Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-19


whom all friends of the Tn ion could coufi
IDENTIFY rally. When this conviction be-
came general. and the Republican party
indicated its choice in manner not to be
mistaken, the Tribune dropped its sneers
restrained its antipathies, aud joined lL the
universal shout These arc not antecedents
which eutitle our cotemporary to play the
patron or the bully"
Delegate Elections to County Conven-
. ton.
The Democratic electors of Tunkhan-
mock Borough and the several election
districts in Wyoming County, are request
ed to meet in their several election dis
tricts on Saturday the 29lh inst, between
the hours of two and five o'clock z. M
and elect delegates to represent them in
County Generation to be held at Tunk-
hammock on Monday the 3lst last,
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
The following Vigilance Committees,
for the several districts in said County,
were returned at the last annual Conven-
ton :
Braintrim, George Kennard, Hamlet
Hill, A. g. Seymour.
Clinton, David Armstrong, Daniel BIZ
dleman, A. q. Ulley
Exeter, Sam'l Wall, Benz. SickIer, Fish
er Gay.
Eaton, George Jayne, John Lee, Bow
els Hunter.
Falls, Andrew Dewitt, Ira Weed, G.
W. Sherwood.
Forkston, Russell Comstock, Chas. Nil
Ter, Oscar Farr.
Lemon, Georgo B.bce, II. Billings, L.
Clouse.
Mehoopany, Warren Gof, John Shehan,
Henry Love.
Meshoppeu, John Bridget, J. G. Davis,
Erastus Bowman.
Monroe, c. S. Shooley, W. Watson,
VIM. Sckler.
North Branch, W. Hoxie, C. Adams,
D. S. Catlin.
Northumberland, L. Winters, J. Perry,
T. r. Hallock.
Nicholson, E. N. Bacon, NJ. Oakley,
J. Stevens.
Overfeld, Henry Agcr, Henry Bur
CESS, Henry Ii. Walter.
Tunk. Boro, Thos Osterhout, VIM s.
kutz, James Young.
Tunk. Twp, S. Neyhar,, D Z. Michael,
VIM. Ball.
Washington, E. Oyerfcld, j. Robinson,
w Crawford
Windham, Ii. W. kceney, Chas. Fes-
soft, w. 7. keithine.
RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTIONS, &c.
l. The Dcmocra tic elec ors Of each eec-
ion district in this cnunty, shall annually
on the last Saturday in August, meet at the
place of holding their General and Town
ship elections and elect three suitable per>
suns TO serve as Committee of Vigilance
for the ensuing year, whose duty it shall be
10 superlnend all other meetings Of the
Democrat electors OF their district.
=. At the same time aud place, shall also
be elected two delegates to the County Cons
vention, who shall 90 the following Monday,
meet at the Court lInuSe, in the Buro of
Tunkhannock, and after organ zing by elect
ing one of heir number for President and
two Secretaries shall proceed 10 nominate
such District and Cpunty Officers as are to
be voted for at the ensuing General Election
elect Conference iOr such District officers
as they shall nominate appoint Delegates 1"
the next State Convention and Standing
Committee for the County.
3. All C,unty Conventions shall be held
with open doors.
4. All candidates for nomination shall be
voted for Uird rOce and the one receiving a
majority OF all the votes pOlled, for any office
shall be- nominated.
5 The Convention shall keep journal of
all its proceedings which shall be duly pub
lIshed in the Democratic paper or papers OF
the County; and any nomination NOT made a
conformity with the foregoing rules shall be
declared void, and the vacancy or vacancies
so occurring, shall be supplied in the manner
hereinafter provided.
6, The Standing Committee shall consist
of nine Democratic citizens of the county,
who shall hold their office for one year from
and ateI the date of the election and it
shall be their duty, during that time, to cali
at all County Conventions, Mass and other
meetings Of the party-to fill all vacancies Of
the Ticket, Occasloned either by the declna>
ton OF nominees, by want of conformity TO
the foregoing rules, or where the Convention
shall have failed to make nomination, and
also IN special elections, where the necessity
tor doing so 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 him
7. The Standing Committee shall annual
y hereafter, in issuing the call for the cleo
tion Of Delegates to the County Convention,
cause copy Of the foregoing rules to be pub
llshed in connections Herewith.
8. These rules may be amended, or new
ones added therein by general meeting OF
the Democratic citizens of the county GATED
for that purpose BY the Standing Committee
or If the same shall pass two successive Coun
ty Conventions without amendment and not
otherwise.
-...lt J. V. SMITH.
-lg Chairman Standing Committee
The REASON wHY.--The reason why
the British journals are almost unanimous
in the opinion that the Democratic uomi-