The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY.

CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY.
1t is hereby ordered by the Democratic
Congressional Committee of the Eighth
Congressional District Of Tennessee that
legalized primary election be held on
Thursday, August 4, 1904, for the purpose
of giving the Democrats Of the several
counties composing said district an OPP
portunity to express their choice for a
Democratic candidate to represent said
districtin the Fifty ninth Congress of the
United States.
tits further ordered that on said day in
the several voting places in the counties
composing the said Congressional district
that ballot boxes shall be opened at 8 a.
m. and closed at p. m. and an election
held by the officers, judges and clerks APP
pointed by the Congressional committee
man to hold said election under the rules
hereinafter adopted
The officers, judges and clerks at the
several voting precincts, when it is pos
slble to do SO, shall be equally divided
between the supporters of the several
candidates, all of whom shall be we'll
known and undoubted Democrats, and
that each candidate for Congress shall
have the right to recommend friends of
his to be appointed as such officers, judges
and clerks, and it shall be the duty of the
Congressional committeeman for each
county to so appoint such parties recon-
mended in each voting place in his coun
ty, but he must be satisfied that all such
are Democrats. Should those appointed !
fail to qualify at any voting place, then
those Democrats present at such voting
place or places, shall select from among
their number well-known and qualified
Democrats to hold said election, who
shall as far as possible give an equal
division among the friends of the respec-
tive candidates.
1t is further ordered that all male citi
zens who are known by the judges to be
Democrats or who shall furnish to the
Judges satisfactory evidence that they are
Democrats shall be entitled to vote and
such Democrats as will be 81 years of age
10y the November, 1904, election shall be
entitled to vote in said primary. Nopoll-
tax receipt orregistration certificate shall
be required of any voter in said primary
election, nor shall the registration and
Dortch ballot lawapply, but said election
shall be held under the provisions of the
primary election law of 1901, except as
hereinabove provided.
1t is further ordered that the returns
of said election shall be made in each
county to the Congressional committee
man of said county not later than Mon
day next following the election and said
returns shall be sent sealed by the judges
of the election.
The Congressional committee shall
meet in Lexington, Tenn, on Monday,
August Is, 1904, to canvass vote of the
several counties and declare the nominee
and all candidates are permitted to be
present at said canvass.
Those desiring to become candidates
for Congress shall qualify by making
payment of fifty dollars ($50.00) to the
chairman ofthe Congressional committee |
on or before June 1, 1904, with which sum
the expenses of the primary may be de-
frayed, any anyone failing to comply |
with this provision shall not be recogniz-
ed as candidate in said primary, Ii |
there is but one announced candidate |
who has complied with this rule, after
June LIST, 1904, then the chairman of this
committee is authorized and directed to |
declare said qualified candidate the NOM
inee of the party for Congress.
The Congressional committeeman from
each county shall furnish the judges of
said election at each voting place in his |
county copy of these rules.
Adopted March IL, 1904.
Attest: W. A. CARTER,
w. Y. BARRY, Chairman.