Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1890 — Page 6

... - TO LYNCH A COMBINE. THREATENING LYNCH-LAW ON THE BINDING-TWINE TRUST. Oporations of tho Trust'* Agonts in tho Philippine Islands—Tholr Attempt to Foreo the Holders of Hemp to Sell »»<. a Lass Causes threat Irritation and Calls Out a Threat to Apply Lynch-Law. •Lynch a trust?" That would be a vast undertaking; but if it could succeed ft would at least prove more effective than the Republican effort tabreak down trusts by talk and threats to take off duties that protect them. A trust alter having been lynched would prowmiy' never rise from the grave to besiege the Republican Congress for higher duties and get them again. The Republican talk about squelching trusts means nothing, absolutely noth' Ing, so long as they continue to teed them on high protective duties. The liquor trust gets more protection t aan ; ever, and so does the linseed oil trust. The newly formed window-glass t *ust has been getting an average of 105 per cent protection, and the McKinley bill, as it passed the Republican , House of Representatives in May, I actually made the protection still higher, i To deal <uit protection with one hand I and pass worthless laws against trusts i with the other is as absurd as that other ; scheme eUqhe Republicans, io pass 'uc- : Kinley bulls rqr the purpose of shutting I out foreign rbade. and then to vote I money out of tlre Treasury to pay- eeo- j pie to build ship> and sail them upon theJ „ seas. / | The most practical way to deal with : trusts in America is to remove the dirties- ! from the- .article or material of which > they create a monopoly. \ Senator John Sherman and lion. J. C. { Burrows, one of the makers of -the Me- 1 Kinley bill, have both suggested ’ tat i this is the tiling to do, only they forget r all about this remedy when it becomes necessary to vote on the subject .in Congress. Buprows helped to make the McKinley bill, tm- liicst. infamous inoasure ‘in the interest of tYusts that tie country has ever seen,, and there is ; no . •evidence that he raised his little finger j to put iuto’the bill a paragraph exp ess- i ing the principle he lias publicly ci ana- 1 pioned, that j>rotection should be w-.h---drawn in all vases wher - it has given . ■ ; casion to the formation of a trust. I Senator Sherman has advocated the J same view; yet when those fifteen' ’lepublicans voted with the Democrats to j put binding-twine on the free list he did j not join them. Senator Sherman has a convenient way to meet such cases. He I simply denies’that t'nere is . any such trqst in question, and then he goes right on voting high duties right and left. While this is the best way to deal with f trusts here, gnother way has been suggested on the Philippine ,Islands—to apply lynch-law. This law cannot be applied to the case in our land: but the agents of the twine trust have been threatened with it in the country where manila hemp is grown. The Philippine Islands are a Spanish dependency lying to the southeast of 1 China. ‘Their principal product is than11a hemp, which takes its name from Manila, the chief city on the islands. This manila hemp is sent to the United States in large quantities.-our imports being in 1889 nearly six and one-half million dollars' worth. This trade takes to those islands the representatives of our binding-twine trust for the purpose of buying up the hemp crop. Senator Davis told, in his attack on the trust in the Senate, how “the entire business, including the . sources from which that commodity was o supplied, was governed by a combination of all for'substantially alb the mantilavturers of binding twine-. In the Philippine Islands they limited and controlled the price of one-half the raw - material, and in Yucatan they controlled the other half.” ■. ' It was in carrying out this plan of con- [ trolling the price that the trust's agents in Manila were threatened with Jynchlaw. Mr. A. R. AYehjx the United States ' Copsul at Manila, st'iidg several reports to thecState Department at Washington ' about thb contest last winter and spring between the buyers for the trust and the native dealers in hemp. The dealers, Mr. Webb says, had bought the crop at prices ranging from $8.57 to 810 per. hundred pounds. The American and English syndicates refused to pay the native dealers a price sufficient to cover the cost of their stocks, and the Consul thought’that many of the dealers would undoubtedly be ruinedThe trust had vesseK chartered, and they were lying in the harbor ready to take away the hemp: but'still the trust’ refused to buy. Two of those vessels had cost the trust over $30,000, simply for lying in the harbor and waiting till it had forced the dealers to . sell at lower prices., A report in this way got into circulation on the islands that the syndicates had “untold millions at-their command," and that they would buy no hemp til! the price went down to $5 per hundred pounds. This state of things produced great irritation among the people, and called forth a chivalrous sentiment of sympathy with the dealers as the weaker party to the fight. The Consul sends t.wo articles from the principal paper of Manila, which show how intense was the irritation which these greedy monopolies had caused in that distant land. Lynch-law is hinted at by the Manila paper as the remedy for the evils described. “To the force of attack," it . says, “the force of opposes itself, and