The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-24

for the purpose of looking into the merits
ating candidates have completed their
work and the result is published below.
The convention will meet again on Satur-
day morning next at 10. O'Clock. Following
are the rules prepared by the committee:
Rules of the Republican Party of Burlington
County, regulating, concerning and govern
ing nominations and party affairs
RULE 1.
The Republican voters of the county of Bur
1ington shall annually on the third Saturday in
election districts for the purpose of e1ecting one
member of the county committee, and also vote
to nominate the Republican candidates for the
respective Legislative and county offices. The
polls shall open at O'Clock and remain open
til O'Clock P NJ. Every Republican voter in the
county may deposit at the poll at VIII ch he is en-
titled to vote at the coming Fall election, print
ed ticket furnished by the County Executive
| Committee with the name of the candidate and
the Office he is voted for printed written there
on, also shall have the right to designate on said
ticket his first and second choice of candidate
for said office, but the candidate voted for
ond choice said ticket shall not be the same
one voted for first choice, and if voted the
second choice in that particular shall not be
counted.
/ RULE II.
ALI nominations for any legislative county
office shall be made in writing by at least ten Re
publican voters of the county, accompanied by
the acceptance of the candidate, agreeing to
abide by the result of the election officially de-
lc1ared, stating by whom made and the offlce des-
| ignated, upon blanks prepared for that purpose
by the County Executive Committee and may be
sent to the Secretary of the County Executive
Committee to be entered by him in the book to be
prepared and kept for that purpose, or handed to
any member of the County Executive Committee
| on or before the Saturday preceding the nomi-
mating election, on which day the County Execu-
tive Committee shall meet at Mount Holly at 2
O'Clock P. M, to which meeting the names SO
| given in for nomination shall be forwarded. The
| Committee shall then at once prepare and have
| printed a ticket having upon it the names of the
candidates which have been so received, the par
ticu1ar Office for which they candidates, and
the number to be voted for, on the back of which
| ticket shall be printed the words Regular Re-
publican nomination ticket for
| %; after the word for in each case shall
| follow the date of the primary election and the
facsimile of the signature of the chairman of the
County Executive Committee, which ticket shall
| be the Republican nominating ticket and shall
be ready for distribution in the various election
districts at least two days before the nominating
election There shall also be on said ticket
blank space left for the insertion by printing or
writing the name of the person to be elected as
| member of the county committee for each cleo
ton district. One-ha1f of the quantity Of said
| tickets may be divided among the candidates
| upon application, but the other half must be
taken to the polls and be there ready for the vot-
at the hour of opening the polls, said tickets
shall be arranged and printed SO that the voter
can designate thereon his first and second choice
of candidate for any office voted for, except the
member of the county committee; should any
ticket voted contain nAare names not marked off
for any particular Office, than the proper number
to be voted for at that time then in that particu
lar the said ticket shall be void, but in all other
respects it shall be counted. All double tickets
and all tickets which do not have the endorse
ment above provided printed on the back
| thereof shall be void. In order to provide for
the secrecy of the ballot the County Executive
manner of preparing and depositing ballots, con-
| forming as nearly as possible to the methods
now pursued in conducting general elections
RULE III.
11afo, do5 e.. D,,1a e1.a ha
called by the County Executive Committee by
notices put up in at least five conspicuous places
eight days prior to the election and by publica-
ton in at least two newspapers in the county. |
Said call shall designate the purpose, time and
place of said election.
RULE ".
The County Executive Committee shall appoint
three persons in each election district E1ec
ton Board of said district, one of whom shall be
a member of the County Committee for said Dis |
trict except when he shall be candidate for Of
flee other than reelection. They shall appoint |
from their own number clerk and Judge of said |
Board conduct the election Judge of the qua1f- |
cation of voters decide all challenges, and at the
close of the polls shall at proceed to count
the votes and when counted shall declare who is
elected member of the County Committee for |
the district, and they shall further make out |
correct return of the entire result of said election
together with the whole number of names on the
po11bOok, together with two duplicate copies
thereof under their signature, or majority OF
them attested by the clerk, and forward one copy
of said return by the member of the County Com
mittee of the district some other member of the
Election Board appointed by them Tor that pur- |
pose, to meeting of the County Executive COM |
mittee on the Tuesday next following the election
at p. M. They shall also send certified copy /
of the result of the election by mail to the secre
tary of the County Executive Committee and in /
the absence of the County Committee from any |
the returns, the County Executive Committee |
may demand and receive from said secretary the |
return from said election district.
