Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-11-02
Be CAREFUL HOW YOU VOTE
NEXT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER !

The election next Tuesday may be
termed an off year one, yet it is a
most important election Here in
Morgan county it might be termed
a non-partisan election, since there
will be no political party designa-
tion on the ballots. All candidates
will appear on the same ballots.
ct simply by making an X. Remem-
ber that an X must be placed before
every individual and every PROPOSE
ton to be voted for. In each town
ship one trustee is to be elected.
The voters of the various town
ships and corporations are familiar
with the candidates and be it far
from us to say for whom to vote
In McConnelsville there are two
candidates for mayor, w. E. Medley
and John Mcbride; one candidate
for clerk, Alice Moody; two for
marshal, p. w. Masterson and En-
Gil Sims; two for treasurer, Earl
Lowell and Herbert Jones, jr. There
are seven candidates for council, as
follows: A. r.. Adrean, Joe Aber.
Harry R. Bozman, c. S. Dye, w. r.
Foster, w f. Johnson and O. P.
Lindsay, with six to be elected On
the M. & NJ school board there are
two candidates, David S. Lowe and
Ralph r. Baker, and two to be elect
u.
ed Carlos Hall and E. r. Bark
hurst; township clerk, K NJ Riley,
no opposition.
Malta village has two candidates
for mayor-Ezra Mcdaniel and Low
ell Dougan; Ernest Price and Lena
Barkhurst are candidates for clerk;
treasurer, Lucille Lynn; for mem
d. Best, Edward G. Clawson, G. E.
Perkins, R. Mcclure, Harry Lindi-
more. Louis M. Riley, Chester
Smith, s. B. Sheridan and H. w.
Woodward Malta township trus-
tee, A. A. Sawyer; clerk, Clarence
e. Cramblitt and Pearl Dew
On the county board Of educa-
and Dewey E. Parks, with two to be
elected
Some places have special propo-
sitions. Stockport votes on beer
and intoxicating liquor; NJ. & NJ.
school district on two mill levy.
and Manchester township a special
levy for a heating plant in the Rein
ersville school building
Special Propositions
The entire county will vote on
several questions and issues There
are two proposed Bigelow amend
ments. Vote NO on both of them
They are discussed editorially in
this issue and have also been in ad-
vertisements in this paper. Remem-
Der and Vote No On Them. Another
proposed amendment would create
a state board of education and di-
rector of education and would abol-
ish the existing office of superin-
tendent of public instruction. This
amendment has been printed in this
paper. Another matter is that of
the referendum petition in reference
to civil service measure, which
was passed by the last general as
sembly. We believe that it should
be defeated, since we believe that
1T greatly weakens civil service, in
stead Of strengthening it. At pres
ent We have a two member bi-par-
tisan civil service commission.
There are two members on the
board, one must be a Democrat and
would make a three member COM
mission, to be composed of two
members of one political party al
one member of the other party. >
the proposition becomes a law. -
Democrat governor would make Il
civil service board two Democrat
and one Republican, and a Repul
lican governor would make it twp
Republicans and one Democra
Vote no on this proposition.
Here in the NJ. & M. school di
trlct the matter of continuing tt
present two mill levy will be vote
on. 1t takes the place of the prev
ious three mill levy. Our tax rate
is very low compared with some
other voting precincts. and we feel
that the best interests of our
schools calls for the tax levy. Vote
for it.