The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-12-16
MASS MEETING IS
CALLED FOR
SENATOR
NEW DISTRICT ORGANIZATION
TO BE PERFECTED WEDNEs-
DAY

Governor Dorsey has suggested to
the Ordinaries of the counties of
Crisp, Wilcox and Dodge. comprising
the new 48eh Senatorial District that
IN election be held on January 7th
1919, for the purpose of electing a
senator to represent those counties
in the next General Assembly
Ordinary Fleming has taken the
matter up with the Ordinaries of
Dodge and Wilcox, and the election
will be duly called.
As the time is short, at the instance
OF several citizens who are interested
in seeing that Crisp county be permit
ted to furnish the first senator from
the new district, Chairman A. F.
Churchwell of the County Democratic
Executive Committee has called a
mass meeting to be held tomorrow,
Tuesday afternoon at the court house,
at 8 O'Clock p. M, for the purpose of
selecting delegation to represent the
county at meeting which is to be
held the next day, Wednesday, at
noou at Abbeville to perfect a district
democratic organization.
The meeting at Abbeville will be
attended