The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-03
MORE WORK FOR
 VOTERS IN CADR0N
MUST ELECT DELEGATES
NAMES OF NINE DELEGATES AND NINE ALTERNATIVES
 HAVE TO BE WRITTEN.

DeihocIdllc electOrS or CadrOr
 township, most of whom are already
 aware that on March 29 they will
 be confronted with the biggest jot
 of voting in their lives, will have still l other troubles. An examination of
 the rules of the last State Democratic
 convention develops the fact that del.
 egates and alternate delegates to the county convention must be chosen at
 the primary election, instead of at
 mass meetings, as has been the case heretofore.
 The party rules provide that one
 delegate and one alternate shall be elected for each 50 votes cast for the Democratic nominee for gover-
 nor in each precinct or ward and one for each fraction over 25 votes. At the September, 1914, election the vote for Governor Hays in Cadron township was as follows: First ward o8; Second ward, z33; Third ward, lO5; total, 426. This means that nine delegates and nine alternates to the county convention must be elect ed in this township.
 But the worst is yet to relate. No names of candidates for delegate or alternate were filed and the ticket is closed. It will be necessary, there fore, for each voter who desires to have a voice in choosing representa- tives in the county convention to write out IS names in the blank spaces on the ballot.
 This task itself will probably re- quire several minutes time. And
 there are other jobs of writing in ad-
 dition to the scratching, which the
 busy voter will be called upon to do
 Four alternate delegates-at-large and
 two alternate district delegates tc
 the national convention are to be elected at the primary, and no names have been filed with the State Dem ocratic Central Committee for any of these six positions. So that the vot- CT desiring to cast a complete ticket will have to write six more or total of "A names on the ballot.
 The regular ticket will be the long est in the history of the state. Here are the positions to be voted on, the number to be voted for and the num- Der to be scratched off the ticket, as will appear in Cadron township. It will be the same, of course, in all other townships, with the exception of township candidates:
 National Ticket-For president l, national committeeman 1, delegate at-large 4, scratch ?; alternate dele gates-at-large, write four names Tn blank spaces; district delegates 2, scratch 3; alternate district dele gates, write names in blank spaces congressman 1.
 State Ticket-Governor l, scratch ?; attorney general 1, scratch 1; treasurer 1; secretary of state 1, scratch 1; commissioner of agricul- ture l, scratch l; auditor l, scratch 1; superintendent of public instruc- tion 1, scratch 1 associate justice !; commissioner of lands and high ways 1.
 District Ticket-Railroad commis- sioner 1, scratch 2; prosecuting at torney l, scratch I.
 County Ticket-County judge 1, scratch 1; sheriff l, scratch 1; cir cult clerk l, scratch 1; county clerk l, scratch B; representative l, scratch 2; treasurer 1, scratch +; assessor, l; surveyor, 1; coroner, |. Township Ticket-Justice of the peace 2, scratch 2; constable 1, scratch ?; township committeeman 4, scratch 5; delegates to county con- v.ntion, write g names in blank spaces; alternate delegates to county convention, write 9 names in blank spaces.
 Total names to be voted for, 60.
 Total names to be scratched off, 35
 Total names to be written on bal lot, 24.
 That many of the 100 or more Democratic voters of Cadron town ship will be deprived or an oppor- tunity of casting their ballot if only one polling place is provided, is the belief of several who have studied the matter With ticket like the above it will be impossible for the average elector to enter the polling place, receive and make out his bal lot, deposit it and withdraw in less than five minutes. Many of limited education and poor eyesight will re- Quire 10 or even 15 minutes. Two thirds of the voters will have to con- suit the judges in making out their tickets, as there are so many new features to the voting this year. This would mean that not more than four electors could be satisfac- LorilY admitted to the polls at one