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Show R0SEVELT Flashlight Is Taken As He Casts His Ballot " Oyster Hay, N Y., Nov. 5. Colonel Rqoaevelt arrived at the polling place in a lire truck house at 12:05 o'clock this afternoon and a few minutes later lat-er had cast his ballot. Seven neighbors accompauied him and he waited 20 minutes until each of them had voted before returning to Sagamore hill. While in the polling place a flashlight flash-light was taken as Colonel Roosevelt 1 dropped his ballot in the box and the I crowd cheered. A crowd of villagers waited for an hour In front of the truck house for Colonel Roosevelt. As the automobile rounded a corner cor-ner the people set in a choer. The colonel doffed his brown army hat which he wears when he Is at "home and waved an acknowledgment. With him were James A Moss, his butler: Ralph Amos, another house servant, and Charles Lee, the coachman, all negroes, Arthur Murrian, his chauffeur, chauf-feur, and Howard Browne, William Bailey and William Carle, farm hands. The two detectives guarding Colonci Roosevelt completed the party. "Theodore Rooscveit, ballot No 2G5," called out the clerk as the colonel col-onel entered the booth. He remained tllOre fnr five mlnnfoc Minn n , -- ..... .....-,.,, i..x,.t .lktlU Will and deposited his ballot in the box. Then he went outside and sat In his motor car. He waited for a quarter of an hour until others from Sagamore Saga-more hill had all voted. "I am having a quiet day." said the colonel. "This afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt Roose-velt and I are going to take a walk," Thc colonel said that he would go to his editorial olflce in New York on Thursday or Friday. "I think I cinched Senator Root last night," said Colonel Roosevelt, referring to his attack on the senator, and John G Milburn, Louis Marshall and William D. Guthrie New York lawyer, in his speech in Ovster Bav last night. "I'm not through with these four gentlemen either, whatever the result of the election may be. They should have made their statement about me 30 days ago. If they had done so I would have hammercl them from the ring." |