The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-02
ARTICLE TEN.
Official Party Endorsement of Candidates
for President and Vice President, and
as a Recommendation to Appoint
i've Government Positions
Other thar Postmas-

Sec. 100. Party Endorsement of Presi-
dent and Vice President-The endorse
ment by highest popular vote of a para
mount issue as a national motto for par
ty candidates for president and vice presi-
ident, as provided 10y this act and the is
suancc 70 such candidates Of a state GER
tifcate of endorsement as herein pro-
vided shall have the force and effect Of
Instructions to delegates and alternates
to the national convention OF the same
political party to vote for and support
such principles and candidate for the Of
flee of president or vice president three
times as provided in Section IL.
See. ITO. Official Party Endorsement
ITO AppOintive OffiCeS)-Any party cleo
tor who wishes to seek an endorsement 10
an appointive government position, state
or federal, except postmaster, whlch is
otherwise provided for in this act, may
file his written application for the official
party endorsement for the office Tor
which he is a candidate, stating therein
his party affliation, with the secretary
of state after any primary election date,
and before the following general election
date. and copy Of such written application
shall be mailed by the secretary of state
TO each member of the state central COM
mittee Of the applicants party before De
cember 1st in election years. NO party
state chairman, national committeeman
or party central committeeman shall be
eligible to party endorsement while serV-
ing rs such party representatives.
Sec. III. Duty of Secretary OF State
(Party endorsement record)-It shall be
the duty of the secretary of state, for the
purpose of preserving a record OF party
endorsements for appointive government
positions. state and federal, to prepare
and keep in his office a suitable record
book of official party endorsements, in
which all official party endorsements shall
be entered as received.
Sec. 112. Official Party Endorsement
GLOW Determined)-The party state CEN
trail committee, interested, including. its
committeeman shall meet In the senate
chamber at the state capitol at ten o'clock
a. NJ, on the second Tuesday OF Deem
Der after the general election, and the
member present shall constitute a quo
rum, and shall, at all times, act IN pup
lie sessions and without, sub-committees.
as q committee OF the whole, nearing ap-
plicants and receiving written recon-,
mendations from party electors, and shall
proceed by open ballot and majority. vote
to determine who shall receive the official
ton Of the party for any and all state and
federal appointive government positions
for which the commission expires during
the next ensuing two years. except pri-
yate secretary and stenographer. The
chairman and secretary OF said committee
shall certify to such endorsement In writ
ing and forward the same Immediately
for consideration to the person having
the appointive power in state positions,
and to the president. and to each OF the
United States senators and congressman
in federal positions as the official party
recommendation, and shall send a copy OF
the same to the secretary or state, VINO
shall enter the same in the record book OF
official party endorsements. Each MEM
Der of such, interested, party state CEN
trail committee including its state chair
man and secretry and national committee
man, who shall attend such meeting, shall
receive payment of five cents per mile
for each mile necessarily Travelled In going
to and returning from said meeting by
filing a written receipted sworn state-
who shall deliver same to the state auditor
who shall see to its auditing and forward
a warrant therefor, to the person who
tion hereof that the state shall pay all
expenses of mileage herein provided. All
minutes Of proceedings Of meetings, OF
be s.,ned by the chairman and secretary
and the chairman shall Immediately file
such minutes with the secretary OF state
who snail record the same in the political
record book.
Any official party endorsement desired
by any party elector as a Recommendation
to All vacancies occurring during the in
term or biennial meetings of the party
state central committee, shall be given by
a majority Of the party state chairman
and national committeeman and the
chairman of the endorsee's county, and
a copy Of their endorsement shall likewise
be fled immediately with the secretary OF
state and recorded in the political record
book. But no endorsements shall be
made by the national committeeman or
party state chairman unless copy OF the
same is filed with the secretary of state
at least seven Gays before SuCn eHuOTSc-
ment is delivered to the person having
the appoiative power. In case of friction
between the party state chairman and
the national committeeman resulting in a
tie endorsement, such tie etwee en-
dorsees shall be determined by lot by the
national committeeman aad state chair
man of such party. O.
Provided, further, that the party state
central committee shall not be restricted
In such endorsement to those applicants
whose written application shall have been
fled with the secretary of state, but such
committee shall make such endorsement
as shall be agreed upon by a majority of
terment of the public service. Every en-
dorsee to appointive government position,
as a party candidate, shall sign a declara-
tion to the effect that he shall qualify and
obey the party recall il INVOKED against
him. and such signed declaration shall
be attached to the official party endorse
ment, and shall be fled with the secretary
of state and entered in the record book
OF official party endorsements.