Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-07-10
Call For and Plan of Democratic
Primary Election
To the Democratic Voters Of Rock
bridge County, Va.

| adopted by the Democratic Executive
Committee of Rock bridge County, Va,
towit:
Resolved Isl. That Democratic
Primary Election for the domination
of all candidates for County and Dis
trict offices; for Precinct Committee
men; Delegates to the General Assem-
bly, from districts composed of County
OF Rockbrldge and City of Buena Vista,
and from Counties of Rockbridge, Bath,
Highland and City of Buena Vista, for
the State Senate for the 22nd Senator
ial District composed of the Counties
of Rockbridge and Bedford and City OF
Buena Vista, be held at the various
voting precincts in Rockbridge County,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18th, 1907, be-
tween sunrise and sunset, and that the
election shall be conducted ard be un-
der the control of three Democratic
judges, one of whom shall act as
clerk.
2nd. That two of said judges shall
be the two regular Democratic judges
of election, who are hereby appointed
for the purpose, and that they and the
precinct committeem1 from each pre-
cinct shall select the third Judge.
3rd. In the event that only one
Judge shall be present at the time for
opening the polls and the ether Judges
do net appear within thirty minutes
thereafter, the judge or judges Their
present shall select the other jcdges
from the Democratic voters resent,
and if no Judge shall be present at the
| time for opening the polls or in Thirty
N inutes thereafter, the Democratic
voters present shall select three Judges
who shall conduct the primary, one of
whom shall act as clerk The judges
shall receive for their services 800
each and the judge returning the poll
S1.00.
4th. All voting shall be under what
| il known as the secret ballot system,
| the candidates TO be voted for directly.
and those receiving the highest nun
Der of votes shall be declared to be the
party nominees. All Democrats who
are, OF will be, legal voters at the
election to be held in November, 1907,
shall be entitled TO vote at this primary
9TH. The poll books to be used in
the primary election will be furnished
the judges of election by the county
committee.
9th. The tickets to be used in the
a. Ha t,I .,l.,.
the supervision Ct the county chair
man, and the names OF all of the candi-
dates to be voted for In said primary
shall be printed on one ticket, the
tickets to be furnished to the judges
of election at each precinct, and it shall
be the duty of the judges of election to
furnish each voter, when be offers to
vote, with a ticket, and only the tickets
so furnished shall be used in said pri-
mary election.
18th. Amy voter desiring assistance
may be aided in the preparation of his
ballot. by any judge ofelection selected
by him.
9Th. The poll books and voting shall
be in open view and caDdldates voted
for shall have the privilege of having
| OuC lIltuO tdOil Mltllll Vic IOOlu MutIt
the election is being conducted, to re-
mail until after the completion OF the
count Of the vote and the certification
of the result.
9th. The judges will receive and de-
post the ballot in the usual manner
and the clerk shall record the name of
each voter on the poll book and at the
closing of the polls they shall canvas
the returns, tabulate, certify, and seal
the same, together with the ballots and
deliver same through one of the said
judges within two days after the said
election, to the chairman Of the county
committee, who in return, with the
county committee, shall canvass the
same at a meeting of the committee to
be held on Tuesday, August 90, 1907,
at 10 o'clock am, and the candidates
found by them TO have received the
greatest number of votes for any Office
shall be declared the party nominee for
that office. All candidates are invited
to be present at the canvassing of the
returns. Contests shall tie determined
by the county committee and any can
didate feeling himself aggrieved or
c0ntesting the result of the primary
shall within five days after the canvass
Of the vote has been made, notify the
chairman of the county committee,
and the chairman shall Immediately
call meeting of the county committee
who shall hear and determine all such
contests, subject to the right Of appeal
to the State Central Committee.
10th. When only one candidate for
any office shall have given notice of his
candidacy as required by this plan and
has paid the assessment required and
the time for giving such notice of Can
didacy shall have expired, it shall be
the duty of the chairman a d secretary
of the county committee TO announce
the fact and declare such candidate the
nominee Of the patty, and the name Oi
such candidate shall not be put OH the
ballot TO be use1 at the primary.
18th. In the event there shall be O
tie between any two candidates for the
same Office, the Candidates themselves,
or should they fail TO act, the chairman
and secretary Of the county committed
shall determine by lot who shall be de
cIared the nominee for such Office.
18th. Should there be any Office for
which there Is no candidate, the Vofel
may write the name Of his choice fOl
that Office on the ticket, hut he cannot
erase printed name on the ticket and
substitute another there, or.
18th Members of the County Dem
ocratic Exc utive Committee Zone for
each precinct, except Lexington, which
shall elect two, shall be elected at this
primary, and all candidates therefor
shall give the notice herein required
but should no candidate give notice Of
his candid icy for committeeman the
uame or names OF any Dem ocratic votel
residing within The bounds of any pre-
cinct shall be placed upon the ticket
upon the request in writing of five
registered Democratic voters Of such
? precinct addressed to the chairman.
l4th. All candidates for office, wish
ing to submit their claims to this pr!
mary, must notify the chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee il