Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-21
ARTICLE TEN.
Official Party Endorsement Of Candid ates
for President and Vice President, and
as Recommendation TO Appoint
i've Government Positions
Other than Postmas-

Other tnan PoStmas-
terS.
Sec l09 Party Endorsement Of Presi-
dent and Vice President-The endorse
ment 10y highest popular vote of a para
mount issue as a national motto for par
~ candidates for president and vice presi-
ident, as provided by this act and the is
suance to such candidates of a state cer-
tfcate of endorsement as herein pro-
vided shall have the force and effect Of
instructions to delegates and alternates
10 the national convention of the same
such principles and candidate for the Of
fee OF president or vice president three
times as provided in Section H.
Sec. 10 Official Party Endorsement
(To AppointiVe Ofhces)--Any party cleo
tor who wishes 10 seek an endorsement to
an appontive government position. state
or federal, except postmaster, which is
otherwise provided for in this act, may
file his written application for the official
party endorsement for the office for
which he is candidate. stating therein
his party afhliaton, with the secretary
Of state after any primary election date,
and before the following general election
date. and copy of such written applica ion
shall be mailed by the secretary of state
70 each member Of the state central COM
mittee Of the applicants party before De-
cember lst in election years. No party
state chairman, national committeeman
or party central committeeman shall be
eligible TO party endorsement while serV-
ing as such party representative.
Sec, Ill. Duty OF Secretary Of State
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 rarity Endorsement
Chow Determined The party state CEN
trail committee. Interested including its
chairman and secretary and national
fel4Frf hall In f.a
chamber at the state capitol al ten o'clock
n. m, on the second Tuesday Of Decem-
Der after the general election, and the
members present shall constitute quo
rum, and SHALL at all times, act in pub
lie sessions and without sub committees.
as a committee OF the whole, hearing ap-
plicants and receiving written recon-
mendations from party electors, and shall
proceed by open ballot and majority vote
70 determine who shall receive the official
party endorsement as the recommended
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-
vate secretary and stenographer. The
chairman and secretary Of said committee
shall certify to such endorsement in writ
ing and forward the same Immediately
the appointiVe power i'm state positions,
and 10 the president, and TO each of the
United states senators ana congressman
in federal positions as the official party
~ecommendation, and shall send a copy OF
the same 10 the secretary of state, who
hall enter the same IN the record book OF
official party endorsements Each mem
her Of such, interested, party state GEN.
raj 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
70 and returning from said meeting by
Cling a written receipted sworn state-
ment thereof with the secretary of state,
Who shall deliver same TO the state auditor
who shall see to its auditing and forward
a warrant therefor. 70 the person who
fled such statement, II being the .nten-
ton hereof that the state shall pay all
expenses of mileage herein provided. All
minutes of proceedings Of meetings OF
the party state central committee shali
be signed by the chairman and secretary
| and the chairman shall Immediately file
such minutes with the secretary OF state
who shall record the same in the political
| record book.
Any official party endorsement desired
by any party elector as recommendation
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
| q copy of their endorsement shah likewise
be filed Immediately with the secretary Of
! tate and recorded in the political record
/ hook But no endorsements shall be
made by the national committeeman or
| party state chairman unless copy of the
I
! n least seven days before such endorse-
/ ment is delivered to the person having
\ the appointive power. In case of friction
/ between the party state chairman and
/ the national committeeman resulting in a
| tie endorsement, such tie between en-
/ Gorsees shall be determined by lot by the
national committeeman and state chair
| man OF such party
Provided, further, that the party state
central committee shall not be restricted
lin such endorsement to those applicants
whose written application shall have been
! filed with the secretary of state, but such
/ committee shall make such endorsement
as shall be agreed upon by a majority Of
such committeeman present for the bet
| ternent Of the public service. Every en-
dorsee to appointive government position.
| as party candidate, shall sign declara-
ton to the effect that ne shall qualify and
| obey the party recall II invoked against
him, and such signed declaration shall
be attached to the official party endorse
| ment, and shall be filed with the secretary
| of state and entered in the record book
OF official party endorsements.