Arizona republican., 1910-06-08
CALL ISSUED FOR
 THE FALL PRIMARIES
The First Step in the First Application
 of the New Primary Law.

1 ACtlnS OIONeTilOT 1OullS III HIS uSud l capacity as territorial secretary yes 1 terday sent to the clerks of the respect | i've boards of supervisors of all the counties of Arizona, the official cal | for the primaries for the regular bien- nial election. This is the first call is- sued under the provisions of d primary | law passed by the legislature at its | latest session, which fixes the prima ries on the first Tuesday in Septem 1 Der, which this year in September 6 l The law also states that the secretary | of the territory shall issue the call t0 | the clerks of boards of supervisors | ninety days before the day of the 1 primary and the supervisors shall i cause to be published in their respect 1 i've counties such part of the call as | applies to them.
 The offices for which candidates arc to be nominated at such primary are l as follows:
 Delegate to congress. Joint councilman. Councilman. Representatives. County superintendent of schools.
 County surveyor.
 Members of board of supervisors.
 District attorney.
 Probate judge.
 Sheriff.
 County recorder.
 County treasurer.
 Precinct justices of the peace
 Precinct constablcs.
 Party precinct committeeman.
 As the primary law is q new one some of it's features explaining brief ly the procedure will be enlightening.
 No name shall be printed upon the official primary ballot until a fee of s25 shall have been paid to the terri torial secretary by the prospective can didate, in the case of an aspirant for the nomination for delegate to con gross and & to the board of super visors in the case of an aspirant for d county office: nor until the respective aspirants shall have filed nominating papers as follows:
 For delegate to congress-One per cent of the voters of the party in at least three counties of the territory.
 For a district office-Two per cent of the voters of the party in at least one tenth of the election precincts in each of at least one half of the coun- ties ,of the district and in the aggre- gate not less than two per cent nor more than ten per cent of the total vote of the party in the district
 For county office-By at least three per cent of the party vote in one fourth of the election precincts and in the aggregate not less than three per cent nor more than ten per cent of the total vote of the party in the county.
 For county precinct committeeman Ten per cent of the party vote in such precinct,
 The basis shall be the vote for the party's candidate for delegate in the last preceding election. But any party represented on the official ballot at the preceding election may have separate primary election ticket if any of its candidates received five per cent of the total vote cast.
 All signers of these petitions must make affidavit to that effect and must agree to support the men they peti- ton for. There are also provisions for theP ecOgnition of new political parties which may start. Nomination papers for delegate and joint councilmen shall be filed with the secretary of the territory and for county offices with the board Of supervisors.
 The usual provisions are contained in the law for the preparation and dis tributiOn of the ballots and the adver- tising of the election and the certifi- cation of the candidates previous to- their names being printed on the bal lots.
 Blanks are provided under each of flee to be voted for, that the voter may write in the name of his choice in the event he does not want to vote for the person whose name is printed on the ticket
 There shall be separate party tickets and all voters at primaries must be registered the same as for the later election. The returns from the pri- maries shall be canvassed by the su- pervisors as are the returns from the general elections./
 The formation of county and terri torial committees is also provided for basis of representation is stated. In fact, the laN" embraces all those things that have heretofore been looked after by county and territorial conventions.
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