Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — HOW TO VOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW TO VOTE.

Stamp the Rooster ami You Will Maki No Mistake".. If yon want to vote a S.i:.'jGHTDemo cratic Ticket, stamp within the bic

square containing t! e R istf.r at th top of the ticket. If you stamp withit the big square you must ret stamp any where else on the ticket or you will los your vote. Yon must not markon the ballot with anything but the stamp. You must not stamp except on the squares. If you ao cidently stamp off a square, return yout ballot to the poll clerks and get a new one. You must fold your ballot before com ingoutof the booth, so that the face will not show and the initials of the poll clerks on tlie hack will show. The following information will hell the voter: 1. If the voter wishes any information as to the manner of voting he may ask the poll clerks. 2. There aro two ballot-bows and two ballots to bo voted. One b.: 1 lot-box is painted red and is for the state ballot, which ballot is on red paper, the other ballot-box is painted wnite and is for the county ticket, which ticket is on white paper. 3. The voter enters the room, teliß the poll clerks his name; the clerks give him the two ballots to be voted and a stamp; (the stamp is a little stick with a rubber on the end of it;) the voter goes alone into one of the booths with the two ballots and the stamp; in the booth on a little shelf he will find an ink pnd: (this is a cloth saturated with ink;) the voter touches the ink pad with the stamp and then stamps his ballots. Let the ballots dry before folding. 4. After stamping his ballots and the ink has become dry, the voter then folds each ballot separately before leaving the booth; he must fold them so that no one can see liow ho has voted, and so that the initials or first letters of tho polls clerks' names can be seen on the backs of the ballots; lie then goes and gives the stamp back to the clerks, and hands the two ballots to the inspector; then he leaves the room. 5. After the voter comes out of the booth into the room he must be careful not to let any one see the inside of bis ballots; if he exposes his ballot so that it can be known how he votes, his ballot will be rejected. 6. If the voter can not read English, or is blind, or is physically unable to stamp his ballots, he has a right to call on the poll clerks to stamp his ballots for him; this must be done in his presence and in the presence of both poll clerks. 7. The voter must vote the ballots given him by the poll clerks and none other. 8. The voter must not put any mark or sign on his ballots; if he does, his vote will not be counted. If by accident he blots his ballot in stamping or makes a mistake, let him return the ballot folded to the poll clerks and get another.

General Rickies Defends Cleveland. On the sth of October. 1888, in the opera house at Utica, with President Cleveland’s record fresh in his and in the public mind, General Daniel E. Sickles spoke these brave and just words of the candidate of his party for president: Now as to President Cleveland’s record in behalf of the soldiers. They charge that he has vetoed a good many pension bills. So he has. I have lead liis views. 1 am a soldier. I love my soldiers. Had I been president and a congress had passed such bills for iny soldiers, 1 shonld have vetoed every one of them, too. They were mostly all frauds and shams, and I had no frauds under me. Any • right-minded man, sworn to discharge his duty, would have signed these vetoes as "President Cleveland did. General Sickles, continuing, gave President Cleveland’s record regarding pension bills and said: “I think the Republicans should hang their heads in shame in the presence of such a record.” Under Cleveland’s administration there were 192,070 pension claims allowed, an excess of 64,658 over the r'lowanceß under the preceding Republican administration. During General Black’s administration of the pension bureau under Cleveland there w:is disbursed for pensions $284,738,000, an excess of $62,112,000 over the payments during the GarfieldArthur administration. President Cleveland signed more private pension bills than were approved during sixteen preceding years of Republican administration. Mr. Cleveland has neither said nor done anything, since General Sickles’ just eulogy of him four years ago, to earn the disfavor of any soldier.

The Sentinel’s offer of a $5 reward for the photograph of an Indiana workman whose wages has lieen increased by the McKinley law is still open. We will supplement it with a reward of $lO for the titlo of any act passed by a Republican legislature in Indiana in the interests of labor.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Before you stamp inside the square containing the rooster, be sure that you ink the stamp on the ink pad, so as tc mark the ballot plainly. Stamp but once. If you vote a mixed ticket don’t stamp the square containing the rooster, bnt stamp the little square opposite the candidates you want to vote for. The registration clause of the Anstra lian law has been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court.