New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-29
TIGER RESORTS TO
EMERGENCY BALLOT
Supplies Form To Be Used
if the Official Kind
Prove Scarce.

Tho intention Of Tammany Hall
geniuees to employ every conceivable
trick 20 aid tho election of Martin H..
Glynn is apparent in a sharp plan soon
to be executed.
On Sunday there will be mailed 70
the voters Of New York City what ia
termed sample ballot, TO be used as
an official ballot should there be a
scarcity of the official ballots at the
polling places. -,
This ballot Is much smaller than the
official voting sheet While II ls
headed, This is form of the official
ballot and is intended only for the IN
structiOn Of voters" tho final instruc-
ton in the bottom right hand corner
says: "On Election Day the ballot
clerk will hand every voter his official
ballot. properly folded. Preserve this
ballot. as in case Of tbs loss Of the
official ballot this ballot will be re-
ceived by the inspectors Of election"
The only names on the form 70 be
sent out are those Of the Democratic
candidates There are, Of course,
spaces for the names OF the other can
regular places on the extreme left Of
each line. But in these ballots the
Y is already printed in the Democratic
squares. and if a voter should try to
scratch the X out and, after writing in
the name of another candidate, should
mark an \ In front Of that name, his
vote would be thrown out.
At the bottom left hand corner Is
this excerpt from the Election Law:
Election Law, $50: III, for any
cause. the official ballot shall not be
provided a. required by law at any
polling place. upon the opening Of the
polls Of an election thereat, or # the
.upplv OF election ballots shall be OK
haustcd before the polls are closed.
unofficial ballots, printed OF written,
made a. nearly as practicable in the
form OF the official ballot, may be
used"
Just below tho heading on tho form
this appears:
when the voter enters the polling
place on Election Day the ballot clerk
will hand him two separate ballots.
zone ballot will contain the names
Of the candidates for delegate 10 the
constitutional convention. The second
bni'ot will contain the names Of the
candidates for state and county offices.
To vote for Martin h Glynn and all,
the other Democratic candidate, mako
f. cross (X( in the voting spaces, ~
shown below Don't forget that on this
ballot he cross fX) must be put in the
voting space under the star for Gov
ernor, and in the voting space TO the
right Of the star for all the other Dem
ocratic candidates.
"The two ba!lots should then b.
folded back separately and returned to
the election inspector. who will deposit
them Immediately in the ballot boxes.
"Take this With you for reference.
u will help you 20 vote quickly and
without confusion in the voting booth .
The possibilities Of lack OF ballots in
the polling places on Election Day arc
numerous, under this suggestion. l.
would not require much cleverness to
lose" the regular ballots, nor would il
be regarded as strange If thousands o.?
ballots were destroyed or stolen while
en- route 20 the polling places. Wagons
and automobiles are constantly meet
ing with accidents.
Wilbur + Wakeman, secretary Of the
/ American Protective Tariff League, 339
Broadway, told The Tribune of this
trick Yesterday. lie said he received
hi, copy Of the Emergency ballot on
Tuesday from a member of the Tam
many Hall general committee, who SAID
he had protested against that method
Of trying to put Glynn over.