Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-29
RULES GOVERNING PRIMARY
ELECTION
To be Held April IS, 1598..To Nomi
nate a Candidate for Congress in
the First Congressional
District.

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nate a Candidate for Congress in
the First Congressional
District.
The following is submitted in regard
to the Republican Primary Election, to
nominate a Candidate for Congress for
the First Congressional District Of Ten
nessee.
That q Primary Election shall DO
held in each voting precinct In each
County Of the First Congressional Dis
trict on Saturday, the 18th day OF April,
1906; and the polls Of said election shall
be open at 8 o'clock, A. NJ, and shall be
closed at r. NJ, and no person shall be
voted for at said election except candi-
dates for the nomination for Congress.
That no person shall be permitted
to vote in said election but bona fide Re-
publicans, recognized and known to be
such in the District in which the vote is
offered to be cast. All persons voting
shall be legally qualified voters of the
precinct. The Judges of said Election
shall prohibit and reject the vote of
every person Of any other political party
who may offer to vote under the pretext
of having recently changed his political
faith, or II under any other pretext
whatever, the same shall be rejected.
THIRD.
The Congressional Executive Com
mittee Of this Congressional District
shall constitute a Board Of Returns of
said election who shall meet on Thurs
day, 23rd day Of April, 1896, at Greene
Vile, Tennessee.
Said Board shall canvass the returns
Of the respective Counties, and nou
the result Of said election.
The candidate receiving the highest
number Of legal votes shall be the nomi-
nee Of the Republican party Of this Dis
trict
The polls Of said election shall be
opened by the Chairman Of each Civil
District, or voting precinct, and said
election shall be held by said Chairman.
In Counties where the office Of District
Chairman is now vacant, the Congress
sional County Chairman, shall appoint q
good man, a Republican Of the District
to fill said vacancy or vacancies, imme.
diately, and the names and addresses of
the person or persons so appointed shall
be furnished to the Chairman Of the
Congressional Executive Committee,
and to every candidate on his applica-
| ton for the same.
In the event any Of the said District
or for any cause are absent, the Judges
of said election, who are herein provided,
shall select a man to open and hold said
election, and the election; so held, shall
be deemed legal.
The Judges of said election shall be
chosen as follows, viz: Each candidate
shall select one agent in each County to
act for him and said agent so selected
shall appoint one Judge for each Civil
District, or voting precinct, for said
County but if there is an even number
Of candidates, then the Judges SO ap-
pointed by said agents, shall appoint
n other Judge so as to make the num-
Der odd and in case they can not agree
as to the appointment of this other
Judge, then the District Chairman hold
ing said election, or the person author
lied to hold the same, shall have the
right to cast the tie vote in this event.
The various candidates shalt appoint the
agents herein provided for on or before
the 18th day Of March, 1895, and 80
notify the Congressional Chairman OF
each County, whom he has appointed in
in said County. The agents so appointed,
shall appoint the Judges in the respect
i've Districts or the counties for which
they were appointed on or before the lst
day of April, 1896, and so notify the Con-
gressional Chairman of said County by
said date, giving him the names Of the
Judges so appointed. In the event any
of the candidates fail to appoint an
agent in any County in the District, or
in the event any Of the agents so ap-
pointed by any candidate shall fail to
appoint a Judge in any Civil District in
said County and notify the Congress
sional Chairman as above provided, then
the County Congressional Chairman Ia
hereby authorized and empowered to
fill the vacancy thus caused in the
Judges in any Civil District. 1t shall be
the duty of said Judges to receive the
vote OF any legally qualified Republican
Elector, and to reject every vote that
may be offered by any person not q
qualified Republican Elector under these
rules.
1t shall be the duty Of said Judges to
pass upon the qualifications and eligi-
bility Of all voters as herein set forth;
to be present andinspect each ballot as 1t
is taken from the ballot box, and see that
1t is counted for the candidate for whom
1t was cast. To certify the returns Of said
election the congressional County Chair
man, and that there shall be as many
poll books kept as there are candidates,
and Judges and Clerks holding said
primary shall certify all Of said poll
books, and a tally sheet attached thereto.
and shall deliver one of the same so
certified, properly sealed up, to the off,
Ger holding said election, and the officer
holding said election, shall return said
poll books, so delivered to him without
breaking the seal to the Congressional
County Chairman at the Court House in
said County on or before April 10Th,
1896. He may send same by mail or de-