The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-04-23
Nomination By
Primary System.
County Candidates Must File Petitions
With Two Per Cent OF Party's
Enrolled Vote.

The adoption of the primary election
system by the voters of Baraga county
for county Offices at the election, brings
about airadical change in the manner
of placing candidates for the various
offices in nomination. Hereafter cam
didates for county offices will not be
nominated at county conventions of
their respective parties, but will be Sc
lected by the voters at the primary
election in September.
To obtain the printing of the name
of any candidate for county Office on
the primary election ballots, it shall
be necessary for that candidate or his
friends to present petition to the
county clerk bearing the names of vot-
ers enrolled under the party enrolment
equal to not less than two per centum
nor more than four per centum of the
total number of votes cast by that po-
litical party for the office of secretary
of state at the last preceding Novem-
ber election. 1t shall be unlawful for
any enrolled voter to sign more than
one nominating petition for the same
Office except where there are two or
three candidates to be nominated for
the same Office. Blank forms of the
nominating petitions will be kept on
hand by the county clerk. Such petit
tions may be submitted to the county
clerk up to four o'clock in the after
noon of the 18th day before September
primary.
Delegates to the county convention
of each party also will be named by the
primary. 1t is unlawful for any names
to be printed on the ballots for the Sc
lection of these delegates, but one or
more slips may be placed on the ballot
by printed slips pasted thereon by the
voter. The county committee of each
party shall specify the number of dele
gates to be named in each township,
village or precinct in county. Dele
gates to the county convention of each
party will name delegates to the state
convention of that party. Ballots for
the election of delegates shall be print
ed on eolored paper, white for the re-
publican party, blue for the democratic
party and red for the prohibition party.
No ballot shall be printed on yellow pa
per, that color being designated for
use for instruction ballots.
The county conventions of all politi-
cal parties shall be held within fifteen
days after the first Wednesday in Sep
tember.
In case candidate is nominated on
more than one party ticket, it shall be
his duty to elect within five days after
the official canvass of the result of the
election, which ticket upon which he
wishes his name to appear. 1t is also
provided that when any candidate shall
die or withdraw from the race after
having been nominated by his party and
before the election ballots shall have
been printed, the county committee of
that party will have the privilege of
naming successor to tlll the vacancy.
The primary election law provides a
very heavy penalty for any attempt to
either buy or sell votes.
1t is expected that the nomination
of party candidates for the respective
county Offices by primaries will cause a
greatly increased interest in political
matters in this county, and that party
lines will be drawn much more distinct
ly than they have been drawn before.
Electioneering will also commence
much earlier in the summer than be-
fore, as it will be necessary for the
candidate to work for the party nomi-
nation publicly as well as for the office
after he has been nominated by his
party.