Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07

are entitled to absent yourself
from any service or employment
IN which you are engaged for a
period of two hours for the pur-
pose of voting. Because of so alb
senting yourself you will not be
liable to any penalty, nor will any
deduction be made in your wages
or salary. You must, however,
make application for leave of alb
sence before primary day. Your
employer may specify the hours
during which you may absent
yourself
You must be qualified voter in
the precinct in which you offer to
vote. You must be male citizen
of the United States, of the age of
Il years or upwards. You must
have resided in the state of Illi-
nois one year, in the county 80
days, and in the precinct 80 days
prior to the primary.
You must state to the primary
judges the name of the political
party to which you belong. If you
refuse TO state the name of the
political party with which you af-
filiate, you can not vote at the
primary.
You are not qualified to vote
with a particular political party if
you have signed the petition for
nomination of a candidate of an
other political party, when the can
didate for whom you signed the
petition is voted for at the pri-
mary.
If you have signed the nominal
ting papers of an independent nom
partisan candidate, you are not
qualified to participate in the pri-
maries of any party, unless such
independent non-partisan csndi-
date stands for an Office for which
candidates are not nominated at
the primary.
In voting, give your name, resi-
dence and party utilization to the
primary judges.
If your vote be not challenged,
one of the primary judges will give
you one ballot of the political par
ty with which you declare your
self affiliated.
Upon receiving a ballot, retire,
at once, alone. into one of the vot-
ing booths, and prepare your bal
lot. You can not prepare your
ballot outside the voting booth.
On the primary ballot there will
be no circle. All the candidates
for nomination for a particular
Office, for any one party, are group
ed under the name of the office.
To the left of each name is printed
square.
To vote, you must make cross
(X) in the square to the left of
the name of the candidate of your
choice under each Office, except
the Office of precinct committee
man.
The names of the several offices
are printed in capital letters. I'm
mediately under the name of each
Office you will find, in small let
tiers, directions as to how many
candidates, under that Office, you
are to vote for. You should not,
under any circumstances, vote for
more candidates, under any one
office, than you are directed, on the
ballot, to vote for. If you vote for
more candidates, under any one
Office, than you are directed, on
the ballot to vote for, your bal
lot, as to that Office, will not be
counted.
You are entitled to vote for
person whose name is not printed
ON the ballot If you wish to vote
for person whose name is not
printed on the primary ballot,
write his name under the name of
the office for which you wish him
nominated, and, except for precinct
committeeman, place to the left of
and opposite the name thus writ
ten a square, and place in the
square a cross (X). If you fail to
make the square, and to place in
the square cross (x), the name of
the person thus written in can not
be counted. except for the Office of
precinct committeeman.
The name of the person whom
you write on the ballot should be
member of and affiliated with the
political party with which you
vote. If you write the name of
candidate of an opposite political
party on your primary ballot, your
ballot, as to that candidate, will be
counted as a vote for the nomina-
ton for the political party with
which you vote. 1t cannot be add
ed to, and placed upon the tally
sheets of, the opposite political
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