The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-07-22
CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY.

1t is hereby ordered by the Democratic
Congressional Committee of the Eighth
Congressional District of Tennessee that
a 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.
? Its further ordered that on said day i'll
the several voting places in the counties
composing the said Congressional district
that ballot boxes shall be.opened at 8 a.
IN. and closed at 4 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 1t Is pos
slble to do so, shall be equally diVlded
between the supporters OF the several
candidates, all of whom shall be, well
known and undoubted Democrats, and
that each candidate for Congress shall
have the right to recommend friends OF
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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 lie 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 toethe
judges satisfactory evidence that they are
Democrats shall be entitled to vote and
such Democrats as will be p years OF age
by the November, 1904, election, shall be
entitled to vote in said primary. Nopoll-
tax receipt or registration certificate shall
be required of any voter in said primary
election, nor shall the registration and
Dortch ballot law apply, 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 a
payment of fifty dollars ($50.00) to the
chairman ofthe Congressional committee
on or before June l 1904, withwhich sum
the expenses of the primary may be de-
frayed, any anyone failing to comply
with this provision shall net be recogni2-
ed as a candidate in said primary. II
there is but one announced candidate
who has complied with this rule, after
June 1st, 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 a copy of these rules.
Adopted March II, 1904.
Attest: w. A. CARTER.
w. V. BARRY, Chairman.
Secretary.