Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — The Hon. Mason J. Niblack [ARTICLE]

The Hon. Mason J. Niblack

has prepared a sample cf the new election ticket such as would have been voted at the last general election—that is i the names on it, are those that . were on the state and national tickets on that occasion. T 1 e j excellence, practicability and , simplicity of the ticket can, by it, be seen. The use of a similar ticket in Massachusetts at the late election in that state, under the Australian system, Droves its practicability. The Indiana ticket, howeter, will be much easier and more simple to vote and will afford a greater safeguard against Dudley,” which is a synonym for fraud. The sample is of Dink paper. On its back are explanations of| the method of voting. At the head of each column of names, comprising the three tickets, is representively, a cut of a noble rooster, an eagle with outspread wings and three empty, battered and headless barrels, the insignais of the different parties. In case a voter wishes to cast a straight ticket he has but to mark the ticket once at the head of the column of candidates whose politics is his. The candidates on the Massachusetts ticket are grouped accoiding to the offices, which necessitates marking every candidate voted for. Conse quently, too the voter would have to be able to read. But then fiperhaps it is the democratic voter who can’t read in Massachusetts, instead of the republican, as itisin the South. With the Indiana ticket it is different. If the cannot read he can vote by the insignia of his party. The additional safeguard exists in the requirment that the poll clerks must sign their initials on the back of each ticket. So if the tickets should be counterfeited, which certainly would be possible, the counterfeiter would have the initials to contend with. To overcome this collusion with the poll clerk would be necessary. Altogether, Mr. Niblack’s ticket presents a barrier to election frauds that will take some mighty delicate work to get over. If it were not for the initial scheme it would be possible for vote-buyers to give men marked tickets and instruct them to slip the tickets given them at the polls in their pockets, then pay them for the clean tickets when they came out.—lndianapolis Sentinel.