People ex rel. Gash v. Sweitzer

By leave granted, a petition in the name of the People of the State of Illinois was filed in this court by fourteen citizens of Cook county having the necessary qualifications for judges of the superior and circuit courts of that county, alleging that they had been nominated by the petition of legal voters of the county as candidates for the offices of judges of said courts at an election to be held on November 6, 1917, representing the Independent Judiciary political principle; that no primary had been held for the nomination of any candidate for any of said offices to be voted for at such…