The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-04
ONE MONTH OF RUNNING
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HAS OR
DERED AN EARLY PRIMARY.
Terrell County Will Express Choice
OF Candidates for Senate and
Nominate Officers ON April 3.

| he DGdulIS anu SSllldl CtlIhlhoI|
will have but one short month in
which to scatter sunshine and Guilt
vate a kindly and brotherly feeling
especially towards himself-among
the voters of the county.
A county primary has been called
for April 3rd.
A resolution offered by Committee
man j. G. Dean calling upon the
voters of the county to express their
preference of the candidates for the
state senate at that time was also
unanimously adopted. This is in &C
cordance with long established Gus
tom, and is what the people de-
sired and expected of the commit
| tee.
| There were two motions as to the
date for the primary, one fixing it
for April 27th being offered by Com
mitteeman Flemming, who said that
| it would be more convenient for the
| farmers, as by that time they will
have finished planting their crops.
April 3rd was adopted by majority
of one, and then made the unani-
nous action of the committee.
| The assessments on the candidate
for defraying the expenses of the
primary were made larger than ever
before. The candidates for state
senator, representative, ordinary,
clerk of the court and sheriff will
each have to pay to the committee
| &C. ho
didates for other offices run from
$1,000 down to $3.50, and all can
didates must pay their assessments
to the secretary of the committee by
March oath. The name of any can
didate who fails to do this will not
appear on the official ballot, and no
votes that may be cast for him will
| be counted.
All white voters who were quail
| fed to vote in the last general cleo
ton or who may qualify by registra-
ton by March oath will be entitled
to vote in the primary. Chairman
w. b. Oxford, Secretary J. G. Dean
and Judge NJ G. Edwards were APP
| pointed a committee to purge the
registration and furnish lists to the
managers at the various precincts.
The OhiCIal Minutes.
Below are the official proceedings
of the committee:
Dawson, Ca, Feb. 20, 1908.-At
meeting of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of Terrell county
| just elected to serve during the next
two years thirteen members were
present either in person or by proxy.
The committee was organized by the
election of w. B. Oxford as chair
man and J. G. Dean as secretary,
After some discussion as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of an early county pri-
mary election April 3rd, 1908,
was selected as suitable date for
such an election, at which time nom
inees shall be named for the several
county offices. The following reso-
luton was then introduced and
unanimously adopted:
Whereas under the rotation SyS-
TEN which prevails in the Eleventh
Senatorial District it is the time for
Terrell county to furnish the sena-
torial nominee, and, whereas, the
custom has prevailed in the district
of allowing the countY~whose time
it may be to furnish the state sena-
tor in case there are two or more
candidates, to choose between these
candidates in primary preceding
the general state primary, therefore
be it resolved,
That all voters who may be quail
flied to vote therein are hereby called
on to express on their ballots at the
Terrell county primary on April
3rd their choice between the candi-
| dates offering for the place of state
Y senator from this district.
Resolved further, That the cam
didate receiving the majority of the
votes thus cast be offered to the dis
: trict as Terrell countys choice for
state senator.
The following rules and regula
tons were then adopted for govern
ing the primary:
l. All white voters who were
qualified to vote in the last general
election, or who may qualify them
selves by proper registration by
S March oath next, shall be entitled
. to vote in the primary election to
be held in and for Terrell county on.
' the 3rd day of April, 1908.
. 2. The said primary election shall
J. be held under the rules promulgated
4 by the State Democratic Executive
3. The primary election shall be
r held by the executive committee, or
by some person selected by the COM
mittee qualified to hold such cleo
ton.
d. A ballot shall be prepared by
the secretary of this committee
which shall contain the names of all
qualified candidates. the said ballot
to be printed at the expense of the
fund furnished by the candidates to
defray the expenses of the said pri-
mary election, and when printed be
, distributed by the secretary to the
several candidates.
;. The following assessments are
required of and must be paid by the
several candidates for covering the
expense of the primary election, and
must be paid on or before March
! path, or the candidate will be dis
qualified to be voted for in the said
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