The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1914-10-29
Allen Is
Legally Dead

Chairman Day Of the Republica
state central committee last Frida
Issued a call for a meeting of the ez
ecutive committee to be held las
Friday for the purpose of nominal
Ing candidate for state treasure
In place Of o. v. Allen, legally dea,
under the law because Of his incar
ceration in the penitentiary.
This action was taken under sec
ton 391 of tho civil code covering
the filling of vacancies by the stat
u Committce in cases where a nomine
dies or when any certificate of no
animation becomes insufficient or in
W. asirve for any cause.'
Under the law the ex-treasurer
also tho nominee for the place at tn,
recent primary election, is legal,
Adead. Furthermore his Imprisonment
renders his certificate of nomination
imperative.
Can Use stickers
Under section 1872 stickers bearin,
the name of the nominee of commit
tee must be provided, on certificat,
from the secretary of state to tn.
county auditors and these must b,
placed on the ballot by the distribut
ing clerk of each precinct. The fol
lowing is the full text of that sec
hon:
hi When any vacancy occurs be-
u fore election day and after the
n printing of the ballots. and any
ri person is nominated according to
the provisions of this chapter to
fill such vacancy, the officer
/. whose duty it is to have the tick
cts printed and distributed, shall
thereupon have printed a requis-
tie number Of stickers and shall
mail them by registered letter to
the judges OF election in the va
rious precincts interested in such
election. The distributing clerk,
whose duty it is made by the pro-
visions of this title to distribute
the tickets shall affix such stick
ers In proper place on tho ticket
before it is given out to the cleo
tor.
Can Write In Mama
The name Of the Republican nomi
neos could be written in by the voter.
In any precincts so remote that the
stickers could not reach them by cleo
ton day, but there is yet 10 days be.
fore election, which is ample to pro
vide the stickers to every precinct.
In case, however, any precin [
should not be provided with stickers
voters can write in the name of the
nominee for treasurer in place of AL
lens A cross at the head Of the
ticket so changed would vote the
straight ticket, including tho candi
date whose name had been written in
or in case of scratched ticket, 9
'Gross after the name written in would
be counted as a vote the same az
though the name had been written or
the ballot.
John W. Eagleson of Boise wa.
last Saturday named the nominee d
tho Republican party of Idaho fol
the position of state treasurer to fill
the vacancy left by the removal o.
o. v. Allen, the candidate nominal
ed at the primary election. He was
nominated by the party executive com
mittee and his nomination certifie.
by the secretary of state.
The executive committee held it,
meeting at state headquarters witt
4 George A. Day, the chairman; Will
H. Gibson. secretary; R. D. Dewey an
Miss Margaret Roberts present. Mr.
Eag1eson was the unanimous choice.
Send Out stickers
Id His certificate of nomination wa
|r9mmediately filed with the secretar.
HCYstate. 1t sets forth that Mr.. Eag
i 1encn is nominated on account of eth
certificate of nomination of o. v. AL
! aen for said office on the Republican
ticket having become insufficient an
i imperative for the reason that sal
4 O.V Allen is not an electQr of tn
state Of Idaho and has been convicte,
~ = felony, the same being defalca
tion of funds of the state of Idaho
which renders him ineligible to BE-
come a candidate or to hold cny offic
In the state of Idaho"
The law under which the chang
was made provides that Mr.. Eagle
sons name may be placed on the bal
lot by means of gum stickers. Tn
executive committee made arrange
pepts whereby the stickers were in
STATELY printed and sent out t