Who Is Responsible For Surry's
Australian Ballot Law Being Passed?
No One Able to Solve the Mystery
of How It Became a Law
COST COUNTY LARGE SUM
Surry's Representative
of Its Passage
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ICO Fwt «f tfca
Fill IHhiliOiCnAi
t» $7,000.
VOWS or BOTH PARTIES
AT THIS BUK
ON THE COUNTY
B. A. FrMMn of ths Coontj
Board of elsctioaa, waa m tho citj
booth* and ballot boM made thai
tft n^vifsd tor tho Nuv ember elec
ta** tmder tho Australian ballot Ian
that ao mysterioasly waa placed or
the county of Sorry along with eijrhl
othsr counties durinc the last ipse
ial eoeiiun of the leyialature.
Aad tho way in which this waj
plarsd oa the people of this cc intj
wfcUo other counties continue undei
the old ballot lyU— Is still a mys
tery to all except these who engineer
*Mat haw any sot at poUtidaas si
1» Is a known fact that aH local
Mb hi the lnhlitnri aaust has* th*
so affected hofors they can bs pot
htar m«M when the Democrat!
aader Mr Bjrtriy cot • thorough au
dit Bade) bat they were unable to
Mn the approval of 8urry*s r»p
fUttw la their request for the
appointment of mi officer to audit
Ht book* of the comity. In thiscaas
mbn* of the moat taftnantial Demo
nb of the state were enlisted in
bAilf of the Sorry citisena to secure
Ab appointment yet it was turned
down by a Democratic controlled leg
taftsture because the Republican re
presentative from Surry would not
i»sait to the bill.
How we have an Australian ballot
There ut InMi Jt kdh paaaed
which ear? fWw people over kaw
and only thoee who kMV rf tkn
•»« tri^li about IwiHi thai op.
No mm apparently kn«w aaythinr
of tlM Auitralian ballot hta( placed
Xut hia uaual preparation.'""for
holding tha election aa in former
year*, when all of a wHw ha waa
we Had the Aaatralian ballot, and hot
far thie information ha would have
•till been ignorant of any kind of
nMH alant 1 n ai MiMflia^uina
nrw fiw won * *§ *timuijiib.
Under the proriaiona of the new
ballot law the eoorty ia compelled to
provide 116 boot ha for the voter* of
the vario*a townahipa. Theae arc to
be not lea* than three feat aqnare
and ill feet hig^i and made *o no one
ran hear ronveraatlon in them. The
county ia compelled to furnlah 108
wood ballot bosea equipped with
t loefca and key*. Theae two itemaj
.alone will coat about $1,000.
In eiectiona of tha paat the atata
ha* furniahed all atata and national
ballot*, bat thi* year the county mat
furniah all ballot* for all partiea, the
atata paying for one-third the coat
of the atata haDota. Thi county will
hare to buy according to the new law,
•4,000 ballota. Theae moat all be
folded and hare the aitnature of the
chairman of the board of eiectiona
printed aa the back. They are then
to ha counted off ia Ma of fifty, plac
ed ia envelope*, and aealad and de
livered to tha reriatrar* of tha elec
tian, the d airman of tha beard tak
inc their receipt far the number da
It,. . |
Whan tha pafla are cioaad the re
ristrar and judge* ara not allowed to
open but one has nt a time far count.
Heretofore aareral people would Join
in tM worn of commting tlM Tirhm
ban* and thus expediate the wurk
bat the new law ia positive fa Ha
terms that only ana box can ba
•pened at a tima. Hare la another
interesting fsatai i about tha count
ing of tha ballots. During the wt
; inc a Hat of voter* la bspt aa in for
mer elections, and when the ballet
j bos ia apeaed the officials are requir
ed to first eotmt the ballots before
unfolding then and aae that the nam- j
her tallies with the namber of voters
enrolled on the poll hook. If there
are more ballots In tha box than are
names enrolled the jadges are then
to cloee up tha box, shake it good,
open it acain and draw oat enough
ballots to make the number corres
4 pond with the number of polls. Af- j
! ter all tiiis Is done the officials then j
proceed to unfold the ballots and
make the actual count of rotes cast
for the various candidates in that
box. And so on through the five
i or six boxes that will he need this
rear
After counting the ballots they
are to be placed back in the hsot,
looked up and delivered to the county
j board of elections and thus kept tn-1
I violate for six months.