never was it more our duty lhan now to remind the Americans, of their famous lynch-law.” A trust has never felt the halter draw with good opinion of lynch-law. While the Manila 'way of dealing with trusts is not to be recommended to our wheat-growers it has at least one striking merit: it would be efficacious to the last degree. The valiant talk of Senator Sherman and Kepreseutative Burrows lacks that merit entirely. You can’t kill a trust by calling it names. The binding-twine trust will be hurt badly by free twine; it can ‘fcrin and endure Senator Davis’ denunciation of it as “that all-comprehendiqg, unsatisfied and extortionate monopoly. ” What the Supreme Court Thinks of Protection. The “principle of protection” was some years ago passed upon by the United States Supreme Court. The decision was rendered by Justice Miller, who was appointed by Lincoln, It is as follows: I “To lay with one" hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because It is done under the forms of law and is called a taxation. This is not legislation. it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation.- A ‘tax,’ says Webster’s Dictionary, ‘is a rate or sum of jponey assessed op the person or property of a citizen by the Government for the use of the nation or State. ’ Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the legis- > lature upon persons of property to raise | money for public purposes. •We have established, we think, be- ! yond cavil, that there can be no lawful , tax which is not laid for a jihblic pur- j pose. ‘ , I “If it be said that a benefit results to the local public of a town by establishing manufactures, the same may be said of »ny other tJbSness or pursuit which em- ;

ploys capital or labor. The mercb*’’*' the mechanic, the innkeeper, the banker, the builder, the steamboat < ‘’ rner equally promoters of the public and equally deserving the aid of »® e eftizens by forced contributions. No ‘ ine c&n-be drawn in favor of the mauufacturer which would not open the coffe : of the public treasury to the importuni- | lies of two-thirds of the business men ot ’ the city or town. • s.-t Lawyers will find this in 2o Wall- 65 - . TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER . BROWN. ■ NO. S. , ' . | — How Far the Tariff Inerease* Prices- j Dear Farmkr Brown —l think it was j sufficiently shown in my last letter that . the tariff raises prices. Since writing [ that letter m\; attention has been called j to an article in the New York Dry Good* • Eeonomist on the rise in retail prices j which has recently taken place in an- I ticipation of the passage of the Mt Kin- j ley bill. Before entering upon the question i how much the tariff adds to prices. I ; will ask you to read the following ex- * tract from the article just referred to: » “Retailers within a few days have i marked up-goods from 5 to 10 percent, i jTo give a few exampies: Surah and j faille Francaise have advances! from 00. ; 75. 85 and 95 cents to 65. So, 89. cents and j SI. The $1.25 and $1.50 qualities are: j $1.35 and $1.60, or poorer quality is | j marked up to the form r prices of th-| I better sorts. Cashmen ams serge at 81 I | were 9p cents a month ago. Strip* d I emsviots of 50 to 90 tints are, ti- ! day 54 cents to S’- Ladies' y selling for 51.35 was SL2S la-t i Week, yet the order for till- wa< placed , ! four months ago. Linen goods, such. ?s , ; sheeting, pillow casing; towels, tab.e , . covers and napkins, have adva M ‘ed ! the last month from five to t m P‘ r een't, , I Towels that are now $3 a itvz- n w re , 1 $2.75 last month, yet these are standards : goods that are often ordered a y>;ar ahead I ■of delivery, and cerUiitdy are t iutL.tf ; eneed by the prices of to-day. Duttons I ami dress trimmings. aro-W?d’:t t- n p-r’ cent, higher, especially ■crochet■ar. d pearl ’/ buttons. Hosiery has advanced it: the ; same ratios. Fifty eer.ts are mov a-a 1 d I for 47 cent stockings and 73 cents for the . ■ 6‘.‘ cent quality.” j. If prices take-such a ris x r. the- mere ’ anticipation of the McKinley bilk weal will they do when the bill be- o:m-s a law? How delighted will be the soul vs I Wm. McKinley. Jr., with his carious m.- i ■ tions about the desirableness <>f high i i prices! j And now for the subject of t-his letter. ■ ; to determine how far the tariff raises ! ’ jivices/ j ’ ! 1 said in my last letter that Republi- ! I cans themselves speak . of. protective du- : ties and revenue duties, by which is meant duties which afford protection to. some native industry, and duties which afford no such protection, whether because such industry does not exist at all.. or because it not only exists but produces more than the hqme market can con- ; sume. : ■ You will. see. therefore, that we shall I have to make a division of articles into classes. Before we can determine howmuch the tariff raises prices let us make these classes as follows: First, commodities which we produce ourselves in .-such abundance that we must sell the surplus abroad. Second, commodities which we produce in Sufficient quantities to till, or nearly fill, the home markets, and which wt 7 sell in foreign markets at a pro::t. Third, commodities which wedtio t .