Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-02-01
Primary Will be Held to
Nominate Candidate
For Congress.
MEMBERS PRESENT.
May 9th Decided as Day
When Candidate Will be
Selected.
The Call.

At a meeting of the Democratic
District Committee for the Second
Congressional District Of Kentucky,
held pursuant to a call of the Hon.
R. B. Bradley, chairman Of said COM
mittee, in the city of Madisonville,
KY, January %, 1908, the following
call was issued:
1t is hereby ordered that primary
election be held in all of the pre-
cincts of the several counties COM
posing the Second Congressional Dis
trict on Saturday, May 9, 1908, for
the purpose of nominating a Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in said
district to be voted for at the regular
November election, 1908. Said pri-
mary election shall be held under the
provisions of the Kentucky statutes
regulating primary elections, be-
tween such hours as regular state
elections are held.
No candidate in said primary shall
be allowed to select as a device the
device of the Democratic party.
Each candidate desiring to be vot-
ed for at said primary election shall
on or before 2 o'clock p. M, March
Both, 1908, file with the chairman of
the district committee his written
request to have his name placed on
the ballot for said primary election
and shall state whether or not he
desires his name to be printed under
any device, and if so he shall design
ate the device so desired by him.
An assessment of $1,000 is hereby
fixed for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of said election to be
paid by the candidates, and each
candidate shall on or before 2 O'Clock
p. M, March 30, 1908, pay to the
chairman of said district committee
his proportionate SSpart of the ex.
penses for holding the said primary
election.
The right to vote at said election
shall be limited and restricted to
those who affiliate in good faith with
the Democratic party and further
pledge their support to the nominee
of said election, and possess the
qualifications prescribed by statute,
provided, however, that persons I'M
der the age Of twenty-one years on
the date of said election, but who
will have reached said age by the
date of the November election, 1908,
and who wish to affiliate with the
Democratic party and will pledge
themselves to support the nominee
of said primary election, shall be en-
titled to vote.
Shuld there be but one candidate
to comply with the requirements of
this call, there shall be no primary
election held, but the District Com
mittee shall meet upon call of the
chairman on April q. 1908, at 2
O'Clock, p. M, at Henderson, KY,
and declare the persons complying
with the requirements of this call
the nominee of the Democratic party
for congress in the Second Congress
ional District of Kentucky, and the
chairman of said committee shall re-
turn to him his entrance fee.
The candidate receiving the largest
number of legal and qualified votes
cast of said election shall be declar-
ed the nominee of the Democratic
party Of the Second district for rep
resentative in congress.
The District Committee will meet
in the city of Henderson, KY, at 2
o'clock p. M, on Friday, the 18th
day Of May. 1908, for the purpose of
canvassing returns and issuing GER
tifcate of nomination.
In testimony whereof witness our
hands this I'D day of January, 1908.
r. B. BRADLEY, Chairman.
SPALDING TRAFTOM, Sec.