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DESIRES TO VOTE. FOR SUCH OFFICE VOTES SHALL NOT BE COUNTED FOR CANDIDATES NOT INDIVIDUALLY MARKED,
F IRST COLUMN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS| |PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS | | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS | | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS| [PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS| (PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS| (PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS| |PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Reprossntative in Congress
To Vote a Straight Party Tieket, ote for 88 (Vote for 88) (Vote for 88) (Vote for 88) (Vote for 8%) (Vote for 85) (Vote for 86) (Insert 88) f¥uts uf Cut)
Mark a Cross (X) in this Column REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC | LABOR PROHIBITION INDUSTRIALIST SOCIALIST WORKERS COMMUNIST dain ream, Jn for wep of otart]
Hoover & Curtis Smith & Robinson Foster & Gitlow Varney & Edgerton Reynolds & Crowley Thomas & Maurer Foster & Gitlow Hactors her Than th Daciot,
‘REPUBLICAN arold trvin, harles M, Howell, . Cush, Rudolph 1, Bankson, fuman, Mildred Adler, L. L. Langdon,
: iter F. naldson, alah Scheell ds etto, Serene M, Benade, war losau, John Aulenbach,
Parthenia Hills,
Ww. J. White,
3, Ww. erer, Harry Berger,
Irving 1 ? Hiam & { ¥ he wer, 8. | Burton W. Bowman,
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J. Fred Creeger, J. Blair Ben Careathers,
lernard Herman,
Frank Mozer,
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Alfred M. Waldror Henry Snvder ix Jen hn G : Lulgl Chiericonl, Leo P. Lemley,
A. Rodrigez,
Harry A. Mackey, homas L. kins, John Ot s “of thian, Perey K, Coover,
LABOR Russell H. Johnson, illiam | rber, Id R, Joh I. Gamble Mary E. Culver,
Isabel Darlington, Samuel Rebman, nna yYaling 18, Ham ¢ semmill, Glenn Dawley,
Wm. Mikades,
Anna Otis,
Harold R. John,
Lavinia L. Dock,
Dominick Flalani,
Joseph Gral ck,
Julia Marino,
¥. Ethel Hofses, Norman A. Brown,
Louis Tobin,
Henry J. Hufnagel,
Wm. Kogerman,
Rebecca Horowitz,
Fred W. Litte: Edward F, Krupa, Theo. Fagen,
Howard Leopold Elizabeth Llewellyn, Mary Horvatin,
Les
INDUSTRIALIST non J. Fergu f tur Shackliett, ntain : 3 i bd d MM, Marshall, William McKay, Arnold A. Marinof!,
alter Krebs, { oung ntz, J Henry W. Mead Samuel A, McKee, Jos. Sabatelli,
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Homer K. er lessie Migrock,
Thomas Morgan,
A. Marinoff, « K. ' Margaret B. Power, Louis Cohen,
Mike Blaskovich,
Tony Gaibrish,
SOCIALIST +. Scott Smith, John P. Mulrenan, rnest Careathers, aura V. Murphy, Leo Pryzbylinski,
Francis J, Kooser lichael Frane " “rank Note, Minnie iy, Harry Ware Rowland,
Daniel M, Sachter,
Sam Shore,
John W, Sia
Milan Resetar,
Paul Hanas
WORKERS COMMUNIST
Susan Kendrs,
John Kendra,
, Sherman, ’ Morris Launderman,
Simpson, Mark VanBuskirk, Frank Winkler,
H. K. Stoner, Martha Whitman, James Parker,
Rebecca R. 8 Birch Wilson, is
Margery Thompson W. J. Wright, John 8. Truhar,
Jalmar Siliander,
Geo. D. Welch, Henry C. Wuerthner,
A. Grace White, Edward A. Yoe, Mary Horvat,
UNITED STATES SENATOR STATE TREASURER AUDITOR GENERAL JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
{Vote for One.) (Vote for One.) (Yote for Ope) (Vote for One.)
A. Reed, Republican. Edward Martin, Republican, Charles A. Waters, Republican,
Democratic. Clinton B, Eilenberger, Democratic.
—————————————— James P. Rossiter,
Labor, lt American,
William D. Porter,
iam N. McNair, Democratic. Edward J. Morris,
Lecce ————————
Labor, John Brophy,
Kutz, Labor.
Benjamin Thomas,
Elisha Kent Kane, Prohibition. George Hart,
Prohibition. Minnie Wi. McGrew, Prohibition. { Sidney B. Miller, Labor,
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William H. Thomas, Industrialist. Edward Walsh, American, Aaron Zavells, Industrialist. Charles Palmer, Prohibition.
vnsene RNE Roimem——————— ———— p—
J. VanEssen, Socialist. George W. Ohls,
Industrialist, Fred Hodgson, Socialist. William Kruczynna, Industrialist,
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Workers Communist, Lilith M, Wilson,
Socialist, arlington Hoopes, Socialist.
