Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — Primary Election May 7. [ARTICLE]

Primary Election May 7.

The primary election next spring for county and state offices will be held on May 7. The question as to when the primary will be held is answered by quoting a part of section 5 of the act passed by the legislature of 1917, amending the primary election law of 1915. The part alluded to irf as follows: “Beginning With the year 1918 the primary elections provided for in this act shall be held in the various precincts of the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May of each year preceding each state, congressional, county and township election. The foregoing stipulation will have the effect of throwing the primary election of 1918 on Tuesday, May 7. This means that the primary in 1918 wiH be held two months later in the year than was the primary of 1916, which was held on Tuesday, March 7. The law was amended so as to throw the election in May because of the widespread complaint that the severe weather in March kept thousands of voters from participating in the election.