The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-06-15
THE BALLOTS AND THE ELECTION

THE BALLOTS AND THE ELECTION.
The primary election ballots were
printed this week and the sheriff is now
in the county delivering the same to the
inspectors OF election, and samples have
already been posted.
The ballots themselves are different
from the regular Australian ballot as
used IN general elections. in this, that
each party has its own ballot The Re-
publicans vote their own and the Demo-
Gratis their own. When you go to vote
you ask for the ballot of the party with
which you "affiliate"-and if you make
mistake and ask for the wrong ballot
somebody may challenge your right to
vote that ticket.
Being thus divided the ballot is con-
siderably smaller than the general elec-
ton ballot, and is 12x24 inches in
size. Otherwise the ballot resembles,
and is marked the same as the Australian
ballot, except that OH this ballot it is
necessary to mark cross after each
name voted for, there being no square at
the head of the ticket in which to vote
Tor therwhole lot in lump.
In marking up your vote for delegates
to the convention on the Republican
ballot you will find thirty-two names and
directions to "vote for 16 names only"
If you should vote for the first sixteen,
as printed, you would vote for eight
''regulars" and eight insurgents" thus
parting your political hair In the middle
as to that issue. Unless you know the
names very we'll you should take the list
as printed in this issue to the polls with
you and thus be able to select the sheep
from the goats.
you mark one name too many in the
delegate list, then your whole ballot syill
be thrown out as far as delegates go, as
it would be impossible for the judges to
tell which sixteen Of the seventeen
names voted for were your choice. 1t
will be safe proposition tor each voter
to count over the crosses in this case to
see that he has the number.
II you are Democrat, if otherwise
engaged, your presence at the polls on
June 10Th will not be needed. There
can be only one result as things now
stand on the ballot, and one vote cast in
the county will tie sufficient to insure it.
lily you are Republican, then you will
have to make up your mind whether you
are an ",nsurgent" or regular" and
take your choice whether you want the
delegates selected by Peter St. Amoure
and a few other men, or whether you
will vote for the delegates selected by
the regular Republican committee.
These delegates go to Jamestown in July
to select the candidates for state offices.
There is another contest in which
there is no principle or issue involved,
except the personality OF the two candi-
dates, Messrs. Roadhouse and Wilson
for the Office of sheriff. OF these the
voters will probably follow their own
predictions.
AS printed on the ballots there is
nothing to distinguish one set of delegates
from the other, so in order that the voters
may know the names of the different sets
of delegates on the Republican ticket, we
herewith put them down in the order
that they occur on the ballot, but the
regular delegates are here printed in
bold faced type, and the list is as follows:
Louis Captain. D. L. LaxdaI.
G. NJ. Craig. G. H. Lutz.
George Dickey. John f. Mayer.
Paul Z. Dobourt. y. D. McCauley.
e. Il. Eastman. George A. Mccres
1 @. f. Ersklne. II. A. Miller.