The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-06
THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
Meets in Union City and Ar
ranges for Primary Election.

ranges for Primary Election.
The members of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Fourteenth
Judicial Circuit met at the Palace Hotel
in Union City on Saturday, the 31st ult. !,
as follows:
Lake County represented by J. I.
Burnett, proxy; Benton County repre-
sented by Dorsey Hudson, proxy; Dyer
County represented by M. M. Marshall
Weakley County represented by r.
T~Lewis; Obion County represented by
o. SpradIin.
The first order of business was the
election of officers M. M. Marshall,
of Dyer, was placed in nomination by
Mr.. Spradlin for permanent chairman.
Mr.. Marshall declined to entertain the
motion and substituted the name of Mr..
Spradlin, who was chosen unanimously
chairman of the Judicial Committee for
the ensuing term. r. T. Lewis was
elected secretary. The time of holding
primary election elected some discus
sion, but no conflict. Everyone finally
agreed, and the date was fixed for the
18th of October, 1909 In the reso-
lutions below are incorporated the gem
eral provisions of said primary. The
call is as follows:
For JUDGE AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
At meeting of the Judicial Com
mittee for the Fourteenth Judicial Cir
cult of the State of Tennessee, held in
the parlors of the Palace Hotel at
Union City, Tenn, the member from
each county in the Judicial Circuit being
present or represented by proxy, the
following resolutions providing for the
time, place and manner of selecting
candidates for Judge and District Attor-
ney for said Judicial Circuit we're
unanimously passed and adopted by
said Committee, to wit:
WHEREAS, under the law a Judge
and District Attorney are to be elected
in August, 1910, for the Fourteenth
Judicial Circuit of Tennessee; therefore
be and it is resolved by the Democratic
Executive Committee of said Fourteenth
Circuit assembled in Union City on this,
July 81, 1909, that a Democratic pri-
mary election for the purpose Of nomi-
mating Democratic candidates for said
offices of Judge and District Attorney
of and for said Fourteenth Circuit, COM
posed of the counties of Dyer, Lake,
Obion, Weakley and Benton, on the
10th day of October, 1909, at each and
all the voting precincts of each and all
said counties.
All known white Democrats in each
of said counties of said Judicial Circuit,
who will pledge their support of the
nominees of this primary, who under
the law will be entitled to a vote for said
offices in the regular election in August,
1910, shall be entitled to vote in the
primary election herein provided for
and none others.
Each member of this committee
shall give notice of the holding of said
primary election by publishing the
same in some newspaper in his county,
and if for any reason he should be un-
able to have said notice published in a
newspaper, then he will publish same
by written or printed posters posted at
the various precincts of his county.
Each committeeman shall supervise
-he holding of this primary. He shall
appoint the officers necessary to hold
he same, judge, clerks, ETC., all of
whom shall be known white Democrats.
The poles of said primary will be open
I'd at O'Clock a. m. and closed at 4
} o'clock p. m. on said October 16, 1909
The said officers holding the primary
1t each of said voting precincts shall
within days thereafter make and GER
ify the correctness of vote of said cleo
ion and deliver the same to the MEM
Der of this committee from his county.
1t is further ordered that this COM
nittee,. after the holding this primary
election, shall meet at Union City, Ten
lessee, on the 2Sd day of October and
canvass the returns and vote of the
primary herein provided for. And each