The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-06
LITTLE BALLOT TALK
Easter Sunday Is Devoted to Other
Subjects and Pastimes.
WHERE TO DO YOUR VOTING
Instructions Which the Electors
Should Follow! he Democrats
See Nothing But Victory
The Situation Sized Up.

No election talk OF any consequence
was heard yesterday and few could be
found who were even thinking about
the event of to-day. Easter Sunday,
the glorious weather and the presence
Of famous pugilists, were given the at
ton of the public in a general way.
The quietude of the political situa-
ton perhaps is the result of the new
law which is a damper on former meth
DDS of campaigning and more to the
fact that no great principle is at issue
and the choice of a ticket is narrowed
to a choice of men.
The republican central committee last
evening was ready to claim the election
of III. G.. Coy i'm the Third ward and
Charlie Graham in the Fourth.
The populists pin their faith to
James Keefe of the First ward and to
James Johnson in the Second.
The democrats were confident and
declared the entire ticket would be
elected Tom Murray will win in a
walk. Peter Cox is a sure winner. ID.
ID. Walker can't be beaten and Jimmie
V. Collins will easily carry his ward.
Personal friends have done some bet
ting chiefly on the results in the Fourth
and the Second wards, on which even
money is staked.
Mayor Thornton issued instructions
TO the chief of police that all saloons
must be closed on election day as the
new code provides.
The polling placer are these:
First ward-City Hall.
Second ward-Fire hall.
Third ward-French hall.
Fourth ward-The old NJ. Il. church.
The instructions to voters are very
complete. but IL should be more gener-
ally understood that one Y. mark is all
that is necessary to vote ticket The
L.. Al.
party. or directly opposite the candi-
dates name whom 1t is desired to sup
port. One X is sufficient, and all that
is necessary on any ballot. The legal
instructions are as follows upon the
subject of preparing ballots:
Voters are instructed to obtain their
ballots for voting from the judges of
election.
See that the ballot is stamped by the
judges of election on the back thereof.
Only those ballots properly stamped
will be counted.
On receipt of his ballot the elector
must forthwith, without leaving the
polling place, retire to one of the
booths, and prepare his ballot. If he
shall desire to vote a straight party
ticket. he may do so by making a cross
(x) at the head of the list representing
his political party. If he shall desire
to vote for any candidate on any other
list he shall make cross opposite the
name of every candidate for whom he
desires to vote.
The elector may write in the blank
spaces, or paste over any other name
the name of any person for whom he
wishes to vote. In marking a ballot
any elector is at liberty to use or copy
any unofficial sample ballot which he
may choose to mark or have marked be-
fore entering the booth. but no elector
Is at liberty to use or bring into the
polling place, any unofficial sample
ballot printed In the exact style, man
ner. width or character of paper OF the
official ballot.
After preparing his ballot the elector
must fold ii so that the face of the bal
lot is concealed, and so that the en-
dorsement stamped thereon may be
seen.
He must then vote forthwith, and be-
fore leaving the polling place. No more
than one person must be allowed to oc-
cupy any one booth at one time, and
no person must remain i'm or occupy a
booth longer than may be necessary to
prepare his ballot, and in no event
longer than five minutes. II the other
booths or apartments are occupied
Any elector who by accident or mis-
take spells his ballot may. on return
ing said spoiled ballot, receive another
IN place thereof.
Any elector who declares to the
Judges of election that by blindness or
other physical disability he Is unable TO
mark his ballot-but for no other cause
must upon request. receive the assist
ance of two of the judges in marking
his ballot. When offering his ballot TO
the judges the elector must announce
his name and his residence. giving the
street. number of the avenue, or the
location thereof. so as to definitely fix
the same.