■ not produce at all or prod c e in qua >t i ties insufficient for home demands. Commodities which fall under the fire class cannot be made higher in prl< < o the consumer by the imposition of aduty Under this class fall the great staple’ producisoLXAL^^r’ns—;our corn, cvcert I. (including flov <c»tton. "and meat- and dairy products, lb wdo duties cu tfies* things help anybody? We have so rm? 1. of them that we are compelled t sell them abroad to an < c -- mous A extent. In ..the year end i_ June j 30, 1890, 'bur exports < f agricultural products were considerably more than three-fourths of all our ex- j ports. Our exported breadstiiffs alone | were in excess of all our exports of manufactures, the figures being $151,000,000 for manufactures and $154,000,000 for breadstuffs. Cotton exported reached $250,000,000. nearly $100,000,000 more than manufactures', while provisions of ! all kinds, including live hogs and cattle, t showed a total of $168,000,00. Now, in I cases where these enormous quantities ! of commodities are being exported, it is | clear that a tariff on the insignificant quantity of similar commodities poming into the country can have no effect whatever in raising the prices of our own products. Stand on the wharve? of Liverpool, as -1 have done, and see the ships discharging vhst heaps of our corn and wheat, and how contemptible does Major McKinley become in his attempt to beguile American farmers into the support of protection with increased duties on corn and wheat! Never- has a public man acted with greater insincerity and with a more palpable intention to deceive. He did not put a duty on cotton—there are no votes to be made for him in the South by such cheap and transparent jugglery—and for all his duties on wheat and corn and on nearly every article classed as provisions, you need not give the snap of your finger. You could carry in a quart cup all the extra product of your entire county by reason of McKinley’s higher duties. The same view is taken by the more candid Republicans themselves. Senator Allison, who voted for McKinley’s duties on corn and wheat in the Senate the other day, said, in 1879, that the duties on corn and wheat afford no protection to the great grain-producing regions of the country, and that, “therefore the farmer has no protection at all.” And yet the Senator goes through with the solemn farce of voting higher duties on wheat, corn, and similar farm products! Verily, it is a “fraud on the farmer!" . • The second class of commodities are those in which the domestic manufac- ■ turers or producers are able to till, or nearly fill, the home market and may export to some extent at a profit. Iri this class the duty is only partly added to the domestic article; and under some conditions, as for instance a temporaryrise in prices on the other side, it may be that no part of the duty is added. This latter condition occurred six months ago in the case of steel rails. The price in England, under conditions of trade partly temporary, rose to a point precisely ; equal to the price with us. The pro- . tectionists were quick to point out this case as a proof that the duty on the foreign article is not added to the price of the competing domestic article. “See,” they said, “you ‘free-traders’ are always saying that the whole duty is added to the price of articles made in our country; here are steel rails selling in London for $35 a tou, and the price in the United States is the same, but according to your ‘free trade’ notions the duty of sl7 a ton ought to have made the price of rails $52 a ton in the United States. Don’t you see that yQ>ur talk i that the tariff is a tax is all humbug?” No; it is not humbug. In this case the |. equality of prices was merely temporary, ' as our own rail makers pointed out to I Congress in their efforts to have the present exorbitant duty retained. “The | duty,” they said, “must be adjusted to meet the lowest English price,” which was some sl6 a ton; showing that as , soon as a fall of prices should take place I on the other side they would begin to

add a part of the duty again, and this has since happened. a A very large number of commodities fall in this second class; and, it fe always here that the protectionists make their fight. ° Here they find cases to prove their oft-repeated assertion "that the tariff is not a tax. I have shown that in the first class it is never a tax: all I : claim for the second class is that there the tariff is partly a Ux, still, though, a tax. ' In the third class of commodities, . which are either not made here at all or i are made in quantities not sufficient for I the home demand, the tariff is a tax tc the amount of the duty collected. As, however, my letter has extended beyond its usual length. I shall reserve my remarks upon this class for my next letter. Yours truly, Richard Knox. Reciprocity at Home. ' Chauncey M. Depew advises the New York farmers to take as their motto the three R's—Reciprocity, Retaliation anc Revenue. The farmers are already for revenue' Only the trouble is that the tariff makes fearful inroads into their revenue. In order to get revenue they must first get reciprocity at home, a reciprocity which* places an equal burden of taxation on every man: and when the farmers get that kind of reciprocity they can verv well afford to let retaliation take care of itself—they will, in fact, have all the retaliation they need. Depew is not half so shrewd as peops credit him with being. If the farmers should take his advice and demand retaliation, what would bo come of the ’ system of protection which Depew upholds, and which places burdens upon the farmers for other people's benefit? Depew