Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-20


Adoption and declaration of principles
land for the election of political com
Imittees. These conventions will b
: !called and made up much as under tn
Iold system but they will have no powe
: to name candidates.
1 Municipal affairs are not changed b!
the system.
J If you desire to become a candidate
: for L. S. senator or for governor OIL
State auditor, you must file with th'
: secretary of State, petition signed by
,lnot less than one per cent. and mol
more than two per cent. of the entire
vote cast for governor in the last pre-
Iceainp election. With this petition
must be filed a sworn statement de-
: lelaring the petitioners to be voters III
the State.
If you wish to be a party candidate
lfor Congress, you must have not less
Than one and not more than two per
loent If the vote cast for governor IN
your congressional district IN the ia''
preceding election.
If you wish to be candidate io'
Ctato senator or any county office, you
must file a petition containing 'he
same percentage of voters OF the 0oa'e
ty in which you live.
| IF you wish to be candidate ior
cot
representative to the Legislature you
must go through the same formati.S'
presenting a petition from at least one
per cent. of the voters of your repre-
sentative district.
If YOU are to be candidate iof
any office provided for by this law,
YOU must have your nomination papers
filed with the secretary of State not
later than the first Monday of May of
said year.
Persons who are thinking of running
for Office must be getting ready to 90
their work. They may not have their
netitions signed any before the flrst
day of January, 1912, but they must
get them completed and filed before
the first Monday in May.
The proceedings on caucus DAY
which is to be the third Monday OF
June. will be interesting. The polls at
these caueuses are to be open from
noon of this third Monday in June un-
til at night, except that in towns OF
5000 inhabitants or less, the polls may
close at at night.
| The new law is we'll calculated 10
guard against the evil Of persons Sot-
| ing for both parties. It provides Tor
strict enrolment of the voters III
the cities and large towns, according
to their political affiliations. This
enrolment must reach the wardens
lin the cities and the seleetmeh
in the towns through the office OF the
eftv or town clerk. A man may not
he enrolled in both parties, and IL ne
Ishould be so enrolled. when he reached
1.-THE polling place, he can have but one
lballot. and that the one of the party to
which he declares himself to belong.
In praetiee, probably. it will be neces-
sary for men to declare to the ballot
clerks their political affiliations.
When the voter receives his ballot
containing the names of the candi-
dates of the party in which he IS
enrolled or to which he declares
himself to belong, he will go TO the
| Voting booth and mark cross in
the square opposite the names or
the men whom he wishes to be his
marty candidates, and will deposit
Ibis ballot which is an official ballot
provided by the State, exactly as he
ldoes at the regular elections in Sep
ftember. These ballots will be count
ed and returns made, much the same
las is done in regular State elections,
land the persons having the largest
number of votes for a given position
lin a given district, will become the
candidate of his party for that po-
lsition. His name will go on the Of
lfeial ballot to be used in September.
The Davies bill provides for set
Element in the case of tie vote.
lie it should happen, for example,
THAT two men of the same party
received the same number of votes in
: the primary, and these are the high
est votes received for that office, the
/ 1.-TWO men will be summoned to the
s presence of the secretary of State at
/ Augusta, and there draw lots to see
. who shall be the party candidate
: A man who is candidate for any
:. State Office may not, by himself OF
lany agent, expend more than $500
in the primary; if he is to be can
: didate for Congress- he may not ex-
: pend over $500; if for State senator
n or county Office he may not expend