Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-27

HOW YOU CAN LOSE A VOTE.
If You Pull the Taft Liberal Lever
You N,lllify Your Right Of Fran
elise for President

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~ voting machine is now installed in
the Descret News business office. where
anybody wishing to try out his skill
in operating the machinery will be at
liberty to do So
The machine this year contains three
constitutional propositions to be voted
on. listeG as questions 1, . and 3. The
tirst concerns the power to tax mines.
giving 1t to the board OF state equali-
cation on the grounds that county as
SCISSORS have proved incapable of prop
erly assessing mining property and that
therefore IL has escaped it's charge OF
the tax burdens. Question two con-
Germs the total OF the states wealth;
In connection with tho tax rate raising
the total at which the present rate
VIII he legal; and thrcesconcerns county
boundaries, allowing the Legislature to
create new counties where necessary
The coming of the Uintah reservation
land into Utah brought this problem
with it.
The party levers this year place the
Democratic rooster fifth from the top
instead of in its time-honored place of
second. Tho globe background to set
Of claspcd hands, denoting the Socialist
lever, comes second. While the Bryan
national lever. with a lion roaring to
distinguish It from the American
lever Is third. Below the Democratic
rooster Is the Independence lever, and
last in the list is the American" lever
There are seven tickets in all just
enough to completely fill the voting
machines. Three of them Of course are
substantially the same, being the
American" ticket and its two dis
fp
straight votes with national ticket
headers
DIFFUSION AND A SNARE,
But curious fact for all to remember
Is that in spite of the elusive title a
VOTE FOR THE TAFT-LIBERAL1
ticket is not a vote for Taft. BY voting
that lever, SO named you lose your vote
for presidential candidates. and register
only the American" state ticket 1t
Is a trick by which at pull of the
lever you nullfy your right OF franchise
for u national president. The Taft
Liberal ticket is the one from which
the American" leaders were forced to
omit the names of Taft electors chosen
by the Republican party
The Independence league ticket con-
tains no state am, county tickets, and
anyone pulling that lever has. still a
right toturn down the little levers over
9 set Of state and county nominees. The
sasia ttSh ttagst is cBplete except for
judicial district judges. and anyone
voting that ticket may still vote. for
district judges on any otherSticket, The
emblem of,the ft-Liberalsticketris an
elephant. of the Bryan-National, a lion.
The Republicans use the Eagle and
Beehive, the Socialists: theEs clasped
hands backed by a globe, the Demo-
Gratis the rooster. and the Americans"
the country's flag. Nationally the Pro-
hibition party has adopted the camel,
but no local ticket has been put in the
Held by that party, although an effort
was made to organize one. Had it sue
teeded the voting machines would |
prove inadequate to the task assigned |
them, and the reversion to the old pa
Der ballot system would have been nee
essary.
The use of machines in Salt Lake
county should make it possible to an !
nounce the results within two hours |
after the close of the polls instead of
waiting until nearly morning as once
was necessary.