Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-06-18
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE MEETS
AND PASSES ON MANY MATTERS
OF IMPORTANCE TO THE LEM
ocRATIc ORGANIZATION.

Chairman o. c. Funderburk in the
char and nearly a full membership
Of the committee in attendance. There
was a great deal of important party
WORT to be disposed of and the com
mitiee got down to business without
delay.
The first matter to be taken up by
the committee was the manner OF
nominating officers for county and
precinct. 1t was voted that nominal
ton should be made by majority vote,
requiring the holding of two pri.
maE7es. the first to be held July 2Sth.
Tae question of fixing the cost of
snca primary elections and how to
meet the expenses was next taken up.
ano brought out a very long discus
sion II was finally voted to pay cleo
ton lndges and clerks S1.OO each for
holding elections, and to allow mes
seneers making returns of elections
500 for such service, provided the
returns had to be brought for more
thar two miles from the court house.
The matter of assessing the candi-
dates for funds to meet this expense
was brought up. and after much dis
cussisn. 1t was voted that the chair
mar of the committee appoint a com
mitine Of three to figure out the SEIZED
ule-n tax on the various candidates
and report the matter back to the ex-
ecutre committee at o'clock this
afternoon.
The following resolution was intro
duced and passed by the committee
BY d Unanimous vote:
Resolved. That we have known
~ ] EIsEEisn LIZ. -.
H. personally. because he has
Be51 citizen amongst us during that
tina.
W. knew him in private life when
he was a day laborer; we knew him
when he studied law, and when he
began his practice; we knew him and
watched with interest his career dur
ing four years as county attorney of
Anderson county; we have known him
and watched his conduct in many i'm
portant criminal cases in the district
court and other courts of the state.
and feel that we know his ability
Knowing these facts in a personal
way. as we do. it is with great pleas
ure that we endorse his candidacy for
the Office of District Attorney. We
know that when important criminal
cases are filed lawyers of ability are
employed to defend. and many
times more than one lawyer, because
many persons charged with crime
have the ability to get the pest cOUn-
sci in the land, and they usually get
t. Therefore, we feel the keen neces- |
sity Of having an attorney who rep
resents the state in all felony cases
who is able to cope with the best
criminal lawyers in the land, and who
can honorably discharge his duties as
such and sustain and enforce the
laws, thus suppressing crime
and insuring the greatest peace pos /
5ible to the people, ana we assure the !
people of this district that Mr. Harris |
S by far the best man accessible to /
his position, and we sincerely trust |
hat he will be elected in the coming /
"As a Democrat he is trieu and true, |
IS a citizen he is sober, honest, indus
Tlous and faithful. having made him
ielf what he is by his own determined
inorts. and now possesses the neces-
AIRY vim and driving power to make
i'm a successful and competent Dis
riot Attorney"
On motion the committee adjourned
Until this afternoon.
This report will be continued in to-
norrow's Herald.
The following resolution was unan-
mously adopted by the committee:
BE It resolved. That we, the Dem
cratic Executive Committee of An
erson county. do unanimously en-
orse the candidacy Of Tom NJ Camp
eli for governor, and we unhesitat-
lgiy recommend him to the Democ-
icy Of Texas as a patriot and states
All in every way capable of discharg-
gI the duties of the high and honor
De Office to which he aspires: be
n lrther
Resolved. That we do most heart
: approve and endorse his platform
principles as promulgated in his
,eh hing speech at Athens. Texas.