THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
DEMOCRATIC RULES.
ARTICLE I.
OK THE PRIMARY ELECTION.
Sec. i. The annual county con
vention shall be held at Bloomsburg
the second Tuesday of June, it
o'clock in the fornoon and the primary
election shall be held on the preced
ing Saturday at the places of holding
the General Elections in the several
election districts between the hours of
3 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon.
Sec. 2. The primary election
shall be by ballot and shall be con
ducted by the Judge and two Inspec
tors of Election who shall be residents
of the district and who shall be elec
ted at the preceding Primary Election.
Their duties shall be the same as de
fined in the general election laws.
The ballots shall not be numbered.
The said officers shall be sworn to
perform their duties faithfully and as
provided by law, they shall determine
all questions of the right to vote at
said election.
They shall make a list of the voters
and make out two duplicate state
ments showing the result of such elec
tion, the total number of votes cast
and the names of the persons voted
for, and the number of votes cast for
each ; one of which statements shall
be posted upon the door of the polling
place immediately after the vote shall
have been counted tor the public in
formation ; the other of which state
ments shall be either mailed by Re
gister Letter, or sent by Special
Messenger to the address of the
County Chairman. The said election
officers shall indorse upon the enve
lope containing the same, or upon the
statement, the day and the hour of
the day when said statement was
placed in the Post Office to be sent
by register letter or of the delivery of
the same to a special messenger, to
gether with the name of the messen
ger.
The said officers shall also make
out a return sheet showing the result
of said election and a certificate to be
signed by tli2 election officers and
enclose the same, together with the
Poll Book, the tally list of voters and
the original ballots cast, in an enve
lope, which shall be securely sealed
and addressed to the chairman of the
convention, and deliver the same to
the newly elected judge of election.
The duties heretofore prescribed
to be performed under this rule shall
be performed by an election board
before separating, and in the presence
of the watchers, hereinafter provided
for to be present at such election ;
where a vote is received after obiec
tion made by any watcher or member
of election board said ballot shall be
marked with the name of the individ
ual voting it.
Sec. 3. No person shall be aliow
ed to vote at any primary election
who has voted against the democratic
candiuates at state or national elec
tions within two years ; or has oppos
ed the Democratic ticket at the last
preceding election ; or has Jtaken
money or has agreed to take money
or other thing ot value, or anv pecun
iary advantage as a consideration for
his vote at such primary election, or
corruptee or attempted to corrupt
any voter of the district with reference
to the same, or has in any wise what
soever violated the primary election
laws.
Sec. 4. The voter shall indicate
upon his ballot the person for whom
he wishes to vote to be placed in
nomination for the respective offices
by crossing off the names of all per
sons for whom he does not wish to
vote, or write upon the printed ballot.
as provided to be furnished under
these rules, the name of the person
lor whom he desires to vote to be
placed in nomination for any office.
Sec. 5. If a ballot is cast at the
primary election which does not con
tain names of all the candidates for a
particular office, it shall be the duty
ot the election officers to reject such
part of the ticket from the Cour.t.
Sec. 6. The tickets to be furnish
ed for the primary elections, as pro
vided tor in the rules, shall contain
the names of all the candidates, who
sna'l :have registered with the Chair
mart of the County Committee with
blank spaces under each croup to en
able the voter to add the name of
any person for whom he wishes to
vote.
Sec. 7. Upon a tie vote foi
choice of primary election officers
the acting judge of the election shall
determine the choice by lot.
ARTICLE II.
OK THE CONVENTION.
Sec. 1. The County Convention
shall be comprised of the newly elect
ed judges of the primary election of
the respective districts.
In case of the death, sickness or
inability of tne iudne to attend unnn
the meeting of the County Convention,
his duties as a Return lutlee and as
member of tiie County Convention
shall be performed by one of the new
ly elected inspectors for primary elec
tion, who shall present to the conven
tion the proper evidence oi his right
as a member thereof.
Sec. a. The convention shall be
called to order by the Chairman of
the County Committee, or in his ab
sence by any member of the Commit
tee who shall forthwith proceed to
eflect a temporary organization.
The Chairman of the convention
shall appoint such clerks or tellers as
may be necessary to facilitate the
business of the convention.
Sec. 3. The Chairman of the
County Committee shall have prepar
ed a return statement, which shall
have been compiled from the dupli
cate statements sent him from the
several election districts, and present
the same to the Chairman of the Con
vention. After the receipt of such
return statement, or cause shown for
its non production, the election re
turns from the different districts shall
be called for, opened, and the returns
examined and compared with the re
turn statement.
