The north Mississippi herald., 1922-09-01
LAWS GOVERNING
STATE ELECTIONS
TO THE VOTERS OF YALoBUSHA
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

Your ballot is sacred, at the same
time secret, and no election officer or
clerk, has any right to ask you how
you are going to vote, or who for, it is
none Of his business, the law is plain
as to the duty of election officers and
clerks.
It is the duty of every citizen to
watch and see that he gets his rights,
and in this respect he is also his bro
Tiers keeper, and should see that his
neighbor gets his rights. SO keep
your ears and eyes open on election
day, if you are expected to "toe the
hne," make it your business to see
that the other fellow,also measures up
to the same fair standard that he ex-
poets of you.
If any clerk or officer of any elec-
tion starts any SMART ALEX" stuff
with you, or attempts to show any
partiality make note of it, remem-
ber the witnesses present and then and
there call their attention to it, and
then see that such officer,
clerk or manager gets his under the
law, and it reads as follows:
Sec. 1926 Code 1906, Sec. 852
Hemingway Code WHEN anyone
who offers to vote at an election shall
be objected to by any challenger as
q person unqualified to vote, if any
manager of such election shall permit
him to vote without honestly consider
Ing his qualifications, or if any man.
ager shall knowingly permit an un-
qualified person to vote, or shall
knowingly refuse the vote of quail
ned person, he shall, upon convic-
ton be punished by imprisonment in
the county Jail not exceeding three
months, or by fine not exceeding two
hundred dollars, or both. Sec. 853
Hemingway code. eff any manager,
clerk or any other officer whatever,
assisting or engaged in conducting
any election, or charged with any
duty in reference to any election,
shall designedly omit to do anyofficial
act required by law, or designedly
do any illegal act in relation to any
general or special election, by which
act or omission the votes taken at
such election in any district
shall be lost, or the electors
thereof shall be deprived of their
suffrage at such election, or shall de-
signedly do any act which shall rem
der such an election void, or shall be
guilty of any corrupt conduct or par
tiality in his official capacity at such
election, he shall upon conviction be
imprisoned in the penitentiary for a
term not exceeding two years."
The law is plain as to his duty, and
remember some narrow minded,
squirrel headed clerk, manager or
officer of any elections that gets it
into his brain that it is a part of his
duty to vote those that are going to
vote, with him." and like he does,
and like he wants them to vote, and
to reject those he does not like, and
those that are not going to vote with
him, and like he does, he will disfran-
chise at his pleasure and to suit his
own narrow minded view, (often
such fellow is taking orders from
some fellow higher up), then such
fellow when he violates the above
law, he should have the full benefit
Of 1t. And 1t is your duty as man
and as citizen to see that he gets all
that is coming to him in this respect.
Make it your business to see that he
does. I do hope and trust that we
will have fair clerks, fair officers and
managers of the election to be held
on Sept. 9Th, 1922, but If we have
any Of the kind above mentioned. see
such fellow answer to the law for
such violations above mentioned, IL
any.
Cordially yours,
VIM. r. HAMILTON.