The Opelousas courier., 1894-09-22
A GANEADATE By PRIMARY.
The sixth District Executive COIsmit
tee Adopts This Plan.

Baton Rouge. Aug 27.-The Sixth district
congressional executive committee met here
to-day in the house Of representatives. The
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, first, That the nomination OF a
| Democratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth
district be made by primary election, conduct
| ed on the same day throughout the district at
the polling places established by law Ill the
! respective parishes.
~Second-IILat primary election shall be beld
ON Saturday, the 9th day of october. 1891, and
that the polls he open not earlier than : o'clock
a. IN. ana closed at i =. m.
~Third-Tlat the candidates for the Demo
cratic nomination. for congress be voted Tor dl-
rect, each qualified voter casting one ballot for
the man of his choice, and the candidate re
ceiying the greatest number If votes III the
district shall be declared the regular nominee
of the party Tor congress.
FOurIi-That only known White Democratic
citizens of the district who are qualified voters
under the law or who will be qualified voters
at tie time .! said election. and who will sup
port The Democratic nominee for congress at
this primary election shall participate i'll this
primary cltction.or I've voters thereat.
FlFth-i'hat the members of this congreSslou-
al committee from each parish, with the chair
man OF the parish Democratic committee, shall
appoint three or more commissioners OF cleo
tiun fnr each. ls"'i!iE place provided mat IN
aNy parish, where tIuIe may be two executive
parish comma tees, the said commissioners
shall he appointed o. the member or member
OF the COLI Siolal committee from said par
ishes. II W Ges<rsssional com o.
for conducting said primary election Ill their
respective parishes, stall provide the ballot
boxs and SEE 10 their 'ansmiSSiAn to the poll
ing places.
SiXtn-ThAt III the choice OF commissioners
oRelcrtinu the candidates for congress or their
tAc}!5 shall be consulted and a representative
OF each app 'intGtla rs commissioner at each poll.
Spvttti-W rittrn lists of the names or this
yu1in. all I've htII. numbered consecutively
in Vic Otter i'll vi ell they vote,
IiehIl-Immcdiatriy after the closing OF the
polls thC boxes shall i:2 opened and the ballots
counted in the presence of the bystanders; a
tally OF the votes kept. and duplicate returns
made out and signed by the commissioners. II
any commissioner refuses to sign, those who
sign shall state the fact and tho reason given
for not signing by the enc refusing.
Niutl-A &utliCiuM! return of the election
shall he the statement III writing, siGnedby the
commissioners, III the total number of votes
cast at the poll and the number actually cast
ter cacu candidate, accompanied by the tally
sheet ara III ~ voter. This statement shall
be sNu! IL to is correct BY the commissioners if
requested b. any enc g! the candidates. or any
tlIee OF their trlcI,r. ln the absence of any
notary lu"llc or lhaIistratc. any bystander
may administer the oath, which must be i'll
writing aud signed ny the commissioners
~TentE-nnc Of tie duplicate returns Uhr one
having annexed to it the tally sheet aud list of
vutt Isl snail he delivered, together with the
box containia@ the ballots, 10 the congressional
committeeman Tor the pati-!.. 'fic other re-
turn si il ic mailed by the commissioners to
The chairman d this congressional committee,
and Il third copy be returned to the chairman
OF the PARISH DflllOcfatC executive committee,
and that where dual committees exist one copy
be sent to the chairman of each.
EleVenih-Dn Oct. l., III noon, THE congress
ional committee shall meet at Baton Rouge for
the purpose OF aSccrtalniHE and declaring the
result of the primary election. Atthis meeting
the members of this committee or their proxies
of their respective parishes shall bring with
theirs the duplicate return tally sheets and llst
of voters handed then Ivy the commissioners
of election at the various precincts or polling
places; the chairman Of this committee shall
RI, fln. afI11r ,,j1n Us 1in, p,I tive
votes shall be canva5sel and the result lScer-
tanned and formally announced.
Twelfth-At the said primary election the
Democratic voters III each parish shall also
vote for Il member to represent such parish on
the congressional executive committee, to serve
Tor the ensuing two Years, one member from
each parish to be vOied for by the voters of
such parish, aud returns OF election for such
member shall be made III the same manner for
the congressional candidates, and the votes be
canvassed and the results declared as III the
case of the congressional candidates.
The thirteen members thus elected reSpec-
lively from the thirteen parishes constituting
the Sixth district, together with three members
from the district at large, to be elected by the
thirteen members elected at this primary. and
that the chairman of this committee shall call
them together Tor this purpose and for the gur-
pose OF electillg the chairman OF the Lew COM
mittee, and the sixteen shall constitute th6
congressional committee Of the district for the
ensuing two years.
Resolved, That ali Democratic Newspapers
in the district be requested to publish tie rcao-
lutions Of this committee in fun in each issue
until the election shall have :aiirn place, on
Oct. 6, 1894.
Be it further resolved. Tlat t!.,. various
clerks Of court in the parishes of the district be
| requested to furnish the regular ballot boxes
used in the general elections to the commission
ers of the primary, but in the event of Their
failure tc comply with this request, that they
be authorized to improvisc boxes. That in
| parishes where there are two or ntnrr fXecti
tive committees it shall he permitted for them
to harlt:niliZc their difference aGa form a legal
commit" tor the parish.
That resolution shall he 50 amended that no
man shall lac considered 4 candidate in this
district who does not stand FGuarrly on Tie
national Democratic platform.
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