The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-04

| examine such complaint and, if the same be
| well founded, shall order a new primary
election to be held in such precinct. In such
case, the new election shall be held by Off
GERS specially appointed by this committee,
and any delegate elected at such new cleo
tion shall be entitled to admission to the con-
vention for which he is chosen, and the GER
tificate or this committee shall be final evil
denee Of the rights of such delegate.
HARGE OF BRIBERY.
b. The Committee of Appeals shall have
power to investigate any charge of bribery
OF delegates in any convention held to nomi-
nate a county officer or member of the
Legislature. Such investigation shall be
made upon the written complaint of at least
1--WE democrats, who shall verify their COM
plant with a detailed statement, un-
der oath, of the facts which they
rely upon to prove their charge. The COM
mittee shall make rules for the summary
hearing of such charges, giving the accused
all necessary opportunity to appear in per-
| son or by counsel and to make defence to the
charges. II the committee shall, by a vote
of two-thirds of all it's members, decide that
the charges are sustained, it shall request the
candidate whose nomination was sustained
by such bribery to retire from the ticket.
All evidence taken in such investigation
shall be under the oathrof witnesses and sub
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with the complaint itself, shall be presented
to the District Attorney of the county, with
a request that the same be submitted to the
Grand Jury.
c. The Committee of Appeals shall have the
same powers in the matter of the election of
delegates to nominate a Democratic candi-
date for Representative in Congress from
the Seventh Congressional district and with
reference to such nomination as are vested
in them with reference to the nomination of
State and county officers.
SELECTION OF DELEGATES.
This committee shall prescribe the rules
under which primary elections shall be held
to select delegates to nominate Democratic
candidates for municipal offices in any
municipality in Hudson county, and shall
nave power to hear protests, set aside NUM-
clpal primary elections, and order and super
wise new elections, coextensive to that given
said committee in the matter of primary
elections for the election of delegates to
county conventions. All such municipal
primary elections shall be held by
the officers appointed or elected to
county officers, Under rules to
be adopted by the Committee of Appeals.
If, by reason of the political divisions of the
county, or for any other reason it shall be
found necessary to have additional officers
for such municipal primary elections, they
shall be appointed under rules made by the
Committee of Appeals and shall hold office
until their successors are elected.
FOR OFFICE.
d. No member of the Committee of APP
peals shall be a candidate for any elective
office during the term for which he shall be
appointed to such committee. No power
hereby vested in the Committee of Appeals
shall be diminished except by a vote of the
democrats OF Hudson county, cast at a pri-
mary election held to select a candidate for
the office of State Senator, the question in
yolved being submitted by a publication of
the proposed changes, under rules to be
adopted by the Committee of Appeals within
three months after their first organization.
OF CONVENTIONS.
e. Every convention held to nominate a
Democratic candidate for the office of mem
Der of the House of Representatives from
the Seventh Congressional district, State
Senator or other officer to be elected by the
county at large, or member of the General
Assembly shall be called to order by a mem
Der Of the Committee of Appeals, who shall
preside over such convention until a perma-
nent organization shall nave been effected
by the delegates entitled to vote in such con-
vention.
MUST BE A DEMOCRAT.
f. The Committee of Appeals shall pre-
scribe and publish the rules which shall gov
ern the rights of persons applying to vote at
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election to be first held under this plan. At
such first election every democrat in the
county shall be entitled to vote. If the
right of any person offering to vote shall be
challenged, he shall be entitled to vote if he
shall make the following oath. to WITT
solemnly swear Tor affirm that ! I'M a be-
lever in the principles of the Democratic
party and desire its success"
THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.
The Democratic General Committee of
Hudson county shall be composed of one
member from each polling precinct in each
county. They shall have general charge of
the welfare of the Democratic party in the
county. They shall adopt a constitution and
bylaws governing and regulating all mat
tiers not entrusted to the Committee of APP
peals. They shall have charge of all elections
to be held in Hudson county. They shall,
for all primary elections to be held
after their organization, select the places
for holding such elections, and make
all necessary arrangements for the same,
subject to the rules adopted by the Com
mittee of Appeals for the government of
primary elections. The General Committee
shall receive all returns from primary cleo
lions (other than the one to be first held un-
der this PLAN and issue credentials to those
elected; but such credentials shall be re-
voked and cancelled if the Committee of APP
peals shall, in ordering a new primary cleo
tlon, order such cancellation to be made.
DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS.
II. No person shall be admitted to exercise
the office of a delegate in any convention
unless such person shall have been elected, at
a primary election held for the purpose
of choosing delegates to such convention,
either as a delegate or an alternate. This
proposition shall not be suspended or altered
unless upon the affirmative vote of the
democrats of the county given at an election
where the question shall nave been submitted
to them. Any nomination effected by the
votes of others than delegates or a~lternates,
elected as aforesaid, shall not be considered
as a regular nomination entitled to partisan
support.
POWER TO ADOPT RULES.
III. In all matters not provided for in