The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-06-09
NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Election

The Democratic voters of Garrard |
County are hereby notified that a Pri-
mary Election will be held by order of
the Democratic County Committee in
pursuance to the resolutions adopted
by the said Committee and under the
Primary Election law, in the following
manner to-wit:---
First:-A primary election will be
held in each and every voting precinct
throughout Garrard county Kentucky,
between the hours of six O'Clock A. M.
and o'clock P. M, standard time on
Saturday July 1, 1911, under and pur-
suant to the primary election law of
the State of Kentucky, and under and
pursuant to the regulations adopted by
the Democratic County Committee as
herein set out, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a Democratic Candidate for
representative for Garrard County Ken
tncky in the General Assembly of Ken
lucky, to be voted for at the General
State Election to be held in November
1911.
Second:-In said Primary election,
any known Democrat who is a legal
voter in the Precinct where he offers to
vote, on the day thereof, or who will
be legal voter in said precinct at the
regular November election 1911 shall be
entitled to vote.
Third: The officers required to hold
said election shall be appointed by. the
Democratic County Committee for Gar
rard County KY, and shall be divided
as nearly equally as possible as to Jud-
ges, clerks and Sheriffs, among the
various candidates, and where the can
didates shall furnish list of names for
election officers, as they are entitled
to do by law, the said election officers
shall be selected from said lists, and
said lists shall be furnished by said can
didates not less than days before
the date of said primary election. The
election officers when appointed shall
be notified by the secretary of the
County Committee and requested to
serve. Each candidate in said primary
election shall be entitled to a challen-
ger and inspect and the same
person may act =; 10Th challenger and
inspector, al the name of such
challenger OF Inspector shall b
submitted to the said committee OF
the Chairman thereof and his ap-
pointment certified by the said Chair
man, and the certihca of the Chair
man of his selection shall entitle the
said challenger or inspector to admis-
sion to said voting Precincts.
Fourth: Said primary election shall
be held in all respects as required by
law for tie holding of primary cleo
tons, and a uniform ballot shall be
used in every precinct. The precinct
ballot boxes and all returns shall be
made to the chairman of the County
Committee at the Court House in Lam
caster Kentucky within the time re-
quired by law and on the next day
thereafter the County Committee shall
meet at the Court House and canvass
the returns and certify the name of
the successful candidate to the proper
officer to be placed under the Demo
cratic device of the Democratic party
on the ballot at the general November
election 1911.
The precinct election officers shall
make returns to the Chairman of the
County Committee, the ballots shall be
preserved in the boxes, which shall
be locked and one key kept by one
Judge and another key by another
Judge, but in case the candidates shall
have furnished lists from which the
officers have been selected, the Judges
holding the keys must have been taken
from different lists.
!, Fifth:-Any democrat who is legally
qualified to hold said office, desiring to
become a candidate before said primary
election, and to have his name printed
on the ballot for said election, shall on
or before IL o'clock midnight of June
Is 1911, deposit with the Chairman OF
Secretary of said Committee the sum
of seventy five dollars for the purpose
of defraying the expense of said prima.
ry election, and such deposit shall con.
stitute notice to the Committee Of the
desire of such candidate to have his
name printed on said ballot for saiC
election. In the event there is a sur
plus remaining from the amounts Sc
deposited, it shall be returned to the
said candidates, and in the event there
, is a deficit, said candidates in said pri
, mary shall be assessed pro rata tt
make up said deficit.
Sixth:-In the event no more thar
one candidate shall have qualified as
herein set out and made said deposit OF
Seventy five dollars within the time
required, then the said Committee
, shall meet and declare such candidate
to be the nominee of the Democratic
party for said office, and the amount
so paid shall be returned to him. The
order on the ballot in which the name:
of the candidates shall be printed shall
be determined by lot, in the presence
of the candidate, at the time of such
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