Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday, October
16, 1896.
WOMEN
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.
For the first time in the
history of this country an opportunity for women to publicly express their
choice for president is offered. The method is unique and will result in
showing on Nov. 4 just what effect the woman’s vote will have on national
affairs.
A manufacturer who has business
relations with most of the prominent newspapers in the United States, proposes
the plan as follows:
All women over 18 are entitled to one vote.
The votes by states will be shown in the papers on every Wednesday and Saturday
until Nov. 4. Women are requested to read more than one side of the question
and act upon their own judgment. Write the name of candidate on a postal card
and write your own name and address clearly, also city and state. On the lower
left hand corner give the name of a banker or grocer who knows you.
This precaution is to prevent
flooding the mail with fictitious votes. Names unknown to grocer or banker will
be thrown out. Be very careful to write clearly and an acknowledgement of the receipt
of each vote will be sent to the fair voter. Send the postal to Postum Cereal
Food Coffee Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is urged that every earnest woman will
not hesitate to expend a penny to register her preference at this most
interesting period of national history.
This company have a national
reputation and pledge their integrity and honor to report the vote exactly as
received, without fear or favor. A sworn statement of the final vote polled up
to 7 P. M., Nov. 4 will be
published Nov. 7 and the vote as it progresses will be shown on every Wednesday
and Saturday between now and then.
GOOD FRIENDS
Keep the Heart of
Humanity Warm.
The following extract from a
letter may be published without a breach of courtesy, as it refers to a matter
which will interest some readers who have been considering the dismissal of
coffee in their families and the adoption of Postum, the health coffee:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
Postum Cereal Co., Battle Creek, Mich.:
GENTLEMEN—I am pleased with the
sale and the satisfaction
given to our customers in the use of Postum Cereal. I did
not wish to venture out on this article, as I had no faith in
it when first shown me. To my surprise the first case sold
readily, and a little estimate shows a sale of 463
packages in 67 days. I am
using it in my own home
with perfect satisfaction. Since the use of Postum in place
of coffee, neither wife nor myself
have the old heartburn.
Please find enclosed, &c, &c, &c. MARTIN C. GOOSEN.
A reliable grocer will never
offer a cheap or weak imitation of a genuine original article because he
happens to make a little extra profit. But it is well to observe that when
genuine Postum Cereal coffee is ordered, that you get Postum and not a spurious
imitation offered as "just as good."
References:
Women’s Suffrage in the United States:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States
Postum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, October 21, 1896.
LARGE AS A NEWSPAPER.
BALLOT TO BE USED AT
THE COMING ELECTION.
Over 43,000 Ballots
to be Used in Cortland County Including Amendment Ballots—Some Duties of the
County Clerk in Preparation for Election.
The
STANDARD has received from the secretary of state a specimen of the official ballot
to be used at the coming election. The ballot is 17 by 23 inches, the size of a
large newspaper. It contains eight party columns, but, since no independent nominations
have been filed, the ballot which will be used in Cortland county will contain
but seven columns. At the head of each column is the party emblem, and a circle
for receiving the cross [X] which denotes a straight ticket.
The
Republican emblem is an eagle, the Democratic, a five pointed star, the National
Democratic, a whip under full sail, the Prohibition, a fountain, the Socialist Labor,
an uplifted arm holding a hammer, and the People's, a clover leaf.
The
seventh column is for names which are not printed on the ballot, but for whom
the elector desires to vote. The ballot should be marked with a lead pencil having
black lead, and any other mark than the cross mark used in voting, or any
erasure, invalidates the vote. In voting a straight ticket a cross is made within
the circles above one of the party columns, and to vote a split ticket a like mark
is made opposite the names of those for whom the elector wishes to vote.
The STANDARD job rooms are now busy
in printing the ballots for use upon Nov. 3 in this county. Everything about
the ballot is prescribed by law, including the quality and weight of the paper,
the style and size of type to be used, the spacing and arrangement of the names
upon the ticket. The printing of an election ballot is one of the most
particular jobs that a printer ever undertakes, for an error of any kind upon
the ballot would invalidate the election.
In
the preparation of the ballots the printer consults with the county clerk concerning
any point about which he may be in doubt, and where there is any question as to
the interpretation of the law the printer always yields to the county clerk for
he gets his instructions from the state and is alone responsible to the state
for the correctness of the ballots. The county clerk examines every proof and
puts his "O. K.'' over his signature upon each proof before the printing
is begun. A copy of the election law is always at hand for reference as a court
of last resort. Inasmuch as the attention of County Clerk Palmer is so much
taken up with the other numerous duties connected with that office the matter
of the ballots is referred to Deputy County Clerk H. T. Bushnell, who was previously county clerk, and
who has had much experience with the preparation of the ballots in former
years, and who by reason of his experience and careful study of the law is
probably the best informed man upon the matter of ballots in Cortland county.
For
use this year Cortland county requires in its twenty-nine election districts 17,300
official ballots and 4,325 sample ballots, making a total of 21,625 regular ballots.
There is a constitutional amendment to be voted for this year, for which just
as many more ballots will be required, making 43,250 ballots in all that are to
be prepared and furnished. For this nearly 1,700 pounds of paper will be
required.
The
actual printing of the ballots is always a matter of haste, for there is
continually a possibility of addition to the ticket through independent
nominations up to fourteen days before election when the secretary of state
certifies to the names to be used upon the ballot and his certification is
filed with the county clerk. After that time no name can be taken from the
ballot. Even if a candidate dies his name must be printed, though if another
nomination is made in his place and the proper certificate is filed with the
county clerk that official is authorized to prepare a paster ballot which he
must deliver to the inspectors of election in the districts affected by the
change. The inspectors pass the pasters over to the poll clerks and the poll
clerks are required to affix them to the official ballot in the proper place
before passing the ballots out to the voters.
The
ballots must all be completed by the printer and delivered by him to the county
clerk in time for that official to get them ready for delivery to the several
town clerks on the Saturday before election which this year falls upon Oct. 31.
The
county clerk under the amended law is required to deliver a variety of articles
to the town clerks. Instead of his delivering the ballots at the several towns
as formerly the town clerks now have to come to the county clerk's office to
get what they need. The law prescribes what shall be delivered to each town
clerk. The official ballots are put up in a manila box, wrapped in a manila paper
and the package is sealed and labeled. Another similar package contains the
sample ballots, a third package contains the official amendment ballots and a
fourth package the sample amendment ballots. In addition, each town clerk in
this county will receive packages containing the following: Four distance
markers, twelve cards of instructions, two poll books, three blanks for inspectors’
return, three ballot clerks' return sheets, two tally sheets, fifteen pens,
eight penholders, two bottles of ink, eight pencils, eight blotters and one
stick of sealing wax.
There
are also envelopes for sending the returns back to the county clerk's office on
the day after election. These packages are not to be opened until after the
polls are opened on the morning of election and everybody is in his place when
the seals are broken by the inspectors of election, who deliver the ballots to
the ballot clerks and the other articles to the poll clerks or to those who may
have need for them during the election.
It is
apparent from this that the county clerk's office will for a few days before
election be a very busy place and the utmost care must be used by the one in
charge that no mistakes are made in the putting up and delivering of the
several packages of ballots to the proper parties.
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, November 6, 1896.
RETURNS SEALED. TO BE OPENED AND CANVASSED NEXT TUESDAY.
The New Law Relative
to Delivery and Filing of Election Returns — Officials
Were Prompt in this
County—The Power and Duty of the Board of Supervisors Explained.
The sealed election returns for
the county of Cortland were filed in the county clerk's office Wednesday. In
reply to a reporter's question as to whether the returns from all the districts
were in, Deputy Clerk H. T. Bushnell replied that such was the case.
The chairmen of the boards of
inspectors in each district are the persons authorized by law to file the
returns. As soon as the canvass was completed Tuesday night, the chairman of
each board made oral proclamation of the result in detail. The election law
then provides that "the original statement of canvass and the certified
copies thereof shall be securely and separately sealed with sealing wax in an
envelope properly indorsed on the outside thereof by the inspectors, and shall
be kept inviolate by the officers or board with whom they are filed until
delivered, together with the sealed packages of void and protested ballots, to
the county or city board of canvassers."
The section of the law which
relates to the delivery and filing of the election papers, directs that one of
the sealed certified copies shall be delivered to the supervisor of the town in
which the election is held, if outside of a city, or to one of the supervisors
of the city. In the absence of the supervisor it is to be delivered to an
assessor of the town or city. One certified copy of the original statement of
the canvass, the poll books and one of the tally sheets must be forthwith filed
with the town or city clerk, as the case may be. The original statement, with
the original ballot returned [sic] prepared by the ballot clerk attached, the sealed
package of void and protested ballots, the record as to challenged and assisted
voters and the sealed packages of detached stubs and unvoted ballots, and one
of the tally sheets shall, within twenty-four hours after the completion of the
canvass, be filed by the chairman of the board of inspectors with the county
clerk of the county in which the election district is situated.
The new election law increased
the work of the inspectors to some extent, but it will also add greatly to the
supervisors' work in session as a board of canvassers. The supervisors will
meet next Tuesday as a board of canvassers. Heretofore the returns have been filed unsealed, at the county clerk's office,
and during the week preceding the meeting of the board, the county clerk or his
assistants have tabulated and copied upon canvassing sheets all the figures, so
that when the board met the returns were ready for verification and footing.
This work of copying and
preparing the sheets, which in itself entails days of labor, must now be done
after the board meets and the sealed returns have been opened. And section 181
of the law provides that "if, at first meeting, all such original
statements of the result of the canvass of the votes cast at each election in
all the election districts in the county shall not be produced before the
board, it shall adjourn to some convenient hour of the same or the next day,
and the county clerk shall, by special messenger or otherwise, obtain such missing
original statements if possible, otherwise, he shall procure one of the certified
copies thereof in time to be produced before such board at its next meeting."
When the returns from every election
district in the county are before the board, and not before, it can begin canvassing.
Heretofore, the canvass began with what returns were on hand when the board met—and
invariably some were missing. The board is empowered to summon before its
inspectors of election from districts where merely clerical errors have been
made, and the inspectors shall meet and make "such correction as the facts
in the case require, but such inspectors shall not change nor alter any
decision made before by them." The board may adjourn from day to day, not
exceeding three days in all, to receive such corrected statements.
Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, October 19,
1896.
REAL ESTATE SOLD.
Property of the
Hitchcock Mfg. Co. Bid in for Samuel Keator.
The real estate belonging to
the Hitchcock Mfg. Co. was on Saturday sold by the receivers, Messrs. C. B.
Hitchcock of Cortland and James Devine of Syracuse. The property was all bid in
by Hon. O. J. Kellogg for Samuel Keator, who held liens on nearly all of it.
The large brick building in Elm-st., the wooden building and two dwelling
houses west of the railroad tracks all sold for $150, subject to liens of
$42,500; the foundry in Port Watson-st. bought $150, subject to a lien of
$22,000; the Quinlan house in Pomeroy-st. sold for $100 with a lien of $874,
and all the interest the company had in 880 acres of land in the town of Preble
was bid in for $100, the entire property selling for $500, subject to liens of
about $66,000.
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