Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — HOW TO VOTE. [ARTICLE]

HOW TO VOTE.

If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp the square to the left of the name of the for whose crirdidates you wish to vote; that vis, you should stamp the square. to the left/of the words ; “Repubhcan Ticket.” Be careful ! about this. Some think that they should stamp the square to the left of the name of the Secretary iof State in order to vote the : straight ticket; hut a ticket stamped that way ivould be counted for the Seere tary of-Si ate onlyr— Don't forget- that the way to vote a S7rou/A/ Ticket is to stamp tlm’square rep.. : at the left of the w< rds “REPUBLICAN" TICKKI'.”

Again: You can vote a mixed ticket in either of two ways. 1. You can do it by stamping the j square to the left of the name of l each candidate for whom you want :to vote on whatever list of candii dates it may be. 2. Or you can stamp the square to the left of the name of one party, and also the square to the left of the person on any other ticket for whom you wish to vote. t Hon. J. Vv . Lovett, Republican candidate for attorney general m ade an able and most interesting presentation of the political situa(tion, at the court house yesterday afternoon. Mr. Lovett is an able lawyer and a very pleasant gentleman as well. He is an honor to state ticket. ; The idea seems to prevail to some extent that, the entire new election law was overthrown by the late decision of the Supreme Court. This opinion is an error. Only one section of the law, that which provided for a partial registration and changed |the time so r residence to entitle to vote, &c. was rejected. In all other res pects the law stands intact and the forth-coming election must be conducted after the manner it prescribes. The tariff reformers, alias free tradeie alias democrats are following in the foot steps of their brethren in England by making war upon the farmers! They recommend the farinersTo raise“more cheap grain. by should a farmer raise grain _when .there is no market for it 2. Grain is too cheap now. What the farmers need is fewer producers and more consumers. The T ariflf reformers would reverse t his order and send the farmer to E ngland to find sale for his products instead of building up factories and markets at home. Intimation has been received that some of Dr. Patton’s henchmen over in the south end of the county are preparing to put out a lot of printed roorbacks and misrepresentations, just on the eve of election, calculated to prejudice the minds of Republicans against Mr. Owen. This is an old scheme of Democrats, and Republicans ought by this time to be on their guard against it. By no means should any attenti<!n be paid to injurious statements circulated too late for contradiction and disproof. Their circulation at that time is prima facie evidence of their falsity. [.’There is no office to be filled this year so entirely and peculiarly political, and none in which personal considerations for candidates should so little effect the voters, as that of Congressman. Do the three or four gentlemen over in the south end of the county who are opposing their party’s overwhelming

choice for congressman, believe that their, course in this respect will be overlooked and forgotten by their brother Republicans ? If tney do, they are making the mistake of their lives. If they persist in their present course their political names will ibe Dennis, -fjsrm this day forth. ‘ Hon. Andrew M.Sweeny, democratic candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court, addressed a slim audience ip the .court house last Saturday afternoon. He was on the ticket for State Superintem ii ent of Public instruction, £two ye irs ago, andran about 8.006 behindhis ticket, on account of his | hostility to the public school sysI tern, but the democratic bosses insisted on again foisting him upon their ticket. The managers of the so-called People’s Party movement in this county, made in the interests of the Democrats, and pre-eminently in that of Dr. Patton, are trying to catry water on both shoulders. When the occasion seems to demand that policy, they insist that their’s is not an -Alliance ticket, and that the Alliance has nothing to do with it; and again, when working with different men, they try to gain votes by insisting that it is an Alliance movement and that members of the Alliance ought to stand by it They think they are working the scheme very adroitly, but they are morally certain to meet the ill-success which always attends those who try to serve two masters.

It has all along been part bf the democratic scheme to get something for nothing, that their candi date for treasurer shoulld be hauled oil the ticket, and last Saturday on the last day beforethe Election Commissioners met to have the tickets printed, the bosses brought in Mr. Tillett’s declination to be a candidate. It was deferred until the last possible day, in order to prevent the Democrats who are such from principle, moving to have another Democrat nominated in Mr. Tillett’s place., Of course the scheme is to flatter and cajole John Nichols and his friends with the piospect of Democratic support in order to get as many of his friends as possible to vote for Patton and Bates. This is their scheme, without doubt, but we don’t believe that there can be found in tile whole county a baker’s dozen of Republicans foolish enough to walk into so palpable a Mr. Leek, the state organizer of the Farmers’ Alliance and the first to introduce the order in Jasper county, was positive and unequivocal in re-iterating that there was no polifics in the order; and the same point was more strongly insisted upon than any. other by the national lecturer, Ben Terrell, in his public address at the court house. The district organizer, James Welch, has said the same thing constantly. We know whereof we speak in these matters for we have heard all these men say these things. In view of these facts, theip is naturally great indignation among the true friends of the Alliance over whpt has been aptly called “the stealing of the livery of heaven to serve the devil in” namely the using of the name and the forms of the Alliance to nominate a ticket in the interests of the Democrats. So great and palpable is this feeling of indigna tion, that the promoters of the People’s ticket scheme are trying to break its force by denying, that it an Alliance movement Nevertheless the fact remains that the convention was called in the name of the Alliance and no one was allowed to be present and either take part in or witness its proceedings, unless they first gave the pass-word of the Alliance At the door. v