Year: 1878

12. Before being permitted to cast vote
each person shall take, in good faith, the fol-
lowing pledge: 81 solemnly affirm that l am
duly enrolled member of this Democratic
club, that I have not voted at this election
and that will abide by and sustain all nom
nations made by the Democratic party
whether for Federal, State or county officers
A refusal to take this pledge, or any part o.
the same, shall be good ground Of challenge
and rejection.


15. When, for any cause, voter shall be
challenged, the managers may accept or re-
ject the vote thus offered. In either case, il
shall be the duty of the managers to have
entered on their poll-list statement of the
circumstances and of their action therein
and also the names of all the candidates
voted for, or offered to be voted for, by the
party challenged. The matter shall then be
decided by the county executive committee
whose decision shall be final.


H. On the close of the polls the mana
gers shall proceed, Immediately and cautious
ly, to count the votes in the same manner and
under the same regulations as are prescribed
by law for general elections.


15 When the votes shall have been count
ed, the managers shall make out, in dupli.
cate, returns showing the number Of votes
cast for each person voted for, the Office fol
which he is voted for, and the total number
of votes cast. One of these returns shall be
deposited in the ballot.box, and the other
shall be delivered to the secretary of the
club. The returns shall be signed by all the
managers; who shall likewise certify to the
correctness ofthe same.


16. The ballot-box, containing the bal.
lots, the poll.list and the certified return of
the managers-together with any other pa
pers they may deem proper to include-shall
be forthwith forwarded, securely locked, to
the secretary of the county executive commit
tee. For the purpose Of this forwarding, the
President shall select and appoint some dis.
Greet and otherwise suitable person to act as
messenger.


II. On the Tuesday next following the
day on which the primary election was held,
the county executive committee shall meet at
the Court House, at IL o'clock, m. The
secretary shall produce the certified returns
from the different clubs, and shall open and
publish the same in the presence of the COM
mittee. The committee shall then cause to be
aggregated the total vote of all the clubs and
the vote for each candidate. They shall, with.
out debate, determine all appeals, and shall
add or deduct all the votes allowed or disal-
lowed, as the case may be. The final result
shall then be summed up and declared.


1S. If any person shall have received a
majority of all the votes cast for the Office for
which he is candidate, he shall be declared
to be the nominee of the Democratic party
for such Office This declaration shall be COM
muncated to the president of each township
club, and shall be likewise published in some
newspaper issued at the county seat.


19. If for any office it be found that no
votes cast at the primary election, for such
Office, the county executive committee shall
forthwith communicate the result to the sew.
eral township clubs and, in like manner as
hereinbefore prescribed, order q second pri-
mary election to be held on the Saturday
next succeeding the meeting Of the committee.
This second election shall be held under the
same regulations as the first.


20. At such second primary election, only
the two candidates receiving the highest
number of votes at the former election shall be
voted for: Provided, That in the cases where
more than one person are to be selected for the
same Office, the executive committee shall Sc.
lect, according to the number of votes pre-
viously received, twice as many persons as
there are official positions to be filled.


81. At such second primary election, the
two or more candidates thus announced shall
be voted for, all votes for other parties being
considered as scattering and not counted.
The returns of this eletion shall be made in
the same manner as is hereinbefore prescribed
for the first.


%. Should there be no choice at the second
election, the county executive committee shall
select the nominee from the two or more can
didates voted for in the clubs.


%. The persons receiving the majority of
votes at this second election, or chosen by the
executive committee, shall be the nominees Of
the Democratic party.


24. No votes shall be counted for any can.
didate unless be shall first have pledged him.
self in writing, or in card published in .
county newpaper, to abide by and support
the nominations of the Democratic party and
to accept neither a nomination or an office
from any source other than the regularly
constituted Democratic organization.