Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-07-17
PRIMARY TOSETTLE
POSTOFFICE FIGHTS
County Committee Calls Elections in
North TazeweIl, Graham and Po-
cahontas For July 18th.
CANDIDATES In GREAT NUMBERS

The Democratic County Committee
met in the Office of county chairman
A. S. Higginbotham ON Tuesday af-
ternoon and perfected arrangements
for the postofiice primary to be held
in Graham, Pocahontas and North
Tazewell on the 2Sth. inst.
A number of the candidates for the
offices were present at the meeting.
1t is stated that in Graham there will
likely be half dozen candidates for
that office. The following account of
the meeting, preceded by the resolu
tions of the district committee, au-
thorizing the primary,etc., was fur
nished by the county chairman:
At meeting of the Ninth District
Democratic Committee, held at Bris-
tol on July 7th., 1914, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED,
FIRST: That this Committee ap-
proves the plan recommended by the
Postmaster General of settling, by
preferential primaries, the presiden-
this district;
SECOND: All Democratic patrons,
including those on rural routes of the
Offices at Big Stone Gap, Honaker,
Dante, Lebanon, North Tazewell, Gra-
ham and Pocahontas, respectively,
who voted for Wilson and Marshall
in 1912 and who may now be qualified
to vote, and all Democrats who may
be qualified to vote in the next CON
gressional election in this district,
shall be allowed to participate;
the counties of Wise, Russell and
Tazewell, respectively, shall, as soon
as practicable, meet, fix dates and
prescribe all necessary details for
said preferential primaries. The cleo
tion shall be by ballot, the ballots to
be furnished by the respective county
COMMITTEES. Each candidate shall.
wnen lie nles his name with the chair
man of the county committee, as
hereinafter provided, submit the
names of three men qualified to vote
in said election, one of whom the
said committee shall name as one of
the judges; provided, in all cases,
there shall be at least three judges.
The judges shall meet after the close
of the election, count the vote and
certify it to the chairman of their
county committee, who shall trans
NIT same to Dr. ID. Buchanan, chair
man of this committee. Any voter
who so desires may have assistance
in preparing his ballot by Judge of
his own choosing. In so far as is con-
sistent herewith, the said elections
shall be in accordance with the gene
raj law of Virginia governing cleo
tions.
EOITpTu. A., ro,.o,, Jo.;,.;,,.- +o
enter any contest shall, at least five
days before election, file his name
with his county chairman and agree
to abide by the result of the election.
At a meeting of the Tazewell
county democratic committee, held at
Tazewell, Virginia, on July Ia, 1914,
the following action was unanimously
passed and adopted:
FIRST: That this committee
adopts and accepts the above resolu-
tion of the Ninth District Democratic
Committee, as to the holding of post
Office primaries at North Tazewell,
Graham and Pocahontas in Tazewell
county.
SECOND: That the date for the
holding of the said primaries in Taze-
well county is fixed for Tuesday July
28, 1914
THIRD: That all candidates must
file their notices of candidacy with
the county chairman on or before
o'clock p. M, July %, 1914, and must
accompany their notices with the sum
of $500, hereby fixed and assessed
for expenses and costs incident to
arranging and providing for said cleo
tion, but the judges thereof shall re-
gratis.
FOURTH: That only chose Demo
cratic patrons specified in the above
resolution of the Ninth District Com
mittee shall be allowed to vote, and
the only voting places shall be at
North Tazewell, Graham and Poca-
hontas.
FIFTH: That the county chairman
shall secure from the Registrars OF
the rural precincts affected certified
lists of the qualified Democratic vot-
ers and deliver same to the Judges
holding the elections at North Taze
well, Graham and Pocahontas, anc
the county chairman will also appoint
and notify the judges, giving each
candidate one judge out of the three
names submitted by him, and will
also arrange for the poll books, bal
lots and other details necessary fol
hn1dipo tho a1aotiOnc
A. S. HIGGINBOTHAM,