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

ana SmuSt awe afflXed thereto the sigma
lures of not less than 200 enrolled cleo
tors. of the party in which the candidate
is proposed for nomination., In the state,
county or district from which such can
Individual proposal petitions for indie
pendent candidates for county offices
and legislative or commissioners district
offices, within the COUNT shall be filed IN
the office Of the county auditor and must
have affixed thereto the signatures OF
not less than 20 enrolled electors of the
party in the county IN which the candi-
date is proposed for nomination.
Each individual proposal petition for
IN Independent candidate shall have af-
fixed thereto the executed declaration of
such candidate in the form provided in
section 40 before his petition shall be en-
titled TO be filed either in the office OF
the secretary of state or county auditor
as the case may require.
II shall be unlawful for any independent
candidate to secure more than twice the
number OF signatures required in this
section TO his petition.
Sec. 81. Individual Proposal Petition
CHow Made and Signed)-To each OF the
individual proposal petitions as provided
in Sections 40 and so of this act each petit
toner shall affix his own signature with
pen and ink or by indelible pencil and
shall add after his name, his voting pre-
date Of signing. No petitioner shall sign
more than one such petition relating to
the same office in the same year and no
name shall be counted upon such petit
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party enrolment books and to have been
signed within four months prior TO the
date of the primary election in which the
person in whose behalf the petition is
filed. is TO be n candidate. II shall not
be necessary that one paper shall con-
tain all the signatures but a single petit
ton may be made up of one or more
papers each having the requisite heading.
Separate papers IN the proper form and
duly signed may, before filing, be bound
together and shall be regarded as one
Dptitinn and shall hp sufficient If fhp np-
gregate number OF signatures is not less,
nor more than, the number required by
this act. Blank lines upon additional
having the prescribed heading, may be
used in obtaining signatures and shall be
regarded, together with the top sheet hav-
ing the proper heading, as one paper.
Sec. So. Joint Legislative District In
dependent Proposal Petitions-In legisla-
tive districts composed of more than one
county, the individual proposal petition
in behalf of a candidate for the legisla-
ture from such district shall be filed in
the office of the secretary OF state at
the primary, Said individual proposal
petition shall be substantially in the same
form as provided in section 40 of this
act. with the same requirements as to
signatures and form of execution and
declaration; and the timely filing thereof
shall entitle the candidate to have has
name printed upon the official ballot used
by his party at the primary in each
county in such legislative district. No
committee proposal of candidates in joint
legislative districts is provided herein.
Candidates for legislative office In joint
legislative districts are required to file
as independent candidates at the primary.
Sec. SO. Proposal Petition for Judges
All candidates for Judges of the supreme
and circuit courts shall file individual pc
tltions In the office of the secretary of
state at least sixty days before the pri-
mary date and their names shall appear
in the independent column upon the Of
ncial primary ballot, but any candidate
for supreme court judge may be en-
dorsed by either the majority or minority
committees.
Sec. 54. Majority and Minority Pro-
posal Committee-(State Meetings)-
The members. of the respective state
majority and minority proposal COM
mittees, who have been elected under
the old primary law or in the
manner herein provided at n pri-
mary, or as especially provided to fiji
vacancies in Section 1873 OF this act, shall
assemble on the first Monday in January
( 10 O'Clock a. M, in each general election
year, and the state majority proposal
committees shall convene in the assembly
hall; and the minority proposal commit
tees shall convene in the senate chamber
at the state capitol at Pierre, South Da-
kota. and each party committee shall
retire TO s~elf-appointed rooms in the cap
itol building, and the member present
shall constitute n quorum and shall at all
times act without subcommittee, as a
committee of the whole sitting in open
and public session, and shall proceed to
organize by the election OF n chairman
and a secretary for each committee and
then promulgate, separately, majority or
minority principles by adopting one plank
at a time by roll call vote. then select one
paramount national issue and one para
mount state issue from such platform
principles, under the provisions of this
act, and prepare notices Of eight words
for each OF such selected paramount Is
sues for headings or the official primary
ballot, and propose majority or minority
candidates. subject to provisions In Sec
president. presidential electors, congress
sional and state offices and party repre-
sentatives and endorse supreme court
tee proposals, as per blank forms herein
after provided, which, when duly signed
by the majority Of the members present
at any committee meeting and the dec
~laration thereon signed by the candidates,
shall be fled within eight days from date
Of said meeting by the chairman togeth-
or with the roll OF the members present,
with the secretary of state. Proposals
when so made and filed, shall entitle the
respective notices and name Of candi-
dates thus proposed and endorsed. limited
TO one candidate for each office, to be
printed on the official primary ballot to
be printed in separate column as herein
provided, and thereafter said proposals
committee shall cease to exist as an or
ganiZation, except as to chairman TO fill
va cancies. All minutes of each meeting
shall be signed by the chairman and sec
rotary ana flie0 by the CHAIRMAN with tDe
secretary of state with the committee pro-
posal and recorded in the political record
book. Each state propose committeeman
shall. at state committee proposal meet
ings, be entitled to vote by unit repre-
sentation. Each member of the minority
or majority proposal committee, who shall
attend such state meeting, shall receive
payment OF five cents per mile for each
mile necessarily travelled in going to and
returning from such meeting by filing a
written receiptcd sworn statement thereof
with the secretary of state. who shall
deliver same TO the state auditor who
shall see to it's auditing and forward a
warrant therefor, TO the person who filed
such statement, 1t being the intention
hereof that the state shall pay all eX-
penses of mileage herein provided.
Sec. SIS. Proposal COMMUNICATIONS
ty Meetings)-The members of the re-
spective county minority and majority
proposal committees, who have been
elected by precincts in the manner here
in provided at the last primary, or to fll
vacancies as especially provided in Sec
ton 1873 of this act, shall assemble or
the first Thursday after the first Mon
day in January at ! O'Clock p. m, in
each general election year; and the county
majority committees shall convene in the
court room and the county minority COM
mittees in the office OF clerk OF courts In