The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-02
GIVE US A PURE BALLOT
And Then if the Democrats are Beaten
They win be Content.
Covington, Dec. "a. 1855.

anu 1nen II the democrats ure tSeaJen
They VIII be Content
To THE EDIToR-Sr: We, as democrats
in this part of the state, feel the stigma and
disgrace that have befallen our state, owing to
the corrupt use of money at the recent cleo
ton. This was what we feared before the
election took place. This was the only hope
of the republican party, for it had no living
issues to bring before the laborlng masses, and
the leaders well knew defeat was sure if money
did not win. What Doodle did the people
well know by this time. We have lost our
noble Cleveland, one of the grandest men that
ever sat in the presidential chair. He was
defeated by the of money alone. Now in
the future We as democrats, want an honest
ballot aHd with the issues the democratic
party will bring before the people and with
an honest ballot, II we are defeated, we will
say Amen" to 1t. Now we are waiting for
our legislature TO pass law that will secure
an honest ballot, or as nearly honest as 1t can
be made. This law should punish the vote
buyer severely and let the seller go free. The
voting-place should be something like this, and
it would not cost much to build, as it could be
made out OF rough or fine material. 1t would
be composed OF four rooms and an ante from
the street-say twenty feet-so the outsiders
can't get closer to the one that goes in TO vote
than that
should be small, with no chairs or stove; the
second room large enough TO accommodate one
man for each party that has candidate'in the
field, and they TO have the tickets to be voted
by the people; no peddling of tickets to be done
by anybody; the tickets 10 be printed by the
state, and each party TO have its presidential
aud vice-presidentIal nominees on its tickets;
the wall between the voter and tickets to be
solid, and each party that has the tickets to
have small slide in the WALL so when the voter
wants one of his kind of tickets, all he has TO
do Is to push on mis- slide and he can get
ticket without being seen. The ticket to be
stamped before it goes TO the voter. Life-siZe
photographs of the president and vice-presi-
dent 10 be hung on the wall over the ticket
slide of each party in the voters room. If
man can't read he can recognize the candidate
he wants TO vote for. Ii man wants his ticket
scratched and can't read, he can have a trusted
friend TO write on a slip of paper the names he
wants scratched, and when he goes in 10 vote
he can put il in the slide that has the ticket he
wants to vote for, aud this man can take the
slip and scratch his ticket to correspond, and
before he slides the ticket TO the voter he is 10
show the slip and ticket TO the other parties.
Room three is to be where the voter casts his
ballot and can be small. The fourth room the
board will occupy. There should be one man
from each party at the entrance door, so if
there should be any man that would have to
swear in his vote two of them could go with the
parties before the board and two could remain
at the door, All of these parties 10 be sworn
according to law. r. VI.
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