The Alaska daily empire., 1920-05-25
Political Dark Horses Fenced
 OHFy0m 1920 General Election

The struggle at the polls at the Territorial General Election next November will be confined absolute " to Democrat and Republican can dfdates There will be no independ- ent candidates, because-well prin- cipally because certain provisions contained in the Primary Election Law passed at the 1919 session Of ne Territorial Legislature have al most universally escaped public no- tlce.
 General Provisions
 The Territorial Legislature at the 1915 session passed an act estab- fishing official election ballots and naming certain conditions whicn must be met before candidates names should be placer thereon. Among other provisions it fixes a time limit of 75 days prior to the election as being the latest date any candidate may file his nomination papers and have his name put or the official ballot Any candidate 'iH 'ih6 oQlilClcnt HullUcI Ol DIS natures on his nomination papers, long as he filed them 75 day y; prior to the General Election was ntitled to have his name placed on ne official ballot with any poHti- 'al utilization he chose to assume
 Primary Law of 1917
 The Territorial Legislature of 1917, however, by enacting a Pri- mary Election Law, fixed the man. ner in which candidates for nom nation might go before the voters of the several political parties and become nominees of such party or -anizations, and be entitled to nave their names placed on the of ficial ballots. Candidates, who did not choose to make the race as the nominee of any specific party or ganization, under the 1917 Primary Act, were still allowed to file nom- nation papers at any time before ,nd up to 75 days prior to the gen. nral election and get on the official ballot.
 Filing Limit Changed
 In some respects the 1917 Pri- mary Law was found not altogether satisfactory. At the last session of Primary Election Law was intro duced in the Senate and passed both houses, becoming incorporated in the 1919 Session Laws of Alaska under Chapter 25, and repeating the Act of 1917. It is entitled An Act o provide for the holding of Pri- mary Elections in the Territory of Alaska. to fix the time and manner of holding the same to prescribe he qualifications of candidates to De nominated at such elections, to designate the manner of filing and authenticating theft candidacy" ," etc.
 Section 10 of this Act is as fol- lows:
 The name of the candidate re- ceiving the highest number of votes for any office at such Primary Elec- ton by any political party shall be placed upon the official ballot pro- vided for the General Election, fol- lowed by the designation of the political party by which nominated, and in addition to the name of the candidates nominated at such pri- mary election by the several politi- cal parties, the names of such other papers, as is now or may hereafter be required by law; PROVIDED, THAT ALL SUCH NOMINATIONS MUST BE FILED ON OR PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE PRIMARY ELECTION"
 The time set by the same Act for holding the primary election is the last Tuesday in April, 1920, and similarly in every second year there after This date came on April 27, last, up to which time there had been filed no nominations by sinde- pendent candidates.
 May Disappoint Some
 This year, as In the past. every body knew, or thought they did, that after the primary election had been held. the independents still had several weeks in which to enter the field. And this year, although no definite announcements to that eff feet have been made, it is under stood that sertain interests were grooming dark horse" candidates for entry in legislative contests, if not for other offices. In the Second Division, it had been intimated that m independent ticket carrying can 1idates for both the Territorial Sen