Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-16

Mayor Frank Dorsey, despite Ine
fact that he is the executive re-
presenting the existing form OF
government, came out this morning
strongly in favor of a change to the
commission government plan. Real
izing the deficiencies in the present
system, not only the mayor. but
Alderman John J. Clark and re-
presentatives from every part of the
city have decided that the new In :
stitution is needed and have come
out publicly. rallying to the cause
Of the new form.
When questioned today regarding
his position on the commission form
Of government, County Clerk Bern :
ard M. Cannon stated that he would
say nothing publicly either one way
or the other. He expressed himself
as being neutral upon the matter
and stated that he had said nothing
TO influence any one who questioned
I him upon the issue. Use your own
Judgment" had been his answer, he
laid.
To-day the supporters of comhis-
Osion government are particularly
optimistic about the outcome at the
polls tomorrow. and with the added
support OF the highest executive in
the city and the endorsement of the
many elements here. predict victor
tous change.
Adrian Lyon. president Of the
Commission Government Association,
IN an interview with an EVENING
NEWS reporter this morning. insists
that there are no such complications
in the sample ballot which the op-
position has put out. they say. you
will be compelled to use. IF commits
sion form of government wins. At
the lower part of the ballot are
numerous questions, added by this
faction, which are calculated to be-
fuddle the brains of the voter, quest
ions which have absolutely no bear
ing whatever upon the subject.
Mr.. Lyoyn said:
There has come to my notice a
sample ballot used under the COM
mission form of government con-
tanning eighteen names, from which
five are to be elected. circulated by
\ the opponents of the movement, ac-
companied by the statement that it
is SO complicated no one can in
telligently vote it.
II have before me the sample
ballot used at last falls election in
the poll in which l vote. 1t con-
.tains twenty-eight names, beside the
vote on the raise of patrolmens pay.
s.The voter is there directed to vote
TOR three from one group. for two
from another, and for one from each
. of the other five groups. I am
laundering what the ballot at this
6ming election will be with five
Zcandidates for president and vice.
4president with fourteen electors,
leach. beside as many candidates for
congress and for other offices. 1t
will probably contain nearly q
~ Il \. ri tf.rfC
=numbers to be elected from dozen
or more groups That is the ballot
these opponents advise is the simple
ballot. because they say: DO you be-
zlieve in the now present simple
<ballot?'
ssThe fact is the old ballot is the
complicated one while the commits
sion government one is as simple as
4 a ballot can be. In lbs essence 1t IS
nothing more than a simple straight
list OF names with direction to the
voter to vote for five OF them. That
is all there is to 1t and all that
ninety per cent. of the voters VIII
do. Any attempt to obscure this
simple requirement and direction by
stating what is possible under the
law as IL 1t were required is but an
other attempt to evade the truth.
THE voter may, If he SO desires,
express a second choice in the second
column. and a third choice in the
I'D column. He is not obliged to
md it is very clear that only those
who understand this simple act will
do It, Is there anything complicated
about that?
1.-THE great mass OF voters will
know very readily what five names
they Want to vote for. they will mark
those five names and that will end it.
l ask in all fairness. could anything
be more simpler
s'If there is anything whatever
complicated in this manner of vot-
ing 1t is in the canvass which the
city clerk must make OF the result,
and is something with which not one
In a hundred voters will or need De
concerned. The candidates that ger
"a majority of the first choice are
<elected Of course. Should one or
Enore of the required number of |
pmmissioners not get such a ma
rity the second choice votes are
kded In determining the election,
a SO on. There is not one chance /
a hundred that any such compli-