The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-03-22

Section s. The State Committee shall concert
such measures as may seem best calculated to
advance the interests of the party.
Section g. 1t shall fix the time and place of
holding all State conventions, and prescribe
the number of delegates and alterDates and the
mode of electing them.
Section 10. 1t Shall temporarily fill vacancies
in the committee. such appolntees to act until
the next State convention and to be made on
nomination of the remaining members from
the district in which the vacancy occurred.
Section IL. The presence of four districts
shall constitute quorum of the State Com
mittee. and each district may cast three votes
by the members present.
ARTICLE Ill.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
Section |. The District Committee for each
congressional district shall fix the time ana
place of all congressional conventions, and pre-
scribe the number of delegates and alternates
for each county and city and the mode of elect
ing the same. And the chairman of such dis
trict committee shall call the convention 10
order and designate temporary chairmen.
sue in the district not pertaining to State cleo
TONS. and all variances as to conventions.
candidates, and nominees IN said district.
From its decision in any such controversy an
appeal shall lie to the state Executive Com
mittee, and its decision shall De maj er Inc
the District Committee as to what the contro-
versy was and what was decided
Section 3. 1t shall have supervision OF Inc
county and city chairmen and committees in
| its district and shall furnish the State Com
mittee with list of such from time to time.
Whenever any chairman in said district shall.
| in the Judgment of said District Committee be
unfit for his duties or inefficient, said Dis'rlct
| Committee may remove him. call upon his
| committee to appoint new chairman, ana I'M
| less they do elect one that Is acceptable within
ten days after such notification said plstrlct
Committee may designate a new chairman Of
| said committee.
ARTICLE ".
CITY AND COUNTY COMMITTEES.
Section l. The voters of each voting precinct
| in the counties and cities of chis state In pub-
| lie meeting assembled shall select three men,
| bers to act on the committee for such county
| or city, and the committee thus chosen snail
elect their own chairman me tlm ne a ana
mated by the District Committee. II they are
not held then for so many voting-precincts as
the members of the committee from Repubi.
! can voters of the precincts; and II at any Tune
after said County and City Committees are
| ton from any precinct, the chairman OF suen
| county or city may designate members OF me
| committee from such precinct~-provlded, That
| whenever any ten Republican voters of a pre-
| cinct shall notify the chairman OF their county
| or OF city that they are not satisfied with his
| appointment of committeeman from their pre-
| cinct he shall call Il meeting Of the voters pf
| that precinct to elect committeeman rom t.lat
precinct
Section 3 County and city chairmen shall
| forward lists of their committees from time to
time to the State and district chairmen.
SECTION q. County and City Committees shall
provide for the time and place OF holding ali
conventions within their counties or cities
for county or city officers or members
| the General Assembly. Where the conNen-
| ton is TO be composed of representatives from
more than one county action shall be taken on
the joint call of all the chairmen interested,
and where they cannot agree then upon the
call of the majority, or if no majority can be
had, then upon the call of the District Com
mittee. Such conventions snail pc called 10
| order by the chairman of the county in which
it is held. and he shall designate temporary
chairman.
Section t. County and City Committees snail
! look after the interest of the party in their
counties and Cities and do all in their power 10
| promote Its efficiency. County and city chair
| men shall designate one of the three members
of the committee from each precinct in his
committee to be precinct chairman.
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THE present plan OF organization, which was
annexed to this it is not necessary to publish,
as it appeared in the VIRGlNIAN several weeks
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