The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-05-04
UNANIMOUS
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM.
MITTEE REcoNsiDERs FOR.
MER ACTION AND
Fixes Saturday, May 10, as the Date
For Holding the Gubernatorial
Primary in this County.


The Maury County Democratic Elk
ecutive Committee met in the County
Court room. at noon Friday accordine
to the call Of Chairman Ramon. The
Chairman stated that he had called
the committee together upon the pc
htion of several members, and asked
Mr. Smiser, the Secretary, to state
If he knew the purpose of the petit
TONERS. The Secretary stated that he
understood the purpose to be to re-
consider the former action of the com
mittee in fixing the 5th of May as the
time Of holding the election for dele,
gates TO the gubernatorial convention.
Hon. John S. Brown introduced the
following:
Resolved that the resolution adopted
by this Committee on the 2Srd of April
1906, providing for the Democratic
Primary to be held on the 5th day of
May, 1906, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the gubernatorial con
vention. and providing rules and reg
ulations for holding such primary, and
the casting of the vote of Maury
County, in said State Convention. to
be held in Nashville on May goth 1906,
be and the same is hereby annulled
and vacated.
First: BE 1T RESOLVED that a
Democratic Primary Election be held
on the 10Th day of May, 1906, between
the hours of 1 o'clock p. m. and 5
o'clock p. M, for the purpose of Sc
Letting delegates to the Democratic
gubernatorial convention to be held in
the city of Nashville, Tennessee on
the 18th day of May, 1906: said Pri-
mary Election will be held at the diff.
terent voting places as provided for
in the Senatorial Primary. At said
election all well-known white Demo
cratic voters who will be qualified to
vote in the next gubernatorial election
shall be entitled to vote. The cleo
ton shall be 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.
Second: BE 1T FURTHER RE-
SOLVED, that the delegates so elected
shall meet in the Circuit Court room
OF the Court House of Columbia, Ten
nessee, at 10 m. on the Dist day Of
May, 1906, for the purpose of organic
ing
Third: BE 1T FURTHER RE-
SOLVER, that on all matters coming
before the gubernatorial convention |
when assembled at Nashville, the vote |
of MatEy County shall be cast as a |
unit, how the vote shall be cast to be |
determined by a majority OF the votes |
to which the County is entitled, each |
civil district voting it's proportionate
part of such vote.
Passed by unanimous vote, Every !
district in the county was represented
in the meeting.