A Fearful Document.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 12 January 1910, Page 60

A Fearful Document.

Tiie odd American custom of printing on the ballot-paper not only the names of the political parties nbkJi tbe candidates represent, but the pictorial “emblems” of those parties, resulted in the New York voters being confronted last month with a wonderful and fearful document. In addition to the traditional Republican and Democratic symbols of an eagle and a star respectively, there were figures of a cottage, the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, a safe, a keystone, an arm with a hammer, a cock, a white square in a black border, a pair of scales, a torch, a “subway” train, a balloon, a gas meter, a ‘•mansion house,” and a few other miscellaneous objects. There were in all, no less than twenty-one colours of candidates’ names, each column standing under some such party emblem. As these columns were printed abreast, the ballot-paper was four feet five inches in ■width.