Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-07

ton in that district, and the hundred that
last had u Senator shall be the last hun
dfei ~ that district to again have Sena-
Tor. The object OF this provision being
that the hundreds in the Second and Third
districts shall take their turn in regular
order III being without representation.
iulc AZ. The chairman Of the county
executive committee shall call meeting
OF the new committee, to meet in Will
piingtUn on the Thursday following the
last Saturday in May in every year Of u
general election, for purposes of Organi1a-
lion. And the members Of said committee
may select (twu.thirds Of the members
cuncurringl a chairman outside of the said
committee, ii they deem ii wise.
Rules. II shall be the duty of the county
executive committee, hcreinbefore pro-
vidcd for IN Rule !, to supervise the cam
paigil and direct the calls for massmeetinSs
and perform any services required by these
rules. In case OF contested nominations,
arising under Rules and ,, the county
committees shall determine the same by a
vote of the majority of the whole number
of said committee; contestants, with their
counsel, mayappear before said committee.
IN ease of the death, declination or
inability to serve OF any person nominated
under Rules . and 3, the county committee
shall make provision for another nomi-
nation. The power OF said committee
shall continue until successors are elected.
Rule u. When A call shall be issued by
the state committee for Il convention to
nominate Candidates for Governor and
Representative in Congress, or to nominate
an electoral ticket, or to appoint delegates
to a national convention, the Judges afore-
sad shall hold an election on the day
recommended by the said committee, or If
no day be recommended, on a day to be
named by the judges, between the hours
mentioned in Rule . for the purpose of
choosing delegates to such State cOnven-
ton, according to superintendent.
Where hundred is divided into election
districts the delegates shall be apportioned
TO such districts by the executive commit
tee of the hundred.
If State convention is called al such
time that 1t would not be practicable for
th0 judges aforesaid to hold such election,
the county committee shall provide for
the election of delegates to such COnven-
tiOns according to the said apportionment.
Rule 7. These rules shall govern the
Democratic party in the several hundreds,
and shall not be altered, suspended or
amended, except ~ the following manner:
Upon the suggestion, III writing, of any
alterations or amendments, signed by at
least one hundred Democrats in good
standing, aud presented to the county
executive committee, the chairman OF said
| committee shall order county cOnven.
| ton 10 be held before the first day of Sep,
| TENDER, next ensuing, to take such sugges
tions, alterations or amendments into con
sideration.
The action of such convention in the
premises shall be final Such convention
shall be composed of one delegate from
each ward of Wilmington and five dele
gates from each of the other hundreds, t.
be elected us hereinbefore prescribed by
Rule /, ..5....
Adopted at convention Of the Demo
cratic party of New Castle county, held u
| Now Castle, on Saturday, Sentember I'd
1876, and amended at a convention held Il
New Castle on Saturday, May llth, 1889.
Amended and adopted, rs a whole at
convention of the Democratic party o
New Castle county, held at New Castle Ol
Saturday, May 2lst 1899.