Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-27
CAMERON WITHOUT LEGAL
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE-D. p. GAY
Urges Democrats OF County To Get Together, Take
Matters In Their OUu Hands And Elect County
Officers In Same Way That City Recently Elected.


To the Democrats of Cameron County
The time 10 hold conventions aii'
select candidates 10 fill the Offices @
Dur State and county governments
growing near. think ]. a good time Z
review the past. Ina doing this, | vi
rite several sections of the State cl"c
ton laws:
Primary Elections.
See. 1O2.-Thc term Primary
Election" as used IN this act,
means an election held by mem
bers Of an organized political par
~ to be voted for at a general or
special election or Ia nominate tEeA
county executive officers OF a.
party.
See. 106.-There shall be f'r
each political party required ~
this law 10 hold primary elections
for nomination of its cam.ldatcs A
county executive committee, to he
composed Of one member fro"l
each voting or justice pr 'clnci a
such county, as the partT exec
tive committee may direct, The
members of which county cXccH
tive committee as well "a IT,
county chairman and Il precinct
chairman fur each voting or III-
tice precinct as the ease may y"
shall be- elected by the quail 'ic'i vo'
ers Of the county on primary clc
tion day; provided that lrs casc q /,
q vacancy occurring IN tlT oiflr-
OF chairman. county or "rerIncl
or any member of such conmittc'
such vacancy shall BE- filled bv :
majority vote of SAIL executive
committee.
Vacancies in executive commis
tee are to be filled by co,mitter
Attorney general S op,nlol.s. 100.
1910.
If this section of the law was cat
complied with in Cameron county t
is more than anyone knows y assui &"
v was not done ~ the prliaarN eirr
ton held on the fourth Saturday y
July. 1872. | cite the proceedings n
Inc Democratic election hcld Auglf''
1912:
The Cameron County DemocTatir Z u
vcntion Was Held in the Wives
Opera House. 81
After the business of lcrtIng
delegates had been coIhple.cd. ths
Cameron County Democrat Exec
uiivc Committee was clcxcd as
folpws:-
JAS. Is. Wells. chairman. Browns
Vile.
l.. :. Ross. llariinGcn.
w. II. Mead. RaymondviIic
Cortc1 Nillarcal. Santa Maria
Dr. : II. Bell. Brownsville.
II. Pcna. Point Isabel. &
Here we find an executive commit
tee elected by the delegates t,- tient
cratic convention contrary L. the Law
which action was illegal and void.
Section 100 provides a way L. u
vacancies Ii says. "sGch vacancy sta
be filled by majority vote of sal
executive committee" There neve
having been an executive tommitte
selected by the Democrats ~ Gamer
on county. hold that the Inty ha
none. and ! wish H. inquire h W a pr
mary election Is going L. bg held }
this county according io laws
| well know that JudGe Jamrs !
Wells WAS duly elected county chan
man of the executive committee, bu
find h. has very little authority ~
en- him by law. Read the following So
tions quoted from the State : clccti"
laws:
See. ll3.-lt shall hc tn duty
of the yariou> county committees
OF any political party ON the day
and date set apart hy thus act for ar
ranging for primary elections to
determine the order IN which, the
name of the various candidates
for states or district or county and
precinct offices shall appear on the
ticket. and SAID order shall b. dc-
terimIncd by lot 80 no preference
shall be- given to anv candidate.
See. l23.--All the precinct PR
mary elections of party shall he
conducted by presiding judge 10
he appointed by chairman Of the
county executive committee Of the
party with. the assistance and ap-
proval ol at.lrast majority Of the
members TIA h. county executive
committee. 49, The execu-
tive committee Shall have general
supervision of the primary IN such
county and shall bc charged with
tis full responsibility for the dis
trihution of all snnplics neccs>a-
ry for holding same IA each pre-.
cinct to the presiding nudge there
of III the duly appointed presiding
officer shall fail ic obtain from the
executive committee the supplies
for holding such election such COM
mittce shall deliver the same Ia
the precinct chairman for such