Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-30
of the town committee, should he request it
before the holding of the conventions.

oeIoIo tuc noluluS VI tue conventions.
TIE VOTE OR VARIANCE.
IL. If at any primary there shall be a
tie vote. or if the difference between the
whole number of ballots found in the box
and the number of names checked on the
list be creates than the majority or plu-
rality found for any one ticket, the moder-
ator, after announcing the result, shall
Immediately forward the same to the chair
man of the town committee, who shall
cause a second primary to be held on the
following day at the same place and during
the same hours as the first primary, and if
at such second primary there should be a
like discrepancy between the ballots and
the check list, then the district or ward
shall not be entitled to representation in
any convention under that call, but in case
of a tie vote. the right of delegates to a
seat in the convention shall be determined
by the respective conventions.
RIGHT OF BOX TENDERS
10. Any box tender or assistant box
tender, shall have the right to satisfy him.
self that no person is voting more ballots
than one, but the right to open and exam
inc voters ballot shall not be exercised
by either the box tender or assistant box
tender.
CHALLENGING.
IS. At such primaries all democratic
voters, whose names are on the last official
voting list of the town, shall be entitled to
vote in the district or ward where they
voted or might have voted at the last pre-
ceding election. If the right of any per-
son to vote is challenged by any person,
the person whose right is so challenged
shall state openly before the moderator of
the primary where the question is raised
that he intends, at the next election to
vote the democratic ticket; if he so states,
and his name is on the voting list of that
district or ward, he shall be allowed to
vote; if he refuses to so state, or if his
name is not on said list, he shall not be
allowed to vote.
CONVENTIONS.
II. The delegates to the town conven-
ton elected at the local primary, shall,
when assembled as provided herein, nomi-
nate candidates for town offices, and,
when they are to be voted for, representa-
tives and justices of the peace. The dele
gates to the city convention shall nomi-
nate the candidates for the general city
offices, and the delegates to the school
convention shall nominate ticket for CEN
ter school district. The town convention
shall be held on the Monday, the city con-
vention on the Tuesday and the school
convention on the Wednesday of the first
week following the local primary at s
o clock .. M, notice thereof to be sent
each delegate by the secretary of the town
committee at least two days before any
conventions to which he is a delegate is to
be held. The delegates elected at the
general and special primaries shall meet
in their respective conventions at the call
of the chairman of the town committee.
Each convention shall be the Judge of its
own membership. No person, other than
regularly elected delegates and one duly
accredited reporter for each of the city
daily papers, shall be admitted to the floor
of the convention. The first business
after election of a chairman and
secretary of the convention, shall be the
appointment of committee on credentials
to consist of one from each district or
ward Each district or ward delegation
shall name its own member of the COM
nittee on credentials. All persons whose
right to Il seat in the convention is in ques-
ton, shall have no voice in the organiza-
ton of the convention, nor in any matter
that may arise, until the right to do so
shall have been accorded to them by the
major vote of the convention.
NoMINATIoNs, HOW MADE.
-. All nominations of candidates for
be made by viva voce vote, the secretary
calling the roll and each delegate banning
his choice A mnjo vote of any conven-
ton shall be sufficient to nominate or
elect as the case may be. If any candidate
so nominated refuses or neglects to pay his
assessment before the ballots are printed,
his said nomination shall be void and of
no effect and there shall be vacancy for
his said office which shall be filled by the
town committee. All vacancies in the
nominations for offices made by the differ
ent conventions, shall be filled by the town
committee whenever necessary. Any va
cancy that occurs in the nominations for
ward or district offices in any ward or dis
trict, shall be filled by the members of the
town committee from that ward or dis
trict.
These rules are hereby adopted this 18th
day of March, 1894, by the committee APP
pointed by the town convention of the
democratic party of Waterbury, in general
convention assembled, and no nominations
made after this date in any manner other
than that herein specified is of any bind
ing force upon the said democratic party.