Volume 14 , Issue 44

1912 - Many Matters To Be Voted Upon

According to the Tombstone Epitaph, 27 October 1912, Sunday Edition, in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, there were many matters to be voted upon. The office of the board of supervisors was a busy place arranging for the coming election in October, 1912. The clerk was sending to every precinct in the county a list of the nominees, sample ballots to familiarize the voters with, along with blanks and papers necessary to carry on the election.

Women Suffrage was the only initiative petition. The presidential electors of the five parties had tickets in the field and congressional candidates would occupy the top of the ballot.

Following the candidates' names on the ballot were the proposed amendments to the constitution. There were four to noted upon. Following was the initiated measure proposing the amendments to the constitution in order to allow all citizens of the state of a certain age regardless of sex, to vote.

After the initiated petition on the woman suffrage amendment is the referendum ordered by petition of the people and include the miners lien law, the act regulating the number of men to be employed on trains and engines; the act pertaining to locomotive headlights, the act regulating the time that a railroad man must be in the state before being allowed to run a train or a locomotive, the car limit law, the three cent fare rate law, the semi-monthly pay day, and the end the game.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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