Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-07-30
THE PLAN OF COOPERATION
WHY ADOPTED.
To The Peoples Party Voters of Kansas !:

own party circle and thus the loss of
votes in the state would inevitably be
so great it was belle we'd by a great
majority OF the two conventions of
June24, as to doom the allied forces
to defeat in advance of the election.
Thus believing there remained but
one method by which the populistS
and democrats might safely unite up
on a ticket which would represent
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 then let he other party nomi-
nate the same candidates and fiIe both
tickets with the Secretary of the
State. This done the law provides
that:
Whenever any person shall receive
| two or more nominations for the same
office, he shall be deemed to have ac-
cepted the nomination first made and
to have declined the others, unless
within the time limited for filing GER
tifcateS Of nomination he shall file in
| the office where such certificates of
nominations are required to be filed. a
written statement signed and sworn
TO by him designating which one of
such nominations he desires to accept
and upon the fling thereof he shall be
deemed to have declined the other
nominations. 1t is further provided
that if the candidate fails to designate
which nomination he accepts, the Off
Ger with whom the nominations are
filed shall make and file an election
| of one nomination for such candidate. ="
AS the law provides that unless the
candidate himself shall designate
which nomination he accepts she shall
be deemed to have accepted the nomi-
nation first made" when the time ex-
pires in which the candidate shall
make a choice without such candidate
making such choice, then the law it.
self 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 nomi-
mating 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 nomination first
made, for the law itself having deemed
him to have accepted the first nOmi-
nation subject to his choice and that
choice not having been exercised, he
remains the candidate of the party
first nominating him.
Now, as both tickets will be filed
with the Secretary of State and as
none of the candidates will decline
either of the 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 filing
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 tickets being filed we
save our opportunity to get the bene-
tit 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 in
1896, 1898 and 1900.
EnI
the Secretary of State to put both
tickets on the official ballot, and the
candidates refuse as they will to re-
pudiate or decline either 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
l 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 a
straight opposition ticket will appear
upon the official ballot and thus at
: least in spite of this infamous statute
and the villianous Vaccinations of the
. republican leaders and schemers,
l there will be one full ticket upon the
{ official ballot which is the free choice
of the Peoples party and also of the
Democratic party for which every
populiSt and every democrat and every
Z opponent of trust-ridden leadership in
the state can vote just as the republi
! can votes for his candidates by plac-
{ ing his mark in the circle at the top
without being compelled to write his
name opposite every candidate and
= without exposing himself to the
y chance Of losing his vote by an at
L tempt to vote in some complicated
and unusual way.
Many a man has fallen into the pit
he digged for another.