The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-02-02
new PETITIONS
HAVE Ga NAMES
Officials Decide on Names
Needed on Petitions for
City Commissioners.
FILE BY MARCH 9Th
Primary Regulations Will Fol-
low Vote Cast for Mayor in
the Last City Election.

If you want to be candidate for
councilman under the new commission
manager form of government in Keno
sha you must be able to locate sixty
four electors in the city who will be
willing to sign a petition in which they
declare that they will vote for you at
the primary and at the election, If you
get the nomination. If you want to go
the limit and show just how popular
you are among your neighbors and
friends you can have three hundred
and twenty names on your petition
for nomination.
These figures were decided on at
conference between City Clerk George
Harrington and City Attorney Edward
Higgins at the city hall on Monday
afternoon. The petitions may be filed
now but under the state law the petit
tions must be filed on or before March
8 if the person namedi in the petition is
TO get his name on the primary ballot.
Based on Mayorality Vote.
The number of names demanded for
the petitions is based on the number
of votes cast for mayor in the election
in 1920. While some of the candidates
for city Offices received vote higher
than the highest vote cast for can
didate for mayor, the city officials de-
cided that it would be most satisfac-
tory to take the vote cast for the head
of the ticket. There will be no cause
for deciding on the vote after this
year as the law provides that the num-
Der of signatures to be demanded in
future years will be the two per
cent Of the highest vote cast for any
member of the commission at the
previous election.
Candidates are not named for the
two year term and the one year term.
The law provides that the length of
the terms of eouncilmen shall be de-
termined by the votes cast at the city
election. The three couneilmen re-
ceiving the highest number of votes
will be elected for the two year term
this year and the other two will be
named for one year. Next year two
commissioners will be named for a
two year term.
Takes in the Whole City.
There is no restriction as to where
names may be secured for the primary
petitions. The councilmen are to be
elected "at large" and the petitions
may be circulated in every ward in the
city or in just one voting precinct. If
the candidate has friends enough in his
home block to get sixty-four names he
will get his place on the primary ballot.
NAll of the laws which have regulated
the elections in the past are in full
effect in connection with the election
of councilmen. The men named as
candidates must sign a formal consent
to be candidates, they must file state
ments Of all moneys expended in the
conducting of the campaign and they
must refrain from methods of organi-
cation which will demand the expendi-
ture of money. AS there is no salary
connected with the Office the candidate
for Office may not expend money to
be elected. There is no law against
the organization of campaign com
mittees where friends of candidates
may expend small amounts in advanc-
ing candidacy.
No Change in School Board.
There will be no change in the
nomination of members of the board
of education and petitions must be cir
culated in every ward of the city for
such candidates the same as in former
years. These petitions must contain
the names of two per cent of the vot-
ers who voted for the Office at the last
city election. 1t is declared that
twenty signatures are sufficient to
place a name on the ballot, for school
commissioner in any of the wards of
the city and in several of the wards
less than half dozen votes are
necessary.
There is just little confusion in
this regard on account Of the old ward
lines being moved about, but the law
is met in taking the vote cast in the
old ward to designate the number of
signatures needed.
Either men or women may be cam
didates for any one Of the offices. The
candidates for councilman must be
electors. The candidates for mem
bers of the board of education must
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