The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-05-05
PLAN OF ORGAN.
IZATION.


l. The unit of county organization
shall be the voting precincts. In each
precinct there shall be an Executive
Committee, to consist of FIVE active
Democrats, who shall be elected by
the Democratic voters at the several
precincts in the meeting first called by
the County Executive Committee.
And said committee so elected shall
elect one OF Its members as chairman
who shall preside at all committee
meetings.
2. The chairmen of the several
precinct committees shall compose the
County Executive Committee, which
shall meet at the same time and place
as the County Conyentlon first held in
each election year, and elect a chair
man OF said County Committee, who
need not be a member Of the commit
tee and he shall preside at all meetings
OF said committee, and shall hold his
place until his successor shall be elect
ed. A majority of said precinct chair
men, in person or by proxy, shall con-
stltute quorum. The County Com
mittee shall likewise appoint 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 q failure
on the part Of any precinct to elect It's
Executive Committee for q period Of
thirty days, the County Executive
Committee shall appoint said commit
tee from the Democratic. voters Of SAL
precinct.
4. The members of the Precinct
Committee shall elect to any vacancy
occurring in said committee.
5. The County Executive Commit
tee shall call all necessary conventions
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
newspapers that may be published in
said county, requesting all Democrats
of the county 10 meet In their respect
I've precincts On a common day therein
stated, which said day shall not be lees
than three days before the meeting of
the County Convention, for the pur-
pose Of electing their delegates to the
County Conventions. Thereupon the
meeting 20 held shall elect their dele
gates to represent the precincts in the
County Convention from the voters of
the respective voting precincts, which
delegates, or such Of them as shall at
tend, shall vote the full Democratic
strength OF their respective voting pre-
cincts on all questions that may come
before said County Conventions. In
case no meeting shall be held in anv
precinct In pursuance of said call. or
no election shall be made, the Precinct
Executive Committee shall apnoint
such delegates.
PRIMARIES,
6. At every precinct meeting there
shall (before the delegates to the Coun-
ty Convention are elected) be a vote
taken for the different candidates fnr
ofhce, whose names NAV be presented
and the delegates shall vote In the
County Convention of their respective
districts In accordance with this vote
that Is to say, each candidate shall ~
ceive In the County Convention IT,.
proportion Of the vote to which the
precinct may be entitled which he n.
celved In the precinct meeting. The
chairman and secretary of the nrecinct
meeting shall certify to the Counts
Convention the vote received bv e.cn
candidate at the precinct meeting.
8. Each precinct shall be entitled
20 cast IN the County Convention ono
VOC 'or every twenty-five Democrats
yoees' ana one vote tor fractions 81
.u'rteen Democratlc votes cast by the
.ownsnip at the last preceding euberns.
1oliai election: PROVIDED, that everv
so'.ns precinct shall b entitled to
800 ~. one vote' and each precinct may
s :. - many delegates a. II may Is