The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-09

Aho1 10 ChbA AoICO thO SOhSAot -cuPSA'A
sion Of the organization and the cam
paign., In this appointment the fitness
of the men for the work should be az
essential cohditiOn of selection. " &
I'd. The organization, at each Court
House in the State; if expedient, Of
County Associations upon the plan
herewith reported, to which should be
assigned the duty of county organiza'
ttion. Said Associations should be IN
direct and regular communication with
the State Executive Committee, and
should make to it detailed monthly
reports, or oftener if possible, of the
progress of the work.
Sd. The organization of Township
Associations upon the same general
plan with the County Associations, tc
have over their townships the same care
that the County Associations exercise
over the counties.
4th. The organization, where possible
of School District Clubs, under the
same Constitution as the other Associa'
tions, to take immediate charge of the
work in said Districts. When such
Clubs cannot be established, then the
township Associations should sUperin'
tend the, work.
The Clubs should make regular and
frequent report of their operations tC
the township organizations; these should
report in like manner to the comfy AS
sociations. When from any cause re-
ports cannot thus be made, they should
be forwarded directly to the State Ex'
ecutive Committee.
In order that all these organizations
may be speedily completed, the Execu'
tive Committee should call upon the
people of the various counties to meet
at an early day and form the County
Associations, and then should proceed al
once to the work of organization.
This done, contributions to the gen
eral fund should be actively solicited
and the lists referred TO should at once
be prepared. Then our qualified but un-
registered voters should be promptly
registered, and every legitimate in
fluence that will induce doubtful
voters and Radicals to act with US
should be brought to bear, In this we
include the circulation of documents, a
general invitation to men of the oppo-
site party to attend our meetings, dis
trict, township and county, and the
influence of personal intercourse and
fireside discussion. We cannot over
rate the Importance of circulating ouI
own newspapers. Each association
should solicit subscriptions to the gen
eral fund, and where parties are toe
poor, or for any reason unwilling to
take these papers, free copies should be
sent them. When disfrauchisement is
attempted it should be opposed and
obstructed by every lawful means, and
when voters are unable to defray the
expenses of their own defence, the asso'
Citations should supply the funds fol
that purpose.
We also suggest that it be the duty
of the State Executive committee tC
employ good men and send them into
counties where there services may bC
needed or asked, for the purpose of eff
fecting organizations i'll such counties
The following Constitution for the
county Associations is recommended
With slight alterations the same viii
suffice for township Associations ant
Clubs.
PREAMBLE.
We, the Democrats and Conservative:
of - County, of the State of West
Virginia, believing that the perpetuity o
Republican Institutions depends upon
the maintenance of Constitutional prin
ciples in the administration of the Gov
ernment, State and Federal, and that
upon tho Democratic and Conservative
Il ralN fn n ~,
Radicalism now threatening to- over
throw the Constitutional Government o
our fathers, blot out sovereign States
and subvert the liberties of the people
in order to secure such thorough or
ganization of our party, as will make Il
efficient in premulgating its principles
and to defeat the evil Vaccinations and
purposes of its enemies, whether sought
to be accomplished at the polls or by
fraud and violence elsewhere; hereby
pledging each to the other and to the
world to devote ourselves to the worl
of reclaiming our beloved country iron
the misrule of band of desperate IA
natics, corruptionists and conspiratOrs
and in this sacred cause mutually t
support and protect each other, do as
sociate ourselves and adopt the follow
ing
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE /. This Assoc iation shall b,
known as the Democratic and Conserva
tive Association of - county.
ART 9. The officers of the Association
shall be a President, Vice-President
Secretary, Treasurer and an Executive
Committee, consisting of one member
from each township in the county.
ART. 3. II shall be the duty of the
President to preside at all meetings OF
the Club, to preserve order; Of the Vice
President, to preside in the absence o
the President; of the Secretary, to record
the proceedings of the Club, and to pre-
serve all books and papers belonging to
the same; of the Treasurer, to receive
and disburse all funds belonging to the
Club, to keep an account thereof, and tC
make such report from time to time a
the Club may order.
ART. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the
Executive committee, forthwith to OBJ
tain a correct list of all the voters oi
- county, marked Democrat Con
servative, Radical or doubtful, as the
case may be, and it shall thereupon bt
the duty of the President and Secretary
to return a true copy Of said lists to the
President aud Secretary, of the Execu
tive Committee of the State without
delay.
ART. 5. A majority Of the members OF
the Association may at any regular
meeting establish such bylaws and
rules as may be deemed wise and proper
ART. 6. Any white male person, over
the age of ls years, who, the same being
read aloud in his hearing, shall give hi'
assent to the principles and purposes
set forth in the Preamble Of this Con
stitution, may become member of this
Association by signing the Constitution
and paying the Treasurer the sum OF
-, but no voter shall be admitted L
membership without pledging himself
to participate in the elections when
ever he can do SO conveniently a0d con
scisntiously. Certificates Of member
ship can be had of the Secretary.
ART. Z. The Constitution may be
amended at any regular meeting by {
vote of two-thirds of the members o.
| the Association.
ART. {. 1t shall be the duty Of this As
sociation to give all possible aid to in
crease the circulation OF Democratic
and Conservative newspapers and dOcu
r,anta and IN hold discussions nDon no