The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-03-17
ELECT DELEGATES
BY yIREcE VOTE OF
PEOPLE OF COUNTY
PRIMARY ORDERED HELD BY THE
DEMOCRATS ON SATURDAY,
APRIL I.
only one fight DEVELOPS
That Comes over Effort To Endorse
The Administration Of Dunlap and
Thomason-Thos. Y. English Elect
ed Secretary.

Al lLS IuoOIlh6 "nOA"'
ty democratic committee adopted q
Dlan for the selection of delegates TO
che state convention at Nashville. The
delegates will be elected directly from
the districts by the people in pri-
mary election to be held on Saturday
April /, between / o'clock and o'clock
n m. The districts will each elect
one delegate for each twenty-five votes
cast for Wilson and Rye, making nine
ty.four delegates from the county.
The delegates will meet at the Court
House on Monday following their cleo
ton for organization and for the adop-
ton of instructions.
The meeting of the committee was
entirely harmonious except upon the
point of endorsing the administration
of Comptroller Thomson and Treas
urer Dunlap. There was no particu-
lar opposition to these gentlemen, but
the members of the committee be-
lieyed 1t out of place to endorse them
at this time. Finally, however, mere
endorsement of their administration
was grudgingly given by the vote OF
ten to FIVE. Thomas H. PEBBLES, who
is not member of the committee,
asked that these officials be given
this endorsement. This was the only
time during the meeting Of the COM
snittees that any reference was made
% past factional differences, MIR.
PEBBLES insisting that only state Off.
GERS duly and regularly nominated
were entitled to an endorsement, and
another member declaring that the
democrats had had little to do with
what their legislators had been doing
IN the past FIVE or six years in Maury
county.
In striking contrast to this spirit
was the statement made by Chairman
Whitthorne, that Hon. James A. Smis-
or. chairman of independent commit
Zee, had surrendered to him all his EN-.
blems of authority and had turned
over to him the small sum of money
remaining in his hands for the last
campaign.
Hon. Thomas Y. English, the eff
ccient justice of the peace from the
Sixth district, was elected secretary
of the committee to succeed L. H.
Hammond, who recently resigned.
Mr.. English presented the following
resolutions:
Be is resolved by the Democratic
Executive committee of Maury county:
"First-That q primary election be,
and the same is hereby called and
ordered to be held on the LIST day OF
April, 1916, in the various civil dis
aricts Of Maury county at the legal
voting places therein, between the
hours of 100 o'clock p. m. and 400
.o'clock D. m. for the purpose OF elect
ing delegates to the State Democratic
convention to be held at Nashville,
Tennessee, on May 18th, next; and
that the Democratic Executive COM
mitteemen of each civil district are
hereby authorized and empowered and
directed to hold said election and APP
point officers, judges, clerks, etc., to
hold said election in their respective
districts, and to certify the result Of
said election to the secretary of the
Maury County Democratic Executive
srommittee on Monday, April 3rd, next.
"Second-That each civil district
shall be entitled to elect one delegate
for each twenty-five votes, or frac-
;tional majority thereof, cast for Wood
row Wilson for President in 1912;
that is district number / shall elect
nine delegates, districts 2, 8. A, 5 and
8 shall elect eight delegates each,
district number shall elect twelve
delegates, districts 5 and 10 elect five
delegates each and district number .
snail elect twenty-three delegates.
"Third-That all known white DEM
secrats who will support the national
and state democratic nominees shall
ne entitled to vote in said election;
lprovided they can qualify to vote in
ne regular election Of such nominees,
except no poll tax receipts shall be
required as a qualification in this pri-
mary election.
"Fourth-That the voting in this
primary shall be by ballot, three by
seven inches. upon which shall be
written or printed the names OF the
delegates voted for.
"Fifth-That the delegates elected
in said primary shall meet in Colum-
'bia, Tennessee, at the Court House
1t 11OO o'clock a. m. on April 8. 1915.
for the purpose of organizing by the
election of a chairman, secretary and