The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-03-11
COUNTY DEMOCRATsOoNFER

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Cleveland Township, absent; Beech
Township, P. S. Pate; Lost Prairie
Township, absent; Cut of Town
ship, absent; Sulphur Township, j.
W. Yates by ]. NJ. Carter proxy;
Days Greek Township, absent; Red
River Township, absent; Homan
Township, absent.
The ticket containing names of
candidates was read.
Motion carried that no nomina-
tions be received or names placed on
the ticket unless handed to the
secretary and amount paid by 6 p.
m., Tuesday, March 18th, 1900.
Resolution as follows was offered
and,adopted:
Be it resolved by the Democratic
Central Committee of Miller County,
Arkansas, that at the Primary
Election to be held on March goth,
1900, to select the Democratic can
diddtes for the various Offices the
following persons shall be entitled
TO vote, ana none otner.
l.. White persons who are quail
fed electors in the county and pre-
cinct in which they offer to cast
their vote, and who have heretofore
affiliated with the Democratic par
ty, and who at the last General
State Election voted for the nomi-
nees of the Democratic party for
State, County and Township offices
provided, that if any person shall
offer to vote at said primary cleo
tion, and it shall be made to appear
that at the said general election he
voted for not more than two candi-
dates for office who were not the
nominees of the Democratic party,
aud he shall then state to the
Judges of such election that he will
support the ticket nominated at
said primary election and will vote
for each and every candidate nomi-
mated at said election, then such
person shall be entitled to vote at
said primary,
2. If any person offers to vote
at said primary election and his
vote is challenged because he does
not possess the foregoing qualifica-
ton, either by an officer presiding
at said election or by any other per
son entitled to vot at said election,
any Judge of said election may re-
quire of such person to takean oath
that he possesses the qualification
herein specified, and If he fails and
refuses to take such an oath, he
shall not be entitled to vete at said
primary election.
3. Persons who have come to
Miller county since the last Genera
Election and who will live in Miller
county a sufficient length of time
to vote at the next General Election
and shall then be qualified electors
and shall be entitled to vote at said
primary election provided such per
sons possesses the foregoing qualifi-
cations as a democrat and will sup
port and vote for the nominees Sc
lected at said primary election.
4. Minors who will arrive at the
age of maturity in time to vote at
the next General Election, and will
then be qualified electors, and who
promise and agree to vote for all the
nominees selected at said primary,
shall be entitled to vote at said
Election
5. When any person who offers
to vote, is challenged, the Judge
shall note the name of the person
so challenged and return it with
the Returns of the elections, stat
ing whether such person was per-
mitted to vote or not.
Motion carried that an Executive
Committee of three members be APP
pointed to all things necessary to be
done to hold the primary election
Committee, J. w. Harriss, 7. W.
Dunn and Pulaski Crow.
Resolution offered and adopted:
That the persons selected as judges
and clerks of the primary election
by the Committeeman of Beech and
Sulphur Townships and handed to
the secretary be elected as Judges
and clerks to hold said primary
election at the different precincts in
said Township.
Resolved further that the Exec
utive Committee heretofore ap.
pointed be authorized, empowered
and directed to select all other
Judges and clerks and all other Of
dcers necessary to hold said election
and that iu making such selection
and Committee shall consider the
names handed to them by the sew
eral candidates and II in their judg-
ment the persons so handed in are
proper persons to hold said election,
the officers to hold said election
shall be selected as such persons.
Resolved that each Township and
ward in the county is entitled to
select one delegate for each 25
voter cast for Governor Jones at
the general election In 1893, aud
one for each fraction over 10 votes,
and that these be printed on the
ticket, blank spaces for the election
of such delegates and that each
Township and ward elect such dele
gates on the same day the primary
is held.
That the delegates so elected
shall assemble at the court house in
Miller county on the 10Th day Of
June, 1900, to elect delegates to the
State, Congressional, judicial and
such other convention as may be