State ex rel. Bentley v. Hall

As now declared by the majority, the actual, practical result of the punitive feature grafted by ch. 477 of the Laws of 1909 on to the original primary election law created by ch. 451, Laws of 1903, then entitled “An act to provide for party nominations by direct vote,” is to destroy the effective right to and to annul the good-faith attempt of the Democratic party in this state to make an effectual party nomination by direct vote.

This punitive amendment, therefore, when thus put into effect is directly contrary to the expressed purpose of the act. It punishes, not the faithless or the…