Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-29
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ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
PLAN OF PRIMARY, &C.. &C.
The Executive Committee of the Democratic
Party of the city met last week and organized
by the election of Maj. T. G. Elder. Chairman
and Joseph B. Woodward, Secretary. The
Committee then adopted the following adml-
rable address and also the plan for holding the
Primary Election, both of which, we hope, Will
receive the careful perusal. of all the voters In
the city:
PRIMARY ELECTION.
TO the Democratic Party of the City of Stanton !;
In accordance with the recently expressed
will of the Party, the City Committee have
fixed dsy for Primary Election, and pre-
pared plan for the same, herewith submitted.
provide for full and perfectly fair expression
Of the voice of the party in the choice of can
didates for municipal offices. Whilst the plan m
that could be devised.
The individual voter should remember that
n necessary as political parties are to the we'll
being OF a republic, their existence would
he impossible If each man insisted on acting
in political matters according to his own judg-
ment without regard to the opinions of those
whose views on great questions of public poll
CIV. in the MAN, coincide with his own. In
deed. the very existence of human society in
wolves the surrender of the will of the indi-
yfdnaI in respect to matters not of vital i'm
portance, for the good of the whole,
It must be remembered, too, that political
parties exist for governmental purposes ana
cannot be maze 10 supserVe Ill Ine eoou ehos
u True wisdom in political as in business life
consists in doing the best that Is practicable
under the circumstances by which we may be
surrounded.
or even long maintain It's existence; unless us
and conciliation and be willing to make sacri-
ces for the good of the party.
The Democratic party being In the majority
in our city, is charged with the responsibility.
which it cannot escape, of furnishing to all the
people within the city limits. an honest, eco
and efficient municipal government,
and to do this the party organization must be
Perhaps there is no better plan for preserving
party organization and securing the nomina-
ton of proper persons for Office than that OF
Election.
All c.n attend Primary Election: 1t is as
free to one as to another. All candidates have
q fair and equal chance; and II every Demo-
crat will cast his vote, the nominees Will be
the choice of a majority of the party, and this.
it would seem ought to be SATISFACTORY TO every
one. Let no Democrat stay away from the
anu ''-' - THE COMMITTEE.
ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
At meeting of the Democratic Committee
of the city Of Staunton. held on Monday,
April q, 1884, action was taken for holding
election. The following is the
PLAN.
RESOLVED, That in accordance with the will of
the Democratic party of the City OF Staunton.
declared in mass meeting on the night OF
Thursday, 17tn day of April. 1884, Primary
Election will be held on FRIDAY, THE 18TH
DAY OF MAY, 1884. for the nomination of can.
didates for such offices as are filled at the regu-
oIo of bioI,x will
Thursday, I'D day of May, 1854. viz: Mayor,
wealth's Attorney, City Sergeant.
Commissioner of the Revenue. Constable, and,
for each Ward of the city, six members of the
City Council and three Magistrates.
MANNER OF CONDUCTING THE ELECTION.
Polls shall be opened in each Ward of the
city at the usual voting place, and it shall be the
duty of each Ward Superintendent to see that
the Judges and Clerk are in place at the hour
appointed for the opening of the polls. TO pro-
vide all necessary pOll-books and such other
and things as may be requisite.
The polls shall be opened at sunrise and
closed at o'clock, P. M, on the day designated
for the Primary Election, Friday, May 10Th. 1884.
The City Committee shall appoint two Judges
paid 81. so each by the Treasurer. upon the GER
tificate of the Secretary of the City Committee
that all registration and poll books and other
papers entruste ed to them have been returned
to him.
The City Committee shall provide printed
tickets to the number of 1000, containing the
shall have been announced as candidates for
the respective offices to be filed in the mode
hereinafter designated.
The voting shall be by ballot, and the Judges
and Clerks shall be governed by the rules
which obtain in regular elections SO far as the
same may be applicable.
tributed by order of the City COMMITTEES. The
tickets shall not be delivered to the Ward Su-
Ing the day of the Primary Election, who may
thereupon distribute them to such registered
candidates as call for them.
The voter shall strike out the names OF all
candidates on his ticket for Mayor. Common
wealth's Attorney, City Sergeant, Commits
sioner of the Revenue, and Constable, respec-
didates for each of these offices for whom he
desires to vote; and no ticket containing the
names of two or more candidates for any one
of the offices last mentioned shall be counted
in respect to such office.
Any voter, desiring to vote for Councilmen,
shall erase the names of all the candidates but
six; he shall, however, vote for sic COulciLnaen,
and any ballot containing greater or less
number than six INCREASED names shall not be
counted at all in the nomination of Council
men.
The same rule is to be observed by the voter
In preparing his ticket for Magistrates, except
that the number is to be three instead OF six.
CANDIDATES.
All persons desiring to be candidates at the
Election must leave, or cause to be
left, with the Secretary of the City Committee
their names before O'Clock, P. M, on Tuesday,
the 18th day of May, 1884. and shall before SAID
last named time pay to the Treasurer of said
Com mtttee the sums hereafter designated, to
be used in defraying the expenses of the Pri-
mary Election. The Committee will not place
on the ticket the name of any person who fails
to comply with either of these requirements.
The sums to be required of candidates to de-
fray expenses shall be as follows: Councilmen
and Magistrates So each, and candidates for
other officers So each.
Nor will the name of any person be received
as candidate who may be unwilling to abide
the result OF the Primary Election.
WHO MAY VOTE.
All white Conservative Democrats, who are
duly registered and who are willing to support
all the nominees of the Primary Election, and
such like Conservative Democrats who are not
registered because they are not twenty-one
years of age, but who will have attained to
that age before the regular election, and none
others, shall be qualified TO vote at the Primary
Elect on. The fact of voting at the Primary
Election will be regarded as evidence of a
pledge to support the nominees.
AsCERTAINING THE RESULT.
Immedi ately after the polls are closed the
Judges and the Clerk of election, in the pres
ence of the superintendent of the Ward in
which such polls are he'd, ifhe be present, and
in the presence of two spectators, should they
desire d TO be present; shall ascertain the nun
pond with the number of names on the poll
book. The Judges and Clerk of Election shall
MAKE ee ous On Inc 100 oi me
certificate shall be signed by the Judges and
attested by the Clerk, and returned i1lmedi-
dtely upon the close of said work, together with
the ballots and other books and papers, to the
Secretary of the City Committee.
On the next day after the Primary Election,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, the City Committee shall
meet to canvass the returns. hear and determ-
Inc appeals, if any, and certify the final result
OF the election. The result shall be announced
by the chairman of the committee as soon as
practicable after 1t is reached, and the person
or persons receiving the highest number OF
votes for the Office Offices for which they are
candidates shall be declared the nominees of
the party for said offices.
In case of q tie. the Committee shall decide
the same by lot.
THOS. G. ELDER. Chairman.
Jos. Il. WOODWARD. Secretary.
The following appointments were made by
the Committee:
Ward No. l.-Ward Superintendent, A. F.
Robertson; Judges, W. L. Olivier and E. w
Stewart; Clerk, Nj. B. Oberdorfer.
Ward No. 2.-Ward Superintendent. c. A.
Richardson; Judges, J. A. Templeton and
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