The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-02-21
ON EQUAL TERMS.
Secretary Taylor Says the Women
Can Do Anything the Men Can
i'm School Matters.

Owing to lack of official information as to
how to proceed to obtain proper recognition in
their efforts to make themselves felt in the
coming school election, the women of Canton
have been laboring under considerable diff
Guilty. Secretary of State Taylor, who is also
state supervisor of elections, has now in
terpreted the law and issued concise directions
for the women in order that they may secure
a voice in the school elections upon equal
terms with men.
The secretary of state says:
Every woman born or natuali2ed in the
United States, of the age OF twenty-one years
and upward, who shall have been a resident of
the state one year, of the county thirty days,
and Of the town, township or other election
district twenty days preceding the election for
the purpose of choosing any school director,
member of the board of education or school
council, under the general or special laws of
the state, is entitled to vote and be voted for
at such election for any such officer or officers
Women residing in cities having registra-
tion will be required to register before being
permitted to vote. The days for registration
this year will be March % and 49, from S
o'clock a. m. to 1 o'clock p. M, and from 4
o'clock p. III, to o o'clock p. m. of each day.
As TO NOMINATIONS.
A woman, profcssed adherent to the prin.
cipes of any of the existing political parties
which pOlled per cent of the entire vote cast
in the state at the last preceding November
election may participate with the other cleo
tors of any such party in nominal
ing candidates for school offices, in
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the great body of the male members of such
party are permitted to make such nominations
That is, she may participate with the men in
making nominations for such offices either by
caucuses, convention, meeting Of electors,
primary election, or by petition. When nom
nations are made by the central or executive
committee of such party the women can take
no part, as these committees must necessarily
be composed of men.
If, however the women do not wish to iden-
tify themselves with any of the existing polit
cal parties, but desire to make separate and
distinct nominations, they must do so by pc
titon, signed in the aggregate for each candi
date by at least twenty. five women, electors of
the school district.
AT THE POLLS.
IN eacn VOTING precinct there VIII DE sepa-
rate ballot-box provided for the reception of
the ballots OF all electors, whether men or wO-
men, voting for school officers, by whichever
term the office may be designated in the pre-
cinct. Separate poll-boOks will also be kept for
registering the names Of all persons voting for
such officers, and separate ballots containing
the names of all the candidates nominated for
such offices may be procured from the precinct
officers.
Ballots of political parties entitled to the use
of design usually have a circle printed below
the device, just above the name of the party.
Insuch case, if the electOr desires 70 vote for
the candidate of such party, or for all the can.
didates, in case there are two or more TO elect,
she may do so by making a cross mark in the
circle. If she does not desire to vote forall
such candidates, however, she must mark the
ballot as stated in the preceding paragraph;
that is, by making cross mark opposite, or to
the left of each candidate for whom she de-
sires TO vote