The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-08-01

so great, it was believed by a great
MAJ ajOrity of the two conventions of
June "a, as to doom the allied forces
to oefeat in advance of the electio on.
Thus believing there remained but
one method by which the Lopulists
and democrats might safely unite
both parties, and that was the method |
adopted, viz: one of the parties to
nominate all the candidates for a !
complete ticket in advance of their
nomination by the other party and |
theu let the other party nominate the |
same candidates and file both tickets |
up to the secretary of state. This |
done the law provides that:
Whenever any person shall re- |
ceive two or more limitations for the |
same office, he shall be deemed to
have accepted the nomination first
made and to have declined the others.
unless within the time limited for
filing certificates of nomination he
shall file iu the Office where such cer-
titicates of nomination are required
to be filed, a written statement signed
and sworn to by him designating
which one of such nomination he de
sires to accept and upon the filing
thereof he shall be deemed to have
declined the other nominatl ons.' 1t
is further provided that if the candi-
date fails to designate which nomina-
tion he accepts, the officer with whom
the nominations are flied shall ''make
and file an election of one nomination
for such candidate AS the law pro-
vides that unless the candid ate him
self shall designate which nomination
he accepts ''he shall be deemed to
have accepted the nomination first
made.'a When the time expires in
which the candidate shall make
choice without such candidate making
such choice, then the law itself makes
him the candidate of the party first
nominating him; or to speak more
accurately, the law deems him the
candidate of the party first nominal
ing him unless within given time he
chooses the other nomination. The
officer secretary of state) could do
nothing more, therefore, than indicate
for the candidate the acceptance by
the candidate of the nomin ation first
| made, for the law itself having deemed
him to have accepted the first nomina-
ton subject to his choice and that
| choice not having been exercised, he
remains the candidate of the party
| first nominating him.
| with the secretary of state and as
none of the candidates will decline
either OF the n nominations Or designate
either as their choice, the result will
! be that both tickets will remain on file
| just as they are at the date of fling
| until some official action shall be
| taken by the secretary of state either
| in obedience to the order of a court
| or upon his own motion.
| Thus by both ticxets being filed we
save our opportunity to get the bene-
| fit of every chance that there is under
this law to unite the opposition vote
of the state:
| 1st. BY going into court and get
! ting an order to put both tickets on
the official ballot, which if done will
| leave US just where we were before the
| law was made with two full tickets
composed of the same men, just as ia
1895, 1898 and 1900:
End. LII the court refuses to order
the secretary of state to put both
tickets on the official ballot, and the
| candidates refuse as they will to re-
pudiate or decline their nomination
or indicate any choice between the
nominations then the matter will be
| up to the secretary of state to place
the candidates upon that ticket upon
which they were first nominated, for
by the direct command of the law they
'.shall be deemed to have accepted
the nomination first made.' If to the
state each county ticket for the two
cooperating parties is added and
placed under the same head then q
| straight opposition ticket will appear
/ upon the official ballot and thus at
last in spite of this Infamous statute
i and the villainous machinatiOns of
the republican leaders and schemers,
! there will be one full ticket upon the
| official ballot which Is ;he free choice
of the peoples party and also of the
democratic party for which every
populist and every democrat and
| every opponent of trust-ridden leader
ship in the state can vote just as the
! republican votes for his candidates
by placing bis mark in the circle at
the top, without being compelled to
| write his name opposite every candi-
date and without exposing himself to
the chance of losing his vote by an
attempt to vote in some complicated
and unusual way.
Many man has fallen into the pit
he digged for another.
Haman was hanged upon his own
gallows.
w. J. BABB,