The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-11
mittees which may elect their own Off

GERS.
WHAT THE COMMITTEE CAN DO.
After providing for time of meeting,
vacancies how to be filled, and dues and
other minor rules of government the
document enters minutely into the powers
of the committee.
This committee can fix and adopt dis
trict lines, apportion members of AS
sembly and other officers when elected
on a general ticket to each district. In
case of legal change Of the lines the COM
.aittee will re-organize the lines SO
adopted.
The call for primary elections for mem.
bers for County Committee for dele
gates for State and Congressional Con-
vertion, and for the rorlination of candi-.
dates shall s,e in the power of the County
Committee which will also make rules
for proper enrolment of voters.
ApVICE TO OFFICE SEEKERS.
Those who are anxious for party hon
ors in district, ward, town, township
city. county and Congressional Offices
where the Congressional district Is
wholly within the county lines, must
file his application for nomination with
the Secretary of the County Commit
tee on a certain date. Then his name
is printed on an official ticket. Each
netition of the aspirant for honor must
be signed by twenty Democratic voters
within the district he is to represent
When a man is looking for the coun-
ty committeeman nomination, he needs
only five votes to his petition. Then
when the ticket is printed and the pri-
mary is held. he who receives the larg-
est number of votes shall be the nominee
of the party. So that if there are five
men who are after the nomination for
Congress, these five names will be on the
ticket for every Democratic voter to
select his choice.
The primary official tickets will be fur
nished voters at the primary, who will
put cross opposite the name he de-
sires to vote for Each man may have
a watcher to detect and prevent monkey
business.
DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE.
When the primary is over, the boxes
are brought before the Executive Com
mittee of the County Committee, who
Will ACT dts Tic SoiiN e1soiAi7 -.
When they have counted the votes the
result will be made known to the Coun-
ty Committee, sitting as a convention OF
delegates, representing the party, who
will then declare those elected at the prl-
maries the regular nominee of the Demo-
cratic party for the respective offices
These primaries shall be held from four
to nine o'clock p NJ Until the prima-
ries in November have taken place the
present committee of twenty-four Will
act and perform all duties under the
foregoing constitution
CANDIDATES TO BE APPORTIONED.
For the present, the constitution says
and until the result of the November
primary the present committee of TWEEN
ty-four shall divide the county into AS
sembly districts and apportion the leg
islatiye candidates therein. When the
primary is over the President of the
Committee of Twenty-four(ex-Judg Gar
retson) win notify the elected commit
teemen at that primary to organize the
new County Committee, when the Com
mittee of Twenty-four will then go out
of existence forever and day.
BYLAWS ARE SIMPLE.
The bylaws passed are lucid, brief and
simple and define the duties of the Off
GERS, committees and the order of bust
ness