Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-10-24
PASTE 1T IN YOUR HAT.
All of the Possible Questions
About Voting Answered in
Bunch for Reference.

Secretary of State Taylor has sent
the following important suggestions
to Judges of elections throughout
the state for their guidance at the
coming election:
The election for 1895, occurs No
vember 5th. A person otherwise
qualified to vote who becomes 21
years of age on the 9Th (that is whose
birthday is the 6th) of November, is
entitled to vote at the election held
on the 5th.
A person who came into the State
of Ohio with the intention of remain
ing and becoming a citizen, on the
9th day of November, 1894 (or prior, }
is entitled to vote on the 9Th, pro-
vided he is otherwise qualified.
A person who came into the coun-
ty not later than the 9th of October,
1895, is entitled to vote if otherwise
qualified.
An unmarried man who came into
the township, or precinct thereof, or
into a ward of municipality, of
precinct thereof, not later than Octo-
Der 16, 1895, if otherwise qualified, is
entitled to vote.
1.-The ''head of family who came
into the state not later than the 9th
of November, 1894, and into the coun-
ty not later than October 6, 1865, is
entitled to vote in the township, ward
or precinct, in which his family re-
sides, whether he has been in such
township, ward or precinct one or
more days.
The words "head of a family have
been held to mean she who provides
for family;n 1.-The husband or father
is ordinarily the head; but there may
be head where there is no omarriage
relation"
The place where person sleeps is
his ''habitation. The place were he
eats or has his washing done has
nothing to do with his "habitation." :"
His voting place is, therefore, in the
ward or precinct where he sleeps.
Provided, a married man (unless
where husband and wife have sepa-
rated and live apart'') is entitled to
vote only where his family perma-
nently resides.
A married man separated from,
and living apart from his wife, but
who is living with and providing for
his children, is the head of a
family and is entitled ovote where
his family resides.
A married man separated from, and
living apart from his wife and not
the head of a family is entitled tC
vote only as an unmarried man.
If married man moves into q
county not later than October 9th
and his wife, or if separted from his
wife, his family, does not come into
the county until the 18th ofOctober OF
thereafter, he is not entitled to vote
If the wife of married man, or i
separated from his wife, the family
moves into the county in good faitl
not later than the 9Th day of Octo
Der, he is entitled to vote no matte
if he himself did come into the coun
ty until after 9th.
''That place shall be considered tn
residence of a person in which hi
habitation is fixed. and to which
whenever he is absent, he has the in
tention Of returning
"A person shall not be considere'
to have lost his residence who leave
his home and goes into another stat
: or county of this state for temporar
purposes merely, with the intentio
| of returning"
Whether a person has left his usus
voting place for temporary purpose
only is largely to be determined b
. the Judges. The length of time c
temporary absence is not to be COZ
sidered, so long as the right of frar
+ chise was not exercised by the vote
somewhere else, and as long as it wa
: his intention to return. A person
the Government service, at Wasl
! ington or elsewhere, is temporarily
, absent, and entitled to vote. Lik
l wise, person absent in the servic
! of the State of Ohio is temporarily
absent and entitled to vote at tn
+ place he resides before going I'M
states service, whether his family
/ absent with him or not.