Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins

by John Fiske

Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately. APPENDIX K.

FORM OF AUSTRALIAN BALLOT ADOPTED IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1889.

OFFICIAL BALLOT

FOR

PRECINCT, WARD,

OF (CITY OR TOWN),

NOVEMBER__, 18__.

[Fac-Simile of Signature of Secretary.] Secretary of the Commonwealth.

SAMPLE BALLOT,

With explanations and illustration.

Prepared by the Ballot Act League with the approval of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Some representative districts elect one, some two, and a few three representatives to the General Court. Worcester County elects four commissioners of insolvency instead of three as in other counties.

No county commissioners or special commissioners will be voted for in the cities of Boston and Chelsea or the county of Nantucket.

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Forms for nominating candidates can be had at the department of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Carefully observe the official specimen ballots to be posted and published just before election day.

To vote for a Person, mark a Cross X

GOVERNOR Vote for ONE.
OLIVER AMES, of Easton Republican.
WILLIAM H EARLE, of Worcester Prohibition.
WILLIAM E. RUSSELL, of Cambridge Democratic.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Vote for ONE.
JOHN BASCOM, of Williamstown Prohibition.
JOHN Q.A. BRACKETT, of Arlington Republican.
JOHN W. CORCORAN, of Clinton Democratic.

SECRETARY Vote for ONE.
WILLIAM S. OSGOOD, of Boston Democratic.
HENRY R. PEIRCE, of Abington Republican.
HENRY C. SMITH, of Williamsburg Prohibition.

TREASURER Vote for ONE.
JOHN M. FISHER, of Attleborough Prohibition.
GEORGE A. MARDEN, of Lowell Republican.
HENRY O. THACHER, of Yarmouth Democratic.

AUDITOR Vote for ONE.
CHARLES R. LADD, of Springfield Republican.
EDMUND A. STOWE, of Hudson Prohibition.
WILLIAM A. WILLIAMS, of Worcester Democratic.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Vote for ONE.
ALLEN COFFIN, of Nantucket Prohibition.
SAMUEL O. LAMB, of Greenfield Democratic.
ANDREW J. WATERMAN, of Pittsfield Republican.

COUNCILLOR, Third District Vote for ONE.
ROBERT O. FULLER, of Cambridge Republican.
WILLIAM E. PLUMMER, of Newton Democratic.
SYLVANUS C. SMALL, of Winchester Prohibition.

SENATOR, Third Middlesex District Vote for ONE.
FREEMAN HUNT, of Cambridge Democratic.
CHESTER W. KINGSLEY, of Cambridge /Republican.
\Prohibition.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Northern District Vote for ONE.
CHARLES S. LINCOLN, of Somerville Democratic.
JOHN M. READ, of Lowell Prohibition.
WILLIAM B. STEVENS, of Stoneham Republican.

——————————————————————————————- in the Square at the right of the name. ——————————————————————————————- ——————————————————————————————- REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT

First Middlesex District. Vote for TWO.

WILLIAM H. MARBLE, of Cambridge Prohibition. __ ISAAC McLEAN, of Cambridge Democratic. __ GEORGE A. PERKINS, of Cambridge Democratic. __ JOHN READ, of Cambridge Republican. __ CHESTER V. SANGER, of Cambridge Republican. __ WILLIAM A. START, of Cambridge Prohibition. __ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ——————————————————————————————-

SHERIFF Vote for ONE.

HENRY G. CUSHING, of Lowell Republican. __ HENRY G. HARKINS, of Lowell Prohibition. __ WILLIAM H. SHERMAN, of Ayer Democratic. __ ____________________________________________________________ ——————————————————————————————- COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENCY Vote for THREE.

JOHN W. ALLARD, of Framingham Democratic. __ GEORGE J. BURNS, of Ayer Republican. __ WILLIAM P. CUTTER, of Cambridge Prohibition. __ FREDERIC T. GREENHALGE, of Lowell Republican. __ JAMES HICKS, of Cambridge. Prohibition. __ JOHN C. KENNEDY, of Newton Republican. __ RICHARD J. McKELLEGET, of Cambridge Democratic. __ EDWARD D. McVEY, of Lowell Democratic. __ ELMER A. STEVENS, of Somerville Prohibition. __ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ——————————————————————————————-

COUNTY COMMISSIONER Vote for ONE.

WILLIAM S. FROST, of Marlborough Republican. __ JOSEPH W. BARBER, of Sherborn Prohibition. __ JAMES SKINNER, of Woburn Democratic. __ ____________________________________________________________ ——————————————————————————————-

SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS Vote for TWO.

HENRY BRADLEE, of Medford Democratic. __ LYMAN DYKE, of Stoneham Republican. __ JOHN J. DONOVAN, of Lowell Democratic. __ WILLIAM E. KNIGHT, of Shirley Prohibition. __ ORSON E. MALLORY, of Lowell Prohibition. __ EDWIN E. THOMPSON, of Woburn Republican. __ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ——————————————————————————————-

[Illustration: SKETCH OF POLLING PLACE.]

SUGGESTIONS TO VOTERS.

Give your name and residence to the ballot clerk, who, on finding your name on the check list, will admit you within the rail and hand you a ballot.

Go alone to one of the voting shelves and there unfold your ballot.

Mark a cross X in the square at the right of the name of each person for whom you wish to vote. No other method of marking, such as erasing names, will answer.

Thus, if you wished to vote for John Bowles for Governor, you would mark your ballot in this way:—

GOVERNOR Vote for ONE
JOHN BOWLES, of Taunton Prohibition. X
THOMAS E. MEANS, of Boston Democratic.
ELIJAH SMITH, of Pittsfield Republican.

If you wish to vote for a person whose name is not on the ballot, write, or insert by a sticker, the name in the blank line at the end of the list of candidates for the office, and mark a cross X in the square at the right of it. Thus, if you wished to vote for George T. Morton, of Chelsea, for Governor, you would prepare your ballot in this way:—

GOVERNOR Vote for ONE
JOHN BOWLES, of Taunton Prohibition.
THOMAS E. MEANS, of Boston Democratic.
ELIJAH SMITH, of Pittsfield Republican.
George T. Morton, of Chelsea X

Notice, that for some offices you may vote for "two" or "three" candidates, as stated in the ballot at the right of the name of the office to be voted for, e.g.: "COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENCY. Vote for THREE."

If you spoil a ballot, return it to the ballot clerk, who will give you another. You cannot have more than two extra ballots, or three in all. You cannot remain within the rail more than ten minutes, and in case all the shelves are in use and other voters waiting, you are allowed only five minutes at the voting shelf.

Before leaving the voting shelf, fold your ballot in the same way as it was folded when you received it, and keep it so folded until you place it in the ballot box.

Do not show any one how you have marked your ballot.

Go to the ballot box and give your name and residence to the officer in charge.

Put your folded ballot in the box with the certificate of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth uppermost and in sight.

You are not allowed to carry away a ballot, whether spoiled or not.

A voter who declares to the presiding official (under oath, if required) that he was a voter before May 1, 1857, and cannot read, or that he is blind or physically unable to mark his ballot, can receive the assistance of one or two of the election officers in the marking of his ballot.