Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-08
Primary Election Called.
Senatorial Committee Meeting.

Pursuant to call the Democratic
Senatorial Committee of the Oath
Senatorial District met at Ironton,
Mo-, March Sd, at Z o'clock P. M.
The following committeeman were
present: B. Ell. Newman, Craw-
ford county; M. F. Brown, Dent
county, Secretary; Frank P. AXE,
Iron county, Chairman; F. H.
Farris, proxy for G. H. Fulbright,
Phelps county; A. P. Farris, Rey-
nolds county; John 0. Long,
Washington county. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, By the Democratic Senatorial
Committee OF the 2ith Senatorial District OF
Missouri, that a General Primary Election be
called for the purpose OF nominating the
Democratic candidate for Senator in said
district as follows, tO-wit: The said Primary
Election be held on saturday the 18th day of
August, 1906, and in all counties on said day,
except such as have, or may hereafter, call a
Primary Election for the nomination OF
county officers at an earlier date, in which
event such counties will hold their election
Tor State Senator on the same date as their
General Primary Tor the nomination OF coun-
ty officers. None but legally qualified Dem
y ~ 7LthAI IbL AlA4PoNN III GaIh CIJC-
ton. The senatorial Committeeman from
each county shall select the Judges and
Clerks OF said Primary Election, and see to
the printing and distribution OF the ticket to
be used in said election as hereinafter men
toned. All candidates for the nomination
Tor State Senator who desire TO submit their
names at said election, shall pay to the Chair
man OF the Senatorial Committee the sum of
S60 TO delray the expenses OF said election,
and no person who has not paid said assess
ment shall have his name certified and
placed upon the tickets to be voted at said
Primary Election. And no votes cast for
persons other than those whose names APP
pear regularly on the ticket shall be counted
by the Judges and Clerks or by the members
OF the in casting up the returns.
Said assessment must be paid on or before
the 18th day OF April, 1906, and when so paid
the Chairman OF the Senatorial Committee
shall certify said fact to the Senatorial Com
m1tteeman OF each county, who shall see that
his name as a candidate is placed upon the
ballots to be used in said Primary, which
tickets shall contain the words FOR STATE
SENATOR under which shall be printed
the names OF all candidates for such ONCE
who have complied with the terms and con-
ditions OF this resolution. The Judges and
Clerks shall certify to the Senatorial Com
mitteeman of their county the number OF
votes cast for each candidate for said office
in the voting precinct OF which they were
judges and clerks, which certificate must be
delivered to said Committeeman within ten
days after said Primary Election in such
counties. The certificate before mentioned
shall be made and delivered by the Chair
man and Secretary OF the County Committee
OF the counties in which the Primary for
Senator is held in connection with the Pri-
maries for county offices, which said certif-
cate shall be prima facie evidence OF the facts
therein recited. The several members OF the
Senatorial Committee shall meet on the 1st
day OF September, 1906, at Cuba. Mo-, at one
o'clock P. M, Il present to the full COM
mittee the certificates aforesaid, which said
p0mmiftpp shall from said artjfiaat nc act ,,n
the returns and the candidate receiving the
greatest number OF votes in the entire dis
trict, as shown by said certificates, shall be
by said committee declared the regular
OF said district, n said committee
shall SO certify the fact to the Secretary OF
State. The Judges and Clerks OF said cleo
ton, and the Chairman and Secretary OF the
County Committee shall retain and hold DOLL
books, ballots and tally sheets used in said
Primary for the use of the Senatorial COM
mittee, and said committee upon the written
complaint OF any candidate OF any illegality
In said election, or fraud as TO its return, will
open said poll books, tally sheets and ballots
and compare and recount the same and cor
rect any mistakes as to the vote cast and
shown by said returns and certificates, and
the action OF said committee with reference
to such dispute and complaint shall be final
and conclusive on the parties. Be it further
Resolved, That at the Aforesaid Primary
Election there hall be elected from each
county a member of the Senatorial Com
mittee, whose names shall be submitted and
voted upon as ~hereinbefore provided for
State Senator, and the result OF such cleo
ton and thec certificates OF the returns shall
be made and delivered and the returns cast
up by the full committee as hereinbefore
provided for the election OF Senator, and the
new committee shall meet on the same day
that the present committee shall meet to
cast up the returns. and then and there or
FRANK p. AXE, Chairman.
NJ. +. BROWN, Secretary.