W. 3. White,
PROPOSED FREE, PUBLIC, NON-SECTARIAN LIBRARY FOR
THE COUNTY OF CENTRE.
Shall a , non-esctarian library be eetablishad maintained, ahd regulated by the Coumty Commis.
of Centre for Centre County fn aoctordunce with the provisions of the Act of General Assembly
the July, A. D. 17, P, L. 1143, 8 amended by the Att of the Omeral Assembly approved NO
the 4th day of May, A. D. 1997, P. L. 84? #9
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Shall an annual tax of one mill on the dollar on all taxable property in Centre Co@ty be established th oo
tablish, mammtain and regulate a free, public, non-sectarian lhrary for Oentre County & accordasce with the pro-
vidons of the Act of General Assembly approved the 86th day of July, A. D. 1917, P. L 1148, as amended by the
Act of the General Assembly approved the th day of May, A. D. 1987, P. IL. 7847 NO
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
A Cross (X) marked in the square at the right of the word “YES”, indicates a vote FOR the Amendment
A Cross (X) marked in the square at the right of the word “NO”, indicates a vote AGAINST the Amendment
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 1
Shall Section Twelve of Article Three of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows?
Government shall be done under contract or by the State Government. The furnishings and fuel for the Capitol buildings, and paper and stationery for the State Government, shall be made or by the State
al designated in this section shall be awardef to the lowest responsible bidder, subject to the approval of the Auditor General and of the State Treasurer. No member of the General Assembly, or officer of any department of
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 2
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto Section Eighteen which reads as follows?
irrespective of any debt, may authorize the State t «ue bonds, to the amount of eight million dollars (£8,000,000), for the erection and equipment at the Pennsylvania State College of buildings necessary for the uses and purposes NO
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 3
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto Section Sixteen, which reads as follows?
Section 16. In addition to the purposes stated in article nine, section four of this Constitution, the State may be authorized by law to issue bonds, to the amount of twenty-five millions of dollars, for the purpose of acquiring land in the State for forest purposes.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 4
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto Section Seventeen, which reads as follows?
Section 17. In addition to the purposes stated in article nine, section four of this Constitution, the State may be authorized by law to issue bonds, to the amount of five millions of dollars, for the purpose of acquiring and erecting buildings and equipping the same for the use of
the Pennsylvania National Guard.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. S
Shall Section One of Article Nine of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows?
All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under geheral laws; but, in the case of inheritance taxes, exemptions as to subjects of taxation or as to amount may be granted by
general laws; and the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 6
Shall Section Eleven of Article Eight of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows?
Townships, and wards of cities or boroughs, shall form or be divided into election districts of compact and contiguous territory, in such manner as the court of quarter sessions of the city or county in which the same are located may direct; but the courts of quarter sessions, having
jurisdiction therein, shall have power to divide or change the boundaries of election districts whenever the court of the proper county shall be of opinion that the convenience of the electors and the public interests will be promoted thereby.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 7
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto the following new section?
t y authorize the city of Pittsburgh to levy special assessments against both abutting and non-abutting property, peculiarly benefited, for the payment of any public improvement whatsoever; to lay out and build as additional public improve.
ment the pa) it of which pr 3 peculiarly benefited shall be liable to special ssments, rapid transit railway systems, drainage and sewerage systems, flood protective works, wharves, piers and quays, highway tunnels and bridges, and underground and overhead streets
levy general and special taxes and therefor either before or after the laying out and construction thereof; and to provide that all special taxes and special assessments so levied, whether payable presently when so
ll i provide for the use and operation of any rapid transit system by private corporations organized for that purpose. No law
ection held therefor a majority of the electors voting thereon shall consent thereto.
supplementing a] streets or street systems; t pecial assessment
levied or in in nts over i of years, shall be lits or offsets to indebtedness incurred for such purposes in calculating the debt of such city; to }
passed in pursua reof shall authorize the construction of any rapid transit railway system, flood protective works, w harves, piers, or quays, highway tunnels or underground or overhead streets, unless at a public el
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 8
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto the following section?
Il never exceed ten per centum upon the a sed value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any such city of the second class incur any new debt or increase its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon
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lectors thereof, at a public election, in such manner as shall be provided by law.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. ©
Shall Article Nine, Seetion Four of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows?
