The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-22
NEWS CULLED
in THE CAPITAL
WHAT LEGISLATORS ARE DO
ING AND OTHER HAPPENINGS
o. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.


intelligently on November 8. This
will be because not only of the |
number of different ballots, but also
of the multiplicity of the issues in
volved. Every voter in the state will
be given at least three separate bal I
lots when he enters the voting place
on Nov. 3. In cases where local bond
issues are being submitted to the peo-
pie or other local questions, such as
municipal referendums, the voters will
receive four or more different ballots,
and it is safe to assume that each
ballot will present its quota of stiff
problems. The general ticket, that is,
the list of state and local candidates,
including United States senatorial can
didates and candidates for congress
and for members of the general as
sembly, will constitute the largest bal
lot the voter will receive. In addition
he will be asked to vote the judicial
ballot, or the ballot containing the
candidates for chief justice of the su-
preme court, for Judge of the supreme
court for Judge of the court of appeals
and for judge Of the common pleas
court. The voter will be asked to Sc
lect one candidate for chief justice of
the supreme tribunal and two for
judges of that tribunal. But at no
place on this ballot will there be any
political designation and the voter
will have to be familiar with the can
didates in advance if he desires to
vote according to the party rule. But
the intent of the law is that the voter
shall cast his ballot without reference
. to party affiliation, and for this reason
omits all party mention on the judicial
ballot. The other ballot which every
voter will receive will be that con-
tanning the four proposed constitu-
tional amendment. They will appear
on the ballot in the following order:
Modification of the county local option
law and inhibition against legislative
prohibition, first; classification of
property for taxation and incorpora-
tion of the 1 per cent tax limitation
into the constitution, second; woman
of intoxicating liquors, fourth. Any
one of the above amendments of itself
would present deep problem for the
voter who is thus asked to make
sweeping decisions regarding the form
of the state constitution. The four
amendments involving widespread
questions, taken together with the list
OF multifarious candidates on both the
general and the judicial ballots, pre-
sent problems for whose solution
evsry ssculty of the voter must be
alert.
Educating the Voter.
Mingled with the general campaign
activity of the vets and drys is nc
small amount of effort designed tt
show the voters how to mark theil
ballots. The campaign is thus two
fold. 1t must educate the voter why
to vote and then to vote. Both sides
to the conflict are finding that the
voter is having no little trouble under
standing the ballot and how to make
his wishes known in spite of the fac
that to the average voter it woult
seem simple enough. Probably thu
presence on the same ballot OF TIVE
'foreign" amendments, taxation ant
woman suffrage, causes some OF th'
confusion. The wet amendment ap
pears on the sample ballots first ant
the dry amendment last, as each will
on the real ballot in November. Wha
the vets want their supporters to d.
is to vote for the. first amendment Of
the ballot and against the law and tn
drys are attempting to have their ac
vocates do precisely the contrar
But in the melee of instructions tn
voter seems to get dazed and sampl
voting has seen him voting just tn
way he didn't want to.
Campaign for Better Health.
The Ohio State Medical Journal ha
begun a campaign for better healt
and sanitary protection for rural con
munities. In it's next issue the Jou
nal will editorially recommend tn
adoption of model health code fc
villages and praises the steps towar
that end which have been taken b
the state board of health experts. Th
general operation of such a code woul
place rural communities in fine d
fensive position against contagion an
other evils, the Journal says.
Big Parade of Knights TempIars.
How would you like to march an
keep step to the music of a band I
between 300 and 400 pieces? Six tho
sand Knights Templars did this in G
Iumbus Wednesday afternoon. This
the big feature of the parade of tt
knights Templar conclave whiC
came to a close Thursday evenin
There were between 40 and so bant
in the parade and they massed as OF
band and played Onward, Christis
Soldiers" The effect of this great W
ume of music was inspiring.
MAY Recommend Rate Increase.
The report of John /. Miller, sta
superintendent of public works, {
rates and maintenance of canals f
hydraulic power, which probably W
be made public soon, is expected
recommend generous increase
rates to be paid by manufacturers WI
take water from state canals. An
vestigation into actual cost of mai
tenance has been made under the
rection of Superintendent Miller dl
ing the last year and it is said ,th
resulted In the discovery that scor
of manufacturers are getting pow
at ridiculously low rates.
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Arresting Auto speeders.
Ohio is experiencing an epidem