Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — A Plan to Purify Nominations. [ARTICLE]

A Plan to Purify Nominations.

Suppose it were provided that registration in cities should be made early in October next before an election; that at the time of registration the voter should be requested to name the persons whom he would nominate for the offices to be filled, and that the persons thus nominated by a certain number, say a tenth of the voters registered, should have their ballots printed and distributed at the expense of the county. Would not these conditions lend to purify nominations? The details of a plan, of which this, is the merest outline, are easy made. It might be provided that no person should be thus nominated except one who had been previously recommended as fit ior the office by a certain number of the voters of the district. —David Dudldj Fie'd, in North Am ri axi Fevi iv. In feudal times, when a country was about to engage in war, the king summoned his vassals ; these, generally the chief nobles, summoned their retainers or liegemen, and the latter called on their farmers and yeomanry. The armv consisted of freemen, each armed at his own cost or the cost of his superior. From Philipsbnrg, Pa., Mr. S. M. Cross writes, briefly and pointedly, thus: “Yoor St. Jacobs Oil has cnred me of neuralgia of the face and head.” Price Fifty cents.