13 rrection, defend the State in war, or to pay existing debt; and the debt created to supply deficiencies in revenue shall never exceed in the
for the purpose of improving and rebuilding the highways of the Commonwealth.
ply casual deficiencies of revenues. renal invasions, npress insu
rrespective of any dobt, may authorize the State ie bonds to the amount of one hundred and fifty millions of doll
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 10
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto the following section?
Section 19. In addition to the purposes stated in article nine, section four, of this Constitution, the State may be authorized to issue bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars ($50,000,000), for the acquisition of lands and buildings and the construction and improvement of
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State-owned buildings and the equipment thereof, for the care and maintenance of penal offenders, delinquents, mental defectives, epileptics, and persons mentally diseased.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 11
Shall Article Nine Section Eight of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows?
1 y or incorpora district, except as provided herein and in section fifteen of this article, shall never exceed seven (7) per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein, and the
debt of any county except as provided in section een of this article shall never exceed ten (10) per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable realty therein, but the debt of the city of Philadelphia may be increased in such amount that the total city debt of said city shall not ex-
ceed fourteen (14) per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable realty therein, nor shall any such county, municipality, or district incur any new debt o ease its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two (2) per centum upon such assessed valuation of taxable realty in the
case of counties, or taxable property in the case of other municipalities or districts, without the consent of the electors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall be provided by law; but the city of Philadelphia may incur any debt or increase its indebtedness to an amount
not exceeding three per centum of the valuation of taxable realty in said city without the consent of the electors, In ascertaining the borrowing capacity of the city of Philadelphia at any time there shall be deducted from such debt so much of the debt of said city as shall have been
truction, purchase, or condemnation of any public utility or part thereof or facility therefor to the extent that such Public improvement or public
e interest and sinking-fund
Section 8. The debt of any city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality
incurred or is about to be incurred and the proceeds thereof expended or about to be expended upon any public improvement, or in the cont
utility or part thereof, whether separately or in connection with any other public improvement or public utility or part thereof, may yield or may reasonably be expected to yield revenue in excess of operating expenses for or towards the payment of t
charges thereon. The method of determining such amount so to be deducted shall be prescribed by the General Assembly.
In incurring indebtedness for any purpose the city of Philadelphia may issue its obligations, maturing not later than fifty (50) years from the date thereof, with provision for a sinking-fund sufficient to retire said obligations at maturity; the payment to such sinking-fund to be
in equal or graded, annual, or other periodical installments. Where any indebtedness shall be or shall have been incurred by said city of Philadelphia for the purpose of the construction or improvements of public works or utilities of any character from which income or revenue is to
be derived by said city or for the reclamation of land to be used in the construction of wharves or docks owned or to be owned by said city, such obligations may be in an amount sufficient to provide for and may include the amount of the interest and sinking-fund charges accruing and
which may accrue thereon throughout the period of construction and until the expiration of one year after the completion of the work for which said indebtedness shall have been incurred, and said city shall not be required to levy a tax to pay said interest and sinking-fund charges, as
required by section ten, article nine of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, until the expiration of said period of one year after the completion of said work.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 12
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution be amended by adding thereto a section which reads as follows?
Section 1 B. Taxation laws may grant exemptions or rebates to residents, or estates of residents, of other States which grant similar exemptions or rebates to residents, or estates of residents, of Pennsylvania.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 183
Shall Article Eight Section Seven of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows?
Section 7. All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens, or for the registration of electors, shall be ypiform throughout the State, except that laws regulating and requiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to cities only, provided that such laws
be uniform for cities of the same class, and except further, that the General Assembly shall, by general law, permit the use of voting machines, or other mechanical devices for registering or recording and computing the vote, at all*elections or primaries, in any county, city, borough or
township of the Commonwealth, at the option of the electors of such county, city, borough or township, without being obliged to require the use of such voting machines or mechanical devices in any other county, city, borough or township, under such regulations with reference thereto
as the General Assembly may from time to time prescribe. The General Assembly may from time to time prescribe the number and duties of election officers in any political subdivision of the Commonwealth in which voting machines or other mechanical devices authorized by this section may be used.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION NO. 14
Shall Article Fifteen of the Constitution pe amended by adding thereto a new sectibn to be known as Section Four thereof?
Section 4. The General Assembly is hereby authorized to provide for the consolidation of the county, poor districts, cities, boroughs and townships of the county of Allegheny, and the offices thereof, into a consolidated city and county, with the constitutional and legal capacity of a
municipal corporation, to be known as the City of Pittsburgh, and to provide for a charter for its government. The said charter shall be submitted to the electors of said county, at a special election to be provided for therein. If the majority of the electors voting thereon, in the county
as a whole, and at least two-thirds of all the electors voting thereon in each of a majority of the cities, boroughs and townships thereof, vote in the affirmative, the act shall take effect for the whole county. If rejected, the said charter may be resubmitted to the electors in original
new or modified form, at any subsequent election until adopted.