It shall be unlawful to tear, deface
j or otherwise mark or mutilate an of
ficial ballot. If a voter wrongfully
;ssarks a ballot through mistake he
mar return H and secure anothf,
bat he cannot secure moea U an two
of a kind after spoiling
When tha ballot is delivered to the
votqr it will ha folded snd across thaj
top will h« placed the mmto of the
voter with the initial of the official
delivering the ballot to htaa. The
voter than goes to his booth, opens
up his ballot and peoteada to mark'
' H. Should he desire aaslstance he1
shall mate Ms needs known to the
registrar vrito shall designate sane
one selected to assist htm. These aa
ststants ars to be appointed by the'
irscMrars of el actions prior to the
election and mmm other will ha per
mitted to serve In tMa capndty. Af-,
tifttk* or aw to be made or circulat
ed any Mtfnpio or Imitation «f Um of
ficial beBet, (ball alao bo guilty of a
felony and puniahad aa tat tba pre
ceding paragraph.
No parson ■hall, while the polla are
open, loiter about or 4a any election
eering within each polling place or
within 1M feat thereof, and no poli
tical banner, poetar or other political
advertising shall be allowed hi or
upon such polling place on election
day.
There will be four sets of ballots
printed snd the candidates for all
partlea will be on the same beQot in
parallel columns and the voter can
pick from the entire list the candi
dates he wishes to rota for. At the
head of tlie ballot win be printed full
instructions aa to hor to prepare the
ticket
The ballots being prepared will be
about the siae of a regular letter head
say • s 11 inches, and will ha folded
up until they are about the aiae of
an envelope. In thia form they will
be delivered to the voter and alao
folded back by the voter before leav
ing hie booth.
The law regulating the election in
Surry this year contains SI pages of
typewilUen matter. In the above
paragraphs this newspaper has en
deavored te give a digeet of the moat
Important eectfcme aa It efferte the
voter. There are pagea upon pages
which dsal with the dutiea of the elec
tion officials and the manner in
which the election asachhwry b to
be organised and put into asotkm, all
of which ia of vary little bitaraat to
voters.
m Cunfl
Hillsrille, Vs., New*.—It will
noticed in tb* account of the
tit ion of Gray ton County cittoens the |
claim that the Gnat Lake* to Florida |
highway will cot off AO mile* by
crossing Grayaon county from Wythe-1
ville instead of Carroll.
We should like to aaaare the pro- j
moters that em IN milea of county
road saved in distance ia no real aar
inr. It is not the distance that |
counts in thia choke bat the kind of,
roads and the chance of an all
round hard surfaced road.
The entire distance across Gray
son will have to he constructed. Not
a mile of H has been hard surfaced
and the county has presented no plan
of construction. Can or will Gray
son build It?
As a contrast Carroll offers a part
of the State highway system for this
highway with part of it constructed
and the rest provided for, all to be
built by county money loaned to the
State under the Robertson Act. Car
roll ia building her road, and Gray
ion is talking about saving a few
For baoMnisiai AO Dor*
Kinstoa, Oct. 1<—Veterinarian* will
back a peapsssd law requiring ian
of all dogs in North (V
Dr. Prank B. McCallum, jf this'dty.
I«m hill la expected to he Introduced,
it the wit session of tto gei «ial
iah army veterinarian, dedans (ha
ire»eull»e treatmeat to "1M par cent
•ffretire Of nearly 40.000 animals
riven the treatment hi Japan, only
Dtstrtek's nock was broken, left
am broken la tkn* places, bam
pantiathn flaah, and rfha fractured.
Waycaster had right am brokan.
shoulder crushed, rfxat and upper
part of body mangled. When men
arrived at the foot of the stack, he
waa dutch ing at hia throat, eyca dia
tended, tongue out, gaaping for
brfith
Diet rick 28 yean old, waa an ap
prentice bricklayer, native of Rich
mond, Va. Waycaater, aged 90, waa
a steel worker. Hia hosae waa hi
Reidsville. He had atartad to work
on thia job only thia morning.
The accident waa the third oa the
■tack since It waa atartad. A month
ago four workman nearly loot their
lives when the scaffolding gave way,
managing to cling to it mtfl rescued.
The stack waa than 166 foot in
f. - I ,1 a
wi|n<
Mr. laOay Pi iling Hia
Tfam* to Part Bill
Raleigh, Sept. 29—That marketa
of the West are cioead to Carolina
oyatar shippers and those ad the East
cloaad to Carolina truck shippers hy
raaasw of the appalling freight rata
discrim i nation, la an fasti sating dis
covery made hy Joaiah William Bai
ley, recent candidate for governor,
who now la devoting hia time to the
interest of the Pott Terminals aad
Water Transportation sewn upon
which the voters are to pass fat the
coming election.
