The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-04-03

sented a resolution providing that eacl
member Of the committee tax himseI
SIS to pay for the rent of the RymaI
auditorium on May 26 and 27.
The report OF the resolutions commit
tee endorsing the temperace laws ant
the election laws was then read, ant
adopted with one opposing vote. Thi
came from Geo. Goodrich, of Fayette
vile, who made an unsuccessful at
tempt to block the passage OF the repor
by moving that it be adopted down t.
the last two passages, the ones endorsing
the temperance and election laws. Thii
motion was lost for failure Of a second
Mr.. Goodrich contended that the com
mittee had gone too iar.n
i am in favor Of the temperance
laws, said the speaker, but / am mo-
in favor OF the election laws"
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED.
The report of the resolutions commit
tee was as follows:
Your committee appointed to pre-.
pare plan for the nomination Of Dem
ocratic candidates for Justice Of the Su.
preme Court, Governor and Railroad
Commissioner, beg leave to report the
following plan, to-wit:
THAT Democratic State conventions
be called to meet at the Ryman Audi.
torium in Nashville, Tenn, at noon on
Tuesday, May 26. 1914, and Wednes.
day, May q, 1914, the first of said con.
ventions to be for the purpose OF nom
mating one candidate for Justice OF the
Supreme Court from the Eastern Divi-
sion, to be voted for at the August cleo
ton, 1914, and the second OF these con-
veDtions to be held on May 27, 1914,
for the purpose Of nominating a candi-
date for Governor and a candidate for
Railroad Commissioner, to be voted for
at the November election, 1914; for the
selection Of a new State Executive Com
mittee, the adoption OF a party plat
form and such other business as usually
comes before such State convention.
Said conventions will be called to order
by the chairman Of this committee.
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
Each Of the counties Of the State
shall be entitled to representation and
vote in said conventions upon the basis
Of one vote for each 100 votes cast for
The Wilson and Marshall electors in
1912, or fraction thereof over fifty.
Delegates to said conventions shall
be selected by the Democrats OF the re-
spective counties OF the State on Satur-
day, May 16, 1914, in such manner as
The Democratic County Executive Com
mittees shall provide by appropriate ac-
lion, such action by the County Execu-
i've Committees to be had not later than
May 8, 1914, and due pub
icity OF the method or manner OF the
Of these delegates shall be Civ
10 after the county committees have
lcted by publication in a newspaper in
sach county, where the same can be
lone, and where there is no newspaper
n any county that will publish the ac-
ion OF the County Executive Commit
ees, the same shall be posted for not
ess than FIVE days at the door OF the
courthouse and published, il possible,
q newspaper published in other coun-
y adjacent thereto and circulating in
be county affected thereby; it being
urther provided that IL the County Ex-
cutive Committee Of any county OF the
tate shall fail to act on or before May
(, 1914. and provide method for the
election OF delegates to the State con-
entions and promulgate the same as
royided herein, then mass conventions
( the Democratic voters of each coun-
! so failing to act are hereby called 10 |
ieet at noon on Saturday, May is,
ia, at the courthouse in such coun-
es to be called to order by the chair
IAN OF the County Executive Commit
e, or 10 bis absence. by any member
the County Executive Committee
resent, which convention shall select
Ie delegates to the State convention to
J held at Nashville, Tenn, as hereto
re provided.
ELECTION or DELEGATES.
In the selection Of delegates 70 the
70 State conventions heretofore called
'unties may select either the same or
fferent lists Of delegates to the judicial
and to the gubernatorial
invention, as may be decided upon by
e Democracy Of the several counties.
the said State convention OF MAY 81.