Sec. 4. The candidate who shall
have received the highest number of
votes, as shown by the approved re
turns, shall be declared the nominee.
In case of a tie vote, the nomination
shall be determined by casting lots.
v here two persons are to be nomi
nated for the same office the two can
didates receiving the highest number
of votes shall be nominated.
Sec. 5. It shall be good ground
of objection to any return from any
district that the duplicate statement
directed to be sent to the County
Chairman was unduly delayed, or that
the provisions of the election laws
and these rules were violated at such
election.
Sec. 6. Whenever any question is
raised as to the regularity of the re
turn from any district, it shall be the
duty of the Convention to appoint a
Committee of at least five members
of the Convention to inquire into and
make report of the facts, and such
recommendations as the Committee
may deem proper.
But no return from any district
shall be accepted in the Convention
when it shall appear that the officers
conducting the primary election have
not complied with the provisions of
these rules respecting the immediate
posting of a statement showing the
result of the election upon the door
of the polling place, and the prompt
transmission to the County Chairman
of the duplicate statement.
Sec. 7. The voting in convention
shall be open and any two members
may require the yeas and nays on any
question.
Sec. 8. Where candidates for de
legates to the State Convention shall
have registered with the Chairman
and shall have been voted for at the
Primary Election those receiving
the highest number of vo'es shall
be named as the Delegates.
OF ELIGIBILITY.
Sec. t. If it shall be made
to
appear to the satisfaction of a major
ity of the Convention, that anv can
didate before it for nomination to any
ollice shall have offered or paid any
money or valuable thine, or made anv
promise of money or valuable thing
to take etiect in luture, as an induce
ment to any voter to vote for him at
the primary election, or shall have
caused the same to be done in his
behalf ; or if any candidate shall in
duce or attempt to induce another
person to announce his name and
run as the candidate for nomination
to the same office for which he
seeking the nomination, with intent
thereby to withdraw votes from some
tnira candidate tor nomination for the
same office, or it such candidate shall
cause and procure the same to be
done by another in his behalf, the
name of such candidate as well as the
name of the candidate so induced to
be a candidate, shall be immediately
struck from the lift of candidates or
if any such facts be ascertained after
his nomination shall have been made,
to the satisfaction of a majority of the
members of the Standing Committee,
the nomination shall be struck from
the ticket and the vacancy supplied by
a new nomination to be made by the
members of the Standing Committee.
Any candidate offending against
the provisions of this rule shall be
ineligiule to any nomination for a
period of five years.
Sec. 2. No person shall be eligi
ble to a nomination by the party who
has opposed the democratic ticket at
the next preceding election.
Sec. 3. Each and every candidate
for nomination to any office desiring
his name to be printed upon the
tickets provided to be furnished under
these rules, shall register his name,
post office address and name of office
for which he is candidate with the
Chairman of the Standing Committee
in a book kept for that purpose not
less than thirty days before the Prima
ry election, and pay to the chairman
a registration fee as fixed by the
executive committee.
ARTICLE HI.
OK THE COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Sec. i. The Standing Committee
shall consist of one resident member
from each election district, who shall
be elected by the electors at the pri
mary election. Eleven of their num
ber shall constitute a quorum when
regularly convened for the transaction
of business.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the
Chairman of the Committee to give
public notice of the meetings of the
Standing Committee in the Demo
cratic papers published in the County
for at feast two weeks, and when the
committee shall be convened in
Special Session, the notice shall desig
nate the purposes and objects of the
meeting. The Committee shall be
convened in special session upon the
request of any five members thereof.
Sec. 3. Special conventions may
be called when necessary, by the stand
ing committee, the proceedings of
which shall be in conformity wilii the
rules.
Sec. 4. The standing committee,
shall on the last Saturday of March,
1898, and annually thereafter elect
from within or without their number,
one person to act as Chairman, one
person to act as Secretary, whose
terms of office shall begin with the
first Monday of April following, and
shall continue for a period of one year,
or until their respective successors
shall have been elected.
Sec. s- It shall be the duty of the
Chairman and Committee to have
prepared a poll book containing a list
of the Democratic voters of the several
districts in the county, and to furnish
to the officers to conduct the primary
election with a copy of such poll book.
The poll books shall be prepated at
least ten days before the holding of the
primary election, and be open to the
inspection of Democratic voters.
Sec. 6. The election board shall
check off the names of the persons
voting at such primary election as the
voters cast their ballots.
Sec. 7. The election board shall
add to the list of voters as contained
in the poll book ; the names of all
othet qualified Democratic voters,
voting at such election.
