The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-01-22

One of the acts passed by the last territorial legislature relating to the holding of elections in Alaska, and designated to materially change the methods heretofore in vogue in the country for choosing candidates for the several territorial offices, is known as Chapter As, ito provide for the holding of primary elections in the Territory of Alaska, etc."
 By the provisions of this act all nominees for office under the terit- oral government and the delegate to congress from Alaska must be chosen by a direct vote of the people. By the provisions of this act all persons de- snium to become candidates for dele gate 70 congress, for attorney general ol. any other office created by act of congress OF the territorial legislature shall uot less than sixty days before the date of the primary election (the last Tuesday in April, 1918, and simi- larIy every second year thereafter) file with the secretary of the territory a declaration of candidacy, signed and acknowledged, and certified to by five electors of the territory who are mem bers of the political party to which such candidate belongs, and he shall pay 10 the secretary of the territory the proper fee with ,he fling of such declaration.
 AL candidates for members of the territorial legislature, and all candi dates for the office of road commits ,ioner or other provisional office, shall also, sixty days prior to the date of such primary election, file with the clerk of the district court for the diyj- sion in which they reside, similar dec laration of candidacy as those requh- ed llom candidates for delegate 10 | congress, and attorney general, and sha, also deposit with the clerk of court the proper fee, the fee to bc turned over to the territorial treasur- er.
 The form of the declaration of can cidacy is prescribed in the act, and in it the candidates pledge themselves if nominated and elec-ed to qualify ror the office, and thaJ they will sup r2rr end abide by the principles enum- crarod by the party to which they be- long in its national ard territorial platforms.
 The election shall oe, under this acr. conducted in all respects in ac- ,oriancc with the rules and reguIa tious pertaining to general elections in the territory, with the exception of the Australian ballot system being employed, there will be provided sep arate tickets for each of the political parties represented by candidates, and on each of such ballots there shall be plainly stated the political party whose nomination the candidate thereon seeks. These ballots are to be pro- vided by the clerks of the courts of the respective judicial divisions, and these, together with the customary election supplies, shall be forwarded by such clerks to the election officials at such primary elections shall be the same as those acting at general terri torial elections.
 Under the provisions of the act, the polls at such primary elections shall remain open during the same hours, and the balloting shall be done in the same manner, as nearly as practicable except that a ballot box is provided for each political party represented by candidates, and each voter shall announce his name, place of residence and party utilization. Upon this an- nouncement and its registration the voters will be handed ballot of the political party with which he claims to be affiliated, and after having marked and folded such ballot it shall be deposited in the box designated for the same political party,
 The clerks of the courts for the sev- eral divisions are canvassers of votes for their respective divisions. As soon as possible after the receipt of the returns from the various precincts, and not later than 45 days after such primary election, or as soon as the clerk of any division shall be satisfied that the returns from any missing precincts cannot alter the result of the election, it is his duty to canvass the same publicly, and telegraph the re- suit to the secretary of the territory, who may avail himself of such tele- graphic returns in deciding who have 1 been nominated by the respective par ties as candidates for the several ter