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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-
sist of five delegates from each of the
thirty. five 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 2 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 Governor; one candidate
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.
ton in A. D., 1900, and for the purpose
ot tfansactlng such other business as
shall be laid before said Convention.
The delegates Of each Senatorial dis
trlct OF the State, to said State Conven-
ton, ure required at said convention to
elect a member OF the Union Republican
state Central Committee oil Delaware to
serve tor q term of two years and until
his successor shall be chosen and quail.
lied; 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 wnc
are willing to aid in accomplishing the
overthrow OF the Democratic party in
Delaware, are hereby requested to as
semble in 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 18th day of August, A. D.,
1900, and then and there by ballot &c
choose and elect in each Representative
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
shall choose and elect ten delegates and
ten alternates to said convention,
The polls in New Castle County, the
day appointed for said county, shall
open at one O'Clock p. M, and close al
seven O'Clock p. 10 In Kent and Sussex
counties, the day appointed for said
counties, shall open at two O'Clock &, m,
and close at four O'Clock p. M, on the
day aforesaid.
pom the closing Of the polls in the
sald several voting places, the election
officers shall publicly count the ballots
in the presence Of 81 ch electors as desire
to be present, and publicly announce the
result, and shall make certificates III
duplicate, stating IN words at length the
numbero oil votes received by each person
yeted tor, ior delegate or alternate to said
1 Convention, and the said certificate shall
be signed by the election officers, or j
majority Of them; one Of said certificates
shall be given TO the delegates elected
and the other d said certificates Shall bt
forwarded to William T. Smithels, ESQ,
at Dover, Delaware.
by order OF the Union Republican State
Central Committee, made at Dover TIL.
second day Of April, A. D., 1900.
j. FRANK ALIEE,
". y. sMlrHERs, Chairman.
Secretary.