The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-05-25
POLITICAL SITUATION MORE TANGLED
STILL BY MONDAYS WILD
CONVENTION.
Patterson Forces Refuse to Abide by the
Chairman'S Ruling and Leave the Hall
After InstruCting Among Them
selves for Their Man.

that in all elections called by the COM
mittee the word district" referred to
the old districts Mr. fowler replied
that the new committee had been
classified according to the new dis
tricts; and Mr.. Peoples, also speaking
for the Patterson side of the house
contended that recent rulings of the
new committee had nullided the old
! resolution. Mr.. Webster read the
! resolutions of the committee calling
for the primary and argued that if the
English language meant anything no
! other Interpretation could be given to
this call than that it meant the pres
ent civil districts of the county as no
other districts existed; the old dis
! tricts having been wiped out by the
| law which created the new ones. The
/ resolutions passed by the committee
and referred to by Mr.. Webster, read
as follows:
| First: BE 1T RESOLVED that
! Democratic Primary Election be held
| the hours of l o'clock p. m. and 5
o'clock p. m, for the purpose of Sc
lecting delegates to the Democratic
gubernatorial convention to be held in
the city of Nashville, Tennessee, on
the goth day of May, 1906; said Pri-
m oru EIaotiOp will ba hold or ha DIFF
ferent voting places as provided for
on the 10Th day of May, 1906, between
in the Senatorial Primary At said
election all wellknown white Demo
cratic voters who will be qualified to
vote in the next gubernatorial election
shall be entitled to vote. The cleo
tion shall ne held by the Democratic
Executive Committeeman for each
District, who shall select the judges
and officers to hold said election, to
be selected as nearly as practicable
from the friends of each candidate for
Governor. There shall be selected |
thirty-two delegates in ALL to be dis
tributed among the various civil dis
tricts in the same number as the DEM |
ocratic Executive Committeeman are
now distributed and the candidates in
each district of the number which said
district is entitled to elect delegates, |
securing the highest number of votes
cast in said primary election shall be
declared the delegates from such dis
trict, and shall be entitled to cast the
vote of the district in the proportion
to which such. district is entitled to
vote as compared with the whole
County.
Judge Erwin made a strong speech
against the new district idea, but in a
spirit of harmony proposed that the
question should be referred to the
county executive committee who made
the call, and leave it to them TO say
what they meant This harmony prop
osition met with a storm of protest
from the Patterson side of the house.
Then" said Judge Erwin good
IF that is the way you take
it, in q further spirit Of harmony | will
the suggestion.
DR.. G. A. Forgey followed with a
ringing speech which was loudly ap-
plauded by the Patterson contingent,
favoring the call by the new commit
tee While he was on the floor he
was asked why, if he thought the call
was so clearly for the new committee,
lid the friends of Mr.. Patterson send
out tickets and select delegates to run
n the old districts. The Doctor re-
Dlied, because we found out our mis-
AXE" Did you notify the other side
hat you were going to make the fight
along the new district line" he was
asked. NO" he replied, st was not
NY business to tell them anything;
hey never tell me anything"
Mr. John s. Brown, of the 2Srd dis
riot, gave the Patterson side a pretty
severe jolt, when he accused them of
'eversing themselves by contending
or something today they had posi-
lively refused to grant in the sena-
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