The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-07-07
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Third District Republican Congress-
iOnal Primary Election.

The District primary election for
the nomination OF Republican can
didate for Congress from the Third
Congressional district of West Vir-
ginia to be voted for at the general
election on the Sth day OF November,
1910. and for the election Of one
committeeman from each Of the coun-
ties OF the district constituting the
Third Congressional district, Is here
by called to be held on Saturday,
July GARD, 1910, between the hours
of eight o'clock In the morning and
six o'clock in the evening, eastern
standard time, at all Of the voting
precincts in the said Third Congress-
ional district OF West Virginia except
at the precincts in the counties of
Upshur and Pocahontas in said dis
trict.
The said primary election shall be
held at all the regular voting places
IN all Of the counties except Upshur
and Pocahontas counties as establish
election held in the year 1908.
All candidates for Congress desir-
Ing to have their names printed on
the ballots and to be voted for at said
primary election shall sign the call,
which has, by order OF said Con-
gressional committee, been placed at
the Citizens National Bank of
Charleston, at Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, and pay the sum Of Seven
Hundred and Fifty Dollars $75O.OO)
prescribed by said committee, on or
before the LIST day Of July, 1910, and
said candidates agreeing to pay such
furthcr sum as the committee may
hnd necessary t. pay the expenses Of
holding said primary in said district,
but the aggregate Of said assessments
to be made against the candidates de-
string to have their names printed
on the ballots and to be voted for at
said primary election shall not ex-
coed the actual cost OF conducting
said primary in said Third Congress-
ional district.
The said primary election shall be
conducted at each voting precinct In
the said district by board equal in
number in commissioners and clerks,
to the number OF candidates for the
nomination for Congress, that Is to
say, that for every person who shall
announce himself as Republican
candidate for Congress in said dis
tr1ct sign the call and pay the as
sessment as herein provided, shall
said Congressional committee q
clerk and a commissioner, which
shall be required to be submitted to
said committee on or before july II,
1910. anu the sarn committee shall
appoint the one commissioner and
one clerk Cor each of such candidates
as shall sign the call and pay the
assessments, and appoint the persons
designated as such election officers
by such candidates and persons so
appointed by said committee, shall be
deemed the proper officers, to conduct
said election; and all Of the provis~
ions OF the election laws of the State
or West Virginia in SO far as the
same are applicable and are not in
consistent with this call shall apply
to the holding Of said primary cleo
ton.
No person shall be permitted to
vote In said primary election who is
not known, recognized, and there
totore declared member Of the Re-
publican party, and who will be
'Q!Hatlhed. to: vote at, the. next general
election In this state, and no person
shall be entitled to vote save in the
election precinct where he resides.
In case Of dispute between the COM
mlssloncrs as to the right Of any
person to vote, or as to any other
question properly cognizaLle by the
election commissioners, they shall
cast lots as to whose Judgment shall
be first taken, and thereafter they
snail alternate in the right to decide
any disputed question.
Primary elections have already
been called in Upshur and Pocahontas
counties, and the names Of the two
candidates now contending for the
nomination as Republican candidates
FOR Congress from the Third Con-
gressional district Of West Virginia
have been placed on the ticket In said
respective counties, and the action so
taken in said UDshur and Pocahontas
counties shall be ratified to the ex-
tent that the vote cast for the respec-
1--WE candidates for the nomination for
congress in said district IN said coun-
Ties snail be taken and considered as
part Of the general result Of the Dri-
mary election hereby called; and the
county committees Of said Upshur
and Pocahontas counties shall can
Vass the returns in their respective
counties and certify the results as to
said candidates, to the chairman Of
the Congressional committee, Char
lesion, West Virginia, before July
80, 1910.
The officers conducting said Drima-
ry election shall, upon tallying the
votes and ascertaining the result Of
said primary election in said district
at their respective precincts, seal said
ballots, and the poll books, tally
sheets, ETC., and send the same by ex-
press or registered mail to Upshur
Htgginbotham. chairman Of the Con-
gressional Committee at Charleston
West Virginia, and the said commits
stoners shall notify said Upshur Hig-
ginbotham, and each candidate voted
for at said election, the day follow
Ing the primary, Of the result Of the
election at their respective precincts,
and the packages referred to shall
not be nnened until tho Con srracsics