Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-08-03
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Friday Morning ~--Aagust 8, 1877.
SOLUTION OF gu WV PAN. /.

SOLUTION OF TN NEW PLAN. {
AS we are soon to nominate our ticket C.
cordiug TO The plan s,aly adopted by the
county, we win endcoyer to explain the node
of proceeding unde IT. hoping that we may
be able TO throw some lge upon the darkness
which surrounds IT
In the frstplgSG candidates for nomination
are required s6Dsend their names TO the State
Central Committee prior to the calling Of the
Prio,e,g Meetings., and it is the duty Of the
CS1amittee to publish list Of such names at
sles time of the call and to have tickets printed
rearing the titles OF the different Offices TO be
filled, and under the respective titles the names
Of those who are aspirants for the respective
Offices Thus under the title of State Senator
will be found names of all who run for that
Office, and SO on through the entire ticket
The Primary Meetings will be held under
the supervision of three judges, to be appoint
ed by the State Central Committee. The
judges will only serve at the coming Primaries,
when the voters will elect three judges in each
district TO serve for the next two years. AT
the Primaries the tickets will be distributed,
and each voter present will be permitted to
vote for one man for the Senate, three for the
House of Delegates, one for County Commits
sioner, one for Sheriff and one for Surveyor.
They will scratch from The ticket the names OF
all The rest, except those they intend to vote
for Thus for Senate Commissioner, Sheriff
and Surveyor, they will scratch all but one,
and for House Of Delegates NIL hut three. The
reason that they can vote for but one Commits
sioner is because each district is permitted to
select its own Commissioner, and the tickets
tina; are sent TO any district will only have on
them the names of those who are running for
Commissioner in that district. No person will
be permitted to vote who has not heretofore
been identified with the party, or can satisfy
the judges that he will hereafter act with it.
After the polls are closed the judges viii count
the ballots, keeping correct statement of the
number Of votes each candidate receives. -
Each Judge will then proceed to select eight
men TO serve as delegates 10 the Convention
which will make twenty-four. Each judge
will then put one name in hat, and from the
three thus deposited one will be drawn who
will be the twenty-ffh delegate. This dele.
CATION will be giventhc statement of the votes
cast and for whom, prepared by the judges
and they will produce it at the County Conven.
ton The judges do not make the calculation
and distribute the delegation among TIE can.
didates, but that is done by the general Con.
vention. The duty of the judges ends with
making correct tally-sbeet of the votes cas-
and for whom. When this tally-sheet is pre-
scented to the general Convention, II proceeds
to see how many votes Of the delegation from
any district belongs to a particular candidate
For instance, If Ave hundred votes are cast
the Primary Meeting and two persons arr
Running for Senator and one received tire,
hundred and the other two hundred, the Con
veniion gives each number OF the delegation il
proportion to the number of vot es he received
The first would be entitled to threc-fflhs o
the delegation, which would be fifteen ant
the other to two-fiths which would be ton
Bn, II some oae was running who did not re
b
aim one vote of the delegation, be would no
be entitled to the fractional part of one vote
In order to find whether party is entitled 4
one vote of the delegation >fivide TIE S'lol'
number Of votes east At e36e Primary Meel9-
~ I. iSsgly.hss, 2aa5Sho ao,ent viii be th
humber Of votes he must receive to eniitlc hin
10 one vote Bat il he receives enough vote
10 give him one vote in the delegation AM
enough more TO enitle him to a-half vote thei
that half-vote must be given him, and he goe
into the Convention with one and a-half votes
After the calculations have been made and lh
delegations proportional among the candi
dates the first ballot will be taken.
As We have not space this week to continue
the explanation, we will endeavcr next weel
to explain the mode Of proceeding after tn
first ballot is taken.