The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-25

this publicity was to insure the cor
rection Of errors.
No additions could be made to the
sample ballot. But candidates had an
opportunity to correct the spelling of
their names, or to withdraw their
names entirely. Several candidates,
including the two Graces, did change
their minds and retire from the con-
test
If no legal contests had been made
as to the printing of the ticket that
work would have been started few
hours after the last publication Of the
sample ballot, one week before the
primaries. But the courts take up
these disputes as late as possible in
order that all technical problems may
be solved authoritatively before the
regular tickets have been prepared.
Mr.. Confarr would have begun to print
the regular ballots at noon on Tuesday,
Sept. 13, had not DR.. Arthur w. Miller
announced In court his painful doubts
as to the spelling of rivals name.
Two days later these doubts were re-
solved. The printing Of the regular
tickets was commenced. All other
work was at once suspended through
out the extensive Job printing estab-l
lishment Of the company.
Rules as to Ballots
Much preliminary work had already
been completed. The law had informed
Mr.. Confarr that he must use white
paper in printing the county ballots.
white. paper "of sufficient thickness to
prevent. the printing thereon from
showing through. or being discernible
from the back. He was to make each
ballot absolutely uniform in color and
size" He was to do all the printing in
black ink. He was to use type Of
specified sizes for specified divisions of
the ticket. He was to arrange the sew
eraI divisions in exactly such an order.
'"The parallel rules containing the
names were to be three Sixteenths
of an inch apart" Even the heading
of the ticket was formulated as rigidly
as if Mr.. Confarr had been intending
to contrive three sheet posters for jeal-
Gus artists of the vaudeville stage. At
the end of the heading, says the law,
''shall be. on the next line and to the
right of the ballot, a facsimile of the
signature of the county auditor. fol-
lowed by the words County Auditor
Delicate was the adjustment of posi-
ton among the rival candidates of the
same party for the same office. All
candidates in the confiding eye of the
I law are equally popular, able, disinter-
ested,s patriotic and deserving. Block,
says the legislature, WOULD make an
ideal county commissioner, but so
would Skoog. while Thrill would shed
lustre upon his constituents. Block can
take no advantage of his alphabetical
'previousness.',
Candidates Must Rotate
All candidates, when there are more
than two, must rotate" and rotate as
well without prejudice or passion.
That is Mr.. Confarr was obliged to
prepare his first Democratic ticket last
week on the alphabetical basis Bum
before O'Brien, Hogan after Hall, the
Miller mon medical in advance of DR..
Miller: "a. p" before "A. W."
But the same ticket showed eleven
candidates for the Office of county COM
missioner, Now, the law declares that
lin printing each set of tickets for the
various election districts the position
Of the names shall be changed In each
office division as many times as there
are candidates in the Office -division in