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ofoflip n ,jie jm:it.mi SEEK HIer BAILEY ORDERED TO PUT REFLEX'j LICAN ELECTORS ON THE Pr TICKET.Is1.UST OF NOMINEES FILEDtO ' -_ .__.a• They Have Already Nominated Elec* a ; tors by Nomination Papers. Which lg. | Are On File in the Secretary of ie State’s Office.ie _re |)’ Baton Rouge,ic The contest board probably will liecalled upon to decide whether the ;0 Walter Cohen Black and Tan ' far-»1- tion or the Hebert Lily White’’ fac-m tion constitutes the Republican party a. in Louisiana, with the right to have in the names of their mouinee.s for pres-n. Idential electors appear on the ticket II {Of the general election in November, it,The Black and Tans have tilednlt; with the secretary of .state a list of nominees for electors chosen at a con-ie. vention of the faction held in New ,s. Orleans. They already have nominal -n. ed electors by nomination papers m 'which are on tile in the secretary or 0Y state’s office, but fire papers are said rk to lack the requisite numbers of signatures.The calling of tfie convention was safeguard adopied by 1he Cdhen elementOn a suit brought by the Lily White” faction in the District Court I at Baton Rouge. Secretary of State Bailey was ordered by Jud.ce Ellis torecognize the Republicans as a party and to place the names of their nominees, chosen by convention, on the ticket. Both the Lily Whites and • the “Black and Tans have candidates n‘ so nominated on tile in the offlce. or Either side has'Seventy-two hours un-e' der the law to file a contest. c* i Walter Cohen is expected to file J t» contest. The nominees of the Co-are: D. A. Lines. Orleans, and Emile Kuntz, Orleans: at uI large. Hugh Larre, Orleans. First Dis-trlct; C. J. Bell. Orleans. Second dis-trict; Frank LeRlano, Iberia. Third: 1P C. Ellerbe. Caddo, fourth: W. T. 1ns-^ ley, Richland, Fifth; Louis Rosenthal, St. Tammany. Sixth; F. F. Woolfley, nt Calcasieu, Seventh; W. L. Roach,as Eighth.
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The Caldwell Watchman
Columbia, Louisiana, US
Fri, Oct 13, 1916
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