The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-04
VOTE FOR ACT NO. 1
 ON NOVEMBt R 7TH
New Primary Law Means Clean CT and More Satisfactory ElectiOns-EndOrsed by State Democratic Convention.

tunity to put on the statute books what is popularly known as the pri- mary election law. It will appear on the ballot as Act No. 1.
 After the Supreme Court had de- cided that, under present primary laws, the question of who is the nomi- nee is matter of party regulation and that the courts cannot inquire in- to the regularity of such party action, many members of the Democratic party became impressed with the need for new law; for it appeared from the courts decision that we now have no primary law of which the courts will take knowledge or under which they will enforce any rights.
 The Democratic convention which met at Pine Bluff appointed a con- mittee of leading men of the state and they drew primary election measure The last Democratic convention, which met at Little Rock in June, endorsed this measure in the form in which it is to be submitted to the people and asked for it's adoption.
 Under proposed Act No. 1 primary elections are legalized in Arkansas and jurisdiction in matters of contest is vested in the Circuit Courts, with the right of appeal to the Supreme Court, which court shall advance and determine the case without delay.
 By section 8 of the act no candidate or officeholder, or deputy of an office holder. shall be eligible to member ship on County Central Committees or as delegate to county or district con ventions, or as judge or clerk of any primary election.
 Section 9 provides that the judges and clerks of the election shall make a duplicate register of the names of all electors in the manner in which they present their ballots, and also provides that when the vote in any precinct shall exceed 100, the election commissioners shall designate one or more additional boxes for the precinct, and further provides that the judges and clerks shall begin the counting of the ballots immediately upon the clos ing of the polls and continue the count until it has been completed. Tn the event any judge or clerk shall become sick or incapacitated or from any other cause the remaining judges and clerks shall continue the count until it has been completed. It is also pro- vided that each ballot shall be signed by each voter at the bottom at place that shall be provided for his sigma ture, and if the voter is unable to sub scribe his name it shall be signed by one of the judges and attestcd by all of the judges.
 At the closing of the polls the dupli- cate register of voters shall be signed by the judges and attested by the clerks. One of these shall be deliv- cred to the chairman or secretary of the County Central Committee; an- other shall be posted on the outer door of the polling precinct, showing the number of votes cast for each candidate. This would afford an op- portunity for any one to know just what the vote was in each voting pre- cinct in the state within a few min utes aftr the vote had been counted. This section also requires that the re- turns and ballots be filed in the county clerks office in each county and pre- served as a public record for six months.
 Section 12 gives right of action to any candidate to contest, in the Cir cult Court. the certification of nomi- nation or the certiication of the vote as made by the County Central Com mittee; authorizes the court to try the cause without a jury and provides for the right of appeal.
 Section 16 provides that no person shall be allowed to vote in a primary election who shall not exhibit a poll tax receipt or evidence that he has paid his poll tax within the time pre- scribed by law to entitle him to vote at the succeeding general election. This section also provides that it shall be the duty of each elector at the time of the payment of his poll tax to state, and it shall be the duty of the collector to record and certify in his