Evening journal., 1898-02-17
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
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Candidates. tOr Levy Court commits |
sioner shall be taken from the differ
ent hundreds or parts of hundreds
comprising the respective Levy Court
districts outside of Wilmington in ro-
tation, and the order of rotation shall
be that the hundred that last had a
Levy Court commissioner shall be the
last hundred in that district 10 again
have a Levy Court commissioner.
Rule 4. The secretary of the county
executive committee shall publish the
names Of those persons selected as
qualifiers of primary election officers,
within ten days prior to the primary
election in every year of a general cleo
ton, in the Democratic newspapers of
the county The said secretary shall
also publish each and every name of
those persons qualified by said duafi-
fiers for each primary election district,
in the Democratic newspapers in the
city of Wilmington, at least twenty
four hours prior to the opening of said
primary election.
Rule 8. The county executive COM
mittee shall levy an assessment on each
candidate at every primary election,
which shall be fair and equitable, in
their Judgment, for the expenses of
printing ballots, tally lists, blank GER
tifcates, poll books, stationery, rent of
polling places, publishing notices, and
printing, and in the event of any such
candidate not paying such assessment,
his name shall not be printed on the
ballots. 1t shall be the duty of the
members of the county executive COM
mittee to distribute at each voting
place where primary election is to be
held, the ballots required in each dis
trict.
Rule 6. The chairman of the coun-
ty executive committee shall call a
meeting of the new committee, to meet
in Wilmington on the Thursday fol-
lowing the last Saturday in May every
year of a general election, for purposes
of organization. And the members of
said committee may select (two-thirds
of the members concurring) a chair
man outside of the said committee, if
they deem it wise.
Rule z. It shall be the duty of the
county executive committee, hereinbe-
| fore provided for in Rule 1, to comply
with the requirements of the said act
entitled "An act to provide for the
purity of primary elections in New
Castle county," to supervise the cam
paign and direct the calls for mass
meetings and perform any services re-
quired by these rules. In case of con-
tested nominations, the county commit
tee shall determine the same by vote
of the majority of the whole number
of said committee; contestants with
their counsel may appear before said
committee.
In case of the death, declination OF
| In to al Of
person nominated as Democratic can
didate, the county committee shall NJ
the vacancy by the selection of the
person receiving the next highest mum.
Der Of votes, and in the event of his
death, declination or inability to serve
by the election Of the person receiving
the next highest number a votes, anC
so on until the place is filled. If ther'
be no persons so voted for, the count!
committee shall fill the place by 1T
own selection.
The powers of said committee shal
continue until their successors ar
elected.
Rule 8. When call shall
be issued by the state committee for
convention to nominate candidates 70
governor and representative in Con
gress, or to nominate an electora
ticket or to appoint delegates to ma
tional convention, the judges aforesai
shall hold an election on the day rec
commended by the said committee. or
no day be recommended, on day to b
named by the judges, between tn
hours mentioned in Rule !. for tn
purpose OF choosing delegates to sue
state convention, according to appoi
tionment.
Where a hundred is divided int
election districts, the delegates shall /
: apportioned to such districts by the e.
eeutive committee of the hundre'
which shall determine whether tn
said delegates shall be elected by tn
districts to which they are apportione
or by the hundred at large.
g If a state convention is called at sue
time that it would not be practicab
= for the judges aforesaid to hold sue
election, the county committee sha
. provide for the election of delegates
4 such conventions according to the sa
apportionment.
Rule 9. The inspectors and Judges
hold the election on the last Saturd'
in May, A. D., 1898, shall be select'
by the county executive commit
l. from among those persons who we
voted for as inspectors at the last &c
y eral election, and the judges who he
\ said elections in the respective hu
" dreds, outside of the city of Wilmin
h ton; and from among those perso
d who held the last municipal election
a. Wilmington in the respective wards.
he Rule 10. These rules shall COVE
E. the Democratic party in the sever
hundreds, and shall not be altered, 81
u pended or amended, except in the 4
III lowing manner: Upon the suggestlC
in writing, of any alterations
amendments, signed by at least
Democrats in good standing, and pl
sented to the county executive comm
K tee. the said committee shall order
county convention to be held before
np first day of September, next ensuing,
take such suggestions, alterations
Mt amendments into consideration.
re The action Of such convention in
nd premises shall be final. Such conv'
I'M tion shall be composed .
on four delegates from each
islative district of Wilmington and
re- delegates from each Of the other HI
m dreds To he elected as hereinbefore 2