Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-11
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RULES
Will Be Submitted to The Voters of Waterbury For Con-
 firmaton on Thursday of This Week.


 when assembled as provided herein.
 nominate candidates for the following offices:
 Mayor, city clerk, tax collector. comptroller, treasurer, board of relief,
 sheriff and agent of the Bronson li-
 brary fund.
 The delegates to the town conven-
 tionS shall name candidates for the fol lowing offices:
 Selectmen, town clerk. constables. registrar of voters, and all other cleo
 i've town officials not especially men,
 t1oned in this section. Tn years when representatives and justices of the
 peace are elected, said convention shall
 adjourn until after the local elections, and shall then meet at the call of the chairman of the town convention At said adjourned meeting said conven-
 t1on shall nominate candidates for the off1ce Of representatives and justices of the peace.
 The delegates to the school conyen- tion shall nominate candidates for the board of education.
 All nominations of candidates for office and all election of delegates shall be made by open vote, the secretary
 calling the roll and such delegate nam. ing his choice. A majority vote of
 any convention shall be sufficient and
 necessary to nominate candidates or elect delegates as the case may be. All vacancies in the nomination for offices made by the different conven-
 tions shall be filled by the town com nlittee.
 DEMOCRATIC TOWN COMMITTEE. l. There shall be chosen by the
 town convention of 1904, and biennial ly thereafter, a town committee, con, s1stfng of three members from each
 ward. The committee chosen by the town convention of 1904, shall take office immediately and shall serve un- til January 1st, 1907, and the commit tee elected biennially thereafter shall take office on the first Of January sue ceeding their election, and shall serve for term of two years.
 ?. Said committee shall subject to the provisions of these rules, have general supervision of the democratic party in the town of Waterbury and shall have power to organize ward committees in such number and in such manner constituted as in it's Judgment seems advisable, and shall, Immediately upon it's organization, ap- point a committee on finance and a committee on registration.
 5. Should any vacancy exist in the town committee at any time, said va cancy shall be filled by vote of the re- maining members of the committee, provided that the member elected by the town committee shall be a resi- dent of the same ward as the former member. 4. Said town committee shall elect a chairman who may. or may not be a member of said committee, vice. chairman and secretary, who shall be, and treasurer, who shall not be, a member of said town committee. 5. The duties of said chairman, yice-chairman, secretary and treas lurer shall be such as are
 usually performed by such officers, in addition to such duties as are i'm posed upon them by these rules. 6. All votes or rules heretofore adopted for the government of the democratic party in the City of Water
 bury are hereby repealed. '. There shall be levied annually by the town committee upon all dem
 ocratic office holders and candidates
 for office an assessment of 5 per cent of the annual salary received, for the
 purpose of drefrayfng election and other incidental expenses, which shall
 be paid to the treasurer.
 Where there is no salary attached to the office the amounts shall be as fol lows: Candidates for aldermen in | fourth and fifth wards, $10.O0; board l of education, $1O.O0; justices of the peace, $500; constables, $1000. g. The secretary of the town conn mittee shall send notices to all candi- dates for office within forty-eight hours of their nomination of the amount of assessment levied upon them by the democratic town commit 1 tee. which alone shall have the power to levy such assessments. g. If any candidate shall fail to pay the assessment levied against him ] on or before the first Friday night preceding the elections, his nomina- ton shall be deemed null and void, and the town committee shall proceed 1 by ballot to fill said vacancy, and nom- ination then made by this method shall be of full force and validity.
 10. All moneys paid to the town or any subcommittee, shall be turned over to the treasurer, who shall de- posit the same in some bank selected by the town committee, to the credit of the democratic town committee. No money shall be drawn from said fund except upon written order signed by the chairman and treasurer. Subsequent to each election report shall be prepared by the officers of the town committee giving an itemized
 statement covering receipts and ex-
 penses, and submitted to subscribers to the party funds at meeting called for that purpose.
 AMENDMENTS TO RULES. The foregoing rules upon being sub- mitted to the democratic voters of the city of Waterbury, and ratified by them shall not be amended or re pealed except in the following man. her:
 All proposed amendments shall be presented to the chairman of the dem- ocratic town committee at least fif> teen days before the holding of any regular primary as hereinbefore pro, yided, and shall be by said chairman iucornora ted in his calI for said Dri