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PROPOSED PLAN

FOR

A NOMINATIVE AND ELECTIVE SYSTEM BASED

UPON THE EIGHTS, POWERS AND DUTIES OF

THE PEOPLE, COMPRISING A SYSTEM OF

CHECKS BY WHICH FEAUD IN THE

NOMINATIVE AND ELECTIVE

.POWERS OF THE PEOPLE
•Jt^fi£D THEIE LEGIS-
JfcATORSISPRE-
! VENTED.

BY URIAH B. THOMAS,

Author and Proprietor.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
1886.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by

U. B. THOMAS,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

For additional copies, price 50 cents, postage prepaid, address the Author,

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OUR present system of choosing representatives of the
people utterly fails to give a fair expression and force to
their will, and in the injustice of this failure lie the seeds
of revolution and destruction to our free government.

The objects sought to be obtained by the following
system are —

First. To organize the industrial elements of society
in one political body, under rules so just and simple, that
it will commend itself to all who examine it with attention.

Second. To abolish dishonest and corrupt practices in
the politics of our country, by avoiding the use of party
conventions in the nojo^ferabfi^of public officers, having
all such nominations made directly by the people.

Third. To educate the people in the science of gov-
ernment by Local, State, Territorial and National
organizations.

Fourth. To purify legislation and restrict it to the
requirements of the people, as expressed in their platform
of principles and policy emanating from the Local, State,
Territorial or National organizations.

Fifth. To secure honest lawmakers —

1st. By depriving them of all opportunity of selling
their vote.

2d. By the people to first adopt all proposed laws
before being legalized by legislative enactment, thus se-
curing a fair expression in their government.

PREFACE.

Sixth. To secure to the people the just and equitable
fruits of their labor and enterprise —

1st. By controlling the political system of the country.

2d. By controlling the law-making power.

3d. By controlling finance, land and all questions
involving the rights, comforts and happiness of the
people.

Seventh. To set an example, from the workings of
the following plan, by which the President, Vice-Presi-
dent, Senators and all other officers of the Local, State,
Territorial and National government may be nominated
and elected directly by the people, thus avoiding the
dangers that have arisen, from time to time, under the
representative and electoral system.

Eighth. This plan is designed to convert our present
representative system to that of " a government by the
people and for the people ; " to preserve order in our
political ranks ; to secure the objects and aims of the
party ; to prevent any possible intrigue from outside
political tricksters, and to defeat the most wicked
conspiracy of systematically organized capital, tending
towards the centralization of wealth, successfully carried
on through our present financial, legislative and political
system.

Why may not these objects be attained by a judicious
use of the ballot, as herein set forth, with harmony, per-
severance and in accord with equitable laws and by the
majority RULE ?

THE AUTHOR.

SAN FRANCISCO, July, 1886.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE I. ORGANIZATION. PAGE.

Sec. 1. Name 9

Sec. 2. Composition of Departments 9

Sec. 3. Executive Departments, how composed 9

ARTICLE II. COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL NOMINATION.

Sec. 1. Uniform in time 10

Sec. 2. Nomination of Officers • 10

Sec. 3. Nomination of Party Officers 10

ARTICLE III. LOCAL UNIONS.

Sec. 1. Where Located 10

Sec. 2. How Represented 10

Sec. 3. Duty of Local Unions 11

ARTICLE IV. WHO MAY VOTE IN UNIONS.

Register of Membership 11

ARTICLE V. PROPOSALS FOR NOMINATION.

Sec. 1. Proposition for Nomination 1.1

Sec. 2. Nominees to be Registered 11

Sec. 3. Register of Nomination Closed : 11

Sec. 4. Acceptance of Nomination 11

Sec. 5. Duty of Nominees 11

Sec. 6. Election for Nomination 12

ARTICLE VI. UNION BOARDS OF ELECTION — THEIR
POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

Sec. 1. Canvassers 12

Sec. 2. Supervision of Elections 12

Sec. 3. Publishing Election Returns for Nomination 12

ARTICLE VII. THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY AND COUNTY
BOARDS OF ELECTION — THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES
DEFINED.

