State ex rel. McKelvie v. Wait

Relator is the present lieutenant governor of the state.. Desiring to become the republican party’s candidate for governor at the next general election, he requested the secretary of state to place his name on the official ballot for the primary election to be held August 18, 1914. This the secretary of state declined to do, on the sole ground that relator, being the present lieutenant governor, is ineligible to be elected governor for the two-year term beginning in January, 1915. The course taken by the secretary of state is based on his interpretation of the following constitutional…