The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-28
Separate Tickets for Townships
and Amendments.
TO AVOID CONFUSION
No Blanks Opposite Words ono
Nomination"
George Tucker Nominated for
Senator by AccIamatiOn.

TIC NeAAAoctS press LOT several Weeks
concerning the great size of the bal
lot which voters viii have to handle
at the election this fall. 1t is stated
that the ballot Will be a regular
blanket sheet" so big that it will be
hard to handle.
There seems to be a great miscon-
ception on this subject. AS a matter
of fact, while the ballot will be fairly
good size. it will not be nearly so
large as it was in the days when the
Australian ballot was first adopted in
Kansas Then the columns were
wider and there was blank space un-
der each candidates name. The first
Australian ballot used in Kansas was
so large that it could not be printed
on the page of an ordinary news
paper.
Formerly, too, township ballots and
constitutional amendments were in
cluded on the general ballot Now
they are separate. The general ballot
just goes through the county ticket
There will be a separate ballot for
township tickets. and another ballot
for the constitutional amendments.
This is point which most people
have overlooked.
AS near as can be figured the aver
age general ballot in Kansas this year
will be about II Z wide by "a inches
long. 1t may be a trifle longer in
counties where there are vacancies to
be filled in county offices, but in most
these figures if the style of the official
sample ballot is followed.
There will be seven columns on the
ticket, five regular tickets and two
other columns. The tickets will be (
Republican, Democratic, Peoples S, I
Prohibition and Socialist Then there |
will be the independent column and
the blank column
There will be the names of forty /
candidates on the regular full ticket, /
without counting the president and
~ h q
candidates for president and vice
president will appear at the head OF
each ticket, but no squares are placed |
by their names. as no votes are cast
of Identification. The national ticket
will consist of the ten presidential /
electors. The state ticket will contain
fifteen names. three supreme court
Judges, governor, lieutenant governor,
secretary of state, superintendent OF
public instruction, auditor, super1n-
attorney general, congressman at
large, and three railroad commits
Then will follow the congressman,
district judge, state senator and rep
resentative, and lastly there will be
the regular county officers, county at
torney. county clerk, sheriff, register
of deeds, probate judge, clerk OF the
district court, county superintendent,
surveyor. coroner, and two county
commissioners. In some counties
there will be no district judge to elect
this year.
There will be no danger of spelling
ballots by making crosses after NO
Nomination" this year. There Will be
no squares where there is no nomina-
ton, and the words mo Nomination
will be printed in different type from
the names of the candidates
When the voter goes to vote he Will ,
be given three ballots, the general bal
lot a township ballot and one with the
constitutional amendments on. Town
cities for the new biennial election law
provides for the election of all town
ship officers at the election this fall,
and it has been held that justices Of
second class are township officers Here
tofore they have been elected at the
city elections in the spring
A story comes from Roswell. n. NJ.
that Jerry Simpson expects to take
hand in politics again. and that he is
practically assured of the Democratic
nomination for delegate to congress
from New Mexico.
George E. Tucker was nominated by 6
the Republicans for state senator from
the on-Greenwood sena torial district {
"Wednesday afternoon. The convention
the Eureka Herald and a boss buster
He represented Greenwood county in {
&he last legislature and voted for Cur '
tbs for senator There was no oppoSl-
tion to his nomination for senator.
The district is now represented by I
Senator Lee Wright of Emporia- /
Wright is very strong in Lyon county, /
but fuckers friends insist that Tucker '
can beat him. Wright carried Lyon /
county four years ago by 400 majority,
but two years ago Tucker carried his
county, Greenwood, by nearly 600 as a {
legislative candidate. 1t will probably +
be hard fight I
w. r. Stubs says that some of the
statements attributed to Andy Rich &
ards in the report which leaked out {
concerning the executive meeting of the {
Republican state central committee
last week are not true. For instance, a
he says Mr.. Richards did not allude to s
him as having voted for half million I
dollars of appropriations more than I
were made. Mr.. Stubbs admits that i
there was considerable discussion along a
the line indicated in the leak story, but I
that some of the details were incor- q
rect 7
Atchison Globe: Everybody in Kan ,
sas has been forgiven except w. ]. T
Bailey. against whom there were no +
charges @
Erie. Kan, July 2S.-The Populists of =
Neosho county will have no county !,
ticket in the field this fall The Popu-
list county committee has resolved that Y
1T would do no good. 1t has passed the
following resolutions: :
ssWhereas, The Republican party, ,
through the passage of the infamous
fusion bill, prepared and introduced
into the state legislature by the saint
ed J. Ralph Burton. has legislated the =
Populist party out of existence in Kan =
sas; therefore. be it r
Resolved, That we, the PopElfSt ,
county central committee, do not deem =
IL advisable to nominate candidates for =
county offices for the coming cam
paign and be it further
. Resolved, That we recommend that
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