Sec 1. Of what Composed 12

Sec. 2. County Board of Election, of what composed . ... 13
Sec. 3. Publishing County Election Returns for Nomi- 13

nation 13

Sec. 4. Report to State Board of Election 13

Sec. 5. Nomination Declared 13

Sec. 6. Tu Elect Delegates to State Board of Election. . . 13
Sec. 7. County Returns to be carried forward by State

Delegates 13

Sec. 8. Members of Election Boards to be Sworn 13

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE VIII. STATE AND TERRITORIAL BOARDS or ELEC-
TION FOR THE NOMINATION or OFFICERS — THEIR
POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

PAGE.

Sec. 1. Of what Composed and Time of Meeting 14

Sec. 2. Nominations Declared 14

Sec. 3. Publishing State Election Returns for Nomina-
tion 14

Sec. 4. Members of State Board to be Sworn 14

Sec. 5. To Elect Delegates to a National Board of Elec-
tion 14

Sec. 6. State Returns to be carried forward by National

Delegates 14

ARTICLE IX. NATIONAL BOARD OF ELECTION FOR THE
NOMINATION OF OFFICERS — ITS POWERS AND DUTIES
DEFINED.

Sec. 1. Of what Composed 15

. Sec. 2. Time of Meeting , 15

Sec. 3. Counting the Aggregate Vote 15

Sec. 4. Nominations Declared 15

Sec. 5. Members of National Board to be Sworn 15

ARTICLE X. STATE INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLIES — THEIR
POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

Sec. 1. Nomination, Election and Composition 16

Sec. 2. Meetings 16

Sec. 3. Adoption of Platform 16

Sec. 4. Term of Office 16

Sec. 5. Members to be Sworn 16

ARTICLE XI. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLY — ITS
POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

Sec. 1. Nomination, Election and Composition 17

Sec. 2. Objects of. 17

Sec. 3. To Adopt a National Platform 17

Sec. 4. To Elect National Executive Officers 17

Sec. 5. Duties of National Executive Officers 17-18

Sec. 6. To be Sworn 18

ARTICLE XII. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT — ITS POWERS
AND DUTIES DEFINED.

Duties of Legislators 18

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE XIII. LOCAL UNIONS — THEIR POWERS AND
DUTIES DEFINED.

PAGE.

Sec. 1. To Secure Proper Legislation. 18-19

Sec. 2. To Educate the People in the Science of Govern-
ment 19

ARTICLE XIV. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND
NATION — THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

Sec. 1. Executive Officers 19

Sec. 2. Call for Elections 19

Sec. 3. To Fill Vacancies and Term of Office 19-20

Sec. 4. Executive Officers Members of Assemblies 20

ARTICLE XV. BREACH OF TRUST.

Sec. 1. Committees on Charges 20

Sec. 2. Trial of Officers 20

Sec. 3. Charges to be made in Writing 20

ARTICLE XVI. BY-LAWS.

Sec. 1. Rules of Order 20-21

Sec. 2. Qualification of Membership 21

ARTICLE XVII. FINANCIAL SYSTEM.

Collection and Disbursement of Funds 21-23

ARTICLE XVIII. INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS.

How determined .... 23

ARTICLE XIX. AMENDMENTS.

How made 23

NATIONAL BOARD OF ELECTION.

For the Election of President and Vice-President 24

NOTE ON POPULAR VOTE OF ELECTION .24

PROPOSED PLAN

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THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.

A nominative and elective system based upon
the rights, powers' and duties of the people, com-
prising a system of checks, by which fraud in
the nominative and elective powers of the people
and their legislators is prevented.

ARTICLE I.

ORGANIZATION.

Name. SECTION 1. This organization shall be called

THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL PARTY.

It shall have Local Unions, County, State,
Territorial and National Boards of Election.
Compost- SEC. 2. It shall have also, County, State,
payments! Territorial and National Assemblies and Execu-
tive Departments.