to have told these New York farmers, rather, that the mottoes for them to follow are long suffering t ‘ward their Egyptian taskmasters, and the patience which endureth all things ’from trusts and the tariffs which create trusts? He should have taught them to give to hint that takes from thettb—if e the coat is taken, to give the cloak also—and to resist not the tariff evil that is daily making them poorer and poorer. Farmers can very well afford toabstain from retaliation; because they are being robbed, they do not need to retaliate upon their oppressors and rob them of what they have already gained. One thing they can do and ought to do: they should say with emphasis that this thing must stop; that the day has come of equal rights to all and special favors to* none. Reciprocity must begin at home, giving back to every man the inborn right which has so long been denied—the right to use his labor and the products of his labor according to his own will, without having to make enforced contributions to others. Reciprocity in trade is trading on equal conditions, and it is precisely this which the farmers of this country are not now allowed to do. The laws of the country make such reciprocity impossible, for the farmers are compelled to sell at a price fixed in the free-trade markets of the world, markets in which the so-called “pauper nations” figure as chief competitors: and they are compelled to buy in an artificially dear market, a market made dear simply and solely and confessedly by protection. Reciprocity at home! Let that be the watchword for farmers. If they demand it they can have it, for the demands of the farmers of this land are bound to be heeded; when they get that kind of reciprocity they will get revenue, too, and retaliation can go by the board. It is time equal rights should prevail in this so-called land of the free. It Hurts the Farmer, Too. “We don't buy any steel rails!” These words were shouted to a tariff -peaker in New York State isGt long agCT The idea of this farmer wls that, as he did not buy any steel rails, the duty on them was, a matter of HO possible concern to him. But was he right? By no means. Rails are ah important element in the ostof railroad construction. At preset it costs from $160,000 to $175,000 to >uy steel That sum of money must be made back by the railroad company. Make it back on whom? Why, on the people who use the road—on the farmers who ship their grain away and on the merchant who brings in supplies for the farmer. In this way the whole community is interested in the price of steel rails; and the steel rail trust, pi which the fifty-tive-million-power millionaire Carnegie ! figures, is not merely a combination to I grind the railroad companies, it grinds the farmer atid the merchant who use the roads, just as well. Mr. David A. Wells, the most competent statistician of this country, estimates that the extra cost of steel rails to the country for ten years, by reason of the tariff, was $140,000,000. D6es anyone suppose that sum was a loss to the roads? It could not have been so. Railroads exist to make money, and they made back in freight and passenger traffic every penny of that $140,000,000. The people footed the bill in the long run. ■ • ’ The New York farmer who said “we don’t buy our steel rails” helps to foot the bills of the railroad company for rails. Every time he ships away his wheat or buys a piece of machinery, he contributes a small amount to the railroad company to pay for its rails. That farmer himself will not buy a reaper unless he thinks that he can Ynake his money back on it; the railroad acts on precisely the same principle. The farmer, then, has an interest in the expenses of many other people besides his own. The big profits that are made by others, when traced back to their source, will usually be foufid to ccme mainly out of the farmer. „ e . It is worth any farmer's time to investigate how far the tariff on other people’s business finally comes back upon him. The Tariff on Bindins Txrine. The action of the Senate in putting binding twiue on the free list caused a veritable panic in the cording industry. The Bay State manufacturers were especially indignant, aud from all sides a , chorus of protest went up, which, it is understood, has already convinced Congress that the step is a very hazardous one to make; At the same time the pressure from the West is almost irre-, sistible. Binding twine is comparatively a new article, dating back only to 1880, but now about 50,000 tons per annum is used in binding the crops of the country.— Dry Goods Economist. An English Trust. Some companies formed a salt trust in England two years ago to keep up prices and grow rich. | Result: First year, ten per cent.; second year, six per cent. Why such a decline? The trust had to spendso much money in controlling salt works on the continent Os Europe that the profits were eaten up and the trust fell sick. Present condition of the patient very precarious, pulse wavering and uncertain, signs of early dissolution. It needs a tariff pill! The radical defect of all tariff legislation of the present day is that the interests of 64,000,000 Americans in their capacity as consumers are almost never cousidered, while less than 1,000,000, who are engaged in protected industries, monopolize the care and affection of our law-makers. This can never be otherwise till the consumer calls for a fair and square deal all around.

