The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-10-28

off 'ers coming under the ninth
amendment.
HOW PLAN WORKS OUT.
BY tie provisions Of the schedule,
the terms Of all offices now fixed at
all odd number of years will be ex-
tended one year, so that the terms
shall always be for all even number
of years. That is the term Of cleo
ton officers will he two years; that
OF Assessors, Constables, School Di-
rectors, Councilmen, Supervisor,
and of all city and county officers
will be four years, and that of Jus
tices of the Peace, Aldermen and
Magistrates will be six years.
County officers elected in 1907
and 1909 will each serve four years,
but those elected in 1905 will serve
only three years.
The February (municipaD cleo
ton will be held in 1910 as hereto
fore; but all election officers chosen
at that election will serve until the
first Monday in December, 1911.
All officers chosen at the February
election, 1910, to Offices the term of
which is made four years by the
proposed amendments, shall serve
until the first Monday in Decem-
Der, 1913.
All Justices of the Peace, Alder
men and Magistrates elected in
February, 1910, shall serve until
the first Monday in December,
1915; and thereafter the terms of
all, city. ward borough, township
and election officers shall begin on
the first Monday of December in
oddnumbered years.
SERVE TO DECEMBER 1911.
All city, ward, borough, and
township officers holding office
when the proposed amendments are
adopted, and whose terms end in
1911, shall continue in Office until
the first Monday in December,
1911.
State officers Congressman and
members of the General Assembly
will be elected at the general cleo
ton in November Of the even-num.
bered years, and all other officers
will be elected at the municipal cleo
ton in November of the odd-num-
bered years. This provision, how
ever, has no reference to elections Of
Judges of the Courts, who may be
elected in any year, nor to special
elections to fill vacancies.
| At the general election in 1910
the ballot will be headed by candi-
dates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and Secretary of Internal
Affairs; in 1912, by the Presidential
Electors, the State Treasurer and
the Auditor General. All other
offioers-county city, borough, ward
and township-will be elected in
the odd-numbered years.
Odd-numbered Senatorial Dis
tricts will elect Senators in the
wears of the Presidential elections,
and even-nunbered Senatorial Dis
tricts will elect Senators in the
years of the Gubernatorial cleo
tiOns.
HOW TO VOTE ON AMENDMENTS.
It will also be of interest to the
average voter to know how to vote
on the amendments. The follow
inc information will be found in
valuable: =,
Each amendment stands by itself;
each embodies a distinct PROPOSE
ton, and each must be voted upon
separately.
In order to vote upon the entire
proposition, as contained IN the
amendments as whole, it is neces-
sary to mark opposite each amend
ment and the schedule.
If YOU are in favor of aoolishlng
Spring elections, mark a cross opc,
nosite the word Eyes" at the end OF
each amendment and the schedule
If YOU are opposed to the proposi,,
tion mark a cross opposite the word
"no" wherever it occurs.
Voting a straight party ticker
does not vote for or against the
amendments. -, ,o4