Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-05-11
SOUND PUBLIC
SENTIMENT ON
CANDIDATES.
Feelers Are Sent Out to De-
termine How Prospects Will
Be Received by the Voters
Many Dates to Be Remember
ed in Connection with PR
mary and General Election
IMPORTANT DATES
IN 1922 ELECTION

May 6-Opening of registration
books for primary election.
June First day for filing nominal
tion papers for primary election.
July Last day for filing nomina
tion papers for primary election.
July 29-Last day for registration
| for primary election.
August Primary election day.
August 5-Reopening of registra
tion books for general election. Per-
sons registered for the primary need
not sreregister for the general election.
August S-Last day for filing of
nomination. petitions of independent
candidates.
August l5-County political conven-
tions held.
August 16-State board of canvas
sers meets to canvass vote for dis
trict judges.
August 22-State central commit
tees organize.
August 22-State party nominating
conventions for state and COMPRESSION
al officers convene.
| November 4-Registration books for
| general election close.
| November General election.
With the open season for filing of
nomination papers for county office
only three weeks away, avowed can
didates appear to be scarce in Idaho
county. Numerous prospective can
didates have been mentioned in var
ious parts of the county, but no can
didate has formally announced him
self Every county office is TO be fill
ed at the general election, November7.
| Mention of possible candidates is
made, it is believed, as "feelers" in
an effort to determine public senti-
! ment, and whether this man or that
| man would be favorably received,
| first, by the electors of his own party
at the primary election August /,
and then by the voters at the gener-
| al election in November.
OFFICES IN DEMAND
| In view of present business con-
ditions, county offices are considered
as really worth while, from a saalry
point of view, and it is declared that
| many are in a receptive mood and
need only urging by their friends to
cast their hats into the ring.
| Registration offices, under the law,
opened in Idaho county last Satur
| day. Registration in GFanseville
was extremely light. Voters viii be
registered for the primary election each
Saturday, up to and including July 20.
| Nominations of primary election
| candidates may be filed with the coun-
| ty recorder at any time between June
| and July /, at p. m. The nomina-
ton papers must be accompanied by
filing fee of ] percent of the annual
salary of the office sought, and must
be signed by the candidate, after set
| ting forth his statutory qualifications
| for the office for which he is a can
didate.
| In addition to such nomination pa
pers, the candidate shall produce and
| file with the county recorder at the
same time written certificate of the
county chairman or a majority of the
members of the county central com
mittee that he is and has for two
wears prior been a member of the
| political party on whose ticket he
desires to become candidate, or the
| affidavits of five reputable members of
the party, who have resided in the
county two years prior to signing of
the affidavit, stating they have known
the nominee for more than two years
| and that he is a member of the party
| from which he seeks election.
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
Independent candidates may be
nominated by petition, for county of
fee, bearing the names of at least 300
voters of the county who have not
voted or do not intend to vote at
the primary election. These petitions
must be filed with the county auditor
not later than the second Tuesday in
August The names of such candi-
dates win appear on the general cleo
ton ballot in November under the
heading independents.
The field is now open. Every quail
| fled elector in the county who can pro-
| II. 1o~ b anil