Executive SEC. 3. The Executive Department shall be
ments-how composed of a President, Vice-President, Secre-
composed. tarv anc[ Treasurer of the party, in each State
and Territory in the LTnion. The National
Executive Department shall consist of a Presi-
dent, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer,
to be elected by the National Assembly, until
otherwise ordered by the local unions.

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AKTICLE II. .

COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL NOMINATIONS.

Uniform in SECTION 1. The election for the nomination
of President and Vice-President shall be held
on the same day in each State and Territory of
the Union.

Nominations for State and County officers
shall be made to harmonize with all established
laws in their respective States and Territories.

Nomination SEC. 2. All officers, County, State, Territo-
rial and National, and Presidential Electors
required by law to be elected, shall be proposed
and nominated by a plurality vote of the mem-
bers of the party through its political organiza-
tion.

Nomination SEC. 3. Representatives to the State, Terri-
torial and National Assemblies, and the Execu-
tive officers of the State and Nation of the
Industrial Party, shall be proposed and nomi-
nated in the same manner.

AKTICLE III.

LOCAL UNIONS.

where SECTION 1. Local Unions shall be organized

in each voting district or ward in each State and
Territory of the National Union; the officers
shall consist of a President, First and Second
Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer.

HOW repre- SEC. 2. Any Union having a membership of

sented. Qne jlull(jre(j members, legal voters of the ward

or district, who are in good standing, shall be

entitled to one representative in the County

Assembly.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. 11

SEC. 3. It is the duty of the Unions to work Duty of u
in harmony with the County Assembly, for the ea
general good of the party, and the government
of their respective counties.

ARTICLE IV.

WHO MAY VOTE IN THE UNIONS.

Each Local Union shall keep a register of all Register of
its members in good standing, and only such J^p'1"
shall be allowed to vote for the nomination of
elective officers and party representatives.

ARTICLE V.

PROPOSALS FOR NOMINATIONS.

SECTION 1. Any member of a Local Union, Proposition
in good standing, may propose a nominee forf^01
any office by registering the name and residence
of the nominee, together with his own, with the
Secretary of the Union.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary Nominees
to record the same, with the name of the office fered regls"
to be filled, and the date of registration.

SEC. 3. The register shall be closed to further Register
nominations thirty days previous to the nomi- c (
nating election, and no person shall be entitled
to a nomination except as herein provided.

SEC. 4. No person shall be nominated by Acceptance
any member unless he shall have first consented tion.
to accept the nomination if elected.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of all persons Duty of

T P • ,« i r> ^ nominees.

proposed for nomination to come before the
Unions, if possible, and discuss the industrial
interests of the State and Nation.

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Election for SEC. 6. . Not less than thirty days after the
tionsma" closing of the register or record of nominations,
all the Unions within the State or county shall
hold an election on the same day, by ballot, to
determine what persons so proposed in the Local
Unions are the choice of the members for nom-
inees of the party.

ARTICLE VI.

UNION BOARDS OF ELECTION FOR THE NOMI-
NATION OF OFFICERS — THEIR POWERS AND
DUTIES DEFINED.

Board of SECTION 1. Each Local Union shall elect a
5- Board of Canvassers prior to each election. Be-
fore entering upon the discharge of their duties
they shall be duly sworn to perform them fairly
and honestly.

supervision SEC. 2. It shall be their duty to supervise
of Elections. eacj1 e}ectjon? anc[ to count all the votes cast in

their respective Union organization.

Publishing SEC. 3. They shall publish the result of all

ufra^fo/6" ballotings immediately, and forward a copy of

nomination, the same to the President of the County Board

of Election, reserving a copy thereof, which

shall be filed with the Secretarv of the Union.

AETICLE VII.

THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY AND COUNTY BOARDS

OF ELECTION THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES

DEFINED.

of what SECTION 1. The County Assembly shall be
composed. composed of the Local Union Presidents of the

County, and shall meet from time to time, being

a continuous body.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.

