Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17
=frequ'ntly SO as to fix your informa-
ton firmly in your mind.

frequ'ntly SO as to fix your informa-
ton firmly in your mind.
Pay special attention to first voters
and endeavor to interest them in the
work you are doing. Secure their CO.
operation if possible.
Make no statements that are not alb
solutely true and make no promises
you cannot fulfill
While doing this work you may be
able to do people small favors, and you
should be on the lookout for such 3D.
portunities. Your territory may con.
tain people Of all conditions. For in.
stance, family may be looking for a
servant, and you learn the fact. An
other family may contain young wo-
man looking for a situation of this
kind. 1t will prove easy to bring them
together, and you will confer a favor
on each.
A man may have horse to SELL An
other may wish to buy such an animal.
You may learn Of the desires of each
and thus promote trade, and so on.
Be careful while in this work to
avoid all controversies, political or 9TH
erwise. Keep your objects in view and
steer clear Of neighborhood quarrels
and fractional feuds. Learn to suppress
expressions that will give offense and,
above all, practice patience and for
bearance.
In some places you will meet with
rebuffs and discourtesy, and no doubt
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answer your questions. In such cases
you will have to get your information
from the ncighbors, but this will not
be necessary very often.
Correcting the Poll.
Having completed your poll, the next
step is to revise, correct and transcribe
it for use, and in doing this it will be
we'll to put in practice some Of the
things you have learned so as to pro-
duce political results.
You have while making your poll
become acquainted with several-per-
haps number of-young men of your
own political faith who are interested
in politics or in whom you may have
succeeded in exciting an interest. Call
all first voters. State frankly your OBJ
jects and ask their cooperation. Show
them the benefits that will accrue to
the people, the party and to them
selves, and if you have so far learned
your lessons we'll and make a good
presentation Of facts you will find
most of them ready to join you. You
can, if you wish, form regular or
ganiZation or club. The advisab ility
of this depends upon circumstances.
We will suppose that dozen are
willing to cooperate with you. The
first thing to be done is to divide your
precinct or district into as many parts
as you have helpers, each division to
include, if possible, the residence OF a
helper and to be known as his subdis-
trict.
He should be directed to make at
once poll, such as you have made, of
his subdistrict Each should be care
fully instructed as to his work.
Suppose that the district contains
400 voters. This will give an average
of about thirty-four to each subdis.
trict. The polls of these subdistricts
will soon be completed. and they
should be carefully compared with the
poll you have made. Where they agree
it may be taken for granted that they
are correct. Where they fail to agree
variations should be accounted for.
The poll should then be carefully
copied in book properly ruled for the
purpose No scrap Of information
should be omitted. A copy should also
be made for the committee in the bool
furnished for the purpose.
1t is as we'll to say at this point that
the boundary lines of voting districts
or precincts are sometimes changed
and this may occur between the time
Of completing the poll and election
day. In such case you may have tt
revise your work.
Time Of Taking the Poll.
A political party usually makes it:
poll at certain fixed period, governed
by the election laws of the state.
For instance, if the laws require {
man to be a resident of the county
ninety days before becoming vote
the poll is taken ninety days before
the election, and if thirty days resi-
dence in the voting district or precinc
is required the poll is corrected thirt!
DAYS before the election.
When a student of politics takes :
poll, as shown above, the date is o
less Importance, provided it be earl!
enough. l would advise making it a
least eight months before the election
or even year. 1t should, of course, b.
, revised and corrected at the usual TIM
of taking the poll.
copyright, 1902, by Lewis D. Sampson
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