THE NEW ELECTION LAW INSTRUCTIONS IN DETAIL AS TO VOTING BY A NEW SYSTEM. The Report of a Committee Selected by the State Chairmen of the Two Kreat Parties—How Voting Must Be l>one The committee, consisting of hree lawyers of each of the two leading political parties appointed to take cognisance of points brought forward by the new election law, have completed their vork and reported the result of their lalx rs to the Chairmen of the Republican ami Democratic State committees. The gt ntlemen engaged in this work were J imes B. Black, Addison C. Harris and R «seoe O. Hawkins on behalf of the Rei üblicans, and Judge William E. Nit lack, James McCabe and Jacob P. Dunn, jr., for the Democrats. The first sect! -n of the report applies to the order in ’ -'hieh the ticket shall be printed, that of .State being as follows: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, ‘ Judge of the Supreme Court—Fiftl district, Attorney General, Clerk o the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Publie Instruction, Chief of Bureau of Sta- j tisties, State Geologist. On the local i tickets, the names of the candidates the : committee advise should be in the f How- ! ing order, as far as applicable to th j par- i ticular county: Representative in Con- ■ gross, Judge of Circuit Court, Prcsecut- • ing Attorney, Judges of Superior Court, ; J udge of Criminal Court, Senator, joint k Senator.-Representative, joint Reprcsen-T tative, Clerk of Circuit Court, t .>unty , Auditor, County Treasurer, Recorder, ’ Sheriff, Coroner. County Surveyor, County Commissioner. _’l he report then j continues: CITVTE. In constructing the chute, and in® cr forcing the provision that no person shall remain within liftv feet of the challenge wind >w, regard should be had to the purpose of t te statute. Passage along the highway shout. not be unduly obstructed. Persons passing i r being within fifty feet for manifestly necesstryand lawful purposes should not be hind tied or molested. We recommend the following instruc ions to i voters, required by Section 35 to be priated on ‘ the cards which are to tx- posted at the lolls, as bufficient to meet the requirements of tae law: : iNSThrcrraxs to voteks. First—You must get your ballots of he poll- ’ ing e'erk in the election-room. ! second—ls you want to vote a stra’gb ticket.-’ stamp the square to the left of the name of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote afstraight tickst, then [ do not stamp the squaroro the left of t te najn® ‘ of your party, but stampjthe square t< the left | of the name of each candidate for wl >m you s desire to vote on whatever list ot caoid dates it i may be. Third—Do hot mutilate your ballot, r mark it either by scratching a name off or wring one i on, or in any other way except by the stamp- i ing on the square or'squares as before men- ! tioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. Fourth—After stamping your ballots and before leaving the booth, fold them separ .tely, so that the face of them cannot be seen, and so that the initial letters of the names of :he polling clerks on the back thereof can o seem Then hand your ballots to the inspei tor, the stamp to the polling clerk, aud leave t se room. Fifth—lf you are physically unable t stamp ,your ballot, orcanuot read English. & inform the polling clerks, and tell them how oil wish to vote, and they will stamp your ba lots for you. But the voter and clerks should lot permit any other person to. hear or see row the ballot is stamped. Sixth —If you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface! mutilate or spoil your b.Jlot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new rallot. Sec. 43. Whoever shall knowingly or willfully false affidavit, under any of thq provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilt ‘ of perjury. Sec. 50. Any person who shall remi ve or attempt to remove a ballot or stamp from the election-room, or having in his posses -ion outside the election-room any ballot c r stamp, either genuine or counterfeit, during the election, shall be guilty of felony, and oh ccnvictio'n shall be imprisoned in the penitential-., not less than two nor more than five years, oi d be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Sec. 55 If any person not herein a thorized so to do shall enter or attempt to eater the election-room, or enter or attempt to enter within the railing leading from the hallenge window to the entrance of the elect on-room without first having been passed by :he challengers, or having been sw'orn in as her 'inbefore provided, or shall remain within tift/fi et of the polling place, contrary to the provisiot s'hereinbefore made, he shall be guilty of a mi -demeanor, and on conviction thereof t>e fined not more than SSOO. Sec. 56. If any person shall induce or attempt to induce, any elector to write, paste, or otherwise place on his ballot the iian_} of any person or any sign or device of any kind as a distinguishing mark by which to in iciite to any other person how such elector has voted, or shall enter into or attempt to form : ny agreement or conspiracy with any other pe son to induce or attempt to induce electoror any elector, to so place any distinguishing name or mark upon his ballot, w'hether or n< t said act be committed or attempted to be ct tnmitted. such person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and, on conviction, be impjd.