The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22
STATE PRIMARY PLAN.
The Scheme Submitted to the Nebras-
ka LEGISLATURE.

ka Legislature.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 19.-Special to
The News: The Minnesota primary
plan, submitted to the state legisla-
ture, is in brief as follows:
Before the voter will be permitted to
cast his ballot in the primary, he must
state his party afiiliation and he will
then he handed the ticket of the party
named. If he refuses to name his par
ty, he will be denied a vote. If his
vote is challenged, he must swear that
he afiliates with his party and that
he will support its nominees.
The campaign committees, of the
respective parties shall, under the pro-
posed bill, be selected by the candi-
dates and the platforms shall be for
mulated by the candidates who shall
assemble in Lincoln for the first time
on the fourth Tuesday of September.
1908, for this purpose. The platforms
shall be written by the candidates, bi-
ennially. The congressional and dis
trict committees shall be appointed by
the candidates for congress and for
committees of all parties shall be per
mitted to remain in Office until their
successors are appointed or elected.
The machinery of the law under
which the primary is to be carried out
is made by the bill to correspond with
clerks shall preside at both contests
and the ballots are to be made to con
form to the same general shape and
form. Voters must register in the
same manner as for election. In ev-
cry way, the bill attempts to keep
close to the form of election so that
both voters and officials have little that
is new to learn.
The fees that the candidates shall be
charged vary as follows: For state
Offices, 500 each; for congressional
and district Offices, $25; for members
of the legislature and county offices,
$40. In the meeting of the joint COM
mittee Friday evening to consider the
bill, Senator Patrick of Sarpy county
made a fierce attack on this feature
of the bill, claiming that the charging
of fees is contrary to the spirit and
letter of the constitution and stated
his determination to fight this provi-
sion of the bill on the floor of the
senate.
The primaries shall be held on the
first Tuesday in September for the
nomination of all officers except those
of village and township and school dis
trict City primaries of Omaha and
shall be held five weeks prior to cleo
ton while in the other cities of the
state the primaries shall be held four
weeks prior to election. At least six
ty days before any September primary
is held, the governor must issue a
proclamation announcing the Offices to
be filled at the next election and shall
send a copy of this proclamation to
each county clerk. Within ten days af-
ter receiving the proclamation, the
county clerk must post and publish no
tice of the primary in exactly the same
manner as he does that of an election.
To Kill Fusion.
Inc name OF no candidate snail be
printed on the ballots of two parties.
This will kill fusion in the state, 1t is
thought. At the final meeting of the
joint committee, the fusionists de-
clared that the primary law was drawn
to kill fusion and Dodge, the author
of the bill, stated that he believed fu-
sion would be impossible under the
new law if enacted. The candidates
must file their names with the county
clerks at least thirty days before the
primary. For officers elective in more
than one county, presidential electors
and members of congress, the nomina-
ton papers shall be filed with the sec
rotary of state and the county clerks
of the counties concerned shall receive