Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
DIR DRASTIC PRIMARY LAW.
, Must Sign Certificate Showing
their Party Preference.

" )rmont' s primary law, which was
ed by the last legislature, will be
for the first time at the caucuses to
beld before the freemen S meeting
year, says the Brattleboro CORE,
tlent of the Springfield Republican,
fovides that the voting mt the eau
shall be by ballot and check list,
~ request therefor in writing, signed
Rrsons qualified TO vote in freemen Il
ting, equal in number TO per cent,
he vote east for governor in that
u or city in the last preceding bien-
selection, be filed in the town or city
Is Office on or before the 10Th day
lay of each biennial year. 1t fur
~ provides that each person qualified
vote in freemen s meeting shall sign
0ortitieate, which shall be furnished
|no@by the listers of the town or city,
DE the political party with which
HIbtends to act and vote at the com.
Election; and person who fails to
IN such certificate on or before
10Th day of May shall not be eligible
xyote Mt any caucus called to elect
gates to conventions to nomi-
state and county officers and repre-
<atives in congress, and to nominate
~ representatives. Any person who |
<es or attempts to vote in any caucus
He'd for this purpose by any party |
Ter than the one upon whose cheek list |
name appears, or who helps, aids, or
ties any other person to vote in any
Zen caucus than that of the party up
whose check list such person S name
BEARS, or who shall by the use of
|ney or other valuable thing, directly
Indirectly, influence or attempt to in
NICE. control or alter the vote of any
Son in any of these caucuses, shall be
nished by fine not exceeding 800,
rhe provision of the law requiring a
Son to elect in April to which poll
Hl party he proposes to owe allegiance
to vote in September, and to so GER
y at that time under penalty of being
franchised at the primaries, is the !
that strikes the average Vermonter |
somewhat drastic if not nonsensical.
course the unterrifed Vermont demo {
/, to whom Henry W. Grady referred /
1889, when he said that he believed |
be best product of the present life of $
" England was the procession of H. |
Vermont democrats that for % G
rs. undiminished by death, unrecruit- q
by birth or conversion, have marched I
T. her rugged hills, east their dem +
attic ballots and gone back home
pray for their unregenerate neighbors
awoke to read the record of 10000
nblican majority will not object
being labeled democrat as early in
year as April; neither will the old y
e republican hesitate to proclaim his ii
glance to the party of his choice. i,
in this state to-day there are some "
,pendent voters, who in the contin- "
cy of the Proctor candidacy for gov II
n would not care to be labeled thus n
Y. Besides, there are a large num-
of young men who will vote for the II
time at the freemen s meeting next ~
TENDER, and they, too, will be re- II
ed in about three months to certify k
| which political party they intend
ffiliate, and if they do not so certify V
will be barred from entering the 10
uses. One newspaper, speaking
| this subject, gives this timely ad- 10
/: "When the lister comes around q
spring and asks, What are your ex
;ics9' don t think he's joking, and ba
t get mad and tell him to go hang, 70
none of his business For if you oe
you are liable to find out little
that you can vote in the caucuses
ither party or any party that year
own right up that you are a demo c,
or republican and sign yourself III
lch on his slip. If you aren t GER tn
which you are, try to find out be- du
list taking if you want to enter a ha
us; otherwise there is no open HI
for you in sight 10