Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-29
Rooms STATE Dem. EXECUTIVE COM.

The State Executive Committee, at a
meeting in Lynchburg, on the 23d instant,
determined to publish such portions OF
the Plan of Organization as are relevant
to the pending canvass, and to urge the
earnest cooperation of all the district and
county authorities in perfecting the party
organization in the State, which is by no
means what it ought to he.
Thew therefore invite the attention of the
party officials to the following extracts, and
beg that they will give their immediate and
active attention to the same:
DISTRICT COMMITTEES.
/. The Congressional District Committees
will assemble as soon as practicable, elect
respectively, chairman and secretary, ap-
portion the counties of their districts among
themselves, and report their action IN de-
tail to the chairman of the State Executive
Committee.
2. 1t shall be the duty Of each member of
the District Committees to visit the counties
apportioned to him, to assist the county
chairman in the organization of their coun-
ties, to appoint a county chairman if one
has not been selected, and to report ia de-
tail to the district chairman. The district
chairman will report weekly to the chairman
of the Executive Committee the progress
of organization, and the condition and wants
of the party in their several districts.
8. The District Committeeman will have
the County and City Committees organize at
once, if not already organized, having an
eve to harmonizing all the elements Of the
party.
4. The Congressional District Committees
shall appoint two or more speakers for
each congressional and senatorial district,
and each county, to be designated as Dis
trict Senatorial and County canvassers.
COUNTY AND CITY COMMITTEES.
Each county and city committee will proceed
to an immediate organization, and appoint Sec
rotary and treasurer
They will appoint precinct committees, COM
posed of not less than five members, and always
u number sufficient to have every locality in the
precinct represented on the committee: and will
designate the chairmen of the same.
They will sec that tic precinct committees pro-
cure copy of the registration books of each pre-
cincL as soon as possible. The Importance Of this
cannot be over-estimatcd. The politics of every
voter should be ascertaned, and indicated on these
copies by letter opposite each namc-D. for
democrat, K. for republican, and U. for uncertain.
They will also appoint canvasser for each
precinct from the members Of the precinct COM
mittee, to ascertain who are not registered, who
need transfers. &C., and to report all pertincntmat
tiers to the precinct chairman.
The precinct committees will sec to it that all
non-registered democratic voters are duly regis
tered forthrith-not waiting for the set days of
registration-aud they will be depended on to poll
the full vote of their precincts.
County and precinct committees arc charged
with the duty of providing the funds necessary
for election purposes in their counties and pre-
cincts, and with making proper arrangements for
speakers assigned them during the canvass.
They are urged to appoint precinct and neigh
borhood meetings, to procure local speakers to adj
dress the same, and to do everything which their
sound discretion may suggest to promote success
in the canvass.
The precinct committees will appoint two per-
sons to hold tickets and two to act chalengers,
on election day. and the whole committee is en-
Joined to remain at tho polls from sunrise until
the count is completed.
County chairmen will send to this office, with
out delay, the names and postottce address of all
precinct committees, and will also make weekly
reports of the progress and needs of the canvass
to the chairmen of their respective Congressional
district committees, and especially to this office.
And this committee will be glad to have, at all
times from any friend of the party, any informa-
ton pertinent to the campaign.
All democratic papers are specially re-
quested to copy the above, and to keep it
standing during several issues.
JOHN S. BARBOUR, Chairman.
81. SHEPHERD, Secretary.