The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-10-22

Look carefully to your ballot when
you enter the booth at your polling
place on election day. You cannot voss
hastily or carelsssly If you wish 70
vote the whole ticket. nor intell1genx1y
unless you consider the proportions
that are presented to the voter for his
decision. Besides q long list on candt-
dates, running from presidential elec.
tors at the head to constables at the
foot, there are four propositions upon
the ticket that you are expected to vote
for or against They are Referendum
bill No. l, relating to the construction
Of a state highway system; Referen.
dunn No. 2. providing for the payment
Of equalized compensation to veterans
Of the war; An amendment to the con-
stitution amending section is relating
to eminent domain; An amendment to
the constitution to increase the sala-
ries of the state officers. Voting on
such measures at a general election.
when the mind of the voter Is pretty
well occupied in selecting the men he
is going to vote for for office, the adj
dition of these other measures to be
voted upon is confusing and the result
will be that very large proportion OF
the voters Of the state will ignore tho
measures entirely and they will be
adopted or rejected by small minor
ity of the total vote cast. This has
been the case at every election where
the voters have been called upon to
support or oppose such propositions
appearing upon the regular ballots. In
our opinion all the measures offered
are worthy Of support with the OK
ception Of Referendum No. l. Espec-
tally is this the case in regard to Ref
erendum No. 2. the full text Of which
has appeared in this paper during the
past twelve weeks and Is to be seen
and read in this issue Of this Gazette.
Again we say, be very careful when
you go to vote that you register your
approval or disapproval OF the refer
endum measures and the amendments
to the constitution. In order that these
additions to the ballot may be better
understood we here publish the synop-
sis of the measures as they will appear
upon the official ballots:
Referendum Bill No. 1, Entitled
an act providing for the construction
Of state system of trunk line hard
surface highways, providing for the is
suance and sale of state bonds to cre-
ate fund for such purpose and the re-.
demption of such bonds from motor
vehicle license fees and if the revenues
from such license fees are insufficient
levying a tax for such deficiency"
Referendum Bill No. 2, Entitled
"An act providing for the payment OF
equalized compensation to veterans OF
the war with the Central Allied Powers
who were bona fide residents Of the
state of Washington at the time OF
their entry into the service, authorize
ing the issuance and sale OF state
bonds to pay such compensation and
the levy of tax to pay said bonds, ap-
propriating the proceeds of the sale
of such bonds for the payment of such
compensation and expenses incident
thereto, and providing pealties for vio-
lation of this act"
Amendment to Constitution :-"An
act for the amendment of Section IL.
article 1 of the State Constitution re-
lating to eminent domain by declaring
that the taking of private property BY
the state for land reclamation and set
tiement is public use."
Amendment to Constitution :-"An
act for the amendment of Sections IA.
16, IL 10, 20, 81 and %, article 3, of
the State Constitution by fixing the an
nual salries of certain state officials
as follows: Governor, $4,000; lieuten-
ant governor $4,000; secretary of state
S. 900; treasurer, $4,000; auditor, $5,-
600; encouragement $4,000; superin-
tendent of public instruction, $4,000"
-zSE-3HR
We acknowledge a call Friday last
from r. A. Nixon, of Tonasket, repub-
lican candidate for county commits
soner in the third district, but un-
fortunately we were SO rushed with
work that we had little time to de-
vote to the gentleman. Mr.. Nixon Ia
no stranger in Oroville, as he is pio-
neer in the county and has served as
county commissioner one or two
terms. Mr. Nixson's popularity cannot
be questioned and he has many friends
scattered all over the county. He made
remarkable run for the nomination
at the primary election, and If the can
hold that leverage in the general cleo
ton. II would be hard to defeat him