Show HANDS US rIi THE IE BALLOTS Parkinson on and o oCache iii 01 Cache county have been acquitted ll o othe ot ol the charge of criminal conduct In th thE handling of oC ballots at th the recent elec dec The These e two men good citizens I In iii their community took tool Sunday Bunda just before the election with a of election who had hall a bundle hundle of ot o. o ballots entrusted to his ca care e ehen When hen the two guests start started cd to leave one of them asked for a C copy P of oC m newspaper In which tho the ballo baloi was printed V No o COl copy of f a n paper c cne con cn n e taming time the tJ ballot could coull be b found but bu their host went to the bundle hundle of o of official tidal numbered ballots took out two t ant and gave ae one to each o of his imis guests I And they Lucy used these ballots on the day of election V There Thelo Is not the the slightest charge chorge that they made a 0 secret of or what they tho were doln doing Tho They seem eem simply simp not to have hn appreciated the time solemnity of or that lint wrapping on the lie ballots at al the time house of or th the election Judge e They should have o known n and ever every citizen should know that official ballots ore really part of or the time machinery b by which our fI self lr government Is effected The ballot banot Is the most Important factor In that expression of citizenship of which we all are arc so proud No man has a aright aright aright right to handle tho the ballot cx- cx x- x as the law directs The Judge o of election should have known that ho must not break that package before beforetime the time polls opened on election morning And his guests should have been equally as Informed As It happened their action hurt hUIl no one Not a candidate was Injured Inthe in inthe inthe the result And nd we 0 ore are free Cree to say eny that they have acted wholly as Careless careless careless care Care- less antI and not nol at all as criminal men muon But Dut we wo American voters must learn to respect the thc sacredness of oC the ballot ballot ballot- and everything that goes therewith |