The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-20
NEW PRIMARY LAW MAKES
ENTIRE CHANGE IN PROCEDURE
What it Will be Necessary for Voters and Candi-
dates to do in Meeting Requirements imposed
Conventions Done Away With--s Direct Vote

election next preceding the election of
his individual preferences; or instead
thereof, he may state that he will
consider the vote of the people for
United State senator nothing more than
at liberty wholly to disregard as he
sees fit, or, he may make and file his
affidavit without either of the fore
going statements.
After the time has expired for filing
~nominatins, notices of the election are
published, election officials appointed
and the primary election held in a
manner similar to and with the form
ality of a general election. The ballot
paper is furnished by the secretary of
state, and ZACH party has a different
colored ballot; one shall be white, one
blue, one pink and If more than three
parties such other colors as the Sec
rotary of state may designate.
Twenty days before the primary
election, sample ballots on white pa
per must be furnished by the county
clerk.
Upon the day of election a quail
fed e~lector, duly registered, desiring
to vote. will to the election
officers the name of the political par
ty with which he is affiliated. If his
right to vote or his political afhliation
is not challenged, he receives a ballot
of the political party designated, and
prepares the same substantially as he
would a ballot at a general election.
The candidate receiving the highest
number of votes are the nominees on
their respective parties for the several
offices and their names go upon the
ballot at the general election in No
vember.
of each primary ballot is a blank
space for writing in the choice of
the voter for county committeeman
for that particular precinct. The
precinct committeeman SO selected
are required to meet at the : court
house on the second Tuesday after the
primary for organization.
The successful candidates for state Of
flee of the several parties, together
with the nominees for assemblymen
and state senators, shall meet at the
state capitol in Carson City at 2 p. m.
of the fourth Tuesday in September.
They shall forthwith formulate the
state platforms of their respective
parties, which shall be made public not
later thai 6 p. m. of the following
Thursday. They shall also proceed to
elect a state central committee which
shall consist of at least three members
from each county, and fix the time M
place of it's first meeting. Such COM
mittee may elect an executive COM
mittee.
These, in brief, are the main feat
ures of the new primary election law.
Many minor details are here omitted
which prospective candidates and party
leaders will do well to study carefully.
Whether this law in actual practice
will meet the expectations of those
who advocated its passage, remains to
be seen. The main urpo sought to
be accomplished, are the practical cleo
ton of United States senators by the
vote of party control in the hands of
the whole rank and file of the party.
If, while not destroying party organ
izations, it will be the means of se1ec-
ting the very best material in all
parties for nominations, the law will
meet public approval; otherwise not.