The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-04-24
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Knew voters were Not
Registered.
Claiming there is at present no Con .
gresSiOnal Committee in the Sixth .
District, created and empowered BY
the masses Of the Republican party,
colored representatives Of the party
from each of the counties OF the dis
trict met in this city Wednesday and .
adopted resolutions joining in call .
for another Congressional Convention
to be held in Nashville in May In
the preamble to the resolutions (
Wholesale trickery is laid at the door
Of 1.-The alleged Republican Executive .
Committee" of the district, the COM
mittee that called the previous Con-
gressional Convention in Twin Hall .
on February y. The resolutions as
adopted are as follows
Whereas On the 18th day of Jan
uary, 1908, the alleged Republican .
Congressional Executive Committee
for the Sixth District of Tennessee f
met in the Tulane Hotel at Nashville .
and issued a call for a Congressional h.
Convention for said district to be held
on February y, 1908, in Twin Hail.
at said Nashville for the purpose OF I
electing two delegates and two alter
mates to the Chicago Convention to be T
held on June 16 next, and for the pur-
pose OF naming a district elector, ETC.; (
and,
Whereas, said alleged Congression-
al Committee called or authorized /
and approved the calling of ward and .
district primaries to be held on Jan. /
20, 1905 to elect delegates to a county /
convention to be held in Davidson I
County on Jan. rs, 1908, which last
said county convention was to elect I
delegates to the Congressional Con- /.
yenti0n above referred to as being
called for February II, 1908; and
Whereas, said alleged Congressional /
Committee provided in its plan for
said alleged Congressional Conven- .
ton that the Primary Committee
Should prepare the ballots and all
voters must qualify on or before Jan /
16, 1908, by presenting either a regis F..
tration certificate or satisfactory evil /
dence that be has been registered;
Whereas, at the time OF said al (
legged call, said alleged committee well /
knew that a very small percentage of I
the Republicans of Davidson County
were then registered and that from
Jan II, 1908 (date of committee call) 1
to IAN 16, 1908 (date fixed for quali- /
iication Of Republicans by registra-
tom, a period Of five days, no Oppor
tunity would or could be presented to |
the Republicans Of Davidson County
to register and thus qualify; and
Whereas the process practically
disfranchises nine-tenths of the voters
of the party in Davidson County
method condemned always by the Re /
publican party, and
Whereas, the alleged primaries .
held on Jan 20, 1908-or just Eve
days after Jan. 16, 1908, the day set
for qualihcation-wer a farce and /
trayesty upon the rights Of free men;
and,
Whereas, said alleged Congression-
al Committee, which never as a mat |
ter OF fact had legal existence, re
fused and failed as a part of the
scheme of a clique of Federal Office |
holders to dominate the party, to give |
legal, fair and proper notice to the
masses Of the party; and in order to
confuse those who might get the ridic-
ulouly short notice of five days in
Davidson County (from Jan. II, 1908, |
to Jan. 1G, 1909, published in an inn
perfect manner in certain Democratic |
newspapers said alleged Congressional |
Committee purposely refused and
failed to make clear the hours within |
which Republicans could vote in the
primaries on Jan 20, 1908; and,
Whereas, the masses of our party
in counties outside of Davidson in
said Congressional district, had prac-
tieally no notice whatever of any kind,
of either the Congressional convention
or the county conventions to be held
to select delegates to the COMPRESSION
al convention and,
Whereas, all power is inherent in
the Republican masses of the Sixth
Congressional District; and the Con
gTessional Committee has no power,
except that which has been delegated
= TO it by the people who make up the
party, and the people reserve all rights
and powers not delegated to others;
and,
Whereas, there is no Congressional
Committee in the Sixth District Gre
ated and empowered by the masses Of