Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
No. 967, AL Published July IS, 1907.
CHAPTER 666, LAWS OF 1907.

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AN ACT to amend sections Ill to
11-25, inclusive, of the statutes, and to
create section 11--25m Of the statutes
relating to party nominations by direct
vote.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows
Section l. Sections Ill to 11-25, in
elusive, of the statutes are amended to
read: Section Ill. The words and
phrases in this act shall, unless the same
be inconsistent with the context, be con-
strued as follows:
/. The word primary" the primary
election provided for by this act.
2. The words September primary" the
primary election held in September to nomi-
nate candidates to be voted for at the en-
8. The word election" a general or
city election, as distinguished from a pri-
4. Tie words November election" the
general election held in November.
8. The word precinct" district es-
tablished by law within which all qualified
electors vote at one polling place.
g. This statute shall be literally con-
strued, So that the real will Of the electors
may not be defeated by any informality or
failure to comply with all provisions Of law
tice or the conducting of the primary or
certifying the results thereof
Section 11-2. Hereafter all candidates
for elective offices shall be nominated:
1. BY primary held in accordance with
this act or
2 BY nomination papers signed and
filed as provided by existing statutes.
3. Party candidates for the office Of
United States senator shall be nominated
in the manner provided herein for the nomi-
nation of candidates for state Offices.
4: This act shall not apply to special
Office of state superintendent, to presiden-
tial electors. to county and district super
intendents of schools, to town, village and
GERS excepting police justices and justices
of the peace in cities of the first, second
and third classes.
5. No primary election shall be held in
cities of the fourth class for the nomlna-
ton of municipal officers unless petition
asking that a primary election be held,
signed by at least twenty FIVE per cent OF
the electors. Of such city shall be filed IN
the Office Of the city clerk at least sixty
days prior to the time for holding such
primary. The percentage Of signers shall
be determined by the vote cast for governor
therein at the last preceding general cleo
ton Unless such petition is filed and pri-
mary held, municipal officers in cities Of
the fourth class shall be nominated by
nomination papers. as provided In section
Section 11-3. l. The September pri-
mary shall be held at the regular polling
places IN each precinct on the adg st n Tuf S
ennially thereafter for the nomination of
all candidates to be voted for at the next
November election.
2 Any primary other than the Septem-
Der primary shalr be held two weeks before
the election for which such primary is held.
Section Iii. /. At least sixty days be-
fore the time Of holding such September
primary, the secretary Of state shall pre-
city and village clerk, notice in writing
designating the offices for which candi-
dates are to be nominated at such primary.
g Upon receipt Of such notice such
al than DAVIS
thereafter,-p publish so much thereof as may
be applicable to his county, once in each
week for four consecutive weeks in at least
two, and not to exceed four. newspapers of
general circulation published in said county
3. Each town, village, and city cleTk
shall, within ten days after the receipt OF
such notice, cause notice Of such primary
to be posted in three public PLACES in each
precinct in his town, city or village; such
notice shall state the time when, and place
where, the primary will be held in each
for which candidates are to be nominated.
4. In case of city elections, the city
clerk shall cause one publication Of such
notice to be given and shall also post such
notice in three public places in each cleo
ton precinct therein, such publication and
posting to be not more than twenty and
not less than ten days before such primary
election.
5. Each county clerk shall, on the first
Tuesday of June 1908, and BIZ
ennially thereafter, transmit to the secre-
tary of state the name and postoff1ce ad-
dress of each town, city and village clerk in
his county.
Section lis. l. The name of no can
didate shall be printed upon an official bal
lot used at any September primary unless
a nomination paper shall have been filed
in his behalf as provided in this act in
substantially the following form:
l, the undersigned, a qualified elector OF
(the . precinct of the town of
.......) or (the ........ precinct of the
... ward of the city of ........ }
county of ....... and state Of Wisconsin,
and a member of the ........ party, here
by nominate ............ who resides cat
No. ....... on ........ street, city of
in the county of ....... as a candidate
for the Office of (here specify the Officer
...... to be voted for at the primary to
be held on the first Tuesday in September,
To-, as representing the principles Of
said party and ! further declare that I in
tend to support the candidate named herein.