Show EVERY VOTERS responsibility TUESDAY for or the fortieth time the united states will elect a president thirty one men have held this high office nine having leen been aulce tn ice elected only thirty tuo of the presidential elections however bare been decided by popular rote in our present fashion for that matter there Is no provision in the constitution ution of the united states under which lahler the people are arc either cither required or permitted to bote for presidential electors in the early days of the republic the idea that everybody should have a vote tor for president never occurred to tile the gentlemen who conducted tile the revolution and framed the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states those things were left cef to the states and the constitution reads that each state shall appoint in such manner as its legislature may direct the required number of presidential electors it any state legislature wished to it could today pass a law repealing the privilege of its althens to vote for presidential electors and have them appointed ty by the governor or chosen by the legislature presidents washington adams and ana jefferson were all elected under the old provisions ot of the constitution changed in 1804 ulie whereby reby the candidate who ulio got the most votes totes was uns president dent and ana the one who got the next highest number was vice president the present party convention system of nominating candidates and pled pledging ing presidential electors to their support Is only a little over a hundred years old in that hundred years state slate after state has constantly extended the pilvi lege of voting for president until it has become such a commonplace evera day affair that few especially of 0 the younger voters realize that it Is not an inherent constitutional right but distinctly a privilege it Is an lionor honor conferred upon the ordinary man and women an honor which carries n etli it a corresponding responsibility lity it Is not a privilege to be exercised lightly the presumption Is 19 that every voter will aill go to the polls bilth the feeling that lie he Is discharging a solemn duty for which he has prepared himself by intelligent thought and of the programs and policies of the op posing parties we ive fear that few voters in these days take their responsibility as seriously as they should we jve urge ever one who goes to tile the polls next tuesday to lote in the I 1 light of ills his or her own deepest and innermost only it if eiery loter does docs just that will the lie result reflect the intelligent judgment of 0 tile the american people |