Sec. 8. The Chairman and Com
mittee shall furnish the tickets for use
at the primary election and the neces
sary blanks, including tally list, list of
voters, certificates, duplicate state
ments copy of poll book containing
the names of the Democratic voters of
the respective districts and cause the
same to be delivered to the election
boards.
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the
county chairman to give notice to the
several candidates to be voted for at
least ten days prior to the holding of
the primary election to meet at a place
to be designated by the chairman. At
said meeting the candidates shall en
deavor to agree on watchers not to
exceed three in number for each dis
trict and in case a majority of the
candidates assembled in response to
such notice fail to agree upon watch
ers, it shall be the duty of the county
chairman to appoint said watchers,
The watchers shall be permitted to be
present and watch the receiving and
counting of the ballots and tallying
and reading of the same, to take
memoranda of the proceedings and of
any irregularity they may deem im
proper and in all respects to perform
their duties as watchers as defined in
the general election laws.
Sec. 10. The county chairman
shall cause to be published in the
Democratic newspapers of the county.
a notice of the time of the holding of
the primary election and of the time
and place of the meeting of the county
convention, and of the nominations
for office to be made by the conven
tion for thirty days prior to the time
of the meeting of the convention.
Sec. 11. In case of the death, de
clination or removal of any candidate
put in nomination by the convention
before the election 5 or whenever any
candidate shall have had his name
stricken from the ticket, the vacancy
shall be supplied by a new nomina
tion of a candidate which shall be
made by the standing committee call
ed together for that purpose by public
notice from among citizens eligible
under these rules.
Sec. is. Until primary election
officers shall have been chosen, or in
case of any vacancy upon any Elec
tion Board, the County Chairman and
the member of the Committee in
which the vacancy occurs, shall sup
ply the vacancy by appointment.
If at the hour of the holding of the
Primary Election, persons qualified to
hold such election shall tail to appear,
the vacancy shall be supplied as regu
lated by the General Election Laws,
ASSESSMENTS.
Sec. 1. Nominees of the conven
tion shall be subject to the payment
of assessments to defray the expenses
of the delegate election and conven
tion j campaign, and election pur
poses j tne prosecution ot persons
violating the election laws, and for
any purpose not prohibited by general
law.
Sec. 2. The assessments shall be
made by the Executive Committee ;
rated proportionately and based upon
the emoluments of the respective
offices.
Sec. 3. If any nominee of the
convention shall neglect or refuse to
pay assessments provided by the:e
rules, upon reasonable nutice, the
certificate of nomination shall be
withheld, and the name of the nomi
nee stricken from the ticket 1 and the
I1 vacancy supplied by a new nomina
tion to be made by the members ot
, the Standing Committee.
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ARTICLE IV.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Sec. i. The county chairman
shall appoint an executive committee
consisting of five persons, two of whom
shall be the chairman and secretary
of the county cammittee.
The county chairman shall be the
chairman of this Committee.
Sec. a. The duties of the execu
tive committee shall be to make and
collect the assessments of candidates
provided for in these rules ; fix and
apportion the amounts to b paid by
candidates as a registration fee ; and
appoint a treasurer from among their
number.
Sec. 3. Whenever it shall appear
to the satisfaction of the executive
committee, that any officer of the
primary election, candidate or other
person, has offended against the elec
tion laws, or the rules of the party,
made punishable by law, it shall be
their duty and they are hereby re
quired to institute proceedings against
the person so offending ; incur the
necessary expenses incident to such
prosecution, and take all necessary
steps to vindicate the law and the
rules of the party.
Sec. 4. The treasurer of the exe
cutive committee shall receive all
moneys paid by candidates upon as
sessments and contributions for cam
paign and other parly purposes ; and
disburse the same as the Executive
Committee may direct.
ARTICLE V.
RULES.
I. These rules or any one or
more of them may be altered amend
ed or rescinded at any regular conven
tion by a vote of two thirds of the
whole number of the convention.
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A curious story reaches us from
Ceylon in connection with the King
of Siam's recent visit, says the West
minster Gazette. His majesty, with
all the devotion ot a pious Buddhist,
expressed a desire to see the tooth
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Our old clothes have lost us some
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Better freedom in bonds, than
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years on the supreme bench of the
United States. He was appointed
and commissioned the 10th of March,
1863, but with a touch of sentiment,'
not out of keepinj with his character,
he took the cath of office and enter
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May following, his father's ei-hty-second
birthday. He has thus served
a longer period than anyone who has
sat on the bench since it was organ
ized, except Chief Justice Marshall
alone, who served thirty-four years
five months and six days. Mr
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point of time, his term being thirty,
three years nine months and twenty,
two days. Justice Field's profession
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