The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1892-01-30
PRIMARY ELECTIONS,
AN ACT TO ELECT DELEGATES.

and five (5) alternates to- q dis
trict convention for the purpose OF
electiDg two delegates and two al
ternate delegates to the National
Republican Convention to convene
in the city of Minneapolis on Tues
day the 7th day of June 1892, at
II o'clock noon.
Therefore, by virture of the pow
er vested in the republican central
committee of the District of Col
umbia to designate the "modus
operandi" by which delegates and
alternates shall be elec7ed in the
twenty-five (22) assembly districts,
to the local republic an convention,
do hereby request all male citizens
of the District of Columbia, over
the age of twenUy-one (21) years,
who are in sympathy with the
principles of the National Republi-
can party, and who desire to par
ticipate in the election of delegates
to the local republican convention,
to assemble in their respective dis
tricts, at such places hereafter to
be designated by the chairman of
the republican central committee,
on Wednesday the 10th day of
February 1892, between the hours
of three and seven o'clock p. M,
and vote for five delegates and five
alternate delegates who shall as
semble, the next day, February II,
1892, at 10 O'Clock IN some public
hall TO be named hereafter by the
chairman of the republican central
committee for the purpose OF vOt-
ing for two delegates and two al
ternate delegates.
2nd. The delegates to be voted
for, to the local convention, in the
primary assembly districts shall
be by printed ballot, the size of
which must be three inches in
length and two inches in width on
white sixteen lbs. cap paper, with
the names of the five delegates and
five alternate delegates printed
thereon in black ink.
3rd. The chairman of the repub-
lican central committee shall as
slst in the temporary organization
of the local convention, by an
nouncing roll and the election of
temporary officers, and proper in
stalling the temporary chairman.
4th. The chairman is further in
structed to appoint three persons
of uDquestioned moral and honest
reputation who shall act as judges
of primary election and one person
of like standing, agreeable to the
persons selected as judges, who
shall act as clerks of primary cleo
tion in each twenty-five (22) prim
ary assembly districts. That in no
case, however shall the judges be
selected without at lest then Q0)
days notice; that suggestions cal
culated to aid in the proper selec-
tiOn be solicited from interested
republican citizens.
5th. The judges of primary elec
tiOn under this act shall have pow
er to challenge any illegal voter or
voting where doubt exists to re-
quire identification of the person
claiming the right to vote in the
district in which be claims to live.
9th. All voting precincts and
names of judges and clerks for each
primary assembly district shall be
advertised IN at least one or two
daily newspapers and shall not be
adjacent to any saloon where in
tOXicants are sold.
CERTIFICATES F ELECTIONS, &c.
7th. The chairman of the repub-
lican central committee shall not
later than the morning prior to the
primary election, place in the hand
of the presiding judge blank form
OF certificate to be agreed upon by
special committee of three men,
bers appointed by the chairman of
the republican central committee
and he being an ex-officio member
of said committee. The certificate
shall be signed BY not less thau a
majority of the judges and for
warded without delay to the chair.
man of the republican central com
mittee, who shall refer all certifi-
Gates to special committee of five,
from the republican central CON-
mittee, who shall be designated as
a committee on primary election
who shall make up the roll of
delegates. elected to the convention.
Sth. In cases of contested cleo
tiOn the chairman Of this special
committee and his associates shall
be governed in making up the roll
by certificates signed by the major
lty of the judges, but in all cases
shall give proper notice of the con-
test pending in writing.
9th. Resolved, That the District
republican central committee in it's
supremacy abolishes all organiza.
tions and laws created in ununi-
fOr'nity of this act and call upon
all republicans to aid In it's unset
fish desire, to make uniform and
clean, beyond aspersion TIE repub.
lIcan organization of the District.
Resolved, further, That an ex
cutive committee of nine shall be
appointed, by the chairman and