The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-06

II Is an Ill wind, according to the prorerb,
which blows good to none, and there never
was a reform law yet which did not bring
grst to mill from some unexpected
source. Tho two Industries most certainly
TO DO benefited by the new electoral law are
those presided over by the printers and by
the notaries public, respectively.
Section IS Of the new law provides that in
the county OF New York the Police Commits
sloners shall provide for each election dis
trict In the county, 200 ballots Of each kind
for every fifty Tor fraction Of fifty voters
registered at tho last preceding election in
the district" That is, for each voter, four
Tickets OF each kind are to be furnished: tour
complete official Tammany Hall tickets four
Republican. four County Democracy, four
Socialist. four Temperance, four Labor, and
80 on. One OF these tickets the voter can
use; the other three are to be printed and
kept on hand for any contingency which
may arise from accident or design
1t ia course. not yet clear how many
opposing tickets will be In the field here
at Gha next election; but the most conserva-
tive estimate Is that there will DO twenty or
ganfRat1onS and factions. ranging from the
JedeRDonian Democrats OF the east side,
with D multitude OF votes and scarcity
ofp1etenslons. to the City Reform Club of
Lbarty street, with scarcity OF votes and
multiplicity OF pretensiOns. The new law
would not be worth much unless the Woman
6uhfagists should exercise their right to
participate by nominating a straight-out
anti-masculine ticket; and since 1t costs
nothing to nominate q ticket, there will bo
no shortage Of nominations from other
quarters, and the estimate Of twenty in
the field ia, therefore, not extravagant. AS
each voter Is to have four complete sets OF
each ticket printed by the State for his
special benefit; az khNre will be twenty diff
erent tickets In the nNld; as tho law fixes 800
as the voting number at a polling place, and
as the Police Commissioners have about
settled upon 1850 as the number of election
districts, the number OF ballots which the
State will have to print for this city under
the new law is easily ascertained:
Number of election disrictL 1850
Three hundred voters III each, 300
Making Observation-Disclosures. 4o5OOo
Four sets Of tickets to each Veterinarians.
Making $40 900
twenty tickets In nomination. ................. 20
81 400 600
Thirty-two million tickets, therefore, will
have to be printed this year and paid for out
OF the cty's treasury The law prescribes
(sectIon ~ the blgness Of the ballot. 1t ls to
be six inches wide and three-eighths Of an
inch long for the name Of each office. and a
similar space for the name Of each candi-
date" At the election OF November next every
citizen of this town will vote for at least
fourteen candidates. Each ballot, therefore,
exclusive OF the stub. will be ten inches
and half long. Tho stub Is. by the
terms Of the law, to take an inch, so that
each ballot will be about q foot In length.
Thrty-two million feet is 100000 yards;
100000 yards Is, in a direct line, 1000
miles, as far as from New York to San
Francisco and back. and something over.
The harvest before the printers OF this town,
In other words, is an order for say 1000
acres OF official tickets to be paid for by the
city, This Is not the full measure OF their
good fortune. In addition to tho 80 600, 900
Official tickets there are to be blanket
pastors" to be paid for by the political par
Ties, and the separate pastors, TO be- paid for
by the candidates. Several millions OF each
sort will be necessary.
But joyous as the printers NAV be as
they study this brilliant outlook, the whole
OF the golden shower is not for them. An
other Industry, somewhat languIshinR Of
late, which the new law will boom, is that of
tho notary public. When political party
has made nomination it must, under the
law, be duly certified and signed by the
Chairman and secretary of tho convention ;
MA each OF them must make oath before
M officer qualified TO administer the same"
thai their certificate is correct one The
fniAe rule applies to every convention. Each
l"lllcHl organization In this city this yea1
VIII have to hold sIXty-one conventions IN
order to set up complete ticket. Tho six
regular parties holding that number, anu
eHch having two officers to be sworn con
corning tho proceedings OF each, there viii
be '59 acknowledgements TO be taken before
hotarles for such conventions, to say nothing
ol tho candidates who decline nomination
ana who must havo their destinations dulN
acknowledged and Httcsted. This, however
J. put the opening gun of the notary bust
ness Tor besides the six regular parties al
ready organized and now in the field, there
VIII be some fifteen other organizations u
nominate "a wall Vlanaka . lt... -