El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-25

Contestants Who Are Most
Successful in Organizing
Their Friends Will Poll
the Largest Vote.

The contest has just started and there
is plenty of room in all the divisions for
more candidates. The winning candidate
may not yet have been nominated. If
you have been thinking about a try for
the valuable prizes offered by The
Herald. send in your name or if you
have a friend whom you czn assist to
win, place them in nomination. This is
certainly a great opportunity to secure
beautiful Overland automobile, an
Apollo player piano. a vacation trip Of
unusual attractiveness or any one Of a
number of other valuable prizes Now
is the time to begin work for a success
full campaign.
Organize at Once.
After the nomination flank has been
carefully filled out according to in
structions and mailed to The Herald,
begin among the people you know best
to interest them in your candidacy
Persistent effort for a few days will
bring results and in the meantime you
will have interested a sufficient num-
Der of persons in your candidacy that
cooperation will come spontaneously
Talk Herald Popular Voting contest
everywhere you go. You need not be
afraid of becoming a tiresome bore on
the proposition because every reader
of The Herald is already interested and
those persons who are not readers of
the most popular newspaper in the
southwest will wecome information.
Write Your Friends.
Candidates can secure many votes by
writing letters to their friends in other
towns. If they do not happen to be
Herald readers they will probably not
know that you are a candidate and will
help the first contestant that makes an
application for their subscription. 1t
will be we'll worth your while to write
everyone you are acquainted with in the
entire four districts and get your friends
to use their influence with their friends
in your behalf A little correspondence
will make you thousands of votes and is
certainly worth the time given to it
Report Every Day
Send in your reports to the Contest
Editor every day as there are often
suggestions which he can make to you
which you will find of great value In
increasing your votes. Try TO keep your
vote well up with the leaders so thSt
your friends will know that you are
making the proper effort in your own
behalf. An earnest worker will soon
gain friends who will be of invaluable
assistance before the close of the con-
test
Advertise Your Town.
Every town and community which
has a candidate in the contest will be
brought prominently before the reading
public in a way which will call atten-
ton to the activity and the degree of
wide awakeness as evidenced by the eff
fort put forth to win a prize.
Each Contestant Can Win.
While it is not possible for every
contestant to win one of the grand
prizes, The Herald is offering a special
prize which can be won by each and
every working contestant in all the dis
tricts. To encourage early effort on the
part of all candidates in the Popular
Voting Contest The Herald will keep
track of the new yearly subscriptions
sent in by each contestant and as soon
as six have been received will present
to the fortunate. contestant either an
eight volume set of Masterpieces of the
Worlds Literature. or a ten volume set
of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Just
think of it-you only have TO get six
people to take The Herald for one year
and you get absolutely free your choice
OF a 10 volume set of Kipling or g.
eight volume set of Masterpieces Or.
we will send both sets 10 any contestant
for the first 10 new yearly subScrip-
tons sent in.
Note-Special prize offers do not af-
feet in any way the awarding of the
regular prizes. No one is barred from
winning a regular prize on account of
having received a Special prize.