The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-23
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.

VIM. M Webb, MOrehead City.
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
At the request of Democrats in several
counties we print below the plan of or
ganization of the Democratic party.
1. The unit of county organization
shall be the voting precincts. In each
precinct there shall be an Executive Com
mittee, to consist of five active Demo-
Gratis, who shall be elected by the Demo-
cratic voters at the several precincts in
the meetings first called by the County
Executive Committee. And said COM
mittee so elected shall elect one of it's
members as chairman who shall preside
at all committee meetings.
q The chairmen of the several pre-
cinct committees shall compose the
County Executive Committee, which shall
meet at the same time and place as the
County Convention first held in each
election year, and elect a chairman of
said County Committee, who need not
be a member of the committee, and he
shall preside at all meetings of said
committee, and shall hold his place until
his successor shall be elected. A ma
jority of said precinct chairmen, in per-
son or by proxy shall constitute a quo
rum. The County Committee shall like
wise appoint a Central Committee of five,
who shall act in it's stead when the
County Committee is not in session.
3. In case there shall be failure on
the part of any precinct to elect it's Ex-
ecutive Committee for the period of thir-
ty days, the County Executive Commit
tee shall appoint said committee from
the Democratic voters of said precinct.
4. The members of the Precinct Com
mittee shall elect to any vacancy oc-
curing in said committee.
5. The County Executive Committee
shall call all necessary County Conven-
tions, by giving at least ten days notice
by public advertisement in three public
places in..each precinct, at the court
house door and in any Democratic news
papers that may be published in said
county requesting all Democrats of the
county to meet in their respective pre-
cincts on a common day therein stated,
which said day shall not be less than
three days before the meeting of the
County Conventions, for the purpose of
electing their delegates to the County
Conventions. Thereupon the meeting so
resent the precincts in the County Con-
vention from the voters of the respec-
tive voting precincts. which delegates, or
such of them as shall attend. shall vote
the full Democratic strength of their re-
spective voting precincts on all ques-
tions that may come before said County
Conventions. In case no meeting shall
be held in any precinct in pursuance of
said call. or no election shall be made
the Precinct Executive Committee shall
appoint such delegates.
PRIMARIES.
6. At every precinct meeting there
shall (before delegates to the County
Convention are elected) be a vote taken
for the different candidates for office,
whose names may be presented and the
delegates shall vote in the County Con-
vention of their respective districts in
accordance with this vote: that is to say,
each candidate shall receive in the Coun-
ty Convention that proportion of the vote
to which the precinct may be entitled
which he received in the precinct meet
ing. The chairman and secretary OF the
precinct meeting shall certify to the
County Convention the vote received by
each candidate at the precinct meeting.
T. Each precinct shall be entitled to
cast in the County Convention, one vote
for every twenty-five Democratic votes,
and one vote for fractions of thirteen
Democratic votes cast by the township
at the last preceding gubernatorial cleo
ton Provided, That every voting pre-
cinct shall be entitled to cast at least
one vote, and each precinct may send as
many delegates as it may see fit.
8. The chairmen of the Precinct Com
mittees shall preside at all precinct
meetings In their absence any other
member of said committees may pre-
side.
COUNTY AND DISTRICT CONVEN-
TIONS.
1. The several County Conventions
shall be entitled to elect to their Sena-
torial, Judicial and Congressional Con-
ventions one delegate and one alternate
for every fifty Democratic votes, and one
delegate for fractions of over twenty five
Democratic votes cast at the last pre-
ceding gubernatorial election in their
respective counties; and none but dele
gates or alternates so elected shall be
entitled TO a seat in said convention;
Provided. That every county shall have
at least one vote in each of said con-
vcntions. Provided. further, That in all
County Conventions in which delegates
shall be selected to attend any State
Congressional judicial or other conven-
ton, vote shall be taken in accordance
with the plan OF organization as to the
candidates whose names may be pre-
sented to sucn County Convention. The
delegates shall be selected from the
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