, 1890-10-19
Highest of all in Leavening Powell. s. Govt Report, Aug. III 1880
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE


iron ballet, hut such, it seems to me,
could not have been the case, especially
the secret ballot.
magistrates or decided political questions
used different colored beaus. At one
time they used only the pole beans.
Hence the term. from the Greek. going
to the poll-. 1t was one ni the most
interesting and thrilling sights. we are
told, to see the Greek on election day
selecting his ballot before casting it.
In the selection of candidates certain
,olored beans were chosen by the prima-
ries TO correspond with the candidates they
were to represent. Sometimes a packed
primary would decide on a style OF bean
to be east for an unpopular candidate.
knowing that the last quart Of that brand
OF bean had been eaten at breakfast the
previous Sunday. Had that happened
here a style OF vulcanizcd rubber bean OF
the same general appearance would have
been made in the night. The Greek
origin Of Boston is establish by the history
Of the ballot. ! think.
At Athens the diclst-whatever that
may be-uscd in giving their verdicts
balls Of stone called psephi. or of metal
called sponduli, whence comes the term
spondulix or money. which has also been
associated more or less with the ballot
throughout the history OF the world
Those pierced in the center or black in
oolor gignifed condemnation. and though
this. OF course, was hardly political ballot
ing it room led to it.
Petalism, which was so popular 10 syria
cuse at an early daY. a term which has
raVIsr. .. a.. v-kos.var 18th rnsaspuacan
was a system of voting by words written
upon the leaves of the olive. BY using
the PLAIN leaf the voter slgnified Il give
you leave but by making certain other
Greek characters on the ballot it meant
Leave the office alone. Or it might be
marked so as to mean We heleave not in
you.
The Romans first ~mOnkeyed with the
divine right Of suffrage 10 the year l39 Il.
g.. using wooden tabellp placed in the
c;sia-a sort of basket or wicker box.
These we're marked L. II (uti rUgas) or
A. (antiquo) in the case OF a proposed
law, and L. (libro) or ID. (damno) in the
case OF n public trial. The Roman custom
Of using the word damno upon casting the
ballot has given rise to the custom by
which polotics and profanity are still seen
so often going hand in hand down 20 a
drunkard's grave, to see IL he is in it,
and If not, with the idea of utilizing It
themselves.
| have an idea that the Australian bal
lot was also used in Rome at least a cen
tury before the birth of Christ. for il is a
fact that at that period the wooden tables
used as ballots contained the names of
both the candidates, and had puncta or
holes opposite the name used or voted
for.
In Great Britain the ballot was first
used in 1862 by the Scots parliament in
proceedings in the "Bllleting act, which
was a measure for ostracising and other
wise d~ishgurng a lew political opponents.
Each member of parliament wrote in n
disguised hand on a piece Of paper the
names OF twelve people whom he didn'
like and whom he would be glad TO os,ra-
else, or at least help hold while some one
else did il.
These names we're put in a bag, which
was at once sealed up ana sent to the ex
ohequer chamber. The king r%epudiated
this act, however, in 1905. AT the pres
ent time voting is done in Great Britain a
good deal as il will be done in this state
hereafter. A cross is made after the name
of the candidate who is voted for, the
names being in alphabetical order on the
ballot. Each voter has a chance TO go
aud con. muue with himself while think
ing who he will vote for, For this pur
pose he has a little booth. to which he
can secretly retire along with his mum
bered or stamped ball and unless his
thoughts arc highly yoclferous they can
not be heard outside the booth, or. II
heard, they will be so indistinct that the
law ID really complied with in the spirit at
least.
Australia has a good method, which is
called the Kangaroo method, and has
worked 80 well that canvassing for votes
has practically disappeared there, and
sheep stealing is on the decrease. You
are of course familiar with this method
more or less. Thorndyke, and so | need
not go into detail, but the principle is
there as well as here, that even II YOU
buy a voter YOU can never feel su re that
he will not be replevied by some one else.
A man who will sell his vote will also lie.
or leave his honor in the Grand Central
depot: therefore YOU can never feel sure