The sun., 1900-05-22
On Thursday, August %, 1900,


of Dover
On Thursday, August %, 1900,
1t half past ten o'clock IL 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 ., 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 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 filed by
persons chosen by the electors of the
State OF Delaware at the General Elec-
ton 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 Cunyen-
ton, are required at said convention to
elect member OF the Union Republican
state Central Committee o. 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 county at their re-
spectlve 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 tc
choose and elect in each Representative
district aforesaid, by plurality of yotel
: cast therein, five delegates and five
Z alternates to said convention, except il
districts numbers two and three of New
I Castle county, in each of which las
: mentioned Representative districts the,
:, shall choose and elect ten delegates anc
ten alternates to said convention.
The polls in New Castle County, th,
e day appointed for said county, shal
II open at one O'Clock p. M, and close a
seven O'Clock p. 10 In Kent and SUISSE.
! counties, the day appointed for sait
q counties, shall open at two o'clock =. m
j and close at four O'Clock p. m, on thu
L day aforesaid.
2 Upon the closing of the polls in th
e said severs voting places, the election
s officers shall publicly count the ballot
u in the presence of such electors as desii
e to be present, and publicly announce th
q result, and shall make certificates il
duplicate, stating in words at length til
i number OF votes received by each persoi
Il voted for for delegate or alternate to sal
u Convention, and the said certificate shal
Y be signed by the election officers, or
g majority OF them; one Of said certificate
& shall be given to the Gel gates elected
y, and the other of said certificates shall L
Il forwarded to William L. Smithe1s, Esa,
Y at Dover, Delaware.
le BY order OF the Cnion Republican Stat
n Central Committee, made at Dover thi
second day OF April, A. d., 1900.
u j. FRANK ALLEE
w. u. SMlTHERs, Chairman.
Secretary