The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-04
COUNTY COMMITTEE
ATTACKS BOILERS. >
GOVERNOR BROWN CRITICIZED
BECAUSE NAME WAS USED.
State Committee Urged to Take Steps
To Prevent Boilers From Voting
in Future Party Primaries.

A considerable stir has been Great
ed among the politicians of the State
by the action OF the Cobb County
Democratic Executive Committee last
Saturday, in adopting resolutions cen
surfing Governor Brown for not for
bidding the use of his name as an in
dependent candidate in the October
election, and calling on the State CON-
mittee to take steps to prevent the
"bolters" from voting in future pri-
maries.
The committee met at the court
house at 10 o'clock Saturday for or
ganization and during the meeting
passed almost unanimously the set of
resolutions in regard to those voters
who bolted the primary last year.
The attendance at the meeting was
large, % members being present, and
out of that number but six voted
against the resolutions.
The committee was organized by
the election of E. L. Neufville as
chairman and Gordan B. Gam as Sec
rotary. A committee was appointed
to provide tickets and make all neces-
sary arrangement for the primary in
accordance with the rules of the state
committee and was composed as fol-
lows: E. L. Neufville, of Winnings; DR..
W. C. HUMPHREYS, of Acworth; George
w. Wing, of Roswell, and Gordon B.
Gam, of Marietta
The resolutions in regard to the
boilers were introduced by George w.
Wing, of Roswell, and were as fol-
lows:
The Resolutions.
Resolved, by the Democratic Exec
utive Committee of Cobb County, this
day assembled, said committee con-
sisting of two members from each of
the 10 militia districts in said county.
and having been elected by the peo-
pie OF our respective districts at the
last general primary of said county,
as follows:
First We are Democrats. We be.
lieve that the plan of the Democratic
party, as followed in the past to set
tie its differences by white Demo.
cratic primaries, has had the effect of
harmonizing the white vote and elm
mating the negro vote of the State.
We believe that this policy should be
encouraged and practiced in the flu.
ture. We believe that to depart
from this policy will eventually have
the effect of disorganizing and dis
rupting the party
Second. We notice that certain
persons and newspapers are now ad-
vocating and urging ex-Gov. Joseph
NJ. Brown to enter the coming prim-
airy as Democratic candidate for
governor.
Third. We desire to call the atten-
ton of these persons and newspapers
TO certain facts: In the last Democrat.
&c primary fer the nomination of gov
ernor, Ex-Governor Brown was candi-
date and that he was defeated bv a
decisive majority. In the general
election he permitted his name to be
used as an independent candidate
against his successful opponent. If
ne ala not encourage the use of his
name he certainly did not discourage
II, although repeated efforts were
made to get him to do SO even by
many persons and newspapers that
supported him in the primary. He
received many thousand votes. as an
Independent, throughout the State. In
this, his home county, his organiza-
ton In the primary was kept intact
Many OF his strongest supporters in
the primary actively, openly and no.
toriously supported aim in the gen.
eral election, claiming that he was a
candidate against the nominee. Tick
cts were printed and used with his
name on them for governor with the
name OF the regular nominee left eff
HIS organization was so effective and
compact in this, his home county
that he carried the same seven militia
districts against the nominee of the
party that he carried in the primary
election.
Fourth. We believe that any man
who was a candidate in a primary
and who tacitly permitted the use of
MS name as candidate, and allowed
his political friends to have his name
printed on tickets, have them distrib-
uted. and work for his election at the
polls, as an independent candidate
against the regular Democratic nomi.
nee without any protest on his part.
does not deserve to become the stand.
ard bearer of the Democracy of Geor-
gia.
Fifth. We appeal to the State Dem
ocratic executive committee to pass
such rules and regulations as will in
the future prevent persons who have
participated in Democratic primary
and then failed to support the ncmi
nee, from participating in future
primaries.
Sixth. We instruct our chairman to
furnish a cOpv of these resolutions 20