The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18
NEW REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RULES.

ODIeQ at lll6 Iue6ilLS vi Tie hSpuDI-
can State Central Committee Wed
nesday, regulating the holding of pri-
mayies in the counties, those in Balti-
more city being held under the pri-
mary election laws:
Whereas our last Republican State
platform pledged the party to enact
a primary election law and to make
the primaries as fair as the party had
made the general elections but the
Democrats triumphed by the 'trick
ballot and fraudulent court" cleo
ton law and straightway broke their
pledge to enact a primary election
law for the whole state.
And whereas the Republican party
in its own government desires to
make its own primaries uniformly
fair in city and state alike, so fair
that there may be no preteXt for in
dependent Republican tickets to fur
ther confuse Republican voters in
voting the confusing ballot now pro-
vided by law;
Be it resolved by the Republican
State Central Committee, That for
the year 1903 the primary elections of
the Republican parry in all the cOun-
ties of this state(eXcept in the cOun-
ties where the primaries are already
regulated by statute) shall be called
andconducted according to the follow
ing regulations:
RULES FOR THE PRIMARIES.
First-Every qualified voter who
voted for the Mckinley and Roosevelt
Electors, and every voter who has
since acquired, or shall acquire before
the next election day, the legal right
to vote in the election district of the
county where the primary election is
to be held, who is a Republican, and
who shall affirm that he intends to
vote the Republican ticket at the
next election in his election district.
If a voters right to vote be challenged
the Judges shall inquire and deter
mine according to the right of the
matter and receive or refuse the bal
lot of such voter.
Second-At such primary election
the voting shall be by ballot, print
ed or written. The ballot shall con-
tain the names of the delegates from
the election district to the specified
county convention. Such delegation
shall consist of the usual number
chosen in each district of such county
to such coventiOn.
Third-In any election district of a
county where no contest is made, and
where no list of delegates, with two
nominated judges and a clerk, shall
be made known at the time and in
the manner hereafter provided to the
members of the State Central Com
mittee for the county, or to the chair
man of the County Central Commit
tee Whichever regulates the primar-
les in the county,, on or before July
81, 1908, the primary election shall be
conducted according to the custom
and method heretofore followed at
primary elections in such election
district.
WHERE CONTESTS ARE MADE.
Fourth-In every other election
district of a county Republican
voters desiring to elect delegation to
a county convention shall, on or be-
fore noon of July 81, 1908, deliver to
the chairman of the State Central
Committee for the county, or to the
chairman of the County Central Com
mittee Whichever body in such coun-
ty calls andregulatesthe primary cleo
ton, as the case may be-, a written
paper containing a list of qualified
Republican voters to be the delegates
from such election district being the
usual number) to the county conven-
ton; and also the names of two such
qualified Republican voters to be
judges of such primary, and of one
such qualified Republican voter to be
clerk thereof. Each draft of such
witten paper 50 delivered shall be
signed by a majority of such delegates
with the postoffice address of each
annexed, and shall also state the
names and postoffice address of such
proposed judges and clerks and nom
mate the same to be appointed judges
and clerk in behalf of such icket at
the primary election in such election
district.
If in any such election district no
more than two tickets, or sets of dele
gates, and such accompanying nomi-
mated election officers, be delivered to
such chairman of the State Central
Committee, or to such chairman OF
the County Central Committee, before
the last-named date such appointing
power shall forthwith appoint the
four Judges and two clerks so nomi.
mated to hold the primary election
and shall on or before August 5, 1903
deliver in person or mail to his post
office address thewritten appointment
signed by such members or chairman
as the case may be, authorizing each
of said four judges and two clerks to
serve in such capacity at the primary
election. In such case no appeal shall
lie.
NAMING JUDGES AND CLERKS.
If there be more than two tickets
or sets of delegates with such accom-
panying election officers in any cleo
tion district, it shall be the duty o
such appointing power to select tn,
two sets of election officers which
shall appear to such appointing pow
er as bona-fide representatives of tn,
two sides most numerous in the cleo
tion district pr mary contest. If sucl
members of the State Central Com
mittee fail to agree which two sets o
two judges and clerk bona-fide re
present the two tickets likely to b(
the two opposition tickets most mum
erously supported in the primary o
the members of the State Contra
Committee for the county shall nam
the two judges and clerk nomina
ted by one side and the largest mi
nority of such members shall name tn
other two judges and a clerk nomi
mated by another side, and such ap
pointing power shall on or before thu
fifth day of August, 1908, deliver il