Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1908 — Four Tickets in Union Township. [ARTICLE]

Four Tickets in Union Township.

After consulting the election law for several days and debating the question for several hours Saturday with different lawyers here, County Clerk Warner decided that all four of the names that had been certified from Union township for assessor would have to appear on the ballot In that township. ChaaU.Garriott was orlginal’y nominated by the democrats, and then Edward Lakin petitioned to be put on the ticket as an independent candidate. Later the democrats found that they could elect some other person easier than they could Garriott and they also discovered that he was ineligible because he had resigned a judicial office only last spring, having been a justice of the peaee, and the law specifying that no Judicial officer can run for an office not judicial during the natural term of his office, even though he has resigned. Both Garriott and Lakin were ready to withdraw from the ticket, but the law also says that a withdrawal can not take place unless within three days after the namq has been c rtifled to the clerk. So it was decided that all /our names must appear on the ballet, viz. Democrat ticket., Solomon Norman;republican ticket, George E. McColly; independent democrat ticket, Chaa U. Garriott; independent ticket, Edward Lakin. There will, therefore be three democrats from Union running for assessor and one republican. The vo’tfr can take his choice. But, it is probable that Garriott would be disqualified even if he received' a plural.ty of the votes cast. , «