The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-09-02
RULES AND REGULATIONS

Nomination County Officers
and Members Of the Lcgis-
lature.
That the candidates for the various
offices to be filled by the voters OF
this county be nominated by a primary
election, and thai the candidate re-
ceiving the highest number OF votes
for each Office shall be the nominee of
the republican party for that Office,
and the county central committee shall
have power and authority to try and
determine all questions as to who is
the nominee, and may hear evidence
and take all steps necessary to deter
mine the questions that may arise,
and the decision of the committee shall
be final and conclusive.
The nominating election to nomi-
nate candidates for the various offices
to be filled by the voters of h county
of Grant shall be held on the Sth day
of October, 1904, and the polls shall
be open at the hour of 4 O'Clock p.
m. and remain open till 9 O'Clock p.
m. of said day, and nc one except a
person known to be a republican
voter, or who will pledge himself to
support the republican ticket-county,
state and natiOnal-who is a qualified
voter, shall be allowed to vote at said
nominating election.
Whenever in the opinion of the
Judges of election a challenged vote
ought to be rejected it shall be the
duty of the Judges to place such vote,
together with all affidavits and evil
dence that may be offered in support
of, or against, slch vote, in an envel-
ope and seal the same and endorse
thereon the name of the voter offering
such vote and the reasons OF the
Judges for not receiving and counting
said vote.
There shall be three judges of cleo
ton in each voting precinct who are
known to be qualified republican vot-
ers, one of whom shall be the central
committeeman of said precinct, which
committeeman shall act as superin-
tendent of said election, and the other
two shall be elected by the electors
present at the opening of the polls, at
which time the superintendent shall
call the electors to order for that pur-
pose, the last two named shall act
with the superintendent as judges, and
be clerks of said election. In case a
| central committeeman is a candidate
! or cannot serve, he shall appoint a
Judge to act as superintendent IN his
stead and each Judge shall receive
ST. for acting as such Judge, and the
superintendent or other person maxi
ING the return, 10 cents per mile, one
way, for making said return, to be
paid out of the expense fund.
ANY person desiring to become a
candidate for any of the offices to be
filled by the voters of Grant county,
shall notify the chairman, or in his
absence, the secretary OF the county
central committee, and upon the pay
ment of the sum of money assessed by
the committee for defraying expenses
of the nominating election, his name
shall. be printed on the ballot to be
voted at said primary election. Pro-
yidinp, however. that the nan OF no
candidate for Office shall be accepted
by the committee after II O'Clock,
noon, on Tuesday, September y, 1904.
The assessments on the candidates
submitting their names for the vari-
Gus offices t o be voted upon at the
said primary election shall be as fol-
lows: For state senator, representa-.
tive, clerk of courts, county Judge, St
each: for superintendent OF schools,
auditor, treasurer, sheriff, register o.
deeds, states attorney, $40 each: fol
coroner, county commissioner and
surveyor, 50 each.
At said primary election the cleo
tors of each precinct shall elect q
central committeeman for said pre-
cinct who is a qualified republican
elector of said precinct by writ
ing the name of one elector in the
blank space upon said primary cleo
tion ticket under the words "For com
mitteeman," and the one having the
highest number of votes shall be com
mitteeman for said precinct, his tern
of Office shall commence immediatel.
after the general election in Novem
Der following, and shall continue fol
two years, or till his successor shall
be elected. At a time convenient afte,
said general election the committee
men SO elected shall meet and elect
chairman aud secretary outside o
said central committee SO elected.
VII
The ballots shall be prepared b,
the county central committee and dc
livered to the judges of election il
each precinct, or to some person all
thorized to receive them, in seale'
packages, not more than four day
before the election. The ticket sha]
be printed on plain white paper, i
manner and form similar to the Aus
tralian ballot, and the voter shall in
, dictate the person he desires to vot
for by marking Q o (X) in tn
circle in front of the name of the car
didate for each Office. The Judge q
election before handing the elector til
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