The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-19

mentS sent him from the several election
districts. and present the same to the
chairman of the convention. After the
! receipt of such return statement, or
cause shown for its non production, the
election returns from the different dis
tricts shall be called for, opened, and the
returns examined and compared with
the return statement.
SECTION q. The candidate who shall
| have received the highest number of
votes, as shown by the approved returns,
shall be declared the nominee. In case
of tie vote, the nomination shall be de-
| termined by casting lots.
Where two persons are to be nomina-
ted for the same office, the two candi-
dates receiving the highest number of
votes shall be nominated.
SECTION 5. 1t shall be good ground
of objection to any return from any dis
trict that the duplicate statement direct
ed to be sent to the County Chairman
was unduly delayed, or that the provis-
ions of the election laws and these rules
| were violated at such election.
! SECTION 6. Whenever any question
is raised as to the regularity of the re-
turn from any district, it shall be the
duty of the Convention to appoint a COM
mittee of at least five members of the
Convention to inquire into and make re-
| port of the facts, and such recommended
tions as the committee may deem proper.
| But no return from any district shall
be accepted in the convention when it
shall appear that the officers conducting
the primary election have not complied
with the provisions of these rules re-
specting the immediate posting of a
statement showing the result of the
election, upon the door of the polling
place and the prompt transmission to
the County Chairman of the duplicate
statement.
SECTION 7. The voting in convention
shall be open, and any two members may
require the yeas and nays on any ques-
ton.
SECTION s. When candidatesfor dele
gates to the State Convention shall have
Registered with the chairman and have
been voted for at the primary election,
those receiving the highest number of
votes shall be named as the delegates.
OF ELIGIBILITY.
SECTION I. If it shall be made to ap-
pear to the satisfaction of a majority of
the Convention, that any candidate be-
fore it for nomination to any Office shall
have offered or paid any money or val
liable thing, or made any promise of
future, as an inducement to any voter to
vote for him at the primary election, or
shall have caused the same to be done in
his behalf or if any candidate shall in
duce or attempt to induce another per-
son to announce his name and run as
the candidate for nomination to the same
office for which he is seeking the nomi-
nation, with intent thereby to withdraw
votes from some third candidate for
nomination for the same Office, or if
such candidate shall cause and procure
the same to be done by another in his
behalf, the name of such candidate as
we'll as the name of the candidate so in
duced to be a candidate. shall be i'm
mediately struck from the list of candi-
dates or if any such facts be ascertained
after his nomination shall have been
made, to the satisfaction of a majority
of the members of the Standing Com
mittee, the nomination shall be struck
from the ticket and thevacancy supplied
by new nomination to be made by the
members of the Standing Committee.
Any candidate offending against the
| provisions of this rule shall be ineligible
to any nomination for a period Of five
years.
| SECTION 2. No person shall be eligi-
BILE to nomination by the party who
has opposed the democratic ticket at the
next preceding election.
SECTION 8. Each and every candidate
for nomination to any office desiring his
name to be printed upon the tickets pro-
vided to be furnished under these rules,
shall register his name, post-office ad-
dress and name of Office for which he is
candidate, with the chairman of the
Standing Committee in book kept for
that purpose, not less than thirty days
before the primary election, and pay to
the chairman 4 registration fee as fixed
by the executive committee.
| ARTICLE III.
OF TIE COUNTY COMMITTEE.
SECTION ]. The Standing Committee
shall consist of one resident member
from each election district, who shall be
elected by the primary election. Eleven
of their number shall constitute auor-