SEC. 2. They shall elect from their own or \\-imt
members a County Board of Election, whose compos(
duty it shall be to canvass the aggregate vote of
all the Unions in their respective counties.

SEC. 3. Said County Board shall publish Publishing
immediately the result of all ballotings, reserv- tioiTretums
ing a copy thereof, which shall be filed with the ^ati" nini~
Secretary of the Assembly.

SEC. 4. They shall make returns to the Report to
President of the State Board of Election of all o^EieS
votes cast for State, Territorial and National
nominations.

SEC. 5. The persons receiving the highest Nomina-
number of votes cast for each of the respective ciaredde~
county offices shall be declared duly nominated
by the County Board of Election.

SEC. 6. The County Board of Election, at TO elect dei-
their first session after each State election, shall state8 Board
also elect for the ensuing term two of its mem- of Election-
bers as delegates to the State Board of Election.

SEC. 7. The State delegates shall carry for- County re-
ward a certified copy of all the votes of their carSed°for-

respective counties for State, Territorial and stlte Deie-
National nominees to the State Board of Elec- gates.
tion. Said delegates shall constitute the State
Board of Election. They shall hold office until
their successors are elected.

SEC. 8. Before entering upon the discharge Members of
of their duties the members of the County Board! of
Board of Election shall be duly sworn to per- J^
form them fairly and honestly.

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AKTICLE VIII.

STATE AND TERRITORIAL BOARDS OF ELECTION
FOR THE NOMINATION OF OFFICERS - THEIR
POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

Of what SECTION 1. The State and Territorial Boards
SeT1' of Election shall be composed of two delegates .
meeting, from each County Board of Election, and shall
meet at the capital of the State or Territory
immediately after the nominating election, and
count the aggregate vote of all the counties in
their respective Slates or Territories for State,
Territorial and National nominees.

Nomina- SEC. 2. They shall declare the persons re-
ciaredde~ ceiving the highest number of votes for the

State, Territorial, and Congressional offices, duly

nominated to the same.

SEC. 3. They shall publish the result of all
tioneretimis ballotings immediately, and forward a copy there-
tf?orif°mina" of to the NATIONAL BOARD OF ELECTION of
all votes cast for President arid Vice-President,
reserving a copy thereof, which shall be filed as
a part of its permanent record.

Members SEC. 4. Before entering upon the discharge
Boards6to be of their duties, they shall be sworn to discharge
sworn. them fairly and honestly.

TO elect del- SEC. 5. The State and Territorial Board of
NatSVa0! a Election shall also elect two of their members as
ISLif Delegates to the NATIONAL BOARD OF ELEC-

TION.

state re- SEC. 6. The National Delegates shall carry
carried°for- a COP7 of said State and Territorial returns to

National ^6 Pres^ent °f tne NATIONAL BOARD OF ELEC-

Deiegates. TiON. Said National Board shall consist of said
State and Territorial delegates.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. 15

ARTICLE IX.

NATIONAL BOARD OF ELECTION FOR THE NOMI-
NATION OF OFFICERS — ITS POWERS AND
DUTIES DEFINED.

SECTION 1 . The NATIONAL BOARD OF ELEC- c
TION shall consist of two delegates from each
State and Territorial Board of Election.

SEC. 2. It shall meet in the city of Wash- Time of
ington within twenty days after each National *
Nominating Election.

SEC. 3. It shall receive and count the aggre- counting
gate vote cast for the nomination of President Vofe.ega
and Vice-President of the United States, in the
several States and Territories of the Union.

SEC. 4. It shall declare the persons receiving Nomina-
the highest number of votes for President and cia?ed. e~
Vice-President duly nominated to those offices
respectively, and issue certificates to that effect
to the persons so nominated.

They shall report their action to the Execu-
tive Officers of the several States and Territories
of the Union.

SEC. 5. Before entering upon the discharge Members of
of their duties they shall be duly sworn to dis- Board to be
charge them fairly and honestly. sworn.

