The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-15
NAMES OF COUNTY
NOMINEES PLACED
ON OFFICIAL BALLOT
SECRETARY OF COMMITTEE GER
TITLES THAT THEY ARE PAR.
TY REPRESENTATIVES,.
OTHER NAMES ARE GOING ON
Time Limit Expires on July 25-PetI-
tions Necessary Where Candidates
Are Not Party Observation-Disclosures
snts Take Necessary Precaution.

The names OF the Democratic NOM
inees for county ofiices have been GER
tilted to j. A. Smiser, chairman OF the
board of election commissioners, and
will be placed on the ballots. The
names were certified by Secretary
Finney of the County Democratic
Committee, and incidentally the al
legged Patterson County Committee
made no claim to the right to certify
anything, although claiming to be
regular"
The candidates whose names were
thus certified were Hardin w. Thorn
as, county court clerk; s. A. Hayes,
circuit court clerk; ]. Trim Mcknight,
county Judge; w. Spence McFall,
trustee; Sam ]. Taylor, register;
Claud Goodwin, sheriff.
The names of Horace Frierson, Jr.,
and W. Bruce Turner, nominees re-
spectively for attorney general and
Judge of the Eleventh circuit, were
certified by J. A. Smiser, secretary OF
the judiciary committee, and will be
placed on the ballot in all the coun-
ties comprising the circuit.
The time in which the names OF
candidates can be placed on the ballot
expires on July rs, so there is but
eleven more days in which the aspi-
rants for popular favor may get in
to an effective receptive attitude The
names of all the nominees will be GER
titled by the secretary of the commit
tee conducting the primary, and in all
other cases candidates are required
to petition to have their names placed
on the ballot.
Constable.
One constable for each Of the dis
ltricts, with the exception OF the
Ninth, where two will be elected, will
Ibe chosen at the August election
These names must be placed on the
ballot by petition, and each petition
must be signed by fifteen qualified
voters. The petitions must be nled
with J. A. Smiser, chairman of the
detection commission. at least ten days
before the election. Already some OF
1.-The candidates have fled the necessa-
ry petitions.
i In each district there is an advisory
board of three to be elected, and these
names. as well as the names OF the
candidates for the county board OF ed
lucation, must be placed on the ballots
lby petition. There are Ave members
of the county board of education to
elect, and SO far there are no avowed
candidates. The Office is about the
only one that seeks the man, and usu'
ally 1t requires some patriotism for q
lcitizen to make up his mind to &C
cent 1t. While there are Ave to be
Ielected. but one is voted for, the Sc
lection being by districts.
independent Candidates.
The names of the independent can
didates for the judiciary have already
been placed on the ballot by petition
the necessary blanks having been
forwarded here from State headduar
tiers at the Maxwell No trouble IN Sc
curing the fifteen names was expert
enced There was some doubt as &c
whether or not these candidates could
be certified as the nominees Of the bic
convention held at Nashville on May
is and 1t is accordingly thought oes'
to have them placed on the ballot By
separate petition in each of the coun
ties of the state. The Patterson nom
lnees win be certified to by the stats