Waples v. Marrast

The case involves the constitutionality of what is familiarly known as the Presidential Primary Act of the Thirty-third Legislature, chapter 46, General Laws of 1913. The terms of the Act require the holding of precinct primary elections in the counties of the State on the fourth Tuesday in May in presidential election years by the respective political parties of the State polling as many as 50,000 votes for their respective candidates for Governor at the last preceding general election,—obedience to it being optional with parties SO' polling a less number of votes,—for the expression by…