-oned ' not - more' than five nor less than two y tars in tha State’s prison. Sec. 53. Any person who shall, d ring the election, remove or destroy any of th a ,supplies or other conveniences placed in the woths as aforesaid, or delivered to the voter so the purpose of enabling the voter to prepare ais ballot, or shall, during an election, remove, ear down, or deface the’ cards printed for the i rstruction of the voters, or shall, during an eh ction. destroy or remove any booth, railing or other convenience provided for such election, or shall’ induce or attempt to induce any per> >n to commit any of such acts, whether or n >t any of such acts are committed or attemf ed to be committed, shall be guilty of a inis lemeanor, and on conviction shall be punish, d by imprisonment for not less than six 1 months nor more than one ■year and be disfran hised any determinate period not less than ten years. Sec. 60. No officer of election shall disclose to any person the name of any eandidat for whom I any elector has voted. No officer < f election , shall do any electioneering on electic u day. No I>erson whatever shall do any electi< neering on election day within any polling place of within fifty feet of any polling place. No pe -son shall apply for or receive any ballot in my polling place other than that in which he is entitled to vote. No person shall show his balk t after it is marked to any person in such away i s to reveal the contends thereof, or the name of any candidate, or candidates for whom he has narked his vote; nor shall any person examine a 1 allot which an elector has prepared for votihg or solicit the elector to show the same. No perso:. except the inspector of election! or judge who n ay be temporarily acting for him, shall receive from any voter a ballot prepared by him for -©ting. No voter shall receive a ballot from iny person other than one of the poll clerks; nc : shall any person other othan a poll clerk deli era ballot to an inspector so be voted. No Voter shall deliver any ballot to an inspector to I e voted, except the one he receives from tin poll clerk. No voter shall place any max i upon his ballot or suffer or permit any other >erson to do so, by which it may be afterward as the one voted by him. Whoever t vail violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on convict; >n, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more tjhau one year, an . by fine of not less than one hundred dollars n- r more than five hundred dollars, and be disfn nehised for any determinate period not less thl a ten years. SAJIPLE BALLOTS. The sample State and local ballo s, provided ! for bv Section 35 of the statute, ets of 1889, page'l74, three of which are to be p >sted by the inspector in and about each p lling place, sfiouldbe printed in large type, eac ion a sheet of paper about 25x38 inches in size. The sample State ballot will be prepared by tht State Eleci tion Commissioners, and inclosed in the pack- ’ age of State ballots for each pre< net. They will be printed on yellow paper, ai 1 will have printed thereon the words: “San pie Ballots. Genuine State ballot is on red pape .’ The sample local ballot should hr prepared by the County’ Board of Election Coi imissioners, and inclosed in the package of loci , ballots for each precinct of the county. The ample local ballot should be printed on green paper, and , should have printed thereon the w Yds: “Sam- I pie ballots. Genuine local ballot s on white ■ paper.” I If deemed desirable by committe sos political | parties or by candidates for the pt -pose of the ' instruction of voters ballots eonfor rung to the above description of sample bal >ts may be printed of any size, on yellow and <reen paper, respectively, and posted up or c roulated by such committee or candidates at a ty time during the political canvass. BALLOTS. As there are two ballots ant two ballotboxes, inspectors should be extre nely careful to put the red ticket hi the red x>x and the white ticket in the white box. The initials of the poll clerks ot the back of each ballot should be scrutinized! fore the ballot is deposited in the box, as a safeguard against possible forgery of ballot s. In case a voter offers a ballot that is not ft ded so as to show, the initials of the poll clerk it should be returned to hina. with instructio A to go into the booth and retold it so tha they will be shown. If a vottt offers a ballot i o folded that the name of any candidate voted for is disclosed it cannot be placed in ti e box. and ho cannot thereafter be allowed to v» .a Thisbal- ■ lot should be surrendered and de troyed, and a minute <ff the occurrence, with the statement of tha daatrucUon of tha ballot, thould be al-