All public officers nominated by this system
shall be voted for at the general election, County,
State, Territorial or National, against any other
party nomination.

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ARTICLE X.

STATE INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLIES TO ADOPT A

PLATFORM THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES

DEFINED.

xomina- SECTION 1. There shall be a State Industrial
tion! and Assembly, nominated and elected directly from
tio"lposi" ^e Local Unions for each term, representing
the industrial classes of each State and Terri-
tory, consisting of two persons for each one hun-
dred members of each Local Union.

Meeting. SEC, 2. They shall meet at the call, of the
State President and Secretary in due time for
the State campaign.

Adoption of SEC. 3. They shall consider and discuss the
industrial interests of the State and Nation, and
adopt a proposed code of laws and the repeal of
unjust laws, and embody the same in a State
platform, which shall be referred to the whole
people at their general election, State, Territorial
or National, as the case may be.

Term of SEC. 4. Their term of office shall be for the
incoming term, and until their successors are
elected. This will be about five months before
each nominating State election.

Members to SEC. 5. Before entering upon the discharge
of their duties they shall be duly sworn to per-
form their labors fairly and honestly, in the
interests of the poor and industrial classes of
the people, to the best of their knowledge and
ability.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. 17

ARTICLE XL

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLY TO ADOPT A
PLATFORM — ITS POWERS AND DUTIES DE-
FINED.

SECTION 1. There shall be a National In-Nomina-
dustrial Assembly nominated and elected directly tion'and0"
from the Local Unions for each Presidential £'/)11"1")S '"
term, consisting of three or not more than six
persons from each State, one or two from each
Territory in the Union.

SEC. 2. It may meet annually, pursuant to Objects of.
adjournment or at the call of its president, to
consider and discuss the laws, measures and the
policy of the States and Nation ; the principles of
our industrial and financial economy ; to gather,
arrange and publish statistics and facts respect-
ing finance, education, production, hours of
labor, and the distribution of profits between
capital and labor, and determine the measures
best adapted to promote the welfare of the Na-
tion and all its people.

SEC. 3. They shall adopt a proposed code of TO adopt a
laws and the repeal of unjust laws, and embody platform,
the same in a platform for National Industrial
Party.

SEC. 4. The first National Assembly shall TO elect
elect the National Executive officers of the party executiye
for the ensuing term, and thereafter until the officers-
members of the Local Unions throughout their
organization shall do the same. They shall hold
office until their successors are elected, and shall
constitute the National Executive officers.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the executive ^j^'
officers to call upon the several States and Ter- Executive
ritories to make nominations for President and officers-

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Vice-President in due time for the campaign.
The City of Washington, D. C., is hereby desig-
nated as the place of meeting of the first
National Industrial Assembly, and thereafter to
be named by it on its adjournment.

TO be sworn SEC. 6. Before entering upon the discharge
of their duties, they shall be duly sworn to per-
form their duties fairly, honestly and justly, to
the laboring poor and industrial classes, to the
accumulation of wealth and the comforts of life,
to the best of their knowledge and ability.

ARTICLE XII.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT TO DRAFT AND

ADOPT LAWS ONLY — ITS POWERS AND DUTIES
DEFINED.

Le ^sTators ^ ska^ ^e t^ie ^ut^ °^ a^ legislators elected
by the Industrial Party to draft, support and
defend all laws required by the platform of the
party, and to labor earnestly for the repeal of
all existing laws condemned by said platform.
No member of any legislative body in the State
or Nation, elected by the Industrial Party, shall
have the right to introduce any proposed law or
bill not named in the party platform ; nor shall
he support by his influence or vote, any pro-
posed law introduced by a member of any other
party, not in harmony with the principles and
policy of his party as embodied in its platform.

ARTICLE XIII.

