The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-10-21

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Section 10. (Number of Delegates,
How Determined.) 1t shall be.the duty
of the chairman Of the party State Cen
trail Committee, on or before the first
day of March Of each general election
year, to apportion the number Of dele
gates to be elected in h several
counties in the state and on or before
the 10th day Of March of my such
general election year notify the chair
man of the Party County Central Com
mittee of such apportionment. In ar
irving at the apportionment each
county shall be given n delegate for
the county and n delegate for each
eight hundred votes or major fraction
thereof cast in the county for the party
candidate for Governor at the last gen.
eral election as shown by the official
returns.
Section 10. domination OF Dele
gates.) At least 35 days before n
primary the chairman Of the Party
County Central Committee shall con-
vene the party Central Committee Of
his county at the county seat at the
hour of 1900 o'clock a. M, of said day
the members of the committee present
constituting a quorum, and then and
there said committee shall place in
nomination candidates for delegates to
the state convention whose names
shall be printed upon the official pri-
mary ballot provided for by this act.
In making such nominations the Coun-
ty Central Committee shall nominate
twice as nan candidates as there are.
delegates to be elected from the county
which candidates shall be chosen as
nearly as may be equally from the sew
eral County Commissioner Districts Of
the county, it being the intent of this
section to distribute the representa-
ton as nearly as may be over the coun-
ty and give the electors Of the county
a voice in the election Of the Tepresen-
tatives of the county in such state con-
v%entton: provided, however, that with
in five days after such nominations
have been certified to the County Audi
tor a nominating petition may be filed
with the County Auditor for any other
qualified elector member of the politi-
cal party for which the above nominal
tions ave been filed which names shall
be printed upon the official ballot to-
gether with the nominations made by
the County Central Committee. Such
petitions 50 filed shall comply with the
provisions Of this act In every respect
in which petitions for the nominations
of county officers require. The Coun-
ty Central Committee shall also at the
same meeting nominate one party can
d1date for state committeeman whose
name shall be printed upon the official
primary ballot by the County Auditor.
1t is hereby specifically provided that
no member of the party County Cen
tral Committee acting as such nominal
ing committee shall be eligible to nom
nation as a party candidate for dele
gate to the state convention herein pro-
vlded for or party candidate for state
committeeman.
Section IA. Estate Convention.) The
party state convention provided for in
this act shall be held in the city Of
Pierre on the third Tuesday in May of
each general election year. The con-
vention shall be called to order by the
chairman Of the State Central Commit
ice al ll:OO O'Clock a. m. Of that day.
Then sue convention shall proceed to
establish a temporary organization by
the election Of a temporary chairman
and secretary. The delegates present
and holding certificates. of election from
the County Auditors of the county in
which they were elected shall be eligible
to vote in such convention. After a per-
manent organization has been perfect
ed by the election of a permanent
chairman n secretary or secretaries,
the convention shall proceed to nomi-
nate all state officers except Governor
including Supreme Court and Circuit
Court Judges together with presiden-
tlal electors in presidential election
years and to elect a National Commit
teeman Chairman of the State Central
Committee and delegates to the party
national convention in presidential
election years, provided that circuit
judges shall be nominated by the dele
gates from the judicial Circuit in which
he resides. The delegates from any
county shall cast the full vote of the
county and no proxies shall be allowed.
Any candidate having received a ma
1orlty OF the vote in said convention
shall be declared nominated and it shall
be the duty of the chairman and sec
rotary Of such convention to certify
such nomination to the Secretary of
State and his name shall be printed on
the official ballot at the succeeding
general election. 1t shall be the duty
of the Secretary of State to certify the
names of such nominees to the several
County Auditors of the state in time
to prepare the official ballot. 1t shall
also be the duty Of the chairman and
secretary Of the convention to issue
certificates of election to any person
who may be elected to the office Of the
National Committeeman Chairman of
the State Central Committee or dele
gates to the party national conven-
ton. 1t is hereby specifically provid-
ed that no person elected to such party
state convention shall be eligible to
nominations of n state office to be