The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-29

NOTING will be easy for you
Y next Tuesday if you will study
the accompanying photographs and
the instructions given here.
Entering the booth and drawing
the overhead curtain-lever to the
right until the curtain closes behind
you and the bell rings, you will face
the rows of cards and levers pictured
here.
At the left of the panel before
you will be the five party tickets
for mayor, city clerk and council
men. Only the two major party
tickets are pictured above.
First pull your party lever. 1t is
designated by the party name and
party emblem. This operation will
turn down the keys over your party's
candidates for mayor, city clerk, and
six councilmen. You have voted the
ticket straight"
To scratch, having pulled the
party lever, push up the key over
the candidate you wish to scratch
and pull down the key over the cam
didate of another party you favor
for that office.
Vote for Three Others
Having voted for six council can
didates by district, either straight"
or by scratching" you may go
ahead and vote for three others at
large; this because there are nine
counciImanic posts to be filled and
only six candidates in each party.
To vote for the added three, you
first must push up the three keys
which turned down over blank
spaces when you pulled your party
lever. This enables you to pull down
the keys over three more council
candidates Gin addition to the six
you choose by districts, thus ex-
pressing your wishes for council
men-at-large, even though they are
of an opposite political party to the
one whose party lever you pulled.
Stepping now to the right end OF
the booth, you face the names and
numbers of the fifteen candidates
for five posts Of school commits
sioner, as pictured at the right. Pull
ing the party lever has not cast any
votes for these candidates, for they
are not listed by parties.
School Ticket Next
Running up and down, the first
three rows at the left are for the
term beginning Jan. /, 1880. You
are to vote for three of these, and
three only, by pulling down the in
dividual keys over the names of the
three candidates you favor. The
four names appearing in the last two
vertical rows are for the year be-
ginning Jan. /. 1882. You are to
vote for two of these in the same
manner.
In the picture at the right, the
keys have been pulled down to indi-
cate a vote for each Of the five
school candidates on the Citizens
School committee ticket, pledged to
divorce politics from control Of In
dianapolis public schools.
Five Are Recommended
In the top horizontal row, the
fourth key has been pulled down
over the name of Samuel E. Gar
rison. The corresponding key has
been pulled down in the second row
to vote for Merle Sidener. In the
third row, the first key has been
turned down to vote for Mrs. Maude
Miller, and in the bottom row, the
first and second keys for Julian
Wetzel and Russell Wilson.
The keys having been set, your
vote is recorded when you open the
booth to leave, by pulling the over
head lever back once more to its
original position.
All of this is less difficult than 1t
sounds. If you are addicted to
"buck ague" at the sight Of SO many
tickets and lever. jot down your Sc
lections before you go to the polls
and refer to it when your turn
comes in the booth.
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