The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-03-28
CALL FOR JUDICIAL CONVEN
TON,

WALL Wv WIN
TON.
Be and it is hereby resolved and ordered
by the Democratic Executive Committee fol
the l4th Judicial Circuit of the State of Ten
nessae, that Democratic Convention be held
at the courthouse in the city of Oyersburg, in
Dyer county, Tennessee, at twelve O'Clock
noon on Thursday the first day of May, 1902
for the purpose of nominating a Democratic
candidate for CircutJ Judge, and also Demo-
cratic candidate for Attorney General for said
circuit to be voted for in the several counties
composing said circuit at the regular election
for said officers to be held in Augu t, 1902, and
any and all such other business as may proper
ly come before said convention.
Be it further ordered, Tnat the delegates to
and to compose said convention shall be Sc
lectt by the several counties in said circuit
by county conventions which shall be held in
each and all OF S id counties at clock p m
on Monday, the 2lst day of a pril 1909, at the
county seat of each of said counties; and at
which said several county conventions each
such convention shall elect such number of
delegates to said convention to be held at
| Dyersburg aforesaid as may be deemed advisa-
| BILE. But it is hereby ordered and directed
that the delegates so appointed from each coun-
ty shall be entitled to cast and have counted in
| said Dyersburg convention for each such
| county one vote for each one hundred votes or
fraction of more than 80 cast for the Democratic
| presidential electors in the election in Noyem-
! Der, 1900 in such county, without regard to the
mum er of delegates appointed or In attend
ance at such said Dyersburg convention, on any
and all questions or 'lectOns of officers that
may arise for decision or settlement.
Ii is further ordered and directed, That such
said county conventions shall be composed OF
delegates selected in the several civil districts
of such county, by district conventions to be
held in each and all of the civil districts in
each county at and by district conventions
to be held at the usual voting place in
each such civil district or if such dis riot has
more than one voting place, then at such place
in such district al which the larger vote of such
district is usually polled, at 2 O'Clock p m. on
Saturday the 18th day of April, 1902 At such
district convention there shall be appointed
such number of delegates as such convention
may deem advisable but such said district in
said county convention to be held as aforesaid
shall have the right to cast and have counted
only one vote for each so votes or fraction OF
more than % cast for the Democratic electors in
the regular election in November; 1900, on any
and all queF tions or elections of officers in such
said county convention But any district vot-
ing less than % shall have one vote.
1t is further ordered and directed, That the
member of the county Democratic executive
committee for each civil district in any and all
of the districts in the several counties in said
circuit shall call such district convention to
order and preside over same until such conven-
ton shall have duly chosen its chairman; and
in the event of the failure or refusal of such
member to so attend and call to order and pre-
side over such district convention. then the
Democrats then and there present shall call to
gether anu hold such convention in the usual
way.
1t is further ordered, That the member of
this committee for each county shall call said
county convention to order in his coun
~ and presi e over same until such convention
shall have duly chosen its chairman or presid-
ing officer; and in the event of his failure or re-
fusal to so call such convention to order and
preside over same then and in that event, the
delegates present and elected as hereinbefore
provided 10 attend such county convention,
concerning whose right TO act as such delegates,
there is no contest, shall have the right to
m a the uSnal nlapn for holding SnCh
ty convention and organize such said conven
ton in the usual way and select delegates to
represent such county as hereinbefore pro-
vided.
1t is further ordered and directed That the
chairman of this committee shall call to order
said convention to be held in Dyersburg as
aforesaid, and preside over same until such con-
vention shall have duly chosen it's chairman or
temporary chairman, and in the event OF his
failure or refusal so to do then said duty shall
be performed by the secretary of his commit
tee.
Be it further resolved, ordered and directed
That the names of the delegates from each civil
district to the county convention to be hello as
aforesaid, shall be furnished to the member OF
this committee for such county not later than
II O'Clock, noon, on the day of such county con-
vention, to the end that he may know who are
the accredited delegates to such convention, and
that the names of the delegates appointed by
such county conventions to said Dyersburg
convention shall be furnished to the chairman
of this committee not later than IL O'Clock m
on the day said convention is to be held at Dyers-
burg as aforesaid, so that he may know who are
the accredited delegates from each county to
such convention.
1t is further ordered and directed. That the
member of the county Democratic committee
for each civil district shall, by written or print
ed hand bills, publish the time and place, when
and where such district con vention will be held
as aforesaid for ten days prior to the date OF
same, in three or more public places in such
district All Democratic voters and those Dem
ocrats who will be entitled to vote at the regu-
lar August election in 1902 shall have the right
and are asked to participate in said conventions
in said civil districts aforesaid, but such Demo-
cratic voters shall not be entitled to participate
in such conventions except in the civil district
where such voters are entitled to vote in regu-
lar elections held pursuant to law.
Be it further ordered and directed, That each
candidate shall be entitled to his respective
strength from each and every county in said
Judicial Circuit, ana IN order TO ascertain same
a vote shall be taken in such county conven-
ton and the exact strength of each candidate
ascertained and recorded as part OF the pro-
ceedings of such convention, ana IN SAID Dyers
burg convention the vote of each and every
county shall be so cas- as to give each and every
candidate his respective strength in each and
every county; provided, TINS shall not be bind
ing on any county or the delegates theretrom
unless all of the seven counties, composing said
circuit, shall have taken such said action In
order to enforce this provision, 1t is further di-
rected That in such said county convention the
delegates from each civil district shall name
and designate the delegates from such county
convention for such civil district, to the said
Dyersbnrg convention, and in the event any
civil district in the county shall not be then and
there represented in such county convention,
then the other delegates in attendance jointly
shall have the rghtto select delegates for such
said district having no delegates in attendance
1t is further ordered, That these resolutions
be published for at least three different times in
some one or more of the county papers in each
county prior to such district conventions, and
the failure of the district committeeman to give
the notice hereinbefore provided, shall not in
validate the selection of such delegates as may
be made from such district.
NJ. NJ MARSHALL, Chm'n,
j r. CoTHRAN, Sec.,
JOHN E. WELLS,
W. H. ANDERSON,
FRANK p. HALL, II
F. T. PETTUs,
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