Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-24
BALLOTS WILL B[
NUMEROUS nov. J
More Than Usual Number Will
Confront Voters, Especially
the Republicans
PRIMARY ELECTION ALSO HELD
Selection of Nominee Of Party for
United States Senator to Be Voted
on-Three Ballots Everywhere in
County, Four in City, and Four in
Townships Where There Are Towns
PRIMARY ELECTION ALSO HELD
Selection Of Nominee Of Party for
United States Senator to Be Voted

When voters in Marshall county en-
ter the polling places one week from
| Tuesday they will find the big ballot
as published in the Times Republican
Friday, but that will not be ALL In
the city wards there will be at least
three other ballots, and in the town
ship and town precincts from two To
three separate ballots. There will be
the separate primary ballot for repub-
licans to vote their preference on SEN
ator as between Cummins and Lacey:
there will be the ballot on which
everybody is to vote yes or no on the
proposed tax for building q fire-proof
hospital at the county farm; there will
be in the city separate ballot on
which everybody is to vote yes or no
on granting franchise to the Farm
ers' and Merchants Telephone COM
pany. In the township precincts sep
arate ballots will be provided on
which to vote for township assessors.
How to Vote for President.
The big ballot will be the one for
the general election. From it the circle.
which has proved continuing to many
voters, heretofore, has been omitted
Consequently in order to vote a.
straight republican ticket, crosses must
be placed in each of the squares oppo-
site the names of all the candidates.
on sthe ticket. In voting for president
and vice president it will be noticed!
This is because the voter, in reality,
does not cast his ballot directly for
president and vice president, but rather
for the presidential electors. of which
Iowa has thirteen. To vote for pres
ident therefore, it is necessary to place
the crosses opposite the names of the
thirteen presidential electors They
will cast the vote of Iowa for presi
dent.
After the big ballot is disposed of.
the voter will be called upon to mark
his other ballots. One is on the prop
osition of levying a 2-mill tax for
the erection of building for county
insane On this same ballot will be
found still another, proposition, to
amend the constitution regarding the,
drainage Of land, and condemning land
for drainage.
Another ballot will contain the
proposition to vote a franchise to the
Farmers and Merchants Telephone
company, which asks the voters for
the privilege Of erecting poles, and lay.
ing conduits in the streets of the city
for an independent telephone exchange
estimated to cost 100000 or more, the
company having contracted with the
MAYOR to spend at least $4,000 next
year.
Senatorial Primary Ballot.
/ The separate ballot for the sena-
torial primary is for republicans only,
and must be asked for by signing an
application blank on which the voter
states in effect that he affiliates with
the republican party. This ballot will
contain the names of Cummins and
Lacey, the voter making his choice for
one.
Situation in the Country.
AS far as the number of ballots Is
concerned the situation in the country
outside of Marshalltown, does not diff
fer much, as far as the republican vote
Is concerned.
The same ballots will be voted in the
precincts outside of Marshalltown with
the exception that the voters will not
have the telephone franchise ballot
Even the fourth ballot is cut out as
far as the franchise is concerned, a
fourth is substituted in all townships
where, there is situated an incorporated
town. In these townships a separate
ballot will be used in voting for town
ship assessor This is necessary be-
cause the voters in the towns vote for
their own assessor, while those in the
remainder of the precinct vote for a
township assessor, in the selection of
whom the voters in the incorporated
towns have no voice.
With the democratic. prohibition,
and other voters, the ballot situation
differs only in the fact that they have no
primary election ballot for United
States senator.