tered upon the poU-Hst, opposite tha nanteef the person. CHALLENGERS AND POLL-BOOK HOLDEB& Section 41 at Ahe Act of March 6, 1689, pro. i Tided -One challenger and one poll-book holder appointed and designated by each party organization shall be entitled to stand at the side of the chute near the challenge window.* The County Chairman should provide a written appointment for such persons, which should be recognized bv the Election Board, unless revoked and a substitute appointed over the same sjgiiihtnrHq The judges of the Marion Superior Court have constructed Section 2 of the Political Purity Act of March 9. 1889. (Chapter 130, Acts 1889.) to prohibit the pavment of challengers, poll-book holders, drivers, or any ether party-workers on election day. We acquiesce in their construotion of that act. ELECTION SHERIFFSKlection sheriffs will preserve order at the polls, make arrests on the demand of a member of the Election Board, or on affidavits. They should conduct bi-.nd voters or others needing physical assistance through the chute and to and from the voting-room. Thev should attend from the opening at tha polls to the conclusion of the count. COUNTING OUT. When the polls are closed the Election Board must first count the ballots remaining and unvoted, and the clerks must record the number of unvoted ballots on the tally-sheets. Thereupon these unvoted tickets must be totally consumed by fire. The board-must then count the ‘ State ballots before counting the local ballots, * by laving each ballot upon the table in the order i-t which it is taken from the ballot-box, and the inspector and the judge of election differing in , politics from the inspector, shall view the l«l- ■ lojs as the names of the persons voted for are : read therefrom. If a ballot is not stamped on : one of the squares at the left of the titles of the ■ tickets it will be counted for the names with j stamps on the squares to the left of them, and I no others. If two or more names of opposing I candidates for the same office are stamped • neither can be counted. I If the title of a ticket is stamped and no i names are stamped, the ballot will be counted ■ for ail the names on the ticket whose title is l stamped. It two er more titles are stamped, T the ba lot must be treated as if neither title ‘ were stamped. I If the title of one ticket is stamped and also names on other tickets, the ballot nlust be counted for the names so stamped and also for all the‘Hames under the title s-ampeu. except ! the opponents ot names stamped. This is sub- ■ jeet to the following exception: In ease there i are two or more candidates for the same office ' on the same ticket, as in case of candidates for the Legislature, judges of the Superior Court, justices of the peace, ete.. in,some counties, if i the title of one ticket and the names of one or more, but less than all. of such candidates on another ticket are stamped, such ballots cannot be counted for, any of the candidates for such 1 offices, for tho reason that the intention of the I voter is not apparent. If a voter desires to i vote a mixed ticket, as to such offices, he must 1 stamp the name of each candidate for whom he ■ desires to vote, whetheg he stamps the title of : a tic Set or not. To avoid possibility of misI take, in such cases, election officers should ad(vise voters, if they vote a mixed ticket, to stamp the name of each person voted for. . If any ticket is found not indorsed with the initials of the poll clerk, or if any ticket i;ears any distinguishing mark or ijmtilation. it shall ‘ not be counted; so if any Ucket properly ini dorsedandnot mutilated, is™o made up that it ‘ is [impossible to determine from the ballot the ' elector’s choice cf candidates, such ballots shall i not be counted as to the candidate or candidates [ affected thereby, but should be counted as to l the candidates not thereby affected. In making i the count, if any member of the board shall proi test or object to the decision of a majority ; thereof, as to counting or not counting the ■ ticket, sueh ballots must be preserved by the inspector, and the poll clerks must record on the tally-sheets a memorandum stating how the tickets were stamped and counted, describing them for