| Show MORE BALLOTS NEEDED shortage 9 e of official of f acial ballots in county comity reaper is appealed to and additional dit ional ballots for voting are run off more hurry burry less haste is an old and trite saying the same idea may be carried out in expenditures T the e b more economy the less saved in n the printing of election supplies the skelton company a concern which pays no taxes in this county and has no interests here her ewas wa s awarded the contract contra t at a reduced price over the reaper bid it now transpires that this company did not print enough official ballots on the morning of election it was discovered that there would be a shortage of official ballots in the bouny to the amount of probably the reaper had bad to be appealed to in the emergency and all other work wok wo k had to be stopped while the presses were put in ill motion to turn out the work which aich skelton company should have dhave done As soon as the shortage shor tige of ballots was dig discovered covered there was vas a hasty consultation and judge Clu chidester dester lind and S G dark clark made it their duty to see that enough ballots were supplied the first intimation of a shortage came from the richfield north district here it w wis 1 I s found there were names oa 01 the official register and only ballots provided the law says specifically that it shall be the duty of the county clerk to provide official ballots fr enery 50 voters oters or traction thereof in each election district there wis nis a decided increase in the registration lists the last two days of registration and the number of voters was increased in each district dj this may furnish some excuse for the county calrk in not having enough ballots printed however abe the lesson to be taught in ili the matter is simply this it pays to have your bome concerns do your work even though the price may seem large the money remains here the county is enriched and your home people are gien the work Pat Patr ronze orize you home industries and be bles ed there is another phase which ap paired feared at the recent election through the manipulations of a coterie of politicians and the intent to puni punish b the reaper for alleged slights and thrusts at some pet political officeholders the proposed amendments to the state constitution were published in the salina call hosp editor had become a lick spittal for the politicians be it known that the call is filling its place as the local paper for salina salim its cir circulation cu lation is limited to its own onn town with a ery few of that in the county now we A have io 10 lick kick thit that th it the call was vas authorized to print and publish the amendments to the constitution but the official having the publication public aion in charge should have gone further and had the amendments published publish td in every paper in ili tile the state the intention ot at the framers of the constitution and the laws was to give publicity to such bitters and no publicity can be had by the publication of such matter in an all obscure paper like the call when the vere ivere opened here on tuesday there was aen aeri table rush to the reaper office to tind out what the were the statement on tl e c offic ril and sample ballots was vas insufficient for e to form in as to ti tie the e proposed amendment imen dment the ahe v 01 kings of a few minded politicians his defeated the intention of tile the ard uch such matters sl should oula be taken cut of if the hinds of such narrow peanut politicians As a result the vote on the proposed amendments ib all bazail and guess aik oik the people did not have the amendments to them as contemplated in the law this same publicity is what ahat is desired in the publication of the delinquent tax lit by all rights it should b bi glien in the county to the firm guaranteeing the greatest publicity in former bears ears it has been given to the sun ind as a result many of the delinquents advertised never baa the publication ind and property was vas sold without tile the owner being made aware thereof the still bun h id a 1 larger subscription list than the call lut now that the sun I 1 is out of business the publication of the delinquent list in ib given to the call of course the price which the call charges I 1 is less than the ae reaper but surely the county commissioners do not expect the reaper with its large circulation to give its space for the same game price as the call if publicity is desired it can call only be obtained fay by publication in the paper with the circulation and the reaper reaber nis 1 as that while rhile the cill call has not |