A Chesapeake Bay oyatar shippsr,
Mr. Bailey pointa out, can ship oys
ters to Kansas City for 17 cents a
gallon teas than his competitor in
North Carolina can ship them to the
■ame point—and thia 1? cents is a
handicap the Carolinian cannot «vbj
rnas
A California truck grower, for an
other example, he dsdarea, can (hip
vegetables more than 3,000 miles to
the (Teat consuming mar'.et* of the
Baat for $119.00 a far lea* than his
competitor in Eastern Carolina can
«hip to the same markets.
"Woodland ft Co., Morchead City,
shipped a ear load of oysters to Kan
ssa City," Mr. Bailey said; "they
found that the rate from Baltimore
was 17 cents a gallon less than front
Morehead City. This discrimination
against North Carolina oysters ac
counts for the fact, notwithstanding
we hart abundant oyster bods on MB
coast and extensive waters in which
to develop the industry, «• can make
no progress as compared with Vir
ginia and Maryland oyster shippers.''
If North Carolina were a* equal
footing with its competitors, it could
control the oyster market, Mr. Ba&sy
contends. citing the fact that the
Carolina canned oyster, pat np at
Mors head City, dstsimluss the prise
m the Pacific Coast. This is
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Books Now Open For
f~lj Registration of Voters
The text of Senator Brookhart's
letter follow*:
"Charles G. Divm Km wrecked
the republican campaign, especially
in the notthwest He started out
like a bold-faced plutogog' bat hia
diiscourtesy and ungentlemanly lang
itare quickly reduced him. la Ua own
vocabulary, to * mere 'pea wit phi to
flTOff '
"His 'sulphurate! hvdroren' ^
^*®#pe»aaea il^W VpeM a^oaaaaa
record, aa eatabliahed by the supream
court of Illinois the day he was nomi
nated, render* him unfit for the pafc.
lie service, and he should be removed
from office. His official defenae hi
this transaction by a noted democra
tic lawyer only makea this eonctaahm
more emphatic. Ilw claim that ha
waa ignorant of the impart of hia
act and only regarded it aa a friaad-,
ly favor adda color to the gsneraTs
claim that hi* own advertiaed finan
cial ability ia only a bluff and that
he act* aa the agent of international
banking power*. The farther de
fense that all banker* are do in* the
same thine is r>asated even by the
bankers thsmsslms.
"Under the false pretense of loyal
ty he has organised a disloyal group I
to conduct aa illegal defence ef the
constitution of the United States
with the secret purpose of destroying
the constitutional rights of mion la-,
bar, while the Pare OH cJkaay in
which he ia interested is being sued
by the government for violation of
the criminal law. He ia aa inault to
the whole laboring world, and hia sin
ister designs are so well known that
he will certainly loae the whole labor
vote.
"In addition to all thia hi* most
dangerous and offensive acta in thia
campaign ia Ms insult to the co-op
erative movement In agriculture. He
has brazenly denounced aa demago
gues and hypocrites all thooe who
favor and speak for the increase ia
the price of baef on the hoof and the
decrease ef its price oa the table
This amazing statement shows a
profound ignorance of the whole e»
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operative m
A « ^mawalMa^ aa# ^ 1
TMtifttinr thi. subject found that
out of Ob dollar which the labortac '
man pay* for the ptadwta at the
fans, the farmer only rata ST centa.
Evan this report la probably white
waahed and if the exact facta could
he known the fanner probably rata
leaa than tS canU. but wWmr the
exact fi/uree may be erery farm er
fmniaef in the United States and ee- :
ery comparative erfniHr to the i
United States la toachin* the dee
trine that this imraoai expenae of <
diati Ihotkm ia njaat and to takea 1
An who nave Moved their place of
residence tn the comity will hin to
secure a transfer and hare tMr
namea placed on the booka
now reside.
have beMM tl years of
>1* since the laat registration er will
be tl before election day are entitled
to register; alao thoaa who
never before registered or votod.
All person
the state one year before election
ire entitled to register and vote.
The books will rsaaii
three weeks, rliiaing at
ij. OeL
be settled for (he
is 11
the
mart grand jnry this afternoon
rood. The Jims declared that in
their opinion adequate facilitiee were
provided by the old building for pres
ent needa for holding courts and I
ing county officials, for the
at least. Judge MeElroy, who la pre
siding over thia term, instructed the
clerk of the court to spread the re
port on the records and hold for fu
ture consideration.
a better eoortheoae be provided aad
that without too asuch delay. Accord
ing to a welt founded report
the next session of the general i
bly will be called apoa to enact a I
which will give the
needed authority to
location aad erection of a more