Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-08-10
CONVENTION ON SEPT. FOURTH
To Nominate Democratic Candidate
For Representative
District Meetings Will Be Held
Saturday, Aug. 26th

Saturday, Aug. 2eth
The Democratic Committee for Put.
nam county met in the courthouse
last Saturday at one o'clock, Chair
man C.. H. Hickman presiding, and
Secretary ]. H. Cornwell at his post
Of duty, and about rs members pres
ents representing eight or nine dist
riots. After some argument the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted as
the plan for nominating candidate
for representative:
WHEREAS, for the past several
years it has been the custom among
Democrats in Putnam county to nom
mate their candidate for the Legisla-
ture by convention or mass meeting
OF Democrats; and,
| WHEREAS, the time has now
again arrived to make this selection
and the Democratic executive COM
mittee has been called together to-
day for the purpose of formulating
some plan,
BE 1T THEREFORE,, RESOLVED:
That a delegated convention be call
ed to meet in the courthouse in
CoOkeville at l p. m. on the 4th day
of September, 1916, for the purpose
of nominating candidate for the
lower house of the Legislature and
transacting such other business as
may regularly come before the as
semblage.
Each district in the county shall
be represented in the convention by
one delegate for every twenty-five
votes or fractional part thereof cast
for Wilson in the November election
of 1912 in said district and the dele
cation in said convention shall be
entitled to vote their district in said
convention in proportion thereto.
The delegates are to be well known
Democrats selected in each district
on the 26th day of August, 1916. at
p. m. to be called and assembled at
the usual voting place by the CON-
mitteemen from that district. ao
Should the Democrats in any dist
rict fail to assemble and select their
delegates as 1ereinbefore provoded
then the regularly appointed commit
teemen from said district shall have
the power to select delegates to rep
resent said district in the convention.
A list of the delegates so selected
from each district shall be fled with
the secretary or chairman Of this
convention on or before the first
Monday in September, 1916.
In the event any district fails to
Eeet in mass meeting as above pro
vided and select delegates and the
committeeman shall file with the
chairman and secretary of this con-
vention the names of the delegates
selected.
JNO. II. HILL, Chairman,
JNO. vANTREASE,
d. H. MORGAN,
J. N. COX,
OSCAR WATSON,
Committee.
These are peculiar rules, to say
least, and we aver that not Demo-
crat ins the country knows by reading
them exactly what they mean, and
especially the paragraph setting. the
time and place for holding district
and the last paragraph.
Read them carefully and see what
you can get out Of them They are
either without sense or are cunning
ly devised for the purpose of defraud-
Ing Democrats as a body from taking
any part in making the nomination
FOR representative. The rules above
printed were not set up from the
original. but from copy furnished i
US by J. N. Cox. |,
The resolution as first offered set
no place or hour for the district
meetings, but was amended in this
respect upon motion of Worth Bry-
int. Had not this change been made
he rules would have been an out
light fraud.
Another unusual provision is that ,
# representation vote for each
Is or fraction thereof. This should
rave been major fraction. As the !
'ule stands one vote may give dis i
rict one delegate. This is an un- I
leard of plan.
The following resolution was also :
dopted: d
Il /
l. We, the Democratic Executive
Committee of Putnam County, in
egular session for the purpose of :.
plan to nominate a =
andidate for the Legislature, and
such other business as :.
nay properly come before it, hereby =
esire to endorse the candidacy Of :
he Honorable w. D. Scruggs for .
'ecretary of State and to commend
i'm to the Democrats Of the General .
assembly as one worthy and we'll
ualified to fill said position. We do .
his first in recognition of our coun- y
ryman, the Honorable S. F. Carr.
rho has been associated with Mr..
cruggs in the conduction Of said
flee during the present term. ;.
2. Because Mr.. Scruggs as Chief = =
lerk has conducted said Office dur =
lg the last four years on such a :,
Ugh plane and is so competent to =
nf Cfofo with a