The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-16

filed as to be likely to misiead any voter
 forthwith notify the committee or any oficer thereof or any person sending oI
 offering such emblem Of such similar1ty
 or resemblance. and shah require sucf party. organization or committee te
 adopt, prepare and file another emblem The emblem once adopted, prepared and
 filed as aforesaid, shall continue the eu-
 bem of the party adopting the same until
 1t is changed by the same or hke authori- | ty as prepared. adopted and filed the original emblem, and the changed emblem as prepared and adopted is filed and ac- cepted by the Secretary of State as, in
 case of the original emblem.
 The Secretary of State shall, immediate
 iy after an emblem has been filed in his office. certify to each judge of probate in the State the fact of the adoption of said emblem by the political party filins the same with proof copy thereof. The court of arms or seal of any State or United States or the national flag or the likeness of any person living or dead or religious emblem or symbol of any secret or fraternal organization or society or the symbol of any industrial organiza- ton or representation of a coin of the currency of the United States shall mol be used as an emblem.
 When there is division of any political patty anu C0Cu tdCbiOh sCtoiLAS tuG p&4Lt emblem, the judge of probate shall al once certify the fact to the chairman oi the State executive committee of that party, whose duty it shall be within ten days to notify the judge of probate which ticket is entitled to the party emblem and the judge of probate shall be gov. erned by the decision of said chairman whereupon the other faction may flo with the judge of probate an emblem to be used in that election only.
 There shall be provided at each polling place at each election at which public of. ficers are voted for. but one form of ballot for all the candidates for public office, and every ballot shall contain the names of all candidates whose nomination for any oflice specified on the ballot have been duly made and not withdrawn, al provided in this act together with the title of the office arranged in tickets un. der the titles of the respective rpolitica parties or independent bodies, as certified in the certificates of nomination.
 Sec. 6. All ballots shall be printed ir black ink on clear book paper. and ever, such ballot printed in accordance witf the provisions of this act. shall contain q party device for each political party rep. resented on the ticket
 The arrangement of the ballot shall ir general conform as nearly as practicable to the plan hereinafter given.
 The list of candidates of the several parties shall be printed in parallel, in per- pendicular columns. each column to be headed by the chosen device of such par ty. and the party named or other desr- nation in such order as the Secretary of State may direct. The number of such columns shall exceed by one the number of separate tickets of candidates to be voted for at the polling place for which the ballot is provided. and in the appro- priate place the words vote for one Cor two or other number as the case may bel to indicate the number which may be elected to each office. On the right of each ballot shall be column in which shall, be printed only the titles of the of fees for which candidates may be voted for by the electors at the polling places for which the ballot is printed. Said column Is designated as "the blank col. umn," and in such column the votins spaces shall be omitted but in all other respects such blank column shall be 6 duplicate of the political party columns upon such ballot.
 The elector may write in the column be. low under the title of the offlce the name of any person whose name Is not printed upon the ballot. for whom he may desire to vote. That in case of nomination by independent bodies. the ballot shall be Ec arranged that at the right of the last columns for party nomination the several tickets of the names of the independent candidates shall be printed in one or more columns according to the space required having above each of the tickets the DO litical or other names selected to desig nate such independent nominations. Tn,
 ballot herein provided shall be substan | tially in the following form. viz: