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On Thursday, August %. 1900.

On Thursday, August %, 1900,
It half past ten o'clock r the forenoon
OF that day. Said Convention shall con-
slst OF five delegates from each of the
thirty live Representative Districts OF the
State as constituted and described in the
Constitution OF Delaware, Article ., Sec
ton 2, except the Representative Dis
tricts numbers and 3 respectively OF
New Castle county, from each of which
last mentioned Representative Districts
there shall be ten delegates in said Con
vention.
Said Convention is called to choose
three candidates for the office OF Elector
OF President and Vice President of the
United States; one candidate for the
office OF Representative from Delaware
in the Fifty-seyenth Congress of the
United States; one candidate for the Office
OF Governor; one candidate for the office
OF Lieutenant Governors; one candidate
Tor the office of Attorney General; one
candidate for the Office of Insurance
Commissioner; one candidate for the
office OF Auditor of Accounts, and one
candidate for the office of State Treasurer.
all OF which offices are to be filled by
persons chosen by the electors OF the
State OF Delaware at the General Elec-
tion in A. D., 1900, and for the purpose
OF transactlng such other business as
shall be laid before said Convention.
The delegates of each Senatorial dis
trict of the State, to said State Conyep-
ton, are required at said convention 10
elect member of the Union Republican
State Central Committee OF Delaware to
serve for term Of two years and until
his successor shall be chosen and quail.
fled; provided, however, that the dele.
gates In said convention from Senatorial
district number one in New Castle county
are required to elect two such members
OF said State Committee.
All electors of the Union Republican
party OF the State OF Delaware, and all
other electors without regard to past
political affiliations who believe in the
PRINCIPLES of the Natonol Republican
party, who endorse its policies and WAC
are willing to aid in accomplishing the
overthrow OF the Democratic party in
| Delaware, are hereby requested to as
semble III New Castle county at their re-
spective voting places on Wednesday
August the twenty second, A. d., 1900
and IN Kent and Sussex counties or
Saturday, the lSth day of August, A. D
l9UO, and then and there by ballot tC
choose and elect in each Rep esentative
, district aforesaid, by plurality of votes
cast therein, five delegates and five
alternates to said convention, except in
districts numbers two and three of New
+ Castle county, in each of which last
mentioned Representative districts they
f shall choose and elect ten delegates and
ten alternates to said convention,
, The polls in New Cattle County, the
/ day appointed for said county, shall
! open at one o'clock p. M, and close al
! seven o'clock p. IN In Kent and Sussex
counties, the day appointed for eaid
| counties, shall open at two o'clock L. m
, ana close at four O'Clock p. M, on the
Upon the closing OF the polls in the
said several voting places, the election
officers shall publicly count the ballot,
3 IN the presence of such electors as desire
i to be present, and publicly announce the
t result, and shall make certificates in
d duplicate, stating in words at length the
y number of votes received by each persor
= voted for, for delegate or alternate to sale
$ Convention, and the said certificate shal
= be signed by the election officers, or
n majority of them; one of said certificates
;. shall be given to the delegates elected
I and the other OF said certificates shall bt
forwarded to William T. Smithers, Esq.
at Dover, Delaware.
BY order of the Union Republican Stat,
I Central Committee, made at Dover thi
h second day of April, A. D., 1900.
! j. FRANK ALLEE,
u W. L. SMIrHERs, Chairman.