LOCAL UNIONS FOR POLITICAL EDUCATION—
THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

TO secure SECTION 1. It shall not only be the right
fart°ionHegis" but the duty of the Unions to watch their repre-
sentatives while performing their duty as legis-

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. 19

lators, but no Union has the right to instruct any
legislator elected by the Industrial Party, in
regard to any State policy that is or is not
embodied in the platform, except such special
laws as affect their respective counties and intro-
duced by a member of another party.

SEC. 2. It shall also be the right and duty TO educate
of the Unions to discuss the laws and policy of i£ethe°ple
the State and Nation, the principles upon which science of
our political and industrial system of economy mem
is based, respecting finance, rates of interest,
education, labor, home industry, tariff, land and
all other questions involving the comforts, pro-
tection and happiness of a free people, and the
favorable evolution of future generations.

ARTICLE XIV.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE AND NA-
TION— THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES DEFINED.

SEC. 1. The party President, Vice-President, Executive
Secretary and Treasurer, elected by the Unions
throughout the party organizations, to serve in
County, State, Territorial and National capacity,
shall constitute the Executive Officers in their
respective departments.

SEC. 2. When an election is to be held, the Call for eiee-
President and Secretary shall call for the same tlc
in due time. They shall also call for the election
of State, Territorial and National Assemblies,
provide for mass meetings, parades, and so forth.

SEC. 3. Said officers shall have power to fill TO mi va-
all vacancies that may occur, in the nomination termer""
of officers, by death or otherwise, in the absence office-
of action on the part of the Unions to fill the
same. Their term of office shall continue dur-
ing the State or National campaign, or until their

20 PROPOSED PLAN FOR

successors are elected, unless sooner dismissed by
a majority vote of all the Unions in their re-
spective departments.
Executive SEC. 4. The President, Vice-President, Secre-

officers i m « .1

members of tary and Ireasurer of the party, whether
Assemblies. County, State, Territorial or National, shall be

members of the Industrial Assemblies in their

respective departments.

ARTICLE XV.

BREACH OF TRUST.

' '' 's

u- -,'' 's ^EC< ** ^^e Prudent ancl Secretary of the
>s> party, Local Unions, County, State, Territorial
or National, shall, on good evidence presented,
call for appropriate Committees in their respec-
tive departments, for tke examination and trial
of accused legislators.

^EC* ^' ^ny °fficer wno> m tne discharge of
his official duties, is accused of neglect or trans-
gressing or infracting the principles of the party
which elected him, shall be tried in open session
by a Committee, MUNICIPAL, COUNTY, State,
Territorial or National, representing the constit-
uency that elected him, and therein find EXON-
ERATION or POLITICAL DEATH. A legislator or
officer found guilty of betraying his trust, shall
resign his office when properly called so to do.

iK-ein ^EC' ^' ~^° cnar£e shall I36 entertained
writing6 m against any member of the party, unless made

in writing by a member of the same in good

standing.

ARTICLE XVI.

BY - LAWS.

r °*f SECTION 1 . The Local Unions, County, State,

- Territorial, and National Boards of Election, and

Industrial Assemblies, shall each make By-Laws

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. 21

and RULES OF ORDER for their own govern-
ment, consistent with and subject to this system of
organization and government of the NATIONAL
INDUSTRIAL PARTY.

SEC. 2. All of said bodies or departments $!IJj}i?ca~
shall also determine the qualifications of their bership. ei
own members.

ARTICLE XVII.

FINANCIAL SYSTEM.

The Financial System of the National Indus- Collection
trial Party shall be as follows : bursement

of Funds.

First. — The Local Unions shall collect an
initiation fee of twenty-five cents, and ten cents
monthly dues from each member.

This shall be collected by the Financial Sec-
retary and paid over to the Treasurer, taking
his receipt therefor.

Second. — All moneys collected as dues and
fees shall be apportioned as follows :

For the use of the Local Unions, seventy-five
per cent ;

For the use of the County Assembly, twenty
per cent ;

For the use of the State Assembly, two per
cent;

For the use of the State Board of Election,
one per cent ;

For the use of the National Assembly and
the National Board of Election, one per cent
each.

This shall be the general fund of the party.

