The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-07
TO THE PRESIDENTS OF CENTRAL
CLTBSs

Rooms DEMOCRATIC CONSERVATIVE PARISH
Committee, Parish of Orleans.
No. 100 Customhouse street,
New Orleans. October s. 1878. J
The following rules. together with such
rulings as the president of the Parish Commit
tee has made from time to time. are published
and submitted for your guidance.
You will cause the names of judges and COM
missioners Of election and the polling booth to
be announced in the official journal on the
morning of the seventh of October.
| All applications for representation must be
| made on or before the evening of the sixth of
October. In the manner and form prescribed
The presidents Of central clubs are in duty
bound to produce and exhibit, on demand Of
appointment OF commissioners Of election.
Said authority is hereby constituted the list of
signatures as provided for by rule Is,
RULES.
Whereas, the approaching election for parish
convention should be called by the Democratic
Conservative party; therefore be It
! the DemQcratic- Conservative party be called
Tor 1a MONpAY IL the fourteenth day Of October.
| the guidance Of central clubs:
RULE I.
| The election for delegates to the parish nomi-
| Mating convention shall be held on the twelfth
| day Of October, 1873. The polls shall be open
RULE IT,
| The president of each central club is hereby
required to appoint one judge Of election; and
| he shall appoint three commissioners for each
| announced ticket where there are not more than
| ticket II there be moro than two tickets.
| Should any Judge or commissioner be absent
ct the opening Of the polls. the vacancy shall be
| filled by vote of he Judge and commissioners
Fuipe That the president of the central
| club shall appoint from lists submitted by the
different factions three jSSlOnarS
| each faction whore there are but two factions
announced and two commissioners from each
| faction Ii there be more than two factions.l
RULE III.
| All judges and commissioners of election
| must be appointed six days before the election.
No representation shall be given after that time.
RULE ".
| 1t shall be the duty of the president of each
central club to publish in the official journal
the names Of the jqdges and commissioners
RULE Y.
| It shall be the duty Of the president of each
central club to publish at the same time as the
| announcement of Judge and commissioners the
location Of the polling booth. which must BE-
held at any other place than that selected shall
| be null and void.
RULE VI.
1t shall be the duty of the commissioners to
| count and tabulate the votes Immediately after
the closing Of the polls, and before leaving the
polling booths; which. tally sheets, signed by
| Il
and countersigned BY the president Of the cen
trail club, shall be priaoa facie evidence for the
parties declared ELECTED All returns TO- be filed
with the secretary Of the Parish Committee be-
| fore II N. on the thirteenth of October
RULE VII
All protests must be filed In writing with the
judge Of election Immediately after the votes
shall have been counted, and all grounds of OBJ
lection must be stated in said protest which
must accompany and be transmitted with the
returns to the Parish Committee.
RULE VIII.
1t, shall, BE- the duty Of the president of the
wherever necessary. Boxes to be divided alpha
bet1oally.
i 1t shall be the duty Of the commissioners In
charge of each ballot box to keep a com plete
numbered record of the names, precinct, resi-
denco and age Of each voter. which poll list
ers, and shall constitute part Of the returns to
be forwarded to the Parish Committee.
RULE x.
The judges and commissioners are hereby
| expressly directed to require each and every
voter to produce his State registration paper Of
1878-no vote to be received unless the elector is
registered under the State law, subject to chal-
| leng6.
1t shall be the duty Of the president of each
central club to appoint challenging commit
eomRosed Of at leaS one h memoHr OF eaen
person who may offer to vote who shall be con-
nected with any political association other than
be r Of any other poca shall be
allowed to vote at any primary election OF the
Democratic Conservative party. ALI contested
questions to be settled by the Judge and COM
1N'~N> RULE XII.
In the event Of the absence or neglect on the
pant of the president Of a central club to per-
form any, Of the duties prescribed by these
rules. 1t shall be competent for the vice presi.
dent secretary or treasurer OF the central club
to drfinS.
RULE XIII.
In the event that any, officer of any central
, club shall refuse or neglect to comply with the
the president OF the Parish Committee. If soil.
: cited by twenty bona fide members of the ware
claiming bis interference. to take all necessary
going regulations, v4v
= each central club shall provide suitable
+ stamp, bearing, the number OF the ward ane
date Of the eech for the use Of the as Ra
- duty of the commissioners at each, bog tt
stamp each ballot before it leaves the hands Q
the counting of the votes all unstamped ballots
shall be rejected and not counted.
RULE XIV.
] No element shall be considered a faction I'm
les they present list containing Ct least 70
signatures of bona fde voters of the ward
. duly identified, who shall recommend as com
are Representatives. OF said faction, and in n
Instance shall the name Of any recommends
= appear on more than one list.
RULE XVI,
The stamp provided for in rule XIV shall ne
% be removed from the ballot box from the open
/ posing faction may have the right to make sue
J. private mark as they may deem proper on sal
- stamp.
RULE XVII.
Whenever two or more ballots are foun
folded or pressed together In the ballot-b boz
o. and the ballot box contains more votes tina
n n called for by the poll list: and whenever tbs
- excess Of ballots corresponds with the humble
q of folded or pressed ballots, all such Dresse
q ballots shall be rejected and not counted, eve
RI if the same be regularly stamped.
~ Be it resolred, That the president of the Pal
4 ish Committee be authorized to purchase til
4 stamps and deliver them to the presidents c
~ the different central ward clubs on the mornin
~ Of the twelfth Of October: the said stamps to
% Be it further resolved. That all rules or part
of rules in conflict with the foregoing are here
by repealed.
B. ONORATO, President
J. O. Flynn, Asst Secretary. oc5 1t