The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-30
Columbia Comfy Convention Rulcs.

| The Convention elected for the cX-
| press purpose of revising the rules to
govern future conventions and nomina.
tions in Columbia county met at tho
Court House In Bloomsburg on the 2Gth
day of December, 1870, and adopted
the following, to wit. .|
]. The annual County Convention
shall be held at the Court House in
Bloomsbury, on the second Tuesday of
August, at O'Clock p. M, and the Del
egate Elections shall be held on the
Saturday before at the places ofholding
the general elections In the sever elec
tion districts, between the hours of three
and seven o'clock in the afternoon.
ii. The representation of districts In
County Convention shall be in proper
tion to the Democratic vote of each as
cast at the most recent election for Gov
ernor, but the whole number of dele
gates shall not exceed seventy nor bo
less than fifty.four, and no district shall
be allowed less than two nor more than |
four delegates.
III. Until the next election for Gov
ernor delegates shall be allowed to dis
tricts upon ratio of sixty voters for Il
delegate, allowance being made for tho
largest fractions of ratio.
". The Standing Committee shall
whenever necessary make an apportion-
ment of delegates to the several districts |
under these rules and publish it, to-
gether with the rules as amended, in
the Democratic newspapers of the coun-
ty, at least two weeks before each an
nual convention.
V. Voters ut Delegate elections may
give their votes to smaller number of
candidates than the whole number to
be elected, in the manner provided in
the fourth section of the Bloomsbury
act of 4th of March, 1870.
vi. The delegate elections shall be
by ballot and shall be held and conduct
ed by Judge and clerk, to be selected
by the Democrats in attendance, and
the said officers shall keep list of
voters and tally of votes counted, to be
sent by them to the Convention with
their certificate Of the result of the elec-
tion.
VII. All cases of disputed seats in
Convention shall be disposed of openly
by vote after hearing the respective
claimants and their evidence.
VIII. All delegates must reside in
the district they represent. In case of
an absent delegate he may depute an
other, If he fail TO do so his colleagues in
attendance may substitute for him. In
other cases the Convention may fill up
the representation from the citizens of
the district in attendance.
IN. The voting in Conventions shall
be open, and any two members may re-
quire the yeas and nays OH any ques.
tion pending.
X. Special Conventions may be call
Committee, the proceedings of which
shall conform to these rules.
XI. All county nominations and all
appointments of cenferees and of dele
gates to State Conventions, shall be
made in County Conventions.
| XII. The Standing Committee shall
consist of one member from each elec-
ton district, who shall be elected by
thepeople at the delegate elt ctions, who
shall choose their own Chairman; and
any five of them shall be quorum,
when called together by the Chairman.
XIII. No member of the Legislature
shall be chosen by this county as Del
egate to State Convention during his
term of Office.
XIV. In Convention a majority of
all the votes given shall be necessary to
a nomination, and no person named
shall be peremptorily struck from the
list of candidates until after the fourth
| vote, when the lowest name shall be
struck off and so on at each successive
vote until a nomination shall be effected
XIV. Delegates instructed by the vot-
ers who select them shall obey their
instructions in Convention, and votes
given by them in violation of their in
structions shall be disallowed by the
Convention. All instructions shall be
reported by the election officers.
| XVI. Conventions shall be called to
order by the Chairman of the Standing
Committee, or in his absence by some
other member thereof, who shall enter
tain and put to vote motions for the
election of a President and two Secre.
taries for purposes of temporary organ.
iZation.
XVII. No person shall be eligible to
n nomination by Convention who has
opposed the Democratic ticket at the
next preceding election; but this rule
shall apply only to cases of opposition
to tickets hereafter formed.
| XVIII. 1t shall be a good cause of
challenge against any person offering
to vote at any delegate elections that he
has voted against Democratic candi-
dates at Federal or State election with
in two years, or has opposed the Demo.
cratic ticket at the last preceding elec-
ton, or has taken or agreed to take
money or other valuable thing, or any
pecuniary advantage, as consideration
for his vote at such delegate election,
or has corrupted or attempted to cor
rupt any voter of the district with ref.
erence to the same; but this rule shall
apply only to causes of challenge aris-
ing subsequent to its adoption.
XIX. If it shall be made to appear
to the satisfaction of a majority of a
Convention that any candidate before
it for nomination to any Office shall
have offered or paid any money or val
| nanll fhInO mn1n nrnnliGn nf
money or valuable thing to take effect
in future, as an inducement to any dele
gate to vote for him or to any other
person with the view of inducing or
securing the votes of delegates or ii
the same shall be done by any other
person with the knowledge or approba-
tion of such candidate, the name of such
candidate shall be Immediately struck
from the list of candidates or if such
fact be ascertained after his nomination
to any Office and before the final adj
journment, the nomination shall be
struck from the ticket and the vacancy
supplied by new nomination and in
either case such person shall be ineligi-
BILE to any nomination by Convention
or to election as delegate, for q period
} of two years.
XIX. Ifany delegate ahal receive any
money or other valuable thing, or ac-
: cept the promise of money or other val.
liable thing, or any pecuniary advan-
tage to be paid, delivered or secured in
future, either to himself or to any other
person for him, from any candidate OF
other person for such candidate, as an
inducement for his vote, or under any
other pretext, upon proof of the fact to
the satisfaction of majority of the
Convention, such delegate shall be
| rfbrifh nvnalIpI aud ohal1 M h.A ra-
ceived as n delegate to any future Con,
vention for n period of two years, and
during that time shall also be ineligible
for any party nomination. Cases aris-
ing under this and the next preceding
rule shall have precedence over all 9th.
| er business in Convention until de-
termined.
XXI. None of these rules shall be
altered or rescinded at regular annual