Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-09-12
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.
A Bill to Regulate General
Elections in Oregon.

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points (if there be any of the
latter) as relate to the primary
election law which it is proposed
shall have a trial at the general
election for Oregon in June next.
Already we see evidences OF
desire on the part of certain mani
pulators to thwart the intent of
the provisions of the bill.
Let US all stand for the law
and give it fair trial 1t may
prove Unsatisfactory, weak if
you please, but if such should be
found the case itmay be changed,
modified, strengthened, or abol-
ished entirely according to the
lesson taught by trial.
Only by giving it fair test can
such weaknesses, if any exist, be
ascertained. Many people are in
ignorance of the provisions of
this bill and we are pleased to
print a few OF the more import
ant sections that they may be
enlightened, as follows:
Section II. A political party !
within the meaning of this act
is an afiliation of electors repre-
senting political party or organ
ization, which, at the next gener-
al election preceding polled for
its candidate for representative in
congress at least twenty-five per
cent of the entire vote cast for
that Office in the state. Every
such political party shall nomin-
ate all its candidates for public
Offices, under the provisions of
this law and not in any other
manner, and it shall not be
allowed to nominate any candi-
date in the manner provided by
section 27o1 of Bellinger and
Cotton's Annotated Codes and
Statutes OF Oregon. Every poll
teal party and its regularly
nominated candidates, members
and officers, shall have the sole
and exclusive right to the use of
the party name and the whole
thereof, and no candidate for
Office shall be permitted to use
any word of the name of any
other political party or organiza-
ton than that by which he is
nominated. No independent or
nonpartisan candidate shall be
permitted to use any word of the
name of any existing political
party or organization in his
candidacy.
The names of candidates for
public Office nominated under
the provisions of this law shall
be printed on the official ballots
for the ensuing election as the
only candidates of the respective
political parties for such public
office in like manner as the names
of candidates nominated by
other methods are required to be
printed on such official ballots,
and the provisions dissection 28o5
and 28oo of Bellinger and Cot
toms Annotated Codes and
Statutes of Oregon shall apply
to and are hereby made applicable
to nominations for public office
made under this law, so far a:
the same are not in conflict witt
the provisions of this law.
It will be noted that the Law
plainly says in the above section
that nomination of all candidate
for public Office shall be mad,
''under the provisions of thi
law and not in any other man
ner." And yet we find thos'
who are endeavoring to all ap
pearances, to ignore the intent o
the law and hold what il
every sense is the "same old con
vention.n
Section II. Before or at tn
time of beginning to circulat
any petition for nomination
any Office under this law, th
person who is a candidate fc
such nomination shall send b
registered mail or otherwise,
the secretary of state or th
county clerk, or city clerk, rs
corder or auditor, as the case ma
be, copy of his petition fe
nomination, signed by himsel
and such copy shall be fled an
shall be conclusive evidence #
the purposes Of this law that sal