New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-08-13
the Court as provided by the Primary

= First Circuit shall meet on the Fifteen
of September, 1904, at Lafayette. La
and shall proceed to canvass and eompi
the returns and proclaim the result
case any candidate should fail to recei,
Il majority of the votes cast, a secol
primary election shall be held under tt
same rules and regulations OH the Twent,
fourth of September, 1904. The expense
of said second primary election shall /
borne by the participants therein sal
expenses to be apportioned and paid sui
stantially in the manner of those of tn
first election. At this election no one ca
be a candidate except the two peLson
who received the highest number {
votes at the first primary election, for tn
office for which they were a candidate
The returns shall be made and the vote
canvassed aud compiled and the resul
declared as hereinaboye provided for il
the first primary, for which purpose tn
Democratic Executive Committee Of tn,
First District of the First Circuit shal
meet at Crowley on the Twenty-ninti
OF September, 1904. In ease of failure
to elect because of the fact that no candi
date received q majority Of the votes cas-
for the Office for which he is candidate
should one Of the two persons receiving
the highest vote decline to continue his
candidacy, aud enter the second primary
election, then the other who has received
the highest number of votes shall be de-
elared the nominee of the party
Eighth. In the event any candidate
| should desire to contest the result of the
election held at any poll or polls in the
District, he shall have the right to do 80
within five days after said election is held
upon serving within said time notice
of contest upon his opponent and upon
filing within said time his reasons
for contest with the chairman of the
Democratic District Committee, said con
test shall he fully heard and determined
ut the first meeting of the committee fol-
lowing the holding of said primary cleo
ton.
Ninth. This election shall be by official
ballot printed, as hereinafter provided
for, together with the talley sheets and
such other paraphernalia Necessary for
the conduct Of the election, shall be pro-
vided by the chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee OF the First District
of the First Circuit who shall deliver to
the chairman of the Democratic Parish
Executive Committee the said blanks and
paraphernalia, together with the ballots,
and which latter chairman shall distribute
said paraphernalia and ballots to the com
missoners of election at each precinct in
his Parish before the hour fixed herein
for the opening of the polls. The chair
man Of the District Committee shall print
upon one ballot the names of all the cam
didates alphabetically.
Vnufh Tbo fypkop ubal1 Jartf,p 40 his
choice by stamping, or by making a cross
in ink or lead pencil to the right of and |
opposite to the name or names OF the can
didate he desire to support. Every voter
shall be entitled to receive from the COM
missioners of election one ballot which he
may prepare at the time received and cast |
It; or he may call upon one of the com
missoners to assist him in preparing it,
and il he so desires, in the presence of
he (the voter) may select f.; or
ne may prepare his ballot with the assis
ance OF friend, by him selected for that
purpose. When voter calls for assistance
% prepare his ballot, by commissioner of
election or by a friend his selection,
rs the case may be, he shall have
he right to retire to tho place designated
or preparing the voters ballot within the
,alfieIs hereinbefore provided fer, and
here Immediately prepare his ballot and
eturn and east it within five minutes after
eceiving it. When voter prepares his
,allet with assistance, as above specified
here shall be no one else with him except
he person or persons by him selected as
lbove. Any voter who shall spoil his
irst ballot shall have a right to demand
md receive from the election commits.
ioner second one, upon the return to
hem of the first. Should he also spoil the
eeond one, he shall be entitled to third
ne, returning to them the second and
hould the third one be also spoilt it shall
e returned to the commissioners and the
oter shall lose his right to vote in that
Urinary.
Eleventh. Any person desiring to be- !
ONE candidate and have his name ,
rinted upon this official ballot shall notify ,
he chairman of the Democratic Executive
committee of the First District of the {
irst. Circuit OH or before the Twentieth c
ay OF August, M 1904, aud each applica- 6
on shall be accompanied by Three Hund-
ID and Seventyfve ($375) Dollars, and
/ the event that there are less than four I
andidates who file their application, the {
hartman of the District Committee shall .
rorate the expenses between the candi- /,
ates who have complied with the rules,
Dtify them promptly Of the additional q
'sessmeDt, and each candidate will be Il
lowed five days from August goth, 1904. +
deposit the additional amount assessed; /,
I'D any person failing to do so shall not
permitted to be a candidate. The G
'obable cost of conducting each of said J
ections, including the cost of the ballots r
I'd other paraphernalia, is hereby fixed :.
the sum of One Thousand Five Humid =
d ($l 500) Dollars which shall be ap- =
'rtioned pro rata among the candidates Il
+ Judge. candidates for committeeman p
eepted. Should any candidate fail to :
" his pro rata share Of these expenses :
thin ten days after August Goth,
"a, or within seven days after Septem. {
II 10th, l904, as the case may be, his
mc shall not be printed on the official
Hot, and votes east at the primary elec-
M shall not be counted Any unex- 4
eted balance remaining from the eontri-
ltions to be levied hereunder shall be
turned pre- rata to the contributors.
Twelfth. Candidates in the various
lrishes in the District for committee
IN shall print and distribute their own
llots, and the voter at the same time he
tes for judge shall vote for the commit
sman from his Parish.
Thirteenth. In the event that only one Y
rson shall qualify himself to become Ct
ndidste for judge at the first primary
der the rnles and regulation herein pro
led, there shall be no primary, and when
Q Democratic Executive Committee of
e First District of the First Circuit
'ets ut Lafayette, La, on September
tb, 1904, they shall declare such persons
10 conformed with the rules TO he the II
snlar nominee of the party, aud shall
'fify TO bis nomination as such, and o
y shall at the same tim, provide for the v
'mation OF an Execniive Committee for
s District. L
fourteenth. All vacancies caused by n
afh, resignation or otherwise shall he
ed by the Democratic Executive Com
tfee OF The First District of the First
-enit.
Fifteenth. The registrars are requested
add supplementary lists 10 poli-books
"a at the last general election aud de-
or same to the chairman OF The Demo