Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-28
ARTICLE TEN.
Official Party Endorsement Of Candidates
for President and Vice President, and
as accommodation to Appoint
i've Government Positions
Other than PoStmas-


ters
Sec. l09. 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
" candida tes for president and vice presi-
ident s provided by this act and the is
suance to such candidates of state GER
tiicate of endorsement herein pro-
vided shall have the force and effect OF
instructions 70 delegates and, alternates
to the national convention of the same
political party TO vote for and support
such principles and candidate for the Of
iice Of president or vice president three
times as provided in Section IL
Sec lie. Official Party Endorsement
CTo AppointiVe Offices)-Any party cleo
tor who wishes to seek an endorsement to
an apIoiutlve 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 afdiaton, with the secretary
OF state after any primary election date,
and before the following general election
date. and copy of such written appliCat ion
shall be mailed by the secretary of state
10 each member of he state central COM
mttee OF the applicants party before De-
ctuDer LIST ln election years No party
state chairman, national committeeman
or party central committeeman shall be
eligible 10 party endorsement while serv-
ing as such party representative
Sec III. Duty OF Secretary Of State
Party endorsement reCOrd)--It shall be
purpose or preserving q record OF party
endorsements for appointive government
positions, state and federal, 70 prepare
and keep in his office a suitable record
book Cf official party endorsements" In
which all official party endorsements shall
be entered as received.
Sec 1l2 Official Party Enforcement
Glow Determined THE party state GEN.
trail committee. interested. including its
chairman and secretary and national
committeeman, shall meet i'm the senate
.Asf.Ws Il I'll g.r-
a. m on the second Tuesday of Deceul-
ber after the general election. and the
members present shall constitute a quo
rum, and shall, at all times, act M pub
lie sessions and without ub-committees,
as committee Of the whole, hearing APP
pucants and receiving written recom-
menda tions from party electors, and shall
proceed by open ballot and majority vote
10 determine who shall receive the official
party endorsement as the recommenda-
tiOn 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-
VGte secretary and stenographer The
chairman and secretary OF said committee
shah 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 80 the president. and to each OF the
United States senators and congressman
IN federal positions as the official party
-ccommendation, and shall send a copy OF
tho same to the secretary of state. who
hall enter the same in the record book OF
-fHcial party endorsements. Each MEM
ter Of such, interested, party state GEN.
tral committee including its state chair
man and secretry and national committee
n}an. who shall attend such meeting, shall
'cceive payment OF five cents per mile
for each mile necessarily travelled in going
20 and returning from said meeting by
1iing a written reCeipted sworn state-
rnent thereof with the secretary OF state.
uho shall deliver same TO the state auditor
who shall see 10 It's auditing and forward
Sled such statement, it being the inten-
ton hereof that the state shall pay all
expenses Of mileage herein provided. All
minutes of proceedings of meetings Of
he 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
hv any party elector as a recommended ton
io an vacancies occurring during the in
terin or biennial meetings of the party
state central committee, shall be given by
q majority OF the party state chairman
and national committeeman and tho
chairman of the endorsee's county, and
n copy Of their endorsement shall likewise
be fled Immediately with the secretary Of
etate 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
ut least seven days before such endorse
ment Is delivered TO the person having
he appointive power In case of friction
between the party state chairman and
the national committeeman resulting in a
tie endorsement, such tie between en-
dorsees 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
In 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
ierment Of the public service Every en-
dorsee TO appOintive government position,
as party candidate, shall sign declara-
ton TO the effect that he 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 fled with the secretary
! OF state and entered in the record book
OF official party endorsements.