St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-23
WILL USE SPLIT STICKERS.
Caledonia County Republicans Decide
to Take this Course in Voting.

to Take this Course in Voting.
Tue meeting of the county COM
mittee and of the town committees
of this county was held in the Town
Hall Tuesday morning and was
largely attended. The state COM
mittee was we'll represented by it's
chairman, Col. Olin Merrill OF Enos-
burg F alls, and the treasurer, P. K.
Gleed of Morrisville.
Judge Gleason Of Lyndonville was
chosen chairman and Elmore T. Ide
OF ST. Johnsbury clerk.
Lawyer Gleed was first called on
and he said the ballot law was
directory and that no such dilemma
was ever contemplated as this. He
thought there was no possible doubt
but what stickers could be legally
used
Chairman Merrill of the state COM
mittee said he was no lawyer, but
all the legal talent he had consulted
ii the state had agreed with Mr..
Gleed.
Mr. Gleed then explained at length
the difference between a blanket
sticker and a split sticker. He
thought there was no legal objection
to the former, but that it would be
better to use the split sticker.
Judge Smith said it was the COM
mon sense view that If the voter takes
| the man of his choice he is voting
legally when he pastes his name on
! the ballot. He suggested that the
/ county committee prepare a sheet
/ sticker with cuts on the same be-
| tween the candida tes' names. The
voter would take this sticker and
paste the names on the ticket that he
wanted to vote for.
Harry Blodgett agreed with Mr..
Gleed that there was no doubt but
what sticker could be legally used.
George P. Blair said it was the in
tention OF the county committee to
send to each republican voter in the
county a letter of instructions show
ing just how the sticker should be
used.
the meeting would decide to use the
blanket sticker. He then raised
the important point in regard to
putting a cross after each name on
the ticket, rather than voting the
official ticket by putting a cross in
the square at the top of the ballot.
The lawyers decided that it would
be the safest way to put a cross after
every name on the ballot that the
voter wished to vote for.
W. H. Taylor of Hard wick thought
it would open the door to a legal
contest if a blanket sticker was
used and hoped that Judge Smiths S
suggestions would be adopted by
the meeting.
Henry c. Bates Of this place favor
ed writing in the names instead of
the use Of stickers.
Harry BlOdgett then read a su-
preme court decision from another
state in which the court had decided
that the names could be inserted in
the ballot by the use of stickers and
that such a course was legal.
At the afternoon session it was
voted to use split sticker in every
l
write the names in. 1t was also vot-
ed to advise the republican citizen to
check each name on the ballot that
he wanted to vote for.
After another address by Col. Mer-
rill on the duty of full republican
/ vote from this county the meeting
adjourned.
The county committee will distri-
butte next week split stickers and full
instructions as to the use ofthe same.
There is nothing complicated about
voting them and the best legal tai
ent in the state have decided that a
ballot so prepared will be legal. If
any one prefers to write the names
in, of course that is perfectly legal.
We have too much confidence in the
intelligence of the republicans of this
county to believe that they cannot
use stickers in the proper manner and
place them on the ticket in such a
way that they will be counted. But
! above all they must remember that
they must place a cross alter the
name, whether they write it in oruse
sticker. And the safest way is to
check every name on the ballot that
one wishes to vote for rather, than
place cross in the square at the top
OF the ticket.
| A FIRE ALARM.
The alarm from box 73 on Mon