RULE v
IF Tho Of 41,a
Election Board be absent at the time of opening |
of polls in their district, the Republican voters
present shall proceed to fill all vacancies in the
Board, aud the officers so appointed shall per
form the duties of such officers the same as those
whose places they have been chosen to fill. The
newly-elected members of the County Committee
shall assume Office on the Tuesday next succeed
ing their election.
The Clerk of the Election Board shall register
in a poll book provided for that purpose, the
names of all persons voting at such election at
the time the ballot is cast, numbering the same
from one onward. In counting the votes at the
close of the polls that have been cast during the
election, they shall be so counted and the tally
list so kept that it will show the number of votes
that have been cast first choice for each candf-
date, and the number of votes that have been cast
as second choice for the same candidate for any
particular office designated on the ticket.
RULE VII.
The County Executive Committee shall meet at
the Court House in Mount Holly on the Tuesday
following the nominating election at P. NJ. A
majority being quorum. They shall canvass
and officially declare from the returns the result
of the nominating election in the following man
uer:-
First They shall proceed to canvass the re-
turns of all the votes cast as first choice for each
the ticket, and the candidate having majority
of all the votes so for said Office, shall be
declared by said committee, the Republican NOM
nee for that Office for the ensuing year.
Second Should no candidate receive major
ty of all the votes cast as first choice for any
particular office designated on said ticket, then
County Executive Committee Shall proceed |
to canvass the returns of all the votes cast sec
ond choice for each candidate for that Office and
the candidate having majority OF all second |
choice votes cast, shall be, and be so declared
by said committee, the Republican nominee for
that Office provided ma jority of second choice
votes shall equal the number of votes which
would have been required as a majority OF the
first choice votes.
Third : Should no nomination of candidate
for any office be made by counting the first choice
votes for each candidate and nomination be
made by counting the second choice votes for
each candidate, the committee shall next proceed
and add together the first choice votes and the
second choice votes that each candidate has re-
ceved for that particular Office and the candidate
having the highest number of votes cast at the
nominating election, shall be, and be SO declared
by the committee, the Republican nominee for
said Office.
Fourth: Should no nomination of a candidate
for any Office be made by canvassing the returns
In either of the above three methods, then in that
case, the County Executive Committee shall inn
mediate1y order special election between the
two candidates having the highest combined
number of first and second choice votes for the
particular office or offices. The said special cleo
ton to be held in the same place and in the same
manner the preceding election, except that the
committee shall be required to give only five
days notice by posting III each election district;
one copy of the returns of said special election
shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Coun-
ty Executive Committee and another copy to
meeting of the County Executive Committee by
the member of the County Committee of the dis
trict some member of the Election Board ap-
pointed by them for that purpose to be held on
the third day after the election and canvassed at
the same place and hour as the first canvass, and
the candidate receiving majority of the votes
shall be declared the Republican nominee for
that Office.
Fifth: Before the County Executive Committee
shall make their official declaration of any nomi
nee or nominees they shall give an opportunity
for contesting the nomination of all or any OF
them, which contest shall be tried by the County
Executive Committee and the County Committee
Jointly, majority to decide, and if any fraud or
or fraudulent practice sufficient to have changed
the result be proved, or in case of tie votes be-
tween candidates for any particular Office, then
in either of these cases the said joint committee
shall have power to order a new election, or to
take such other action in deciding the matter as
majority of the said joint committee may deem,
for the best interest of the candidate or party.
RULE VIII.
The cost of printing tickets, posters, advertis-
ing blanks, books, and all other necessary ex-
penses connected with the nominating election
shall be borne by the candidates and the County
Executive Committee shall have power to deter
mine the amount required from each, and shall
have been presented; the said committee shall
also that proper and safe ballot boxes are pro-
vided for and on hand at each election district.
RULE TX.
No candidate for nomination for legislative or
county officer shall act as a member of the Elec-