2534 ARTICLE 11.

scribed in the certificate of nomination; when the name of a political
party is given in connection with the name of a candidate nominated, as
provided in Section 359 of this Article, it shall be stated on the ballot;
but if there shall have been any nomination for the same office by a con-
vention or primary election, claiming the same party name duly certified,
as herein provided, the word "Independent" shall precede the party name
if the candidate is nominated under the provisions of the said Section 369.
If the same party name or emblem shall be claimed on behalf of nomi-
nations made by more than one convention or primary election, and duly
certified, as aforesaid, the officers by whom the ballot is to be prepared,
or a majority of them, shall determine which nominees are justly entitled
to the party designation or emblem, and the word "Independent" shall
precede the party name of the other group or groups of nominees, and
the emblem shall be omitted from such "Independent" group or groups.
Said groups shall be printed on said ballots in columns parallel to each
Other; the group representing the party polling the largest number of
votes for Governor in the State at the last gubernatorial election being
placed first or at the left of said group; the group representing the party
polling the next largest number of votes at said election being placed sec-
ond; and the group representing the party polling the next largest num-
ber of votes at such election third; and so on. Candidates of parties not
having made nominations at the late gubernatorial election, and other
independent candidates, shall be arranged in like groups according to
the date of filing the certificates of nomination. If a candidate is named
for the same office on two or more certificates of nomination, his name
shall be placed in each of the several appropriate groups. Above the party
name shall be printed the party emblem, if any; the size thereof shall
not exceed two and one-half inches in height and two inches in breadth.
Any party in city convention, or by city committee, may select any emblem
which shall be certified at the time and in the same manner that the nomi-
nations are certified, and which shall be the emblem of the party in the
city until changed by like authority. In case the same is selected by two
or more parties, it shall be the emblem of the party whose certificate is-
first filed, and the other party may in like manner certify another. Where
candidates have been nominated in any other manner than by a conven-
tion of primary election, or by a committee acting under the authority
of a convention, an emblem may be adopted and certified in the manner
aforesaid; provided, that the emblem selected shall not be one already
appropriated to a political party.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270SS. 1918 Code, sec. 395.

370. Said groups shall contain the names of the officers to be voted for,
and under each office the name or names of the candidates in the same
order in each group or column, so that as far as possible, candidates for
the same office in the various groups may be opposite to each other and
on the same horizontal line upon the ticket, with a reasonable space be-
tween said names. Between the groups and to the right of each group