The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-31
PRIMARY FOR CONGRESSMAN
THE THIRD DISTRICT EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE ADOPTS RULES.
How Candidate Will Be Nominated
Delegates Named and a New
Committee Chosen.

C0n1HllbUt6 NhOoChs
The congressional primary on Au-
gust 21st will be held under the fol-
lowing rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the democratic executive
committee of the Third district:
Be it resolved by the executive
committee of the Third congressional
district of Georgia, regularly assem-
bled, and it is hereby resolved by the
authority of the same, that dem
ocratic primary shall be held in each
county comprising the Third congress
sional district of Georgia on the 21st
day of August, 1912, for the pur-
pose of nominating congressman
to represent the said district in the
sixty-third congress of the United
States.
End. Be it further resolved, and it
is hereby resolved by the authority
aforesaid, that said primary shall be
held and governed by the same rules
and regulations fixed by the state
executive committee to control the
nomination of state house officers,
except as hereinafter provided.
3rd. Be it further resolved, and
it is hereby resolved by the authority
aforesaid, that each candidate for
congress in said Third district and
running in the primary this day
called shall pay such assessments to
the chairman of the Third congress
sional district executive committee
as may be fixed by the chairmen OF
the various county executive commit
tees as said executive committee may
make against him, and the chairman
of the Third congressional committee
shall furnish his name to the proper
authority in time for it to appear on
the official ballot to be used in said
primary. Any candidate failing to
comply with these requirements on
or before August 10th, 1912, shall
be ineligible to run in said primary,
and any vote that may be cast for
such candidate shall not be counted.
4th. Be it further resolved, and
it is hereby resolved by the authority
aforesaid, that the successful candl-
date in said district Immediately up
on the consolidation of the returns OF
said primary election shall select the
delegates from each county in the
district, each county being entitled
to twice as many votes in the con-
yention as it has representatives in
the lower house of the general as
sembly of Georgia, and it shall be the
business of said delegates so selected
to represent their county in the con-
solidation of the returns Of said con-
gressional primary and declare the
result of the same.
5th. Be it further resolved, and it
is hereby resolved by the authority
aforesaid, that the delegates SO Sc
lected shall assemble in convention
at Americas, Ga, on the Bird day OF
September, 1912, at 8 p. m, and pro-
coed to consolidate the returns from
the various counties in said district
and declare the candidate receiving
the largest number of votes in said
district to be the democratic nominee
! for the sixty-third congress in the
! Third congressional district of Geor-
| gia. Provided, however, that such
candidate has complied with the
rules prescribed by the last congress
/ sional convention with reference to
campaign expenses. Said convention
| shall also elect a new executive COM
mittee for the Third congressional
district of Georgia, and shall trans
act such other and further business
as may properly come up before it.
9Th. Be it further resolved that
the newspapers throughout the dis
trict be requested to publish these
resolutions.