| OCR Text |
Show BUSY P0LIT1GAL YElfiJS AHEAD California Voters Face Three Elections of More Than Ordinary Importance SAX FRANCISCO. April 8. California Cali-fornia voters face an unusually busy political year. There will bo tHrcc elections, elec-tions, all of which are regarded by party leaders as being of more than ordinary Importance. These olectlons, and their dates, are: Presidential primary, May 4. State primary, August 2 1. . General election. November 2. At the presidential primary the voters will be given an opportunity of balloting for candidates ns delegates to the national conventions on one of three tickets Republican, Democratic Demo-cratic and Prohlbtion. On the two lat-der lat-der tickets the delegates, of which there are 2C, will be unopposed except ex-cept for the independent candidacy on the Democratic ticket of Henry II. Chllders of Los Angeles. Mr. Child-crs. Child-crs. the president of an oil company, said recently, in explanation of his candidacy, that "since the Democratic state central committee did not see fit to put his name on the regular ticket, he would try his luck because he wanted to pro to the national convention." ' Tvro Presidential Candidates The Republican JKckct will present a contest between rjval delegations pledged to support respectively the candidacies at the national convention conven-tion of United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of San Francisco, and Herbert C. Hoover, of Palo Alto. Cal., former United States food administrator. administra-tor. The ballots will, plainly indicate how each delegation stands on the matter I of a preferred candidate. Thus, the I Republican ballot will contuin two I parallel lists, and at the hcadof each will be printed a line indicating which , candidate the delegation favors for J the nomination. , ! No candidate for the presidential j nomination is excluded by reason of ja non-residence In California from entering the state and seeking to elect a list of delegates favorable to his own candidacy In the national conventions. conven-tions. The primary election niachin-i niachin-i cry is available to all comers, and getting the names of pledged candi- dates on the party ballots Is largely :a mechanical process. I After the election of delegates to. I the conventions comes the minor mat- tcr of selecting alternate delegates, who will accompany the regulars and participate in the voting at the conventions con-ventions only when the regulars are incapacitated through illness or other causes. The primary law provides that the delegates shall meet and select their own alternates, four at large and one from each of the state's II congressional districts. Voters Not Obligated A voter Intending to cast his ballot bal-lot at the presidential primary Is under un-der no obligation to vote for the ticket of whose party he registered, state officials of-ficials have held. If he registered as a Republican he can demand and receive re-ceive a Democratic ballot, or the ballot bal-lot of any other party that has candidates candi-dates to be voted for. This situation caused something of a controversy In political circles recently, but election elec-tion experts contended that the primary pri-mary law conferred that privilege specifically. In August the state primaries will be in the nature of an elimination contest. with a United States senator-ship senator-ship the most important of the various vari-ous positions to be voted oh. Senator James D. Phelan Is a candidate to succeed himself, but half a dozen or! more candidates have declared their I Intention of entering the race. Ballot Very Long j The ballot will be a long one, with the following offices to be voted on: United States senator. Eleven congressional representatives. representa-tives. One justice of the supreme court (short term). Twenty state senators, one from each even-numbered district. Eighty assemblymen. Delegates to the state convention from even numbered senatorial districts dis-tricts by each party not represented by holdover senator. Presiding justice court of appeal, first district, division one. short term. , Presiding Justice court of appeal, first district, division two. Two associate justices, court of appeal, ap-peal, first district, division two. Presiding justice, court of appeal, second district, division two. ) Two associate Justices, court of appeal, ap-peal, second district, division two. Judges of the superior court and certain non-partisan offices In several counties. The law provides that "in case there is but one person lo be elected at the November election to any judicial, school, county or township office, any candidate "who receives at the August primary a majority of the total number num-ber of votes cast for all the candidates candi-dates for such office shall be the only candidate whose name shall be printed print-ed on the ballot at the ensuing election." elec-tion." Following this primary on the third Tuesday In September, the state conventions con-ventions will go into action at Sacramento Sac-ramento there to adopt platforms on which the candidates will make their campaigns: elect state central committees, com-mittees, and. as 1920 is a .national election year, they will also select thirteen thir-teen presidential electors to go on the ballol at the November general election. |