It shall be competent, subject to the police power of the State, for the Legislature to provide in said charter:
1. For the exercise, by the consolidated city, of all the powers and duties vested in the county of Allegheny, and the poor districts thereof, and such other powers appropriate to a municipality as may be specified therein, except such powers as are specifically reserved by this sec-
tion to the municipal divisions herein provided for.
2. For the election, by the people of the consolidated city, of a board of commissioners, the numbier to be fixed by the charter, in lieu of present county commissioners, in which board shall be vested all the powers of the consolidated city and county, except as otherwise provided in the charter.
3. For the organization of a government for the consolidated city and county, and for the election or appointment of the constitutional and other necessary officers thereof, and for their powers and duties.
4. For the organization of all courts, other than those of record, in the consolidated city, and for the procedure thereof, and for the appointment of judges and officers thereof, which courts shall exercise the jurisdiction, powers and duties of the magistrates, aldermen and justices
of the peace and such other powers as may be conferred by law. :
5. For the transfer to the consolidated city of the property and indebtedness of the county of Allegheny, and the poor districts thereof, and of such property and indebtedness of the cities, boroughs and townships thereof as relate to the powers and duties of said consolidated city,
and to provide for an equitable adjustment and payment of such indebtedness, and for this purpose, any taxation therein shall be uniform taxation within the meaning and intent of other provisions of this Constitution. .
6. For the assessment of property for taxation, the levying and collection of taxes, and the payment of the cost of gny public improvement, in whole or in part, by special assessment upon abutting and non-abutting property materially benefitted thereby, and, for this purpose,
real estate so charged shall be classified as urban, suburban and rural, and assessments made in accordance with such clagsifications. a ,
7. For the creation, by the board of commissioners, of districts for the purpose of regulating the location, height, area, bulk and use of buildings and premises. : : 2: A Jae vas
8. For the creation, by the board of commissioners, of special districts for the purpose of acquiring, constructing maintaining, operating or contracting for, any public property, work, improvement, utility or service, not for the exclusive benefit of any one municipal division, and
for the payment of the costs and maintenance of such property, work, improvement, utility or service there may be special taxes levied throughout such special districts respectively, separate and apart from the general city tax: ca ss : ih
Provided, however, That it is the intent of this section that substantial powers be reserved to the cities, boroughs and townships situated in Allegheny County. To this end the charter shall provide for the continued existence of the said cities, boroughs and townships, as municipal
divisions of the consolidated city, under their present names and forms of government, subject to the laws provided for government of municipalities of their respective forms and classes, except as provided in the charter, and with their present boundaries, provided that the city of
Pittsburgh may be designated by a term other than city and may be divided into two or more municipal divisions, and that any two or more municipal divisions of the consolidated city may, with the consent of a majority of the electors voting thereon in each of such divisions at any
general or special election, be united to form a single municipal division,
The said municipal divisions shall have and continue to possess the following powers:
1, The constitutional and legal capacity of municipal corporations, except as limited in the charter, . 3% Atak
2. The power to lay and collect taxes and to incur indebtedness, subject to the limitations which are or may be impoged by law upon cities, boroughs or townships of corresponding classification, for the porpese of carrying out any lawful power of said divisions. :
3. The power to acquire, own, construct, maintain, operate or contract for all kinds of public property, works, improvements, utilities or services, which shall be within the municipal division, and principally for the use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof, provided this power shall
mot be taken to include the construction and maintenance of through-traffic streets and bridges, tunnels, subways and appurtenances thereof, nor main or trunk lines for sewer, power and water service, running through more than one municipal division, and designated as such by the
oard of commissioners.
4. The power to maintain a local police force, and local fire department, with the necessary buildings, appurtenan equipment therefor, which may be supplemental to the police force and fire department of the consolidated city. a
6. The power to establish a limitation of indebtedness for a ai iaind city and the Ei] divisions thereof, vided that the total of the indebtedness of the consolidated city and the municipal divisions thereof shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the limits of the total
indebtedness allowed by the Constitution to the county and to the separate municipalities. i : 3 . i %
6. All other powers not specifically granted by the charter to the consolidated city: Provided, however, That a munjgipal division may surrender, by majority vote of the electors voting thereon at any general or special election, any of its powers to the consolidated city, subject
to the acceptance thereof by the board of commissioners. : . g . jon ston :
The said charter may be amended by the Legislature, subject to ratification by a majority of the electors of the consolidated city voting thereon at any general or special election: Provided, That no amendment reducing the powers of municipal divisions shall be effective unless
ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon in each of a majority of said divisions.