The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-19

Candidates Must Pay Their Assessments For The Expenses On Or Before
Febuay5 Boundaries OF The Several Wards In Winchester.


A call meeting Of the Democratic
Committee for the city of Winchester
was held Monday afternoon at 5
o'clock at the office of the chairman,
Hon. James NJ. Stevenson. Practi-
; cally the only matter considered was
the date for the primary, which was
fixed for Tuesday, March 2, 1909, to
nominate a city ticket. The following
resolutions were adopted:
The Resolutions.
1st. That a primary election be
held in each ward in the city on Tues
day, March 2, 1909, for the purpose
of nomina ting Democratic candidates
for Councilmen in the various Wards
of the city as follows: Two in the
first Ward; two in the second Ward;
two in the third Ward; one Ill the
fourth Ward, and two in the fifth
Ward, to be voted for in the Novem-
Der election, 1909.
End. That in said primary the
Democrats of the city shall have the
right and be permitted to express
their choice for the various appoint
i've. offices, towit: Mayor, Police
Judge, City Attorney, City Clerk, Tax
collector and Chief of Police and in
order to insure the selection of the
nominees of said primary for the said
appointive offices, the candidates for
Councilmen before said primary, will
be required at the time they pay their
entrance fees, to sign an obligation
binding themselves in filing the APP
pointive offices In said primary, and
for Deputy Policeman to vote for the
persons who are nominated for those
positions by the Chief of Police, and
no candidate for Councilman who is
unwilling to sign such an obligation
shall have his name printed on the
ballots to be used in said primary.
3rd. That only citizens of Win
chester who are known Democrats,
who are registered as Democrats, and
such known Democrats as have been
residents of Winchester sixty days
prior to the date set for the primary
election, and who, for any legal rea-
son, were prevented from registering
at the last registration, and such
young men as will become twenty-One
years of age by the final election and
desires to cast their political lot with
the Democratic party, shall be en-
titled to vote in said primary.
4th. The polls shall be opened in
the various Wards Of the city from
six o'clock a. M, to four o'clock p.
M, on said day at the following vot-
ing places: The voters of the first
ward shall vote at the Fairfax voting
precinct; the voters of the second
ward, at the Court House voting pre-
einct; the voters of the third ward at
the North Winchester voting pre-
cinct; the voters Of the fourth ward
at the Mt Abbott voting precinct,
and the voters of the fifth ward at
the Winchester voting precinct.
9Th. That in order to defray the
expenses of the primary, the candi-
dates shall, on or before February D,
1909, pay to the chairman of this
committee, the following sums: Each
candidate for Councilman, So; each
candidate for Mayor, 81; each candi-
date for Police Judge, 81; each can
didate for City Attorney, 81; each
candidate for Citv Clerk, 81; each
candidate for Collector, 81; each can
didate for Chief of Police, 81; and
no candidate who fails to pay such
assessment, shall be permitted to
have his name on the ballots.
9th. That this committee will
meet on the 18th day of February,
1909, for the purpose of arranging
for the printing of the ballots and Sc
lecting the officers to conduct said
primary.
JIM. STEVENSON, Chair.