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The Primary Election.


| the manner of nominations, fees for
| candidates, dates for filing applica-
| tions, ETC., at the coming primary
election in this county, will be of
| interest to our readers:
The primaries cannot be held
earlier than Sept. s, or later than
Sept. 10; provided the chairmen of
the governing bodies in the State
agree on the date, and if they do
not. agree, then the primaries will
| be held on the second Monday in
September, which would be Sep
| TENDER 8 this year. The primaries
will be under the direct supervi-
sion of the Board of Election Super
| visors for the county. They will
be legal under the law of 1912,
which is known as the Primary
| Election Law
All candidates for local offices
must file their applications with the
Supervisors of Elections at least
20 days prior to the primary cleo
ton day The application must be
in writing and must be accompanied
by the fee required under the law.
| The fee is regulated as follows: All
offices which pay over $500 d year
| the applicant must put up $25 to
become a candidate. All offices
| which pay less than $500 per year,
the fee is $40. The cash must ac-
company the application. Offices
| which have 20 emoluments require
no fee. but the application must be
filed just the same. In this county
| persons seeking the nomination of
Members of the House of Delegates
and Sheriff must file $25; County
Commissioners, Judges of the Or
phans' Court and Surveyor, $10;D Del
egates to the State Convention and
members of the State Central Com
mittee, no fee required.
Five days before the primary
election, the registration officers
will sit one day in each district for
the purpose of adding names and
giving transfers from one district
to another. All young men becom-
ing of age can register on this day
also. This registration day is for
the purpose of giving persons who
have moved from one district to
another the opportunity to register
nd n thni, f,ia tho dow
of the. primary election. No voter
can change his party utilization at
this days registration, however. The
| right to change his party affiliation
ceased at the registration last Oc-
tober, and he has another oppor-
tunity to change his utilization al
the registration next October. A
registered voter, however, who has
not declared his party affiliation
| will be entitled, by virtue of pro-
| visions of Section 160E, to declare
his party affiliation for the first
time when he appears to vote at
the primary election next Septem-
Der.
On the day of the primaries the
voters will be given the ballot and
official envelope of the party to
which he is affiliated, and he can
not use any other. The Demo-
cratic ballots are to be printed on
different colored paper than the
Republican ballots. A voter who is
not affiliated with either party, or
refuses to affiliate on the day Of
the primary, cannot be allowed to
vote in the primaries. This year
will be the last chance in the coun-
ties for voters to affiliate unless
they change their residence from
one district to another and get reg
istered new.
Candidates for local offices have
the right to get any number of Of
fetal ballots from the Supervisors
to use in the canvass, provided they
pay for same, but they cannot get
/ the official envelopes. The bal
| lots may be marked outside the
election house and inserted in the
official envelopes on, the day of the
primaries. The names of all candi-
dates will be printed alphabetically
on the ballot in groups under the
offices for which they are running.
The voter must make an Y mark
opposite the name of each candi-
date he wishes to vote for
Watch the show window at
Moore's Furniture Store, on Poplar
st. The place to buy Furniture
Adv. 7-2-tf.