The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-06-05
Call for County Democratic
Primary July Is, 1902,
UNDER THE CALI MADEFoR A PRI-
MARY ELECTION.

The State Democratic Executive
Committee having fixed the date for
the first primary on July 18th 1902,
the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of Putnam County hereby issues
its formal call for a primary election
10 be on July 18th, 1902, in each cleo
tion precincti in Putnam County, to al
low the democratic voters to express
their choice for United States Sena-
tor, and the various State and Coun-
ty officers to be voted for at the No
vember election.
| Uuited States Senator.
! Representative in Congress.
Justice of the Supreme Court.
Secretary Of State.
Comptroller,
Railroad Commissioners.
State Senator, 26th Senatorial Dis
trict.
2 Members of the House of Repre-
Sentatives.
] Tax Assessor
| Tax Collector.
| County Treasurer.
D County Commissioners.
| | Supervisor of Registration.
3 Members of the County Board CT
! Education.
Justice of the Peace in and for
district.
| Constable in and for districts.
|. Each elector shall vote for 5
members of the Board of County
| Commissioners. from each district.
Each electOr shall vote for men,
bers o! the County Board of Educa-
tiOn, one from each district.
?. A majority vote is required in
the selection of any candidate.
3. a second primary shall he held
on August 18th, 1902, to select such
candidates as are not selected in the
first primary.
4. That the precinct meeting shall
be held at 10 O'Clock Il. M, for select
ing member of the Executive Com
mittee. The primary election shall
be held from lO:30 a. IN. until p.
m, except in the city of Palatka and
Palatka Heights, which shall be held
the primary meeting from 3 p. m. to
$3.50 p. m, and the precinct meeting
at p. m.
3. The officers of the election
shall be three inspectors and clerk,
who shall receive $50 per day.
Should either person so appointed
fail to appear at the polls totperform
his duties for fifteen minutes after
the time to open, then the inspector
or inspectors present shall fill the va
cancy from the bystanders. Provid-
ed no candidate shall be an inspector.
6. That at said primary election
none but the Democrats who voted
the Democratic state ticket at the
last general election, or who will
pledge themselves to support all the
nominees at this primary and have
qualified themselves to vote by reg
istration, or who are entitled to reg
istration and have paid their poll
taxes 10 days before said primary,
and those Democrats who have be-
come qualified voters since the last
general election, and those Demo
crats who will become of age at the
time of election, shall be allowed to
vote at said primaries.
Z. The inspectors shall keep a poll
list of all persons voting and return
same with the ballots cast, to the
secretary of the committee, on or be-
fore 3 O'Clock p m, on Thursday,
July II, 1902. At the close of the
polls they shall publicly count the
ballots cast and announce the result,
and shall make duplicate certificates
of the result, one of which shall be
retained by the clerk and the other
delivered to the member of the eX-
ecutive committee, who shall in per-
son deliver same to the secretary of
the committee; and in case of the
inability of the committeeman to de-
liver said returns he shall appoint
one of the managers as his proxy,
who shall serve on the executive
committee on the canvass of the re-
turns, and in case the committeeman
be not present at the election one of
the managers shall bring such re-
turns. That in all cases where a vote
is challenged the managers shall de-
eide as to the same, and if said vote
shall be refused, the party so offering
to vote shall have the right to appeal
to the executive committee, and if
allowed to be cast, the party chal-
longing the same shall have a SINH
lar right of appeal, and in all cases
where such an appeal is made the
disputed ballot shall, without exami-
nation, be sealed in separate envel-
ope, and the name of the person Of
fering to vote, together with the OBJ
iections offered thereto, endorsed
thereon and returned to the commit
tee with the other ballots and returns
for final decisions.
g. Said election shall be by ballots
furnished by this committee, con-
tanning the names of all persons to
be voted for who furnish their nan es
to secretary of the committee on or
before June oath, 1902. The returns
of said election shall be canvassed by
this committee Thursday, July 18th,
1902, at IL O'Clock a. m.
8 The secretary of the committee
shall send to the executive commit
teeman for each precinct in due time,
ballots, blank poll lists and certifi-
Gates of returns, and said committees
man shall deliver them to the inspec-
tors at polls at time of opening same.
Candidates wishing their names on
the ballots shall pay to the secretary
of this committee by noon of
June 24th, 1902, the following sums:
Officers whose terms are four
years, $40; officers whose terms are
two years, $40 members of the
Legislature, $40: all minor offic-
es, 81; to defray the expenses of
printing and distributing the ballots,
and no ballots shall be counted for
any person failing to pay said fee.
Each voter must vote in the district
in which he is registered. Each per-
son voting shall thereby signify that
he approves the principles of the
Democratic party, and that he feels
himself in honor bound TO vote for
the nominees of this primary at the
November election.
That this rule shall be posted at
each polling place.