Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-05-08
DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION.
TIL OROU UGH AND SYSTEMAIlC
WORK NECEsS sSARY.
The Plan of Organization of the De m
ecr.tic Party of North
Car oIina.

Car oIina.
The Democratic Central Executive |
Committee hereby publish the plan OF
organization of the Democratic party,
compiled from the rules and amend
ments heretofore adopted by the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
TOWNSHIP ORGAN IzATIoE.
1. The unit of county organization
shall be the township. In each town
ship there shall be an executive COM
mittee to consist of five active Demo-
Gratis, who shall be elected by the
Democratic voters of the several town.
ships in meetings called by the county
executive committee. And said COM
mittee so elected shall elect one OF Its
members as chairman, who shall pre-
side at all said committee meetings.
2. The several township executive
committees shall convene at the meet
ines of the several county conventions,
or at any time and place that ma
iority of them may elect, and shall
elect county executive committee, to
consist of not less than five members,
one of whom shall be designated as
chairman, who shall preside at all OF
said committee meetings.
3. In case there shall be failure on
the part of any township to elect its
executive committee for the period OF
thirty davs, the county executive com
mittee shall appoint said committee
from the Democratic voters OF said
township.
4. The members of the township
committee shall elect to any vacancy
occurring in said committees.
5. The county executive committee
shall call all necessary county conven-
tions by giving at least ten days notice
by public advertisement in three pub
lie places in each township, at the
courthouse door, and in any Demo
cratic newspaper that may be publish
ed in said county, requesting all Dem
ocrats of the county to meet in con-
vention in their respective townships,
on common day therein stated, which
said day shall not be less than three
days before the meeting of the con-
vention, for the purpose of clectmg
their delegates to the county conven-
tions. That thereupon the conven-
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to represent the townships in the coun-
ty conventions from the voters of the
respective townships On all questions
that may come before the said county
conventions. That in case no conven
ton shall be held in any township III
pursuance of said call, or no election
shall be made, the township executive
committee shall appoint such delegates
6. Each township shall be entitled
to cast in the county convention ont
vote for every twenty-five Democratic
votes cast by that township at the last
preceding gubernatorial election
Prorided, That every township shall
be entitled to cast at least one vote
and each township may send as many
delegates as it may see fit.
6. That in cases where township
consist of more than one ward or pre-
cinct, each of said wards shall be en-
titled to send delegates to county con
ventions, and shall cast its proportion
ate part of its township vote, base
upon the last preceding vote for Gov
ernor in said township.
s. That for the purpose OF fully IN
augurating this system, the presen
county executive committees shall col
tinue in office until their successor
are elected under this system, an
shall exercise all the functions pei
tanning to said Office under this sys
tenn of organization.
g. The chairman of township con
mittees shall preside at all townshi
conventions; in their absence an
other member of said committee ma
preside.
10. In cases where all the townshi
executive committees are required
meet for the purpose of electing coul
ty executive committees, said meetln.
shall be deemed to have a quoru
when majority of such townshi
shall be represented in said meeting.
COUNTY AND DISTRICT CONVENTION
- 1. The several county convention
shall be entitled to elect their senat
rial, judicial and congressional co
ventions one delegate and one alte
nate for every fifty Democratic vot'
and one delegate for fractions ov
twenty-five Democratic votes cast
the last preceding gubernatorial ele
ton in their respective counties, a
none but delegates or alternates
elected shall be entitled to seats
said convention: Provided, that eve
county shall have at least one vote
each of said conventions.
2. The chairman, or in his absen
any member of the county, senator's
judicial and congressional commits
shall call to order their respective &C
yentions, and hold the chairmassl
thereof until the convention shall ell
their chairman.
3. The executive committees of I
senatorial, congressional and judic
districts, respectively, shall, at the C
of their respective chairman, meet
some time and place in their respe
i've districts, designated in said C;
And it shall be their duty to appo
the time and place for holding conv
tions in their respective districts; a
the chairman of said respective CO
mittees shall Immediately notify
chairmen of the different county ex
utiye committees of said appointme
and the said county executive comm
tees shall forthwith call convention
their respective counties in conform