The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
Dawson Issues Warming on In
valuation of Ballots.
Only Straight Tickets Will
Count, Says Atty. General.
ABOUT THOSE ELECTORS
If You Vote for More Than Ten
You Lose Vote.
There are IS on Ballot and
Choice Must Be Made.

"Don't spoil your ballot is the war
cry which Attorney General John .
Dawson has sounded in Kansas 1t IS
the meat and bone of hundreds OF
letters which the attorney general S
Cnice has sent broadcast over the stase
in answer to inquiries as to how 20
vote in tomorrow'S primaries. Dawson 5
Instructions are plain. Yet, even wlFh
this warning, it is feared that many
ballots will be inValidated.
Throughout the state there is a ten
dency to vote for some one or mora
candidates on the opposition tlcket-
This cannot be done. n voter must ask
for a party ticket and under no conu1-
lions can he vote for a candidate
whose name appears on some oth~r
ticket Here is the ironclad law as
laid down by Dawson. Read it before
you go to the polls:
Affects Socialists, Too.
MANY socialists seem to desire to
vote for Arthur Capper,'' said the at
torney general. They cannot do it and
vote any part of their own ticket
When a man goes to the polls he asks
for Republican, Democratic or Social
list ticket. There is no Prohibition party
ticket this year.
Only Straight Tickets Count.
THE voter must keep within that
ticket or he will spoil his ballot. Many
Topeka men desire to vote for Senator
Curtis and Mayor Billiard. the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor They
cannot do it. Any voter can write III
the names of men for the dlfterent
Offices but he must not write in tn
name of one candidate that appears on
any other ticket. Some Topekans be-
lieved they could vote the Republicans
ticket and write in BILLIARDS. name.
This would inValidate the entire ticket.
Voters must read carefully the in
struetions at the head of the list of
candidates for the different ofhces-
There are eighteen presidential cleo |
Il of = for Of q
words vote for. ten The voter 1nVaI- |
idates his entire ballot if he votes for |
more than ten. If he votes eight ONLY |
his vote for each of those Will DC |
counted, but if he votes for eleven MS
whole ballot is worthless.
Nav Vote Away From Home.
ANY man who is outside his own
county next Tuesday can vote away
from home by telling the judges at any
voting precinct where he lives, TAKE
an oath prescribed by statute, obtain
a blang ballot and write in the names
of the men he wishes to vote for He
must write in all the names. The pal
lot is then forwarded to his home. A
man can vote away from home IN any
precinct of the same county where re
lives.
Each party has a ballot of its OWE
and the names of all candidates of that
party are printed on it. There is 10
blanket ballot. There is no voting III
cross mark in the square at the right
of every name he wishes 10 vote for. |
He cannot vote for any set OF men col
lectively. There is no reason for any |
great number of spoiled ballots as the |
primary ballots are easy to mark, but |
1t is a long and tedious job
P. E. Laughlin, cashier of the
Citizens State bank, at Marysviue.
struck a popular chord in get
treasurer on the Democratic ticket. He |
printed across the face of each card |
the words Just a business man-not
politician-for state treasurer" and
business people and farmers wrote for
so many he couldn't supply the de-
mand for them. 1t was an idea that
eager to have officials who are bust
ness men rather than politicians, espe-
cially in the financial office of the
state. Laughlin was never before
candidate for any office.
James F. Evans of Lost Springs has
been making a strenuous campaign for
the Republican nomination as repre-
was formerly sheriff of his coun-
ty and is recognized as /
clean cut, able man. He is
hardware merchant in his home town
manufacture of binding Irvine at the
state penitentiary. His opponent in
tomorrOws primaries is J. w. Moore, L
who has been identified with Marion
county politics for 80 years. Moore is
a Roosevelt Republican and trains
with the Kansas prOgressives.
From Troy comes the news that a
warrant has been issued for the arrest
of Cyrus Leland fer his action in
drawing a revolver on Matt Crabtree
in the course of political controversy |:
ten days ago. Crabtree and Leland
quarreIed when the former referred to ;
Roosevelt as a drunkard. Then Lee
land entered his office. secured 4 re- Il
volver and is said to have threatened
era btree. Since the controversy, Crab