The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-20
EXPECTED ATTEMPT TO DIS
QUALIFY CANDIDATE DIDN'T
MATERIALIZE.
REV. CURRlE SAYS RUM0RS
NOT SANCTIONED BY HIM
1926 Candidates Paid Their Fees To
Secretary Batson Before Last Night
mo Pay for Election Officers
Committee Dodges Action on "Sin-
gle shot" Question.
gle shot" Question.


The expected attempt to have the
name of l.. G.. Hood, candidate for
county superintendent of education,
omitted from the ticket did not ma
terialize at the meeting of the Demo
cratic executive committee of Forrest
county today.
On the contrary the Rev. E. J. Cur.
rie, who now holds the office and who
is Mr.. Hoods opponent in the coming
election, appeared before the commit
tee and declared that he was in no
way responsible for the rumor that
Mr.. Hood is disqualified for holding
the office and that he hoped the com
mittee would not consider the rumor
in any manner.
Il would rather have my name drop.
ped from the ticket" declared Mr..
Currie, than to do any injustice to
my opponent and | am here before the
committee solely for the purpose of
assuring you that | want the two
| names to go right along together on
the ticket"
The committee promptly adopted a
resolution authorizing Secretary T. E.
Batson to put on the ticket the names
of all the candidates who have turn
ed over to him the necessary fee. Mr.
BatsOn read the committee the names
of the candidates who have paid the
fee and Mr. Hoods was one of the
names, so there can be no further
question that he will be on the ticket
when voting day comes.
Law Seems Ambiguous.
The possibility of Mr.. Hoods being
| disqualified to hold the office was
found in Chapter 1877 Of the code of
1906, section 1909, which reads as fol-
lows:
Before anyone shall be elected to
this office he shall have attained the
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qualified voter and a resident cit
| izen of the state for four years and of
the county for two years Immediately
preceding his election and shall have
passed the examination provided for
in the section following the next one
and have received a certificate accord
| ingly."
Lawyers and laymen have differed
| as to the Interpretation of this sec
tion-whether it means that the can
didate shall have been a qualified
voter in the county for two years. or
| shall have been merely a citizen Of
the county for two years. There are
no punctuation marks in the clause
which would indicate the correct in
depreciation. and as Mr.. Hood has
|, been citizen of the county for more
than two years but has not been a
! qualified voter for that length of time
the Interpretation placed on it by the
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his candidacy.
The committee did not discuss the
question at all but, after Mr.. Currie's
address, ordered Hoods name placed
on the ticket.
125 Candidates Paid Fee.
Secretary Batson reported that 125
candidates, from governor down to
beat officers have paid the fees and
this will be the number of candidates
voted on in this countyMr. Batson has
| not completed his arrangements of
the names by the officers for which
they are candidates.
The committee found that in allow.
ing fees of one dollar each to clerks,
bailiffs and returning officers for each
of the coming primaries, they had act
ed contrary to the law, which provides
that these officers cannot be paid out
of the funds received from the candi-
dates. The committee therefore re-
scinded its action in this regard.
A motion was carried to declare all
candidates who are without opposition
| the Democratic nominees and the fol-
lowing candidates, having no opposi-
Continued on Pave Two.)