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On Monday. August 6, 1900.

On Monday, August 6, 1900,
1t half past ten o'clock II the forenoon
of that day. Said Convention shall con-
sist of five delegates from each of the
thirty.fve Representative Districts of the
State as constituted and described in the
Constitution of Delaware, Article 9, Sec.
tion 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 Eector
OF President and Vice President of the
| United States; one candidate for the
office OF Representative from Delaware
in the Filty-sixth Congress of the United
States in lieu of the Hon. John Ii. Hof-
fecker, deceased; one candidate for the
! office of Representative from Delaware
in the Flfty-seyenth Congress of the
United States; one candidate for the
Office of Governor; one candidate for the
office OF Lieutenant Governor; one cam
didate for 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 transacting such other business as
shall be laid before said Convention.
The delegates of each Senatorial dis
trict of the State, to said State Conyen-
ton, are required at said convention to
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 Nationol Republican
party, who endorse its policies and VINO
are willing to aid in accomplishing the
overthrow OF the Democratic party in
Delaware, are hereby requested to as.
semble in New Castle, Kent and Sussex
counties at their respective voting places
| on Saturday, August the fourth. A. d
1900, and then and there by ballot tc
1 choose and elect in each Rep esentative
district aforesaid, by plurality of votes
I cast therein, i've delegates and five
! alternateH to said convention, except in
districts numbers two and three OF New
Castle county, in each of which lasi
mentioned Representative districts they
I shall choose and elect ten delegates and
ten alternates to said convention.
The polls in New Ca,tle County, the
4 day appointed for said county, shall
Z open at one O'Clock p. IN, and close al
/ seven O'Clock p. IN In Kent and Sussex
counties, the day appointed for said
/ counties, shall open at two O'Clock Q. M
1 and close at four O'clock p. m., on the
I day aforesaid.
Upon the closing of the polls in the
/ said several voting places, the election
4 officers shall publicly count the ballots
in the presence of s, ch electors as desire
4 to be present, and publicly announce the
4 result, and shall make certificates ir
! duplicate, stating in words at length the
y number of votes received bv each person
voted for, for delegate or alternate to sale
Con, ention, and the said certificate shal
be signed by the election officers, or
majority OF them; one of said certficatel
shall be given to the delegates elected
and the other OF said certificates shall b,
forwarded to William T. Smithers, ESQ.
at Dover, Delaware.
Il BY order the Union Republican Stat,
4 Central Committee, made at Dover thi
u second day of April, A. D., 1900.
J. j. FRANK ALLEE,
e w. L. SMITHERs, Chairman.
Secretary.