Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I. Democratic Ticket. For Presidential Electon-at- j [ ""“1 Large. . i | ptM | JOHN B. STOLL. |7xa| parda d. drain. ‘J v District Electors. | DIM JAM r W“ffioN. Jmm ELlsYia'a’rlGgVnS. I dsn GEORGE b’molnVyßE. , | nix TOWN T^ND T "opfe. WILLIAMSON. |dsm GEORG™ W.’PIGj'IAN. I'bxm MAURI?™ DONNELLY. Eiigbth district, BARTLETT H. CAMPBELL. f g g ja^v. ,b p t & b . g g BFor Governor, BENJAMIN F. SHIVELY. f“""| For Lieutenant-Governor. |dkm| JOHN 0. LAWLER. 1 ff' ■■* ■'! T° r Secretary of State, |dkm| SAMUEL M. RALSTON. BFor Auditor of State, JOSEPH T. FANNING. BFor Treasurer of State, MORGAN CHANDLER. BFor Attorney-General, JOHN G. McNUTT. SFor Reporter Supremo Court, HENRY WARRUM. For Superintendent Public InBstruouon, WILLIAM B. SINCLAIR. SFor State Statistician, OMAR H. DOWNEY. For Judge Appellate Court, OHIIBT DISTRICT, EDWIN TAYLOR. □BIOOVD DISTRICT, I FRANK E. GAVIN. 0 THIRD DISTRICT, THEODORE P. DAVIS. SrOVBTH DISTRICT, ORLANDO J. LOTZ. r orirTS DIITKCT. GEORGE E.R083. INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. If you want to vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCKATIC TICKET, damp within the big ■quare containing the ROOSTER ut tl.o top of the ticket, and stamp nowhere else.

"Jkememberl 1. You must get your* ballots of the polling clerks in the election room. 2. If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp within the large square at the head of the ticket containing the device of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket you must not stamp the large square containing the device of your party, but you must stamp the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on whatever list of candidates it may be. If the large square at t he head of the ticket is stamped, and the ballot is stamped at any other place, it is void and cannot be counted, unless there be no candidate for some office in the list printed under such stamped device, in which case he may indicate his choice for such office by stamping the square to the left of the name of any candidate for such office on any other list. The stamp must be placed within or on the square or the ballot is void and cannot be counted. I 8. Do not mutilate your ballot, or I mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on, or in any way, except by the stamping on the square or squares, as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. 4. After stamping your ballots, and before leaving the booth, fold them separately, so that the face of them cannot be seen and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the backs thereof can be seen, Then hand your ballots to the inspector, th v stamp to the polling clerk, and leave the room. 5. If you are physically unable to stamp your ballots, or can nob read English, so inform the polling clerksand tell them how you wwh to veto and they will stamp your ballots for you. But the voter and clerks should not permit any other person Ito hear or see how the ballots are stamped, and it is a penal offense to declare that you can , not read English or cannot mark your r ballot, if, in fact, you can. 6. if you should accidentally or by feistake deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot. 7. You must not accept a ballot from any person outside of the election room. Any ballpt outside is fraudulent, and it is a penitentiary offense to have such a ballot in your possession ’ whether you attempt to vote it or not. 8. You must not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with members of the election board and the poll clerks. , 9. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot except with the