The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1912-11-03
GENERAL ELECTION
OCCURS ON TUESDAY
TO DECIDE MANY QUESTIONS
People Win Vote Not Only For
Presidential Electors but
for CONGRESSMAN and on
Other Important Matters

election which IS to be held
throughout the country next
Tuesday centers in the election
of a president and a vice-presi-
dent there are other important
matters to be settled, and every
qualified elector in Lowndes
county should go to the polls and
deposit his ballot.
There are four sets of presi-
Dental electors to be voted for.
the Democrats, Progressive Re-
publicans, Straight Republicans
and Socialists. The Democratic
electors are w. Alfred Bean.
Thos. E. Pegram, J. B. Mitchell,
|. 7. Blount, John H. Doris,
W. H. Cooke, w. B. Nixon. R.
E. Spivey. E. C. Sharpe, Walter
Sillers, and these are the electors
for whom a vast majority of
the qualified electors of Lowndes
county will vote.
A congressman is also to be
voted for, and while Hon. E. S.
Gambler, Jr., has already re-
ceived the Democratic nomina-
tion for this Office and has no
opponent it is important that he
receive large vote. as he has
done good work in congress. and
if his vote is small it will ap-
pear that the people do not ap-
preciate his efforts.
The question as to whether or
not the Office of county attorney
is to be retained will also be de-
cided at the polls Tuesday. The
legislature at its session of 1910
created this Office and at the 1912
session of the state solons law
was passed saakins- IL c..ti1nal
with the people of each county
as to whether or not the office
should be retained.
In addition to voting for presi-
Dental electors, a congressman
and whether or not the Office of
county attorney is to be retained,
the people will have three
amendments to the constitution
of the state adopted by the legis-
lature at it's last biennial session
submitted to them for ratifica-
ton.
The first of these amendments
is provided for in senate concur
rent resolution No. s, which pro-
poses to amend article A, section
55 of the constitution so as to
read as follows: The style of all
bills shall be BE it enacted by
the people of Mississippi"
The second amendment to be
voted on is house concurrent
resolution No. 81, which pro-
poses to amend section 21 of the
constitution so as to read as fol.
lows: "The right of trial of jury
shall remain inviolate, but the
legislature may, by enactment,
provide that in all civil suits tried
in the circuit or chancery courts,
nine or more jurors may agree
on the verdict and return it as
the verdict of the jury.
The third amendment to bt
voted on is senate concurrent
resolution No. 9, which convey.
to the people the rights of initia
tive and referendum. The frs
power conveyed to the people il
initiative. and fifteen percentun
of the legal voters shall have th'
right to propose any Legislative,
measure, and twenty percentun
of the legal voters shall have tn
right to propose amendments h
the constitution by petition, ant
every such petition shall includ
a full text of the measure s
proposed.
The second power conveyed i
the third amendment is tn
referendum. and it may be orde,
ed Except in laws necessary fo
the immediate preservation O
the public health, peace or safe
ty) either by petition signed b
ten per centum of the legal voter
or by the legislature as othe
bills are enacted.
Returns from the election wi
be received at the Columbu
Theatre, where a small admissio
fee will be charged.