Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-28
DEMOCRATIC PARTY RULES.

Rule l. The Chairman OF the Demo
cratic county executive committee shall
call an election to be held on the last
Saturday in May in every year OF
general election. and said call shall be
issued at least 20 days prior to SAID
election In case Of the death or dis
ability OF the chairman aforesaid, such
election shall be called by the secretary
of the said committee. said election
shall be held by the inspectors and judges
who held the last Democratic primary
election, at the usual voting places m the
several wards OF Wilmington and the
respective hundreds throughout the
I county. between the hours of 4 p m. and
I z p. M, ct which one person from each
/ ward in Wilmington. and one person from
| each hundred outside OF Wilmington shall
be elected
Every white male citizen who will be
| entitled to vote al the ensuing general
1 election may vote a. this election held
/ the last Saturday in May, provided that
/ It is distinctly understood. whether by
/ question from judges or otherwise, that
such citizen is a member OF the Demo-
cratic party
Any person offering to vote and who
for apparent good cause is challenged,
shall be required to take the following
oath or affirmation:
"You solemnly swear (or afirm) that
you are az this time a bona fde resident
of this primary election district for this
election, and chat you are a member OF
the party authorizing this election, and
that you will be a qualified voter OF the
next ensuing general election, so help you
God Tor 50 you solamnly affirm.
The person so elected as aforesaid in
! Wilmington, shall meet in some suitable
place on the Tuesday following said
election al o. clock p. m. and elect three
persons who shall be the members Of the
county executive committee for Whining
ton hundred, and shall perform the duties
hereinafter prescribed by rule Z. No
person so elected to said convention in
Wilmington shall be eligible as a member
of the county executive committee.
Where there is a contest Of two per-
sons to be voted for at said primary
elections, representatives of the interest
Of each candidate shall be as nearly
equally divided as possible as to the
board of election officers, and where
there are more than two persons con-
testing for the same office. no candidate
shall he entitled to more than one repre-
sentative in said board of election officers
The persons so elected as aforesaid
from the several hundreds outside of Viii
mington shall be the members of the
county executive committee of their re-
spective hundreds. and shall perform the
duties hereinafter prescribed by rule z.
The county executive committee shall
cause to be prepared and delivered to
each inspector and Judge appointed to
hold the said election on the last Satur-
day in May, printed copy of the follow
ing oath or affirmation which shall be
taken by each Inspector and judge
Il do solemnly swear Tor affirm that
in the election to be held on the -
day Of May, A. d., | viii not knowingly
or wilfully receive or consent TO the re-
ceiving Of the vote of any person whom
l shall believe not entitled to vote, unless
my associates shall adiudge such person
to be entitled to vote. That l VII not
receive or reject, nor concur in receiving
or rejecting any vote through partiality
OF under bias and that l will determine
every matter that shall come before me
and perform every act and duty required
of me in conducting said election truly,
faithfully and impartially, according 10
the best of my skill and judgment; that
I will cause the ballots that shall be taken
! NA ctAlu NAiANAOI ~ nN ANlAN ANtiA AllAA h1NGl-
tanned and a true statement thereof TO
be made, according to the best of my
knowledge and ability, so help me God
(0r so / solemnly affirm J"
Each inspector shall take and sub
scribe to the said oath before a notary
public, or justice Of the peace Of New
Castle county, and said oath after being
duly taken and subscribed to by each
inspector, shall be returned to and be in
possession of the chairman of the county
executive committee, at least "a hours
before the time OF opening said election
on the said last Saturday in May. If any
inspector shall fail to perform the duty
required OF him in this paragraph, the
member Of the county executive COM
mittee from his hundred, or if in Will
mington the members of the county
executive committee from Wilmington
shall appoint another inspector who will
take the prescribed OATH
Each of the said two judges shall
choose one clerk to whom the Inspector
shall administer the following oath oi
affirmation:
81 do solemnly swear (or affirm that
as clerk of this election, to be this day
held, l will not use or assent to any
falsehood, fraud OF deceit, and that ]
will keep the polls and perform my duties
truly, faithfully and impartially, so help
me God (or so l solemnly affirm"
At the time for closing the polls OF
the election held ON the last Saturday
in May, the presiding officer shall pub
licly proclaim in a clear and distinct
voice the number Of votes that have been
cast at such election as shown by the poll
) lists. After closing the polls, the pre-
siding officer and judges shall openly and
f publicly remove the lid OF the box con-
tanning the ballots. The ballots shall be
taken separately from the box. One OF
the judges shall keep in his custody the
} said box while the other Judge shall pub
licly take the ballots, one by one, from
! the box and read the same aloud. When
a ballot shall he read It shall be sub
mitted to each of the other Judges for
inspection and put in another box pro-
vided for this purpose, it being first seen
that the said box is empty. Two clerks
at least shall keep an accurate account
Of the ballots as they are read. At the
close of the canvass of the ballots cast
, for each candidate, the inspector shall
! publicly announce the vote and the re-
suit of the canvass. The inspectors and
judges shall make a certificate Of the re-
suit and forward the same at once to the
chairman Of the last county executive
committee, or TO the secretary Of the said
committee in case Of the death or dis
ability of the chairman aforesaid, who
shall publish the same in all the Demo
cratic papers Of the county The in
spectors and judges shall keep the boxes
containing the ballots. the rolls and tally
lists to be subject to the county execu-
tive committee or the executive com
mittees Of the hundreds The voters oi
each ward in Wilmington and the
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