The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-07-21
UMBAN AND DEMOCRAT. BtOOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA
columbia County Convention Rules.

| The Convention elected for the ex-
press purpose of revising the rules to
| govern future conventions and nomina.
tions In Columbia county met at the
| Court House in bloomsbury on the 26th
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 y. m, and the Del.
cgate Elections shall be held on the
Saturday before at the places ofholding
the general elections in the sever elec.
ton districts, between the hours of three
and seven o'clock in the afternoon.
ii. The representation of districts in
County Convention shall be In propor-
ton 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 be
less than flfty.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 a ratio of sixty voters for Il
delegate, allowance being made for the
largest fractions of ratio.
| ~. The Standing Commit ttee shall
| whenever necessary make an apportiOn-
| ment ofdelegates TO the several districts
| under these rules and publish IL. TO.
gother with the rules as amended. In
| The Democratic newspapers of the couri.
| 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
bc elected. in the manner proyitled in
the fourth section of the Bloomsburg
act of 4th of March, 1870.
vi, The delegate elections shall he
by ballot and shall be held and conduct.
ed by a Judge and clerk, TO be selected
by the Democrats in attendance, and
| the said officers shall keep a list of
voters and tally of votes counted, to be
| 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.
| TX, The voting in Conventions shall
| be open, and any two members may re-
auire the yeas and nays on any ques.
| ton pending.
| X. Special Conventions may be call.
| ed when necessary, by the Standing
Committee, the proceedings of which
shall conform to these rules.
Nj. 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-
tiou district. who shall be elected by
the people at the delegate elt ctions. who
shall choose their own Chairman; and
any five of them shall be a quorum,
when called together by the Chairman.
XIII. No member of the Legislature
shall be chosen by this county as a Del
egate to State Convention during his
term of Office.
XIV. In Convention 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 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 President and two Secre.
taries for purposes of temporary organ.
ization.
XVII. No person shall be eligible to
q 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 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 a 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.
liable thing, or made any promise of
money or valuable thing to take effect
in future, as an inducement to any dele.
gate to vote for him; or to apy other
person with the view of Inducing or
securing the votes of delegates or if
the same shall be done by anv other
person with the knowledge or anproba.
ton of such candidate. the name of snch
candidate shall he immediatejv strucL
from the LIST of candidates. or If snch
fact be ascertained after his nomination
to any Office and before the final ad.
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