DELEGATES-CANDIDATES FOR WHAT OFFICES State Convention. The State Convention of each political party shall be held at a date to be fixed by the State Central Committee of such party, which date shall be within one hundred fifty (150) days after March 7th, 1916. Each convention is to be held in the City of Indianapolis. Under the power of the State Central Committee to adopt appropriate and adequate rules for the government and regulation of the party, such committee may regulate the manner and method of holding such convention. Rules for the nomination of all candidates to be nominated by said convention (except where there shall have been a nomination for President, VicePresident, United States Senator or Governor, as a result of a preferential vote) shall be adopted by the Committee. (Sec. 360.) Delegates to State Convention—Official Delegates. The State Convention of each party participating in the primary shall be composed of the delegates duly elected by members of such party in the delegate districts of the States. Proxies and Power to Fill Vacancies. If, after a person has been elected a delegate to a State Convention, he is unable to attend, he may give his proxy to some other voter of the delegate district in which he resides, who has all the qualifications required by law for a delegate to the convention of such party. But the State Central Committee of any party has the power to pass reasonable regulations respecting the giving of such proxies, the circumstances under which they may be given. and to require, if in its judgment it is necessary, the approval of such proxy by some proper officer of the party. In the following cases vacancies in delegate representation may be filled in such manner as the rules of the respective State Central Committees of the parties shall provide: 1. In case of the death of a person nominated as delegate by petition, too late to place the name of another candidate for such delegate on the ticket, and when such death results either in leaving no person nominated for delegate or in reducing the number of persons nominated below the full representations to which the party is entitled for such delegate district. 2. In case of the death of any person after he has been elected as a delegate. 3. Where any delegate is absent from the convention and has not executed a proxy, or if he has executed a proxy and the same has not been presented to the Convention or has been presented and rejected by the proper officers or committees of such Convention. Candidates to be Nominated at State Convention. The State Convention of each party is authorized to nominate candidates for all state offices including those of the United States Senator and Governor, to be voted for at the ensuing general election, provided however, such State Convention has power to nominate candidates for Governor and United States Senator only in the event that in the primary preceding such Convention no candidate of such party for such office was nominated. (Sec. 363.) State Convention Elects Delegates to National Convention and Presidential Electors. The State Convention of each party shall nominate candidates of such party for presidential electors, and alternate electors, and shall elect delegates and alternate delegates of such party to the National Convention. The party may, by appropriate rules adopted by its State Committee, permit the delegates to the State Convention from the several Congressional Districts to select their own candidates from such districts for elector and alternate elector and elect their own delegate and alternate delegate to the National Convention, but if it see fit, the convention as a whole may select such delegates, alternate delegates, electors and alternate electors. The Convention has the power to make. its own rules with respect to the qualifications of such electors and delegates. (Sec. 363.) Party Platform. The State Convention of each political party shall formulate and adopt its own party platform. (Sec. 363.) PART XIV. METHOD OF FILLING VACANCIES ON STATE AND COUNTY TICKETS SUBSEQUENT TO PRIMARY AND STATE CONVENTION-VACANCIES OCCURING IN OFFICE AFTER PRIMARY AND STATE CONVENTION AND BEFORE ELECTION-HOW NOMINATIONS ARE MADE. Vacancies in Nominations and Offices. The General Election Law provides that in case of death, removal or resignation of any candidate, it shall be lawful for the Chaiman of the State, district or county political organization of which such candidate was a member, to make a nomination to fill the vacancy and to provide the election board of each precinct in which such candidate is to be voted for, with a number of pasters containing only the name of such candidate, which shall be pasted on the ballot in the proper manner and placed on each ticket by the poll clerks, but no resignation shall be filed with or received by the State Board of Election Commissioners within twenty (20) days preceding an election, or with the County Board of Election Commissioners within fifteen (15) days immediately preceding an election and so far as resignations are concerned, no candidate whose nomination has been certified by the proper officer, according to law, can withdraw unless he does so in writing within three days after the filing of his certificate of nomination. In the event of the death, resignation or removal of any candidate, after his nomination at the primary or by the State Convention, the Chairman of the proper committee has the right to fill the vacancy pursuant to rules adopted for such purposes by the State Central Committees of the respective parties. In case of death, resignation or removal of any person who is the only candidate for an office (except President, Vice-President, Governor and United States Senator, and the other officers to be nominated by the State Convention) prior to the primary election, but after it is too late to procure the name of a candidate to be placed on the primary ticket then a candidate to fill such place and to be voted for at the general election shall be chosen by the (136) Chairman of the proper committee under the rules adopted for that purpose by the State Central Committee of such party, and certified by him to the proper Board of Election Commissioners. In the event that any State or Federal office, which must be filled at the next general election, and for which there may be preferential voting at any primary, becomes vacant by reason of death or otherwise, and such vacancy occurs after the time when a candidate for such office would be entitled to file his petition for nomination at such primary, the State Conventions of each party shall nominate a candidate for the unexpired term of such office; in the event such vacancy occurs after the State Convention, then the chairman of the State Central Committee of the respective parties shall nominate candidates for such office under and pursuant to rules adopted by the respective State Central Committees in that behalf, and the names of such candidates shall be certified to the proper Board of Election Commissioners and by such Board placed on the official ballot. In making any such nomination each of such chairmen and State Conventions shall have the right to select any legally qualified person, whether he has prior to that time been a candidate for such office or not. In the event a vacancy occurs in any other office which must be filled at the general election, nomination for which must be made at a primary, and such vacancy shall occur too late for a candidate to file his petition for nomination at such primary, then such nomination shall be made by the same method as a vacancy is filled, where the vacancy occurs after a nomination is made at such primary. In the event that any person nominated at a primary for an office shall die, resign or be removed, the vacancy so occuring shall be filled pursuant to rules adopted for that purpose by the State Central Committee of the party affected thereby. Certifying Nominations to Governor. Presiding Officer and Secretary of Convention Certify.—The certificate of nominations of each State Convention shall be in writing and shall contain the name of each person nominated, his residence, and the office for which he is nominated and shall designate the title of the party which such convention represents, together with any simple figure or device by which its list of candi dates may be designated on the ballots; said certificate shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such convention, who shall add to their signatures their respective places of residence and acknowledge the same before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds. If the certificate of nominations of any State Convention shall request that the figure or device selected by such convention be used to designate the candidates of such party on the ballot, for all elections throughout the state, such figure on device shall be used until changed by request of a subsequent state convention of the same party. Such device may be the figure of a star, eagle, a plow or some such appropriate symbol, but the coat of arms or seal of the State or of the United States, the National flag or any other emblem common to the people at large, shall not be used as such device. A certificate of such acknowledgment shall be appended to such instrument. Said certificate shall be filed with the Governor not more than sixty days and not less than twenty days before such election. |