Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-05
GOVERNMENT OF PRIMARIES
REPUBLICAN BOARD OF MAN
Ayers ADOPTS REGULATIONS.
Male Citizens Who Indorse RepubH-
can Principles Eligible to Vote.
Expense Fund Created.

The board of supervisors of the local
primary elections which will be held here
this spring promulgated today a state
ment containing the regulations under
which aspirants for the honor of being
delegates to the Chicago convention. June
16 may legally qualify as candidates.
| The statement of the board follows:
I'm the official call for the republican
national convention, to be held June 16,
1908. issued by the republican national
committee the following announcement Is
made: The election of delegates from the
District. of Columbia shall be held under
the direction and supervision of an cleo
! ton board. composed of Sidney Bieber.
Percy Crawford and George F. Collins of
| the District of Columbia. This BOARD
shall have authority to fix the date of
said election. subject to prior provisions
herein. and to arrange all details Incl
dental thereto: and shall provide for Il
registration of the votes cast. such regis
tration to include the name and residence
of each voter.
ANY male citizen OF the United States
without regard to past political utilization,
who believes in the principles of the re-
publican party and indorses it's policies,
who does not claim or exercise citizenship
elsewhere. may qualify as candidate for
delegate from the District of Columbia.
for two years Immediately preceding this
election. and is twenty-one years of age or
older.
Requirements Outlined.
ITO secure recognition under this call
each ticket must be complete. consisting
Of two candidates for delegates and two
candidates for alternates: and must be in
dorsed in writing by at least 100 citizens
of the District and be filed with the board
of supervisors at it's Offices. GIL 14th street
by noon of March H. 1908
The candidates comprising each ticket
must deposit with the finance committee
by noon Of March IA, 1908. Eldridge f.
Jordan. president of the TraCers' Ma
tional Bank. chairman. the sum IF $3.50
The money so subscribed will be III ed to
defray the expenses covering the purchase
of registration books. printing Of ballots,
compensation of judges and clerks of
election. rental Of registration and voting
booths and other necessary expenses.
THE finance committee will make all
disbursements. and after this election is
closed an accounting will be had and
any unexpended balance remaining i'm
the hands Of the finance committee will
be returned to the candidates represent
ing each ticket, every ticket to receive it's
pro rata of the surplus
The regulations above quoted give as
pirants until the 14th of the present
month to qualify as candidates. but it is
not believed that those citizens of the
District who are seriously intent upon
becoming candidates for the honor of
representing their constituency at Chicago
will need more than part of this limit
1t is further expected that as a result
of this formal PRONUNCIATION the various
tickets will begin to show their strength
or weakness. as the case may be, and
the fight will align itself between the
various sections more decidedly than has
been the case heretofore.
Candidates Are Hustling.
In anticipation of these regulations,
made public today, the various candidates
have been hustling on the quiet. as stated
in The Star yesterday, trying to deter
mine what kind of a showing they will
be able to make at the primaries 1t
looks as if there will be half a dozen
tickets in the field. but this may narrow
down to two or three by the 14th when
the limit for the announcements of cam
didacy is coached
In few days the board of elections
will announce the date for registration
and the rules under which citizens of the
District may qualify to express their
opinion, by ballot. at the primaries, which
will probably be held ten days or so
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