The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
THIRD DISTRICT
COMMITTEE MET
FLED TIME FOR CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTION SAME AS STATE PRI-
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committee arranged to hold the pri-
mary for congressman at the same
time the state primary is held, Sep
TENDER IL. Chairman W. R. Bowen of
Fitzgerald presided. E. A. Rogers of
Ashburn is secretary and Treasurer.
Nearly evey committee member to
a man said William j. Harris is strong
for the United States senate and
started that each county represented
promised to go for Harris.
The rules adopted for the congress.
sional primary are as follows:
RULES TO GOVERN COMPRESSION.
AL PRIMARY.
Be it resolved by the executive com
mittee OF the democratic party fol
the Third Confessional District
Georgia regularly assembled, and il
is hereby resolved by the authority
of the same, that democratic pri
mary be held in each county compris
ing said district on the eleventh day
of September 1918 for the purpose OF
nominating a congressman to repre-
sent said district in the congress of
the United States.
End Be it further resolved that the
said primary shall be held under and
governed by the same rules and regu
| lations fixed. by the state democratic
committee to control the nominations
Tor state house officers, except as
herein after provided for.
| Bird. Be it further resolved that the
candidate receiviE G the plurality of
votes cast in said district shall be the
nominee.
4th. Be it further resolved that each
candidate for congress in said dis
trlct and running in the primary this
day called, shall pay such assess
ments to the chairman of the several
county democratic executive com
mittees as said committees may make
against him, and the chairman of said
county committee shall furnish sale
candidates ~ nafies' to the proper
authorities in time for it to appear or
the official ballot to be used in. sale
primary in the several counties com
prlsing the district. Each candidate
snail notify the secretary of this com
mlttee of his intentions to entor the
primary as candidate for the nomina
ION. Any candidate failing to comply
With these requirements on or before
he first day of August 1918, IL M
shall not be eligible to run in sale
primary, and any votes cast for hin
shall not be counted
18th. Be it further resolved that th,
district committeeman in each count,
nail ascertain from the local execu
i've committee for his county, tn,
lame OF the successful candidate i,
lis county and forward the votes re
eived by each candidate to the chair
nan OF the district committee VIII,
shall consolidate the returns from
he entire district and notify til,
andidate who has received the plural
lty vote OF the district. Then the suc
cessful candidate shall appoint deli
gates to the district convention here
III after provided for. each county be
ing entitled to twice as manv deli
gates in the convention as the count,
has representatives in the Lower
House OF the General Assembly O.
Georgia.
9Th. Be it further resolved that the
delegates so selected shall assemble
in convention in Americas. Ga. or
the 18th. day of September 1918 al
ten-thirty o'clock A. M. and proceed
to consolidate the returns from the
various committees of said district
and declare the candidate receiving
the largest number of votes in the
said district primary to be the demo
cratic nominee for the Sixty-sixth
congress in the Third District of Geor.
gla. Said convention shall also elect
new democratic executive committee
for the Third Congressional district
! Of Georgia.
7th. Be it further resolved that the
newspapers CT the district be request
ed to publish these resolutions.
Cordele, Ga, July End. 1918.
VIM. r. Bowen Chairman
EDWIN A. ROGERS Secretary.