The Brunswick news., 1912-09-01
LARGE NUMBER OF DELEGATES
WERE HERE TO PARTICIPATE
IN MEETING.
JUDGI.OART NAMED Chairman
Dou las Attorney Elected 20 Head
New Executive committee-Boat
RE Was Social Feature Of the
Gathering.

Gathering.
e 40crats of tne EleaE,l con
gre ilaa4 4saa.~l lA=l .n a ress44.
loy, resi- IL tne coul nouse yesler-
DAY al noyn ara nominated Hon j.
RaL--ii Wai&eg oI VaiGosja as the
party nominee. IL was gathering in
which .tes 81 me victor anG the
loser part tpaJed, and 1t oemonsUrat-
el among s,htr Jniuss hat 40 bit
terness or i'll feeling has been lett
amos .la friends OF the Two gentle
men MAO .raclnuy conducted such
clel e~mpaisn Tor this high position,
aE iug the several addresses de
lyel-d, hieh praise was paid to both
the acaessful and defeated candidate
III she absence OF Chairman j
Mel maid of Ware the convention
was called 30 order by Capt w r.
Townsend of this city, who an
nounced that the first order OF bust
ness would be the election of a tenn
porary chairman and secretary. S. G..
Townsend of St. Marys was elected
temporary chairman and F. d Col
son OF Ocilla secretary and the con-
venton at once got down to business.
Judge F. Willis Dart of Douglas wa:
named a chairman of the convention
and F. +. Gurr of Jessup secretary.
Ia accepting the chairmanship Judge
Dart made a very strong address, in
which he called attention to the very
bright outlook Of the Democratic
party at present. He said that there
was but little doubt that the next
president would be "a Democrat, a
Southerner and in a way, a Georgian
and furthermore that the next first
lady of the land would be a Georgia
lady. He touched on various mat
ters of the Eleventh district, which
he correctly classed as the most pros.
porous district in Georgia, and he
paid beautiful tribute to the only
two men who have ever represented
It in congress, the late lamented
Henry G Turner of Brooks and Hon.
William G. Brantley Of Glynn. Judge
Dart was roundly applauded at tn.
conclusion of his address.
Nominations were then called foI
and Col. Randall walker was placed
in nomination by G n Ward Of Doug
las, who made a yeryB bible address in
presenting the name Of the Eleventh
mex. congressman The nomination
was followed by J. II. Cory Of Berrien,
who also made a very pretty little
talk stating that Berrien was new
member of the district, but that the
people of that county were well
pleased with their district and it,
Congressman.
Probably the strongest address of
the convention, however, was made by
E. L. Campbell of Coffee county. Mr. |
Campbell seconded the nomination OF
Col Walker. and he did so in a very
eloquent speech in which he paid |
high praise to the young congress
man elect. He aroused considerable
and was roundly applaud
ed at the conclusion of his talk.
Judge Parker was placed in nomi
nation by 3. w. Cornelius of Clinch,
who had many words of praise for |
the Waycross jurist. Te nomination
of Judge Parker was seconded by va
rious delegates, after which motion
was made that the nominations close
The call Of counties then proceeded
with the result that Walker received
"a votes and Parker 12. AS the va
rious counties. cast their votes for the
respective candidates there was much
applause.
e. H. Mason, a Parker delegate
from this county, moved that the
nomination of Mr.. Parker be made
and the motion was car
ried amid much enthusiasm.
The chairman then announced that
the next order of business would be
the selection Of a new executive COM
mittee for the district. Each delega
ton appointed their member Of the
which was elected as