The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-25

las under the arms of tall intellect
ual warts, spitted by the canes of
those who get ahead of the multi
tude and back up, with their sticks
aimed at the umbilcus of IL long
suffering people; neglected by the
un ."seen" waiter, skun by the un-
"seen" barber, robbed by the hack
man, Drained by the policeman,
blown up by the steam heating
company, skinned by the papers,
stank to death by the gas leak and
the peach orchard sewer system,
stung to death by remorse, fricas-
seed to death by nude electric
wire, crushed by the crowds, nau-
seated by the nuisances, killed by
the cars, disfigured by truck-dri-
vers, crazed by commerce, shot by
mistake, gnawed by mad dogs,
logged by detectives, blackmailed
by old acquaintances, accosted by
unknown ladies late at night who
ought to be far away in some quiet
dell wedding onions instead of
going about in thickly settled
community after eating them;
watched by watchmen, butchers
burgled by burglars, fugled by fug-
lers forever, than live in any other
city they know of at half the ex-
pense and twice the salary.
You will ask me why is this, and
l will leave it to Echo, who will be
pleased to attend to you in a few
moments.
Now, regarding the ballot.
This term is French, coming
from the word ballote. Some think
that the ballot, or the word ballot,
at least, came from ballet, but such,
it seems to me, could not have been
the case, especially the secret bal
lot.
The ancient Greeks selected their
magistrates or decided political
questions by secret vote, for which
purpose they used different colored
beans. AT one time they used
only the bean pole. Hence the
term, from the Greek, "going to
the polls" 1t was one of the most
interesting and thrilling sights we
are told, to see the Greeks on cleo
tion day selecting his ballot from
the bean bag before casting it.
In the selection of candidates GER
tain colored beans were chosen by
the primaries to correspond with
the candidates they were to repre-
sent. Sometimes a packed primary
would decide on style of bean to
be cast for an unpopular candidate,
knowing that the last quart of that
brand had been eaten at breakfast
the previous Sunday. Had that
happened here a style of vulcanized
rubber bean of the same general
appearance would have been made
in the night. The Greek origin of
Boston is established by the ballot,
1 think.
The Romans first monkeyed with
the divine right of suffrage in the
year 139 B. c., using wooden label
lac or wicker box. These were
marked U. r. (uti rogas) or A Gan
tiquo) in the case of proposed law,
and l.. Qibro) or d. (damno) in the
case of public trial. The Roman
custom of using the word damno
upon casting the ballot has given
rise to the custom by which poll
tics and profanity are still seen so
often going hand-in-hand down to
a drunkard's grave, to see if he is
in it, and if not, with the idea of
utilizing it themselves.
AT the present time voting is done
in Great Britain good deal the
same as it will be done in this State
hereafter.
Each voter has chance to go
and commune with himself while
thinking who he will vote for. For
this purpose he has little booth,
to which he can secretly retire
along with his numbered or stamp
ed ballot, and unless his secret
thoughts are highly vociferous they
cannot be heard out side the booth,
or If heard, they will be so indis-
tinct that the law is really complied
with in spirit at least.
Australia has good method,
which is called the Kangaroo meth
cd, and has worked so well that
canvassing for votes has practically
disappeared and sh eep-stealing Ia
on the decrease. il man who will
sell his vote will also lie, or leave
his honor in the Grand Central de-
pot; therefore, you can never feel
sure of vote unless after buying
you see that it is deposited, count