Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-08-30
MARK YOUR BALLOTS
For the Republican Nominees, and
So Show Your Disapproval of
Trust-EOsterers.

Trust-F0sterers.
The southern poet-laureate these days
branches off into prose-poetry some
thing like the following: ooh, the
cotton fields are lookin' white, the
| nights are CROWN cool; AM the candi-
dates are circlin' round on their old
Confederate mewl. Thar'll be cuttin'
at the primaries am shootin at the
polls, The rival candidates will fill the
winner full of holes. Oh, the autumn
days are comm, they're the happiest
of the year, For the candidates are a
treatin' cause election day is near"
The idea is a happy one, and while it
will hardly serve to appropriately de-
scribe the feeling in staid old Vermont,
in all respects, it is pleasing to note
with what anxiety the voter there
waits for election day with its exciting
events.
Next Tuesday is the date of the gen.
eral elections in this state, and they
will be exciting enough to suit the aver
age resident. Exciting, inasmuch as
that day will see the largest Republic
can majority the party has ever rolled
up in the state. We predict that every
town in the state will show gain in
Republican votes, and in some cases
their majority will be so great as to
amount to an almost unanimous VOTE
In this town, however, the Democrats
are working quietly to keep up their
vote to the height attained two years
ago. Many of the party will vote the
Republican ticket this time just for
luck, and if they are given encourage
ment may be able to see the luck which
will surely follow the supremacy of the
party again in the national congress.
But the one thing that the Republi-
can committee have to work against is
) the fact that many of their party will
!, stay away from the polls, thinking
their vote will not be necessary To
those we have only to call to mind the
election of four years ago, when the
Democrats carried everything in this
J strongly Republican town. Every
, man who cares for the prosperity of the
state and nation should come to the
r polls next Tuesday and vote for every
f Republican candidate on the three bal.
> lots.
You have tried the Australian ballot
before, and know that it is just as sim
Il Il l.; hat 1ct
take reasonable care in marking it
Cards of instruction have been posted
: and will be found about the polling
places, SO that if you can read there is
) no necessity for your marking the bal
lots wrong. There will be three ballots
g for you to mark: One containing tn
state and county nominations, in
: which the different political parties are
arranged in columns. If you wish te
, vote the straight ticket, simply mark 6
cross in the square over the column
and the work is done. If you do this
it is not necessary to check every name
separately as you did two years ago
0 The ballot for justices of the peace is
similar and cross at the head of the
:, column votes the whole ticket The
ballot for representative has the nomi
: nations by all parties arranged in one
column, and you must simply mark {
cross at the right of the name for which
> you wish to vote. Under no circum
stances erase name on any ballot, fol
that ballot will be thrown out in count
. ing and your vote will not count. Il
you do not want to vote for man, lei
! his name alone. That is sufficient.
Again we urge every voter in the
town of Rockingham to come to the
, polls next Tuesday and vote the Re
q publican ticket. We mean every one
without regard to party. There are bal
e lots enough for all and plenty of room
1 in the ranks for all who are for nationa
prosperity and against the organization
I whose leaders are branded by their owl
, president for their "party perfidy ant
party dishonor." You want to join tn,
throng whose leaders are true to thei
: party, true to their country and true tt
themselves. That is the doctrine of tn,
Republican party, and doctrine thai
. is lived up to.
Republican Caucus.
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