The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-03-02

nakes-Basls of Representation In the
Territorial Convention Depend on the
strength Of Democratic Clubs In
Each Section. Enrolment Form
To the Democracy of the Indian Ter
ritory:
Pnrsuant to the call of the chair
man. the democratic executive COM
mittee of the Indian Territory met at
south McAlesIer, /. t., for the pur-
nose of fixing the time and place of
holding the Democratic Territorial
Convention, and the basis OF repre-
sentation therein. and thereupon the
following resolutions were introduc-
ed and adopted:
Whereas, the National Executive
Oommittee has named the Fourth
day of July 1900, as the day for bold
;no the Democratic National Con-
vention, to-wit: at Kansas City, Mo-,
and,
Whereas, it is within the province
and the duty of this executive COM
mit.ee to provide for the necessary
preliminaries; now, therefore be 1t
Resolved, That the officers of
the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of the Indian Territory be, and
they are hereby instructed to call
without delay, Territorial Conven-
ton to be held in the city of Ardmore,
|. T., at 10 o'clock a. m. on the 18th
day of June, 1900, Tor the purpose OF
selecting a National Committeeman,
and one delegate each from the
Cherokee, Greek, Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations (Ihe Seminole ma
ton to be considered attached to the
Greek, and the Quapaw to the Cher
okee nations) and two delegates at
large to the National Democratic
Convention at Kansas City, Mo-, and
also to transact such other business
as may regularly come before said
Territorial Convention.
That the basis of representation al
said Territorial Convention shalt be
one vote for each fifty votes, or ma
iority portion of fifty votes, of local
Democratic Clubs that shall have
organized under the regular cali,
and shall have subscribed to the
qualifications adopted by this execU-
tive committee. Provided, that each
club shall have at least one repre-
sentative in case its membership is
less than fifty.
That the qualifications for mem
bership in local Democratic Clubs
shall be the unqualified pledge to
support the democratic party and
democratic tickets in all contests
where the regularly organized DEM
ocracy shall have named q partisan
ticket; and the equally unqualified
Endorsement of the democratic plat
form as promulgated at Chicago in
1896.
That all local clubs shall be organ
lied under the regular call of recog-
nized democratic party authority
that in all cases precedence shall be
given to old re-organized clubs, and
that only ,one club be recognized in
any city or town.
That all persons over the age OF
sixteen years who possess the fore
going qualifications, and who shall
subscribe to the roll of membership
hereinafter set forth, shall be en-
titled to membership in local clubs
Provided, that members under the
age of twenty-one years shall be en-
rolled as honorary members only
and shall not be entitled to represen-
tation in the Territorial Convention
The following form of membership
rolls is prescribed for the use OF loca
clubs:
"ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP"
1--WE, the undersigned residents o.
the Indian Territory, over the age
of sixteen years, hereby and hereto
respectively subscribe and enroll
our names as members OF th'
Democratic club of -- for ant
during the campaign of 1900, in th'
contest for the Office of president o
the United States, pledging our
selves, each of US, to support an'
defend as best we can, the pIinclplei
enunciated in the Democratic Ma
tionai Platform adopted by the Dem
ocratic Convention of Chicago, II
1895 and those that may be adde's
in the 1900 National Democratic Con
vention. at Kansas City, Mo-
The foregoing roll, when suoscrin
ed by tie members thereof, shall b
subscribed by the affidavit OF IN
president and secretary of the re
spectiye local club in manner a
follows:
I'VE, the undersigned, preslden
and secretary of the -- Demo
cratic club, do solemnly swear tina
the above and foregoing roll OF men
bership of said club, consisting
names, is true and correct, an
that each member of said club sui
scribed above receives his mail
postot1ice, which is the pos
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