Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-08-21
DELEGATE ELECTION.


hammock Borough are requested to meet at
the several election Districts on Saturday
the 3lst inst, between the hours of two
and five o'clock, P. NJ, and elect delegates
to represent them in Comfy Convention, to
be held at Tunkhannock, on Monday, the
2nd day of September, 1867.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES.
The following named persons are chosen
as Vigilance committees
BRANrRIM H. P, Hill, Phillip Thomas, j.
r. Holmes.
CLrNroN-S. S. Decay, Frank Castle, Ml>
ton Brltton.
ExErER- Geo. Sickler Cd, Lewis Whitlock
I. ID. Headley.
EAroN-J.N Pilgrim, I'm. Benedict, Sam
uel Neigh.
FALLs.-C. Sherwood, D. C. Post, A. 7.
Dewitt.
FoRKsToN--D. Fasset, Thos P. Hitch.
cock, r. Rodgers.
LrMoN-Ehjah Wilson, Rob't Shales, z. NJ. j..
Smith.
MEHoopANY-A. K. Farr, Rufus Decker,
Wm. Jennings.
MFrHoPPEN-A. Williams, S. H. Jenkins,
w. I'll Cortright.
MoNRoE-W. F. CARL, Daniel Morgan
Norton'L Newberry.
NORTH BRANcH-J. r. HurIbert, N. G,
Finney, s. B. Valentine.
NoRTHMoRELAND-L. Avery, P. O. Hat
field, A. o. Lutes.
NIcHoLsoN-Da Decker, N. P. Wilcox
J. r. Smith.
OvERFrErn Andrew Ager, Riley Mott,
Alfred Nah
TUNK. BoRo.-Wm. Piatt, John Stemples,
Geo ~ge d. Williams.
TUNK. TwP.-S'ephen Wllsey, J. Flum..
merielt, Jas. Wagner.
WAsHINGToN-John Melhuish, Lewis
Cook
WlxDHAM-E, D. Fassett, Ansel Gay, Ly.
man Carey,
RULES FOR TIE GOVERNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTIONS, &C.
l. The Democratic electors Of each election
district in this county, shall annually, on the
last Saturday in August, meet at the place OF
holding their General and Township elections
and elect three suitable persons to serve as
Committee of Vigilance for the ensuing year.
whose duty it shall be to superintend all 9th
ct HHceLluSS Vi tut bGulOCEdL elGClOES Vi luelF
district.
At the same time and place, shall also be
elected two delegates to the County Conven-
tion, who shall on the following Monday,
meet at the Court House, in the Boro. of
Tunkhannock, and after organizing by elect
ing one of their number for President, and
two Secretaries shall proceed to nominate
such District and County Officers as are to be
g. 81,
elect Conference for such District officers as
they shall nominate-appoint Delegates to
the next State Convention and a Standing
Committee for the County.
3. An County Conventions shall be held
with open doors.
t. All candidates for nomination shall be
voted for rira roCe and the one receiving
majority Of all the votes polled, for any flee
shall be declared duly nominated.
s. The Convention shall keep a journal of
all its proceedings which shall be duly pub
llshed in the Dem cratic paper CT papers of
the County and any nomination not made
conformity with the foregoing rules shall be
declared void, and the vacancy or vacancies
50 occurring, shall be supplied in the manner
hereinafter provided.
g. The Standing Committee shall consist of
nine Democratic citizens Of the county, who
shall hold their office for one year from and
after the date of (he election and it shall be
their duty, curing that time, to call all Coun-
" Conventions, Mass and other meetings Of
the Tarty-to fill all vacancies in the Ticket
occasluned either by the deciination Of noml
nees, by a want of conformity TO the forego
ing rules, or where the Convention shall
have failed to make nomination, and also in
case of special elections, where the necessity
for doing 50 occurs after the regular time for
holding County Conventions-and to fill
vacancies in the Committee Vigilance, occa-
stoned by removal, death, or failure on the
part Of the citizens, to elect them.
7. The Standing Committee shall annually
hereafter, in issuing. the call for the election
Of Delegates to the County Convention, cause
a copy Of the foregoing rules to be published
in connection Herewith.
8. These rules may be amended, or new
ones aided therein by general meeting Of
the Democratic citizens of the county called
for that purpose by the Standing Committee
or if the same shall pass two successive Coun-
ty County Conventions without amendments
and not otherwise.
L.C. CONKLTN.
Chairman Standing ComHeittee