Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-08-03

FOR CONGRESSIONAL PRI-
MARY.

I. a primary election is hereby called ,
for Saturday, the first day of September, ,
1906, i'll all the voting precincts i'll the :
Eighth Congressional District of Ken |
lucky, at the regular voting places, be /
tween the hours of o'clock a. III. and
4 O'Clock p. M, for the purpose of Sc
lecting a Democratic candidate for Rep
i'll Congress i'll said District.
?. Ali Democrats who are residents of
slid District, and who are legal voters Oh
November 6, 1906, will be permitted TO
vote i'll their respective precincts, and
are invited and requested to do so.
). Every candidate who desires to
have his hame printed on the ballots 10
be used i'll said primary must deposit with
the Chairman of this Committee, on or
before II midnight-ffteen DAYS
before TIE date for holding said primary,
the sum of seven hundred dollars, to be
used i'll defraying the expenses OF holding
said primary election, and al the same
date must give written notice to said
Chairman that he desires to be a candi
date at said election, and notice to the
Chairman shall be notice to the Commit
tee.
4. In all those counties having cities
i'll which the law requires the registration
of voters, the Democratic Committee of
such counties, or the Chairman, thereof,
is authorized to cause the names of Dem
ocrats registered at the last general reg
istration, to be copied into separate books
as is required by law.
5. Said election shall be held, i'll all
respects, as required by law for holding
regular primary elections, and uniform
ballot shall be used i'll every precinct;
and the Chairman of this Committee is
hereby authorized and directed to cause
to be printed. bound and distributed to
the various Chairnen of the County Com
mttees the ballots for each county. He
is further directed to purchase and dis
Committee all the necessary parapherna-
liza for holding said primary election.
6. The Democratic County Committee
of each county shall appoint the officers
i'll each precinct to hold the election, and
they are to be selected from lists furnish
ed by the candidates at least ten days be
fore said election; and To be as nearly
equally divided as possible as to Judges,
Clerks and Sheriffs, among the various
candidates. The officers of said primary
election will, when the poles are closed,
proceed at once TO count the votes cast
for each person for said office, and after
counting the votes, they will return to
the boxes, sealing up the boxes and the
Sherlffs of the election precincts; will by
the next Monday morning, carry and de
post the boxes with the chairman of the
County committee, at the Court house i'll
the respective counties. The officers of
the election at each precinct will make
written statement of the number of votes
cast for each person voted for; for the
said office, and will place said statament
III an envelop and deposit it i'll the re
spective ballot boxes.
!. The precint ballot box and all re
turns are to be made to the Chairman OF
the County Committee, and if he is not
i'll the county, to the Secretary of the
County Committee, at the court house
i'll the time required by law, to-wit:
within two DAYS after said election.
s. And on next day after returns
have been made, the County Committee
shall meet and canvass the returns, and
certify the same to the Chairman of the
District Cornmitte of the Eighth Con
gressional District, which District Com
mittee shall, OH Wednesday, the fifth
day of September, 1906, at 10 O'Clock a.
m, i'll the city of Nicholasville, Jessa-
mine county, Ky, meet and canvass the
returns, declare the result and issue a
certificrte of nomination to the successful
candidate.
9. The Secretary of this Committee
is directed to give pubic notice of this
election, as is required by law, and with
ont delay.
10. In the event there is a surplus re-
manning, after defraying the expenses of
said primary, it shall be returned to those
by whom it was paid i'll, i'll the same pro-
portion i'll which it was paid by them
and if there should be deficit, then the
candidates shall be assessed to supply
such deficit. Provided, however, if no
more than one candidate shall have conf
piled with the conditions herein impoS-
ed, by August 10, 1906, then the Chair
man of the District is directed to recon-
vene the Committee, as soon thereafter
as practicable at Nicholasville, KY, and
to declare such candidate the regular
nominee of the Democratic party for said
office, and to issue to him a certificate of
nomination, and the primary election
herein ordered will not be held.
II. The order on the ballot i'll which
the names of the candidates who NAV
enter this primary shall be printed, shall
be determined by lot.
II. No registration shall he required
i'll towns or cities where no registration
has yet been had under the general cleo