Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1913 — The Sacred Ballot. [ARTICLE]

The Sacred Ballot.

Apropos the “sacredness’ of the ballot, after ,;the last election in which I took part, I asked a laborer (who bad nothing to fear from me) how he voted. “God knows,” was the answer “I don’t" “Not know how you voted?” I said; "what on earth do you mean?” “Well, sir,’ he explained, “this here ballot is sacred, ain’t it? So I sez, ‘Let God decide,’ and I sez a prayer to him, and I shuts my eyes and makes my mark. He knows where I puts ’un, I don’t.”—Correspondence of the London Observer.