identification. On completing the count of the State ballots and recording the tallies, the board must then totally consume by fire the undisputed ballots, and the inspector must preserve, as hereafter stated, the disputed ballots. The board will then proceed to count the local ballots in the same manner. The count ended, tue board must fill up the election return papers, showing the total vote cast for each candidate, and immediately make a memorandum of the total vote east for each candidate, and deliver a copy Vhereof to each member of such board. RETURNS. The count being completed, the board must place in a paper ba ’ or envelope, to be furnished for that purpose, all affidavits made and taken during the election, which bag or envelope must be securely sealed by the board. Each member of the board must' indorse his name on the back of such bag or envelope, which must be directed to the clerk of the county, to whom the inspector must deliver such bag or envelope within three days. All protested and disputed ballots preserved from destruction must be put in another bag furnished for that purpose, together with the I seals of the ballot packages in the s.ime condition as they were when the packages were opened at the beginning of the election. The inspector must seal this bag with wax, and indorse thereon the number of ballots therein and with the name of the township and the number of the precinct. And each inspector shall deliver the same at the earliest possible period to the clerk of the county. In a third bag must"be placed one of the lists of voters kept by the poll clerks and one of the tally-papers, which bag must be tightly closed aud sealed with wax by the inspector in the presence of the judges ; and the inspector must deliver the same to the county clerk on or before I the Thursday next succeeding the day of election, and make the affidavit required by Section 4713 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. The Children’s Prayer. An incident which was quite amusing, but also a rather pretty illustration of faith in prayer as evinced by two little folks, 4 and 9 years old, occurred in Washington recently and is thus described by the Star of that city. In explanation it. should be stated that the names used were those of valued friends, with the exception of Tommy Russell’s family. This interest was the result of the witnessing by the children of Tommy Russell’s performance of “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” The mother of the children, entering a room where they had been very quietly playing for some time, was addressed by the little girl, aged 9, in this way: . “Mamma, we have been asking God • to save us and yon and papa, Uncle Charlie, Mrs. H—, Tommy Russell, his sisters and brothers, if he has any, Mr. and Mrs. Russell—" Here the boy, aged 4, interrupted: “Oh, Ethel we forgot to ask for Willie and Kathleen and Miss Kate and Miss Nan and Mr. II—“Well'” said Ethel, “you ask Him.” So down on his knees went the little fellow, reverently bowed his head, and, after moving his lips quietly for a minute or two, rose. “Did you ask Him ?” questioned his sister. “Yes,” replied Clifford, his little face as earnest and serious as possible. “Then," continued Ethel, “we would want a train of steam cars and a conductor, so we could go all over the world; because we thought if God would let us live we would like to stay on earth and see how nice and quiet it is while every one else is having a* good time in Heaven.” A Tennessee Komauce. Wilmouth Williams took an unusnal procedure to procure a husband. The object of her affections was one Henry Williams, who languished in the workhouse because he was unable to procure $25 necessary to liquidate the amount of his tine. Henry was cold in the love that Wilmouth lavished upon him, for he was smitten by another’s charms. Wilmouth had one advantage over her rival that enabled her to carry her point. She possessed money, while the object of Henry’s attentions was devoid of monetary attractions. Wilmouth ! visited the workhouse and offered to furnish the amount of her lover’s fine on the consideration that he would relinquish her rival and lead her to the altar. To this Henry consented, and affixed his signature to a contract to marry her as soon as she got him out of prison.— Memphis Avalanche. A Practical Business Education. Judge Peterby—Where is your son now ? Col. Yerger—He is with Silverstone. “Isn’t that the merchant who has failed several times and been burnt out a time or so?” “Yes. that’s the man. I want my son to get a practical business education.” A small boy who was shown a drop of water through a microscope, said that he knew now what made the singing in the tea-kettle.

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