Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-30
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PREPARE YOUR BALLOT.


Examine the sample ballot care.
uily. Especially should those who
IRE to vote for the first time familiar.
re themselves with the way they
ssnt to vote. BY having the sample
,allot prepared before entering the
,ooth much time will be saved. Any
hing that tends 10 expedite matters
u the polls will help a great deal
his year when there will be such a
yreat congestion,
The ballot this year Is an enor-
mouse affair, but it is not so for.mid-
tble at 1t looks. II the voter is care
ul TO follow the instructions print
I'd on the ballot there will be no
rouble.
In the first place. the candidates
ire arranged according to party this
rear. All the Republicans are in n
,olumn, the Democrats In another
solumn and the other candidates of
ke other parties are grouped under
lie columns headed Nomination by
edition." Persons desiring to vote
or any of the candidates of the
Jingle Tax party, the Socialist party,
he National Prohibition party. the
rarmer-Labor party or the Socialist
hbor party should look in the last
10 columns on the ballot for their
nndidstes.
The reason that all these minor
,arties do not have columns of their
,wn as the Republicans and Demo-
rats do, is because they have not
pt had enough votes cast for any of
keir candidates at a general election
3 qualify them to hold primaries.
their candidates have to be nominal
ID by having petitions circulated and
fed with the secretary OF state or
srounty clerk. as the case may
fbur the VAST majority of voters
I'LL be Interested only in the first
ayo columns on the ballot. Those
Eho are going to vote for either the
Republican or Democratic candi-
Hates need not bother with any of
he rest of the ballot at all, except
pg the two questions TO be voted
ipon which are printed at the bot
som OF the ballot.
4 In the first column on the ballot
sill be found all of the Republican
Candidates. In the second column
Bill be found all the Democratic
Candidates. The state chairmen of
re respective parties drew lots to
Decide the location of their columns
ana the Republicans this year were
Fortunate enough to get the favored
position, which is the first column on
ballot.
sthe head of the column will be
the names of the candidates
Tor President and vice president. In
the Republican column 1t is Hard
ing and Coolidge and in the Demo-
cratic column it is Cox and Roose-
Welt. But contrary to what has come
10 be the popular conception of a
presidential election, the people do
not vote for the presidential candi-
oates direct. The people elect what
Are known as presidential electors
lent and vice president. Each state
mas as many presidential electors as
t has United States senators and
congressmen. For New Jersey the
number is fourteen, there being
Twelve congressman from this state
and two senator's. the latter being
The same for all states.
While the name Harding and Cool
idge. and Cox and Roosevelt are to
fbe found at the top of their respec-
tive party columns, under nc circum-
stance should any mark be placed
Opposite their names. They are
simply there to help identify the COL
The fact that there is no
fsquare before there names, thus pro-
lviding no place in which to put the
fsx" ought to be sufficient reminder
THAT no mark is to be put opposite
THE names of these presidential can
sdidates which are found at the top of
The column.
In order to vote for Harding and
fcoolidge or Cox and Roosevelt the
fvoter will ignore these names but
" Ill proceed to place al tx" in each
Zone of the squares before the four
ttcen names printed under the names
Hsf the candidates whom they favor
For the presidency. II any mark is
placed on the ballot excepting in the
bquares that appear before the
of the candidates, the ballot
is likely to be thrown u when the
count is made on the ground that it
marked ballot.
daying voted for the fourteen
= tors whose names appear under
-presidential candidates for whom