Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-08-08

and Elections Conducted-Someth OF
Interest to Every Citizen of the State.
The new ballot law reads as follows:
Section l. Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in general assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, that from and after March /, 1892, all
ballots cast in elections for public officers with
in this commonwealth shall be printed and dis
tributed Mt public expense hereinafter pro-
vided. The printing of the ballots and of the
cards of instruction for the elections in each
county, and the delivery of the same to the
election officers, as hereinafter provided, and
all other expenses incurred under the provis-
ions of this act shall be Il county charge unless
herein otherwise provided, the payment of
which shall be provided for in the same man.
ner as the payment of other election expenses.
1t shall be the duty of the secretary of the COM
mOnwealth to prepare forms for all the blanks
made necessary or advisable by this act, and to
furnish copies of the same to the county COM
missioners of each county, who shall procure
further copies pf the same at the cost of the
county and furnish them to the election officers
or any other persons by whom they are to be
used, in such quantities as may be necessary to
carry out the provisions of this act.
The Nominations.
Section 2. Any convention of delegates or
primary meeting of electors, or caucus held
under the rules of political party, or any
board authorized to certify nominations repre-
senting political party, which at the election
next preceding polled at least three per centum
of the largest entire vote for any office cast in
the state, in the electoral district or division
| thereof for which such primary meeting eau
Gus, convention or board desires to make or
certify nominations, may nominate one candi-
date for each Office which is to be filled in the
state, or in the said district or division, at the
| next ensuing election, by causing a certificate
of nomination to be drawn up and filed as here
| matter provided provided that any political
party which polled three per centum of the
entire vote in the state at the election next pre-
ceeding at which state officer was voted for
may make and certify nominations according
to the provisions of this section for any cleo
toral division or district of The state, notwith-
standing that such political party may have
polled less than three per centum of the entire
vote at the last preceding election in said cleo
toral district or division. Every such certifi-
cate of nomination shall be signed by the pre-
siding officer and the secretary, or secretaries,
| OF the convention or private meeting or caucus
| or board, who shall add thereto their places of
residence, and shall be sworn or affirmed to by
| them before an officer qualified to administer
oaths, to be true to the best of their knowledge
and belief, and a certificate of the oath shall
be annexed to the certificate of nomination.
Another Plan of Nomination.
Section B. Nominations of candidates for any
public Office may also be made by nomination
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or of the electoral district or division thereof
for which the nomination is made, and filed in
the proper Office, as provided in section five of
| this act Where the nomination is for any
| office to be filled by the voters of the state at
| large the number of the qualified electors of
the state signing such nomination paper shall
be at least one-half of one per centum of the
largest vote for any officer elected in the state
at the last preceding election at which state
| officer was voted for In the case of all other
nominations, the number of qualified electors
of the electoral district or division signing
such nomination papers shall be at least three
| per centum of the largest entire vote for any
officer elected at the last preceding election in
the said electoral district or division for which
said nomination papers are designed to be
made. Each elector signing nomination
paper shall add to his signature his place of
residence and occupation, and no person may
subscribe to more than one nomination for
each Office to be filled. The signatures to each
nomination paper and the qualification of the
signers shall be vouched for by the affidavit of
at least five of the sgners thereof, which afh-
davit shall accompany the nomination paper
provided that nomination papers which are not
| signed and made out in strict compliance with
all the requirements of this act shall be invalid
What Must be Stated.
Section 4. All certificates of nomination and
nomination papers shall specify: u) The party,
| or policy, which such candidate represents ex-
pressed in not more than three words; in the
case of electors of president and vice president
of the United States the names of the candi-
dates for president and vice president may be
added to the party of political appelation. (2)
The name of each candidate nominated therein,
his profession, business, or occupation, if any,
and his place of residence with street and
number thereon, if any. C0 The office for
which such candidate is nominated, provided
that no words shall be used in any nomination
| papers to describe or designate the party or
policy or political appellation represented by
the candidate named in such nomination papers
| as aforesaid, identical with or similar to the
| words used for the like purpose in certificates
| OF nomination made by convention of dele
gates of political party which at the last pre-
ceding election polled three per centum of the
| largest vote cast.
Section 3. Certificates of nomination for can
didates for the offices of presidential electors
and members of the house of reprepresenta
tives of the United States, and for all state
officers, including those of judges, senators and
representatives, shall be filed with the secretary
of the commonwealth at least fifty-six days be-
fore the election for which the candidates are
nominated, and nomination papers for candi-
dates for the said offices shall be filed with the
said secretay at least forty days before the day
of such election.
| Where Papers Are Filed
Certificates of nomination and nomination
papers for candidates for all other offices, ex-
cept township and borough offices, shall be filed
| with the county commissioners of the respec-
tive counties at least forty-two and thirty-tive
days respectively before the day of the elec-
ton. Certificates of nomination and nomina-
| ton papers for candidates for township and