The Treasurer of each Local Union shall
forward twenty-five per cent of all moneys re- •
ceived by the Union to the Secretary of the

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Collection County Assembly every quarter, who will turn

and Dis-

bursement the same over to the County Assembly Treas-

ol Funds. urer

Whenever the State Industrial Assembly shall
convene, the County Treasurer, on the order of
the County Assembly, shall forward to the Secre-
tary of the State Assembly, eight per cent of
all moneys collected by the County Assembly
since the meeting of the last State Industrial
Assembly. This money shall be turned over to
the Treasurer of the State Assembly for its own
use.

Whenever the State Board of Election shall
convene, the County Treasurer, on the order of
the County Assembly, shall forward to the Sec-
retary of the State Board of Election, four per
cent of all moneys collected by the County As-
sembly during the time intervening between the
last two sessions of the State Industrial Assem-
bly. The Secretary will turn this money over to
the Treasurer of the Board of Election for its
own use.

Twenty days before the meeting of the Nation-
al Industrial Assembly, the Treasurer of the
County Assembly shall forward, by order of the
Assembly, to the Secretary of the State Execu-
tive Department, eight per cent of all moneys
collected by the County Assembly since the last
apportionment to the National Industrial As-
sembly. This money shall be turned over to the
Treasurer of the State Executive Department
for the use of the National Industrial Assembly
and the National Board of Election, and shall
be disbursed by the Treasurer as follows :

Seventy-five per cent of all moneys received
by him for this purdose shall be forwarded by
him to the. Secretary of the National Industrial

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. 23

Assembly. The Secretary will turn this over Collection
to the Treasurer of the National Assembly for bursement
its own use. of Funds-

Whenever the National Board of Election
shall convene, the Treasurer of the State Exec-
utive department will forward, on the order of
the President and Secretary, the remaining
twenty-five per cent held by him to the Secre-
tary of the National Board of Election, who
will turn it over to the Treasurer of the Na-
tional Board for its own use. In all cases
where money is transferred from one department
to another, the order shall be duly recorded in
the regular minutes of the meeting, and proper
receipts shall be taken therefor and be placed
on file.

ARTICLE XVIII.

INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS.

All questions arising not herein provided for, incidental
within the jurisdiction of each department, Local, Hmfde^8'
State, Territorial and National, shall be de- termined.
termined by a majority vote in each case.

ARTICLE XIX.

AMENDMENTS.

The details of this plan shall govern the Na- HOW made.
tional Industrial Party. It shall be altered or
amended only by propositions made by members
of the Unions, and with the approval of a ma-
jority vote of all the Union members in each
State of the National Union,- together with a
majority vote of all their representatives in the
National Assembly.

24 NATIONAL ELECTION.

NATIONAL BOARD OF ELECTION

FOR THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRES-
IDENT THE PLAN OF THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL

PARTY.

When a general election is to be held for the election of
President and Vice-President by a popular vote. There
shall be not less than two persons elected from each
State and Territory to act instead of electors.

Their duty shall be to carry forward to the National
Board of Election at Washington, D. C., the returns of
their respective States and Territories, and there count
the aggregate of all votes cast for President and Vice-
President. The persons receiving the highest number
of votes for said offices shall be declared duly elected
President and Vice- President of the United States, and
certificates to that effect shall be issued to said persons
by said Board of Election.

NOTE ON POPULAR ELECTION.

The plan here presented for the election of President
and Vice-President (by a popular vote) is one that will
harmonize with the nominative and elective system of
the National Industrial Party, and we believe it will com-
mend itself to the thoughtful consideration of every honest,
intelligent voter in the country. We believe there is no
valid reason why the President, Vice-President and
"State Senators should not be elected by popular vote, and
we believe that at no distant day they will be so elected,
and consequently more in harmony with a people's gov-
ernment.

The plan is therefore inserted here for the consider-
ation of all parties looking forward to the time when the
nomination and election of President and Vice-President
and Senators shall be by direct vote of the people. — THE
AUTHOR.

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