The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03


convention. The conventions shall be com
| posed OF delegates from each election district
1 the number to be determined by the number
OF Republican votes cast at the preceding
Presidential, Gubernatorial or Congressional
election, in che ratio Of one 81 delegate fol
each fifty (50) Republican votes OF traction
ton district shall nave less than two "a dele
gates.
The temporary ana permanent cnairmen
ana secretaries of all conventions. shall be SO.
lected by the delegates present from their
number
The time ana places OF holding the conven.
lions shall be designated by the County Elk
ecutlve Committee, of which one convention
shall be held al Mount Holly, and others, ii
any, at such other place or places as the coun-
| ty executive committee shall direct; all con-
ventions shall be called for the same Gay and
hour.
2. There shall be county executive COM
mittee consisting of seven % members, who
shall be appointed jointly by the permanent
chatrmen OF the several conventions. Who
shall meet IN Mount Holly for that purpose,
on the Saturday following the day of such
conventions, at 10 A. M.
3. 1t shall be the duty OF the executive COM
mittee to call all county conventions; also all
meetings in the several election districts, for
the election OF delegates to state, county or
congressional district conventions. The call
convention for nominations OF candidates,
shall also direct the selection at the same time
and place OF member Of the advisory COM
mittee for each election district.
T. The executive committee, by publication
in the Republican papers or the county, for a
period OF not less than TWO weeks, and also by
the posting OF printed notices in public places,
for period OF five days prior 10 the time of
such primary election and pr1or to the time
for the assembling of any state, county or con-
gressional district convention shall call upon
The Republican voters of the county to meet
in their respective election districts for the
be entitled to. The call of the executive COM
mittee, as provided for above, shall also desig-
ines SHAH l Be held. which day shall not be less
than three, nor more than twelve days before
the meeting of the convention. The call shall
also state the number of delegates to be elect
cd and the place where, and the time when
such elections shall be held. The posters put
up by the executive committee in the various
election districts, shall be signed by the chair
man or secretary of the committee, or both,
and shall he posted up in not less than three
conspicuous ana public places in each of said
s. No person shall be eligible as delegate
to any county convention or be entitled to
act OF vote therein as such, unless ne be res
represent when any vacancy occurs in the
representation, and alternates or substitutes
have not been appointed such vacancy shall
be hlled by the delegates In attendance from
such election district.
g. The county executive committee shall
have the general direction of the canvas and
election. and for that purpose shall have the
power to call meetings of the advisory COM
mittee whenever in their Judgment the same
duty of the advisory committee to aid, assist
and advise the executive committee In all
matters relating to the canvas and election in
their respective districts, and they shall also
be the chairmen OF the executive committees
in the said election districts.
me ADVISORY committeeman OF each elect
ion district shall Within one week after the
date OF the county convention, present to the
county executive committee the name OF not
tr1ct for appointment as an executive COM
mtttee for such district
T. Each county convention shall be called
committee. The order OF business shall then
be as follows, viz:
First-The election of temporary chair
man and secretaries as provided in :Arti-
second--The chairman shall appoint the
following committees
Committee on credentials.
F." f" rules.
+" " resolutions
Each committee to consist OF three (3)
TThlrd.,RepOrto fcommittee on credentials.
organization. As soon as the permanent
organ iZatiOn is effected.
Fifth-Report of the committee on rules.
Sixth - Nominations. In conventions
where more than one candidate is to be
selected, the nominations shall be made
in the following order
Members of Assembly.
Auditor.
COroners.
Seventh-Report OF the committee on res
Observation-Disclosures business.
8. The rule for the balloting In all conven-
tiOns shall be: After three ballots shall have
been taken, and no nomination made, from
and after the third ballot the name OF the cam
didate receiving the lowest number of votes
shall be dropped from the list and this shall
be continued at every subsequent ballot until
the nomination is made; provided, however,
that when upon the third ballot no candidate
receives the lowest number OF votes, by rea-
son of two or more candidates having the
same number, then an additional ballot shall
be taken, without dropping the name of any
candidate, and should the same tie continue
and no nomination be made, then, from and
after the fourth ballot the name OF all such
candidates who are the lowest, but who re-
dropped from the list; provided, further, that
the said lowest candidates shall not be dropped
so long as their united vote shall be major
fty of the convention.
9. These rules shall not be modified, changed
or repealed except by regular convention OF
the delegates to which shall be elected in the
same manner as is herein provided for other
conventions; but any convention shall have
the power to modify or change the same by
two-Jhfrds vote OF the members of such con-
ventiOn, such modification or change to be
the rule for that convention only, and not to
be binding upon any subsequent convention.
10. 1t shall be the duty OF the secretary of
the county executive committee annually, i'm
medIately after the organization of said COM
mittee, to forward not less than four (4) cop
les of these rules to the member OF the advis-
DRY committee of each election district
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON,
NEWTON MORTON,
WIN. l.. JAMES,
HENRY j. IRICK,
HENRY z. THORN.
Col Sloan moved that the report be
adopted as an entirety, but he withdrew it
until the rules recommended by the com
mittee had been read. Then John G.
Horner, of Palmyra, offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That this convention, met to re-
celve the report of the committee appointed
to revise the rules OF the Republican party in
and Recommendations presented by the COM
mittee, and be it further
Rssotnad, That this convention take a recess
unit urday, the 18th day of May, 1900, and
I'd, That the committee heretofore ap-
.ycfnted TO revise the rules be continued, and
that said committee be enlarged by the addi-
ton of four members whom the chairman of
this convention is authorized, empowered
and directed to forthwith appoint;
ResotUed, That the committee constituted as
aforesaid, be directed to prepare q set of rules.
regulating, concerning and governing nomi-
nations and party affairs founded upon what
is generally known as the Crawford county
SYSTEM to be presented on Nav H. 1900
Resolved That the rules as prepared by
that committee, in abstract, be published in
not less than two Republican newspapers OF
this county at least one week prior to May
IL, 1900.
This resolution was discussed at length.
Mr.. Horner thought the committee had
been fair and intended to offer good rules,
but the result of their labors should be
studied by the people and the only way in
which that could be done was to have
them made public. 1t is generally con-
ceded that the time has come for the party
to get closer to the people, and there is no
better system to secure this end than the
Crawford county system. There was
some objection to it on the ground that it
Is expensive, but Mr.. Horner doubted if it
could be more costly than the present sys-
TEN of electing delegates.
Col Sloan, while in sympathy with
much that Mr. Horner had said, was not
in favor of delay. The chief objection to
the report was because of failure to in
corporate the Crawford county system.
Let an amendment be offered to cover that
point
Mr.. Horner thought that it would be
impossible for any man to prepare an
amendment in a moment to cover this
question 1t requires study and more
than one days consideration.
Mr.. Roney, of Beverly, said the Craw
ford county system was the proper thing
to discuss. He believed every one present
was actuated by desire to do what he