Show BALLOT ItEr REFORMS the tendency of tho the aa age seems to be in the direction of securing na the untrammeled trammeled nn and free expression of the peoples will at he the polls and elsewhere this is as it should be and those who look at matters aad and thinea things superficially will wonder why it ia is that there should be any question as to each such consummation being reached an and d declared tha the fact is that a fair fa ir election is homo what like the common lat law the former is a plain sounding term supposedly needing no interpretation and the latter ia Is simply imply 3 the elaboration and formulation of common sense and yet a good many men gifted with rood good minds good dispositions and studious studio uil habits have grown gray trying to simplify one or both of these things a so 0 necessary ry to our well being TUB tim STANDARD recently cantly re published a tolerably fair explanation tion of the philosophy and practical workings of the australian ballot system pointing nR out some som e of ita its adran advantages and as we considered some of its defects now dines comes the news with something farther further or at least something elss in the same line I 1 tha the cot cost of election elections to individual candidates Is reduced the state prints the ticket pitting placing the all the candidates ther thereon eoll with indications as to the source aou ca of 0 their nomination no other lick to t can be used and they are furnished botio voter by the th election officers this dispenses di with ticket peddlers and nd posters aul aalthe the the mii mills for placing t in the banan ol 01 regi sterei electon electors there ian 1 pul pulling lingnor nor hauling at the ward pol there bang bai n no place tor for the ward word worker or heeler 2 the party par ty of 0 election elections Is to promoted to booth at the polli polls each elector make makes hii his own owa choice in entire clra pt vay y nobody but himself knows for whom he hat voted intimidation Is impossible ble welli bribery Is ii discoursed for the inter tit th tt knofl has offered rad anoney for a rote vote can cau never aure itself that the corrupt bargain his boen coutu consummated mm abed this ia Is all vely well and so fr far is BO so poi goal in Go colorado lorado they hive not yet ac clairel thit that electoral latu y ta to some parts of icah known as long ion votes mean ing those drawn from a di distant dista stans oie more or leu laii remote from the place of balloting ballo bil iota tinz oden ogden and sail salt lake haya have a record on that sabi act which thoas who live in ia the centennial state hava have not perhaps yet bacome with and if they bare have not oar most sincere wish aa rewards them ia is that they never may it is highly anea tio it the or any other electoral lw laasi BO far in this country or could rea it the kind of voting re referral ferrad to I 1 it only oaly appears in places charo the people hara to tike what they can eat get a ai i a general chinig and only mike the matter worse for themselves res by corn com p I 1 a of it we Web ba alieve lieve the australian b billowing bill oling system to ba aa ex ext sellent ellent demare mei aare as the aws though it is not yet beyond the need of amendment |