The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-14
JolNr cIKoUlAR
Issued b. tho GsPabiisln aad Democrat
state Executive Committees.

Isauod b. the I,epGbiieIn and Democratic
state Executive Committees
The following Joint circular is being
sent out, with sample ballots, by the
Republican and Democratic state COM
mittees. 1t explains itself; /,
At a meeting Of the Republican and
Democratic State Executive Committees
of West Virginia, held at Wheeling, W..
Va, August 20, 1892, the following was
agreed to:
To te Board Of Ballot Commissioners IL eael Colaniy
Of Wei Virginia:
GENTLEMEN The undersigned re-
spectfully recommend that, in the
preparation and printing Of ballots, as
provided in the new election law, the
Democratic ticket be placed on the lett
hand side OF the ballot-sheet, the Pro-
hibition ticket next, the Peoples Party
ticket next, and the Republican ticket
next ton the right-hand side, rs the en-
closed ballot, which we recommend DO
followed generally. II there be other
tickets or nominees, that they be placed
between the Prohibition and Peoples
Party tickets. We also recommend that
the order in which the names Of the
candidates be printed, be the same rs
on the enclosed ballot.
1t is believed that the adoption OF
these recommendations will lessen tho
time OF as%certaining the result aud
tend to prevent mistakes.s
The law seems 10 make no provision
for the printing OF the names OF the
candidates for President and Vice
President on the ticket; but we earn
estly recommend that it DO done, aa on
the enclosed sample baliot-sheet.
CARD OF INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS.
Tho voter can procure ballots OF the
poll clerks only.
On entering the election room the
voter will give his name and residence
to one Of the poll clerks, who will give
him one ballot. On receipt OF the bal
lot the voter shall forthwith and with
out leaving the enclosed space, retire
alone TO ono of the booths or compart-
ments, and shall there prepare his bal
lot.
In the preparation OF his ballot, the
voter shall decide, first, which ticket,
whether the Republican, Democratic.
or other,( he will vote; and he will then
deiace all the other tickets on the bal
lot-sheet by drawing one or more lines,
with pen and ink, from tho top to the
bottom thereof, or across the heading
thereof. i.
A voter desiring to erase the name OF
any candidate from the ticket he in
tends to vote, or to vote for any other
candidate or person in his stead, may
strike the name printed from his ticket,
and write in the blank space immedi-
ately below the name stricken off the
name Of the person for whom he de.
sires to vote.
II the voter spoil, deface or mutilate
the ballot delivered to him, he may re
turn it to thepoll clerks and receive an
other in place thereof. He must not
destroy it.
He must vote the ballot he receives,
or return it to the poll clerks.
A voter cannot remain in the booth
or compartment longer than (5) min
utes.
II a voter for lack Of education, or by
reason of his physical disability, is I'M
able to prepare his ballot, and for that
reason requires tho assistance Of the
ballot clerks, both OF them must go
with him,to the voting booth, and n
OF them, in the presence OF the other,
and out Of sight and hearing Of all 9TH
ers, must prepare his ballot Tor him as
no 1.-THE voter directs it to be done.
And,if the voter requests it to be done,
the ballot must be read over to him as
so prepared after it is done; or. the
voter may require the poll clerks 10
show him the relative position OF the
names OF the candidates on the ballot,
and then retire to the voting booth and
prepare his ballot.
No voter shall hold conversation or
communication with any other person
than the poll clerks or commissioners OF
election while in the election room.
When the voter has prepared his
ballot, he shall vote forthwith and be.
fore leaving the polling place. He shall
give his name, and present his ballot to
one OF the commissioners OF election.
When he has voted he shall retire inn
mediately from the election room, and
beyond the sixty feet limit thereof.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. NJ. o. DAWSON,
Chairman OF the Republican State Exc
cutive Committee.
W. T.. CmLroN,
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