How Many Ballots Is A Voter Entitled To?

A certa in inspector of election in 1lis city was bragiging to a number of gentlemen the. other day, how be had prevented a repnbllcan [rom voting because aald republlcan luid spolled two ballots. He refused to allow hlm another ballot, and refused to allow him to vote. We ebould like to lnqulre by what authority this Inspector distranchiad this man, no matter what his politics? The law relativa to furalshlng electora with ballot, reads: Sec. 34. If the elector votes for more than one candldate tor the same office, eaid 'ballot ehall not be counted íor those persons, but sliall be as to them nuil land void. If any elector hiadvertently apolla a ballot lie rnay obtain , another from the board by refurning euch spolied ballot to the board, wlio .shall preserve the same tor return to the city or township c-lerk. There is nothing in that provisión that limits the number of ballots au elector is entitled to, tliat's certaln. Thte man. by the lnipector'8 story, was not attempting to destroy ballots, luit did not know how to prepare the ballot properly, and placea his own name thereon in pencll, whlch name could have been very easily erased, and the ballot made good, had the Inspector heen inclined to be fair about it. Had the voter been a deniocrat, do J"ou think he would liave been diprived of his vote on sucli i (limsy pretext as that? Xot much. Sec. 17 of the law Sftya in regard to the furniHhing of ballots that "it hall be the duty of the board of eelction commisBioners of each county to provide a enffieient number of ballot, at least two to each elector according to the vote at the last preceding general election." Will some one please teil us what there is in that provisión which confines au elector to two ballots only, if he happens to spoil them botli in preparing his vote? Thls last provisión refers only to the duty of the commissioner in furnlBhing a sufficicnt number of ballots, and lias nothing to do with the duty of the inspectors. If peopte are belng dlefranchised in onr city and inspectora are bragging aUoul ii, afterward, the law better be looked up and citizens informed what thcTr rights are. that they may act arurdiiiiily. The Homeetead strike haa been declared off. N'ow tbat the electlon s past th demócrata have nofurther objeqi in keeping it up, 80 thelr conï i-ilm t (jus gtopped and the fight was ]st lor tii.' worktngmen. The poor men who (lnd their pla !a (Uled In the milis and tiii-niscivi's lelt out In the "winter, are quite likely to diacover iliat they have been iised bj nomebody to tlii'ir great loss. It, te generalij belleved that Mr. Frirk, who is l (Icinorra I. ly tqrctng th1 flight just ix'i'orc electlon dld more to elect Cleveland than did any one .'lse, for the lalae report bcinü ciiTulated that he coatrlbuted to the reputellcan campaign tund, cansed a revulsión among the worklngmen and tliey were led to vote agalnsi uhat tlii'.v belleved he tavored. The laborIng men etected Cleveland, it remalna to eeen uiuthcr democratie theorics will help thelr coadltion. One ihiiiK is sin-f, the (eeliog ol unreal has beenao aroueed that it will be a sorry tate tor democracy if it doei pot make t int t it tor th.' maeeee, for it is iring wat.ihcil. One of the ha-ndsome runs made in thie laet eleeticni was that ol A. V. Hamlltöa, of thi city, for state senator. .Startinjc in with au adverse majority oï 'ove 1,000 to overeóme in the twii countlee, 11 was a hopeïcss taek trom the start, bul he went into it as he doea everythlng he unilertak'S, and rail ahcad oï his tlcket wvral hundred. lic carricd the t;ity ,liy wearly 200, and in an ordinar; ycar wonM have been elected. The lenst nt lust. Tbegrace U raid, And up bobs evury etiLer head. And brlght eyee, iike ome K't;edy power. Go seeking whut tliuy muy devoar. - '. o. Tlmes-Democrnt.