Morris v. Ballot Commissioners

BRANNON, PRESIDENT:

This is a petition by P. D. Morris and other voters of Wetzel county for a writ of mandamus to compel the ballot commissioners of that county to place the name of Morris on the ballot sheet to be used at the general election to be held on the 5th day of November, 1912, in the column of that sheet assigned to the Progressive Party.

The Progressive Party is a new party, which did not exist at the date of the last general election, having been organized by a national convention assembled at Chicago in August, 1912. It has an organization in this state and also its counties,…