Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — A Few Final Words About Next Tuesday’s Primary. [ARTICLE]

A Few Final Words About Next Tuesday’s Primary.

Remember that next Tuesday is the date for holding the primary election to vote on the nomination of state, district and county officers. A complete list of the officers to be voted for will be found on page six of today’s Democrat. Every person who will be a voter at the November election is entitled to a vote in the primaries. Remember, that in the primary you vote only for the men on your ticket —a Democrat can vote only for Democrats, Republicans for Republicans, etc. You simply register* 1 -by your vote your choice of candidates for the offices enumerated, but can vote for a first and second choice for the same office when there are two or more candidates for any one office. The primary will be held in practically all respects the same as a general election, and when you go to the polls to vote you ask for the ticket of your party; then go to the booth and mark your choice of candidates with an X the same as you would at a regular election, except that you make the X at the right or after the name of the candidate, instead of before the name, as in a regular election, thus: First Second For Governor Choice Choice Vote Vote for one for one John A. M. Adair | X Leonard B. Clore X | Your vote as above marked would be for Clore for first choice; Adair for second choice for the nomination for governor. And so on down the list of candidates. 'a While the same safeguards and penalities surround the primary and apply for an illegal voter to even offer to vote at a regular election, no one but a voter of the same party as the voter offering to vote can challenge a voter. That is, no one but a Democrat can challenge a person desiring to the vote the Democratic ticket; a Republican a Republican voter, and a Progressive a Progressive voter. The polls are to be open from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. Returns are made to the county board of election commissioners, together with all ballots, both voted and unvoted, in the same manner as in a general election. At 1 o’clock p. m. following their election the precinct committeemen of each political party elected at this primary shall meet at the county seat and organize by electing a chairman, secretary and treasurer, etc., and the chairmen so elected in each county of each congressional district will meet later, on call, to elect district chairmen. The intent of the primary law is to place the matter directly up to the voters themselves as to who they will have as candidates on their tickets, and one who does not participate in the primaries has no justifiable kick coming if men are nominated for office on his ticket who are objectionable to him.