Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-24

TOP OF THE BALLOT, but place cross In
the square to the left of the name of
every candidate you wish to vote for, no
matter on which ticket his name appears.
Suppose you wish to vote all the Repub-
tcan ticket, except that you propose to
vote for Black instead of Wiilets for con-
gresham at large, Raymond instead of
Cobb for trustee of the Illinois Univer-
sity, and McNeely instead OF Lyon for
presidential elector. You place a cross
opposite the name of every Republican
candidate you propose to vote for, being
careful not to miss any of the presiden-
tial electors; then place a cross opposite
the name Of each Democratic candidate
you propose to vote for. viz: Black,
Raymond and McNeely.
FOURTH METHOD.
Voting the straight ticket with the ex-
ception of one or more candidates whose
opponents you do not want to vote for
That is, not voting for any of the candi-
dates running for one or more of the
offices. For instance, suppose you pro-
pose to vote the straight Democratic
ticket with the exception of the candi-
date for treasurer. The simplest way to
do this is to make a cross in the Demo-
cratic circle, and then make cross es
opposite the names of both the Repub-
lican and Prohibition candidates for
treasurer You have voted for two
candidates for treasurer. and under the
law your vote for the candidate for that
Office will not be counted. while the
cross in the circle at the head of the
ticket carries the remainder of the
Democratic candidates.
ANOTHER METHOD.
The law provides another method Of
voting in addition to those given. but
have not included it among the others
from the fact that there is some doubt
as to its application. Section % of the
election law SAYS: The voter shall pre-
pare his ballot by =, or by writing
in the name of the candidate of his
choice in blank space on said ticket,
making a cross opposite thereto" 1t
would appear from this reading that the
voter may vote for any person whomso-
ever for any office by writing his name
in blank space on the ballot and plac-
ing cross opposite thereto, but it 10
claimed by good lawyers that the word
candidate as used here means some one
regularly nominated by convention or
petition, as provided for by law, and
that the votes cast for persons other
than regularly nominated candidates
should not be counted.
am of the opinion that the courts
will decide that a man cannot he SOM
PEELED to vote for the nominee of some
political party and that name written
in the proper place with a cross opposite
thereto should be counted. but until the
courts so decide il is hazardous to vote
after this method. Tie legislature in
king this provision of the law may
things in mind: Suppose the Prohibition
party failed to nominate a candidate for
state senator, this would leave a blank
space on the ticket to be filled by the
voters from among the candidates NOM
| mated by the other parties. This is the
| blank space referred to and these are
| the candidates referred to in the law.
No other blank space is provided by law
| in the printing of the ballots and the
word candidate wherever used refers to
| one regularly nominated by convention
| or petition.
VOTING FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.
If YOU wish to vote for members Of
| the legislature so as to give one of them
more or less votes than indicated by the
printed ticket, you proceed as follows:
| If your party has nominated two candi-
dates, and you wish to give one of them
| two votes and the other one VOTE
| YOU place a cross in the circle at the
| head of your ballot if voting straight,
| and then make the figures l and 2 to the
! right of the legislative candidate re-
| spectively, substituting these figures for
| the figures printed on the ticket, if any
| he so printed.
If your party has nominated two can
| didates and you desire to give all three
| of your votes to one of them, you make
| no cross in the circle, but put a cross in
! the square to the left of each name on
your ticket, except the candidate for
| whom you do not wish to vote; then to
! the right of the name of the legislative
| candidate you wish to vote for write the
! figure 8, erasing the figures 1-2, if they
| be there.
If you wish to give one or more of
| your votes TO a candidate or representa-
| tive on another ticket, make no cross in
| the circle at the head of your ticket. but
place cross opposite the name of every
] candidate you wish to vote for, and in
dictate the number of votes you desire to