The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-17

Organization IN NOfUn Odroiliid, dS
amended and changed at the recent
meeting OF the State Executive com
mittee. All Democratic conventions
hereafter will be held, and all Demo-
cratic candidates will be nominated
according to this amended plan, and
therefore every Democrat should read
Il and learn its provisions. 1T is as
follows:
PRECINCT ORGANIZATION.
j. The unit of county organization
shall be the voting precinct. In each
precinct there shall be an executive
committee, to consist of five active
Democrats, who shall be elected by the
Democratic voters of the several pre-
cincts in the meetings first called by
the County Executive committee. And
said committee so elected shall elect
one of lis members as chairman, who
shall preside at all committee meet
ings.
2. The chairmen Of the several pre-
cinct committees shall compose the
County Executive committee, which
shall meet at the same time and place
as the county convention first held in
each election year, and elect chairman
of said county committee, who need not
be a member of the committee, and he
shall preside at all meetings of said
committee, and shall hold his place
until his successor shall be elected.
a majority of said precinct chairmen,
in person or by proxy, shall constitute
a quorum. The county committee shall
likewise appoint a central committee
Of five, who shall act in its stead when
the county committee is not In session.
3. In case there shall be failure on
the part of any precinct to elect its ex-
ecutive committee for period Of
thirty days, the county executive COM
mittee shall appoint said committee
from the Democratic voters of said pre-
c.nct.
4. The members Of the precinct COM
mittee shall elect to any vacancy oc-
curing in said committees.
5. The County Executive committee
shall call all necessary county conven-
tons by giving at least ten days notice
by public advertisement in three public
places in each precinct, at the court
house door, and in any Democratic
newspaper that may be published in
said county, requesting all Democrats
of the county to meet in their respec.
tive precincts on a common day therein
stated, which said day shall not be less
than three days before the meeting of
the county conventions, for the pur-
pose of electing their delegates TO the
county conventions from the voters of
meeting so held shall elect their dele
gates to represent the precincts in the
county conventions from the voters of
the respective voting precincts, which
delegates, or such Of them as shall at
tend, shall vote the full Democratic
strength of their respective voting pre-
cincts on all questions that may come
before said county conventions. In
case no meeting shall be held IN any
precinct in pursuance Of said call or
no election shall be made, the precinct
executive committee shall appoint
such delegates.
PRIMARY.
Sec. 6. AT every precinct meeting
there shall before delegates to the
county convention are elected, be a
vote taken for the different candidates
for office, whose names may be pre-
sented, ard the delegates shall vote in
the county convention their respee-
tive precincts in4accordance with this
vote: that is to say, each candidate
shall receive in the county convention
that proportion Of the vote to which
the precinct may be entitled which he
received in the precinct meeting. The
chairman and secretary of the precinct
meeting shall certify TO the county
convention the vote received by each
candidate at the precinct meeting.
z. Each precinct shall be entitled to
cast in the county convention one vote
for every twenty-five Democratic votes,
and one vote for fractions of thirteen
Democratic votes cast by the township
at the last preceding Gubernatorial
election: Provided, That every voting
precinct shall be entitled to cast at
least one vote, and each precinct may
send as many delegates as il may see
fit.
s. The chairmen of precinct commit
tees shall preside at all precinct meet
ings. In their absence any other mem
Der Of said committees may preside.
COUNTY. AND DISTRICT CONyEN-
TIONS.
i. The several county conventions
shall be entitled to electro their Sena-
torial, judicial and Congressional con-
ventions one delegate and one alternate
for every fifty Democratic votes. and
one delegate for fractions of over
twenty-five Democratic votes cast at
the last preceding Gubernatorial cleo
ton in their respective counties. and
none but delegates or alternates so
elected shall be entitled to seats in
said conventions: Provided, That every
county shall have at least one vote in
eaelPof said conventions.
Provided further, That in all eoun-
ty conventions in which delegates shall
be selected to attend any State, Con-
gressional, Judicial or other conven-
ton. a vote shall be taken ia accord
ance with the plan of organization
as to the candidates whose names may
be presented to such county conven-
ton. The delegates shall be selected
from the friends and supporters Of
each candidate voted for in proportion
to the number of votes he shall receive
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