York, where Mr. Dewey was far ahead in the race, Dewey had said, 'it may be possible for Truman Tru-man to win and I am not claiming victory.' Said one of the reporters, 'why Mr. Truman isn't even in it.' And Dewey repleid, 'that's what you told me two years ago.' " |
