250 ELECTIONS. [ART. 38

majority of them, shall determine which nominees are justly
entitled to the party designation or emblem, and the word "inde-
pendent" 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 repre-
senting the party polling the largest number of votes for Gover-
nor in the State at the last gubernatorial election being placed
first or at the left of said groups; the group representing the
party polling the next largest number of votes at said election
being placed second; and the group representing the party poll-
ing the next largest number of votes at such election third, and
so on. Candidates of parties not having made nominations at
the last 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 whereof shall not exceed two and one-half inches in height
and two inches in breadth. Any party in State convention or
by State committee may select any emblem, which shall be certi-
fied at the time and in the same manner that the nominations
are certified, and which shall be the emblem of the party through-
out the State, until changed by like authority. In case the same
emblem 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 convention or
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.

1896, ch. 202.

51. Said groups shall contain the names of the officers to be
voted for, and under each office the name or names of the candi-
dates in the same order in each group or column, so that, as far
as possible, candidates for the same office in the various groups