The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-26
NO INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
Two Ballots Will Be Used at Election,
One Containing Presidential Ballot
and the Other State, Legislative
and County Tickets.

County Clerk Jones is all set for the
big national election to be held two
weeks from today He has let the con-
tract for twelve thousand sets of ballots
and these are to be delivered at his Of
flee before the end of the present week.
In the final copy for the ballot just
one change was made in the make up.
John, s. Medary of Lacrosse has been
substituted as a Presidential elector on
the Republican ticket in place of
George w. Burton also of Lacrosse.
For the first time in generation
there will be no independent nomina-
tions to be voted for at the coming cleo
ton and there will be but four places
on the ballot. These will be the Demo
cratic, Prohibition, Republican and So
cialist and the. straight ticket will be
voted in the good old fashioned way of
placing cross in the circle at the head
of the ballot. There will be no referen-
DUN questions to be voted on this year
and the voter will have nothing to
bother him but the two ballots for of
fcials. The first ballot is that for the
National election. 1t will be on blue
paper and it will contain the names of
the Presidential and Vice Presidential
candidate and o. list of the electors for
the two offices named by the different
parties. Of the other ballot which will
be on white paper will be the name of
the men who are running for United
States Senator and the State, Congress
sional and County offices. In addition
TO the 10000 official ballots the county
clerk will provide 1900 sample ballots.
It is probable that thousands of other
sample ballots will be ordered by the
various candidates. AS the city is to
switch from the machine back to the
paper ballot this year it is probable that
a good deal of instruction will be necesL
sary for the voters. Many Kenosha
voters have never voted a paper ballot
at presidential election but the cleo
tion Officials will probably find it easy
to show them. The balloting will be
in the same method as has been fol-
lowed at the primary elections with the
exception that tn names of all candi-
dates, regardless of party will appear on
the one ballot.
The ballots have been prepared long
time before election in order to give the
clerk chance to meet the demands of
all people who may desire to vote by
mail. All that is necessary for these
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their right to vote here and a request
that the official ballot be sent to them.
Then the ballot must be returned to the
clerk in time for him to deliver it to
the proper election officials on election
day.
Election officials I'm the city do not
take any too kindly to the suggestion of
paper ballots. They know that it will
mean a large increase in the work to be
done on election day and it is expected
that the entire night will be taken up in
counting the ballots. The first ward is
expected to cast pretty close, to fifteen
hundred votes and while this ward has
the most efficient corps of election Of
ficials to be found anywhere in the
state it will probably take these officials
much of the night to tabulate and count
the vote. 1t is improbable that Ke-
nosha will know the result of the cleo
ton in the county before some time on
the morning after the election. In the
county towns there will be no delay
greater than in former years as ballots
have always been used in these towns
and even with a record vote the work of
counting should be completed in all of
the towns by the "shank of the even
ing"