The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-26
DECLARATION OF CANDIDATES.

do hereby declare II nominated and
elected. I Cor WEI will qualify, adhere to
the principles herewith proclaimed and
obey the party recall II invoked against
Signature OF
Candidates Residence p. O. Address
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Sec. 81. Signing OF COMMITTEES Proposal
and Declarations: To the. above commit
tee proposal" the committeeman In favor
with pen and ink or with indelibie PEN
ell. and shall add after his name, the
name of the county In which he resides:
d fhe P pr sIpGtnr his Fo pnst9f,ee the sd sirns,, npa
OF the committee members there shall be
attached to and filed with the committee
proposal, the above declaration signed by
the candidates proposed, each giving his
esidence by county and precinct and post
office address.
Sec. IS. Filing Fee.-No fees shall be
individual proposal petitions. or commits
tee proposals."
Sec. 50, ,Filing--when sufncient-Ths
fling Of a committee proposal or .in:
within the time and In the manner and
form provided in this act. together with
the declaration Of the candidate, shall be
sufficient to require that his name be
printed upon the primary ballot. No 9th:
er condition shall be imposed, provided
an opposition candidate, within the party.
mas DecH pTOposcu Wy kiIutiy illiuH.
ARTICLE FIVE.
Defining Evolution Of Paramount Issue.
Sec. 60. Paramount Issue-For the pur-
pose of Identification in connection with
the legal form Of procedure in party Or
ganization, provided herein, through which
70 initiate issues for evolution at Primary
elections and thereby consider one pub
lie policy at a time. as the paramount
Issue, the words paramount issue" shall
mean one well defined and defini prin-
ciple for a public policy that shall be first
fled with the secretary of state by an in
dent or governor, or by a minority or
majority committee proposal. Such COM
mittee proposal shall reduce the express
sion of it's issue to a motto"
Of not more than eight words for minori-
~ or majority heading on the primary
ballot.
q; Priority of Ming party proposals.
with the secretary OF state, for the pri-
mary shall govern the use Of any well
defined and definite principle for a para
mount issue. as provided herein. as a re-
measures for public welfare. except hat
the state minority proposal committee
may adopt the paramount issue proposed
and fled by an Independent candidate for
independent candidate as the minority
candidate. In the same primary, for the
nomination for the office for which such
independent candidate fled; whereupon
such candidate shall cease to be an inde-
pendent candidate and shall in all things
be deemed to be the candidate OF the NIL.
nority committee proposal Of his party,
and the secretary Of state shall so certf-
fy his candidacy and his paramount issue
for the minority primary ballot motto
to the county auditors.
b. Provided that an Independent a
didate for Governor or President. who
shall AVE made a primary campaign on
a paramount Issue and received equal to
1907 Of the total party vote cast for gov
ernor at such primary election, shall at
the next ensuing primary election for
presidential or state office become the
candidate Of the minority committee pro-
posal Of his party, for the same office.
and the paramount issue, represented by
such candidates, shall also be the par
amount issue Of the minority COM
mittee proposal; and the secretary of
state shall so certify such, candidate
and his paramount issue for pri-
mary ballot motto to the county
auditors. In case OF vacancy In such
candidacy, his place on the minority conn
mittee proposal shall be- filled az herein
provided for filing Of vacancies In COM
mittee proposals.
c. Provided, that in the event there
shall be more than one Independent cam
didate for president or for governor who
shall have received ten per cent OF rho
total party vote cast fer governor at the