The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
DEMOCRATIC PLAN OF ORGANE
ZATION.


ZATION.
/. 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 it's members as chairman
who shall preside at all committee
meetings.
2. 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 majority of said pre-
cinct chairmen, in person or by proxy,
shall constitute a quorum. The Coun-
ty Committee shall likewise appoint
Central Committee of five. who shall
act i'm its stead when the County Com
mittee is not in session.
5. In case there shall be a failure
on the part of any precinct to elect
its Executive Committee for period
of thirty days, the County Executive
Committee shall appoint said commit
tee from the Democratic voters of
said precinct.
A. The members of the Precinct
Committee shall elect to any vacancy
occurring in said committee.
;. 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 Courl-
house door, and in any Democratic
newspapers that may be published in
said county, requesting all Democrats
of the county to meet in their respect
i've precincts on a common day there
in stated, which said day shall nos be
less than three days before the .nect-
ing of the County Conventions. for
the purpose of electing their delegates
to the County Conventions. There
upon the meeting SO held shall elect
their delegates to represent the pre-
cinCtS in the County Convention from
the voters of the respective 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-
tons that may come before said Coun-
ty Conventions. In case no meeting
shall be held in any precinct in pur
suance of said call, or no election
shall be made, the Precinct Executive
Committee shall appoint such dele
gates.
Primaries.
6. AT every precinct meeting there
shall (before the delegates to the
County Convention are elected) be a
vote taken for the different candidates
q
scented and the delegates shall vote in
the County Convention of their re-
spective 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 ebe entitled which he received |
in the precinct meeting. The chair |
man and secretary of the precinct |
meeting shall certify to the County !
convention the vote received by each |
candidate at the precinct meeting.
L. Each precinct shall be entitled |
TO cast In the County Convention one
vote for every twenty-five Democratic
votes ana one vote for fractions of |
thirteen Democratic votes cast by the
township at the last preceding guber-
material election: Provided, that every
voting precinct shall be entitled 70
cast one vote. and each precinct NAV
send as many delegates as it may see
fit.
s. The chairmen of the Precinct
Committees shall preside at all pre-
cinct meetings In their absence any |
other member of said committees may |
preside.
County and District Conventions.
l. The several County Conventions |
snail be entitled to elect to their Sen |
atorial, Judicial and Congressional |
Conventions one delegate and one al |
ternate for every fifty Democratic |
votes, and one delegate for fractions |
OF over twenty-five Democratic votes |
cast at the last preceding gubernato-
rial election in their respective coun- |
ues; and none but delegates or alter
mates so elected shall be entitled to a |
seat In said convention: Provided fur
ther, that in all County Conventions |
In which delegates shall be selected |
TO attend any State, Congressional. |
Judlclal or other convention, a vote
snail De taken in accordance with the
plan or organization as to the candi- |
dates whose names may be presented |
TO such County Convention The del |
egates shall be selected from the |
trends and supporters of each can |
dldate voted for I'm proportion to the |
number of votes he shall receive in |
such County Convention, and no other
instruction shall be given: Provided |
further. that when only one candidate
is presented and voted for at such
county Convention. it shall be lawful
to instruct for such candidate.
Z. AT every County Convention jbe-