South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-07
BE BRAVE, MEN! THE PRIMARY BALLOT
WILL NOT HURT YOU

They're voting today-under the old Australian bal
lot system.-holding county senatorial congressional
and convention, all at in own precinct
to your precinct and you are your own dele
gate TO all o them. You direct those whose
you would have your party ticket next fail
1t is up you much anyone else. 1t Is called
primary primarily it is the peoples begin
ming a revised of public officials; the
beginning of process of elimination that will reach
test election in November. The man
stays away from the polls today fails to register
his choice for his party's candidates. such man is
evading his duty himself his party and to the
government. and lie ought to keep quiet the
suits
That is one great fault with too many Americans
We busy something, to give attention to
our electoral duties but we are never busy.
anything else grOwl grumbie at what results,
perhaps in part from inertia All it takes
is tongue and a bag of wind to find fault with the
government. but might lose penny or two or
perhaps get contaminated with something, should we
take time for correcting those faults.
Which is true though the primary law is trihe
complicated you may know the results the
next morning Indeed, probability, it will be a
couple mornings before you know them fully. And
yet we cannot wherein is going be more than
twice terrible counting the votes under the old
Australian ballot sysem-Oefore the arrival of the voting
maohines-at the general elections There were those
objected the voting machines their arrival
because they did away with the Australian ballot; the
same people finding fault with the necessity
doing away with the voting machines and returning
o Australian ballot. There nothing terrible
about if the will but aside his fears.
his head follow instructions. and ahead and vote
brave, The primary ballot viii bite
you The ferceness of it, the complications and the
awful time that inspectors and canvassers to
have making the count, like Mark Twains death an
nounced long years before it have been gross
Iy exaggerated" You certainly know what your poll
ties are; whether you democrat republican,
progressive. Enough publicity has been given the
of the candidates that you ought TO have par
acquaintance with least of them. and. if
YOU "a good citizen Jealous OF your citizenship
you Then all you need do is to walk to the
voting place, call for the ballot of party enter
booth put an 'X in the first choice column in front
OF the that first choice for each office
and another *" in front of the name in the second
choice column that is your second choice. Fold your
ballot according instructions deliver it to the in
spector. and your is done.
Nothing so very complicated about that The
mainder o the IS the inspectors
vassers and they paid for You need worry
about them. They wanted the job they wouldn't
have taken IT, OF course it's a change, but the entire
of the world been the product of change
Really exactly understand the mental pro-
cesses Of those candidates who have been running
around asking TO for them the primary
an with the breath telling them what a crime
the primary is the old convention system would
produce better candidates what hard job is
going for you vote-to do the very thing they
asking of you Ordinarily in asking for the
support another one, would be telling him how
easy would be but somehow many of the candi-
before the primary this is affair exraordi-
nary.
Ii is extraordinary affair but i'm a different way
extraordinary in the that the responsibility
yours-and you unfit for citizenship you
the intelligence or the willingness to make that re-
sponsibility good