The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-10

: published In newspaper published q
> the place whore the convention Is held
or at the seat Of government, and COPY
} thereof may be filed as aforesaid In lieT
Of the certificate first herein provided
for.
Certificates OF nominations made By
voters otherwise than by conventions OF
primary elections. shall be fled by the
persons or some Of them whose names
/ are signed 70 the certificate Of nomina.
tions, and ifsuch nominations are made
by q primary election, the certificates
thereof shall be made BY the chairman
and secretary Of the executive committee
| OF the party making the same; and they
fmay be certified and publiahed in q
newspaper, and copies OF said paper may
be fled as herefnbeiore provided for.
Certificates OF nomination OF candidates
for Representatives in Congress, for
Judges OF Circuit or other courts OF re-.
cord, and for State Senators, shall be
certified and fled by the chairman and
secretary Of the district executive com.
mittee OF the party making them,
whether they be made by convention
or q primary election; and the proyi.
Hons herein contained in regard 10 the
printing Of the nominations shall apply
TO all such nominations. Certificates Of
nomination OF candidates for the House
OF Delegates and for all county offices
shall be made and filed by the county
executive committee OF the party max.
ing them. Certificates OF the nomina-
ton Of candidates for the Offices to be
filed by the voters OF piagisterial dis.
trict, shall be made and fled by the said
magisterial district committee, or by the
chairman and secretary OF the county
executive committee. And certificates
OF nomination for municipal ofticersahal
be made and filed by committee Of the
party making the nominations appointed
for the purpose; or by the president aud
secretary OF the convention making such
nominations. Every such certificate
shall be filed with the said clerk, at least
twenty days before the day fixed by law
for the election OF the persons nomi-
mated.
20. State, congressional, judicial, SEN
atorial, district and county executive
committees shall be appointed by each
political party making nominations Of
candidates for Office, and it Rhall be the
duty OF the committee so appointed to
do and perform the duties required Of
them by this chapter.
%. In case 1t shall appear 10 the clerk
OF the circuit court OF any county, by
satisfactory evidence, that nominations
have been made in conformity. with the
provisions OF this chapter, and, no cer-
tifcate thereof has been received by
him, he shall include such nominations
among the names Of candidates to be
printed upon the ballots as hereinafter
provided.
2s. The certificates Of nominations so
filed in the office oi the clerk OF the cir
cult court, shall be preserved therein by
him, until ten days after the next sue
ceedlng election, when he may destroy
the same.
VACANCIES IN INNoMINATIoNs- PILIED.
20. In case Of a vacancy in nomlna.
tion, by death, resignation or otherwise,
it may be filled and certified in the same
manner as originally made and certified;
but II such vacancy be not 80 filled with
in twenty days next preceding the cleo
tion, If 1t be an Office 10 be filled by the
voters OF the entire State, or within ten
days next preceding an election for any
other Office, II said committee fail or re.
fuse to meet 1t shall be lawful for the
chairman OF the committee Of the party,
OF which said candidate was a member
for the State, circuit, county, district or
other political division In which such
vacancy occurs, to fill such vacancy by
nomination, makea q certificate thereof
and file the same with the same officer
with whom the original certificate OF
nomination was, should, or might have
been legally filed and 1t shall be the
duty OF the officer with whom such GER
tificate is fled to receive and proceed
with the same, in all respects as an
original nomination.
II such nomination to fill such vacancy
be not SO made and certified to the
Clerk OF the Circuit Court before the
printing OF the ballots herein provided
for, It shall be lawful for the chairman
OF said State, circuit, county, district, or
other political division committee TO
provide the Commissioners Of Election
Of each precinct in which such candidate
may be voted for with q number OF
pastors containing only the name Of such
candidate at least .equal TO the number
ballots provided for each precinct, bnt
no pasters shall be given TO or received
by any person except such commission
ers Of election; and 1t shall be the duty
OF the commissioners Of election to de.
liver such pasters to the polling clerks,
who shall, in the presence Of said com.
missioners, put on such pasteTs in O
careful and proper manner, and in the
pelling clerks shall sign their names
thereon.
NJ PUBLICATION or NOMINATIONS.
At least ten days before an election to
all any public Office, at which the voters
oiany county are entitled to vote, the
Clerk Of the Circuit Court Of such coun.
ty shall cause 10 be published In two
newspapers, II such there be published
within the county, representing the po.
litiCal parties which at the last precsd.
ing general election cast the largest
number Of votes in the State, or II there
be only one newspaper published there.
In, then, in such newspaper, the uomi.
nations 70 Office, certified 10 him and
filed In his Office, excepting nominations
for Office TO be flied by the voters OF any
subdivision less than q county.
This section alao provides two such
publications shall be made and that
nothing shall be construed TO prohibit
any person from running as an indie.
pendent candidate, and 10 have votes
/ caat for him oonnkRd ~ T@f
Section S2proyides for Bolrd Of Bal.
lot Commissioners in each county. The
Clerk Of the Circuit Court shall appoint
two persons, one from each Of the two
parties which cast the largest number Of
votes at the last preceding general elec.
tion. These and the Clerk will consti.
tute the Board, Of which the Clerk shall
be chairman.
PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION or BAL
SO. Excepting municipal elections, 1t
shall be the duty Of the Board of Ballot