The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-09-26
SOLDIER VOTEDV
NORTH DAKOTA
RELATIVES URGED TO SEE
THAT SOLDIERS CAST
VOTE THIS FALL.

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The Republican State Central
Committee has issued an appeal
to all supporters of the Frazier
administration, who have sons,
brothers or other relatives in
the army, to take steps to insure
their getting an opportunity to
vote at the November election.
in most cases the soldier will not
be able to vote unless his rel
atives register his name and
military address with their coun-
ty auditor and request that he be
sent a ballot.
The soldier voting act passed
by the last legislature permits
soldiers in the service to cast
their ballots and such ballots will
be counted if they are returned
to North Dakota before the
state canvassing board meets in
November.
Auditors Don't Know Names. "
The act requires the auditor
Of each county to mail ballots
to the soldiers. The soldier then
may return his ballot to the
county auditor, a stamped self
addressed envelope being pro-
/ vided for that purpose.
In many counties however, the
auditors do not know the names
and addresses of a large proper
ton of the soldiers and it will be
necessary for their relatives to
give this information to the
county auditors in order that the
soldier may not be deprived OF
his vote.
The Doyle campaign commit
tee is endeavoring to capture
the soldier vote by actively cir
culating Infamous charges . of
disloyalty. They are openly
boasting that they expect this
will give them a large majority
of the votes from the $4,000
North Dakota young men who
are either fighting in France or
at the training camps in this
country.
Supporters of the Frazier ad-
ministration know the falsity of
these charges, they know that
the State Council of Defense has
taken steps to protect the SOL
diers' property from foreclosure
by loan sharks and bankers, and
they feel that the program plan
ned by the Frazier administra-
tion is necessary to prevent the
profiteers from taking advan-
tage of the war and closing the
doors of industrial opportunity
| in the faces of the soldiers when
they return from war.
Relatives Should Refute Lies.
Those who have relatives in
the camps should see that the
county auditor sends them bal
lots. It also is important to
write the soldiers letters explain
ing the political situation and
pointing out why a vote for
Frazier is a vote for the same
kind of democracy that the SOL
der is fighting for abroad. Ener-
petic efforts of this sort will re-
flute the poisoned propaganda
which the Doyle forces are send
i ing out, and if the soldiers learn
the real facts in the case
namely that certain war profit
GERS are contributing to the Old
Gang campaign fund-it is pro-
bable that "Herr" Doyle will get
relatively fewer votes in the
camps than he got among the
citizenry at large in the recent
primary.
It is important, however, to
see that the soldiers are correct
" informed and all Frazier sup
porters o. are urged to write at
once to their relatives in Uncle
Sans service after filing their
names with the county auditor.
oEr READY 1oz 4th 11Bz1Tx LOAN
.lDEATH OF MRS JOS. YELLEN
Mrs. Joseph Yellen passed
away at her home near this city
) last Friday after a, lingering ill
ness. Mrs. Yelleh was but ~
, wears old age and leaves q hus-
, band a 5-month-old child and q
number Of sisters and brothers,
/, as well as her father and moth
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Paryzek,
Ito mourn her death. The fun.
eral services were conducted
. from the Presbyterian church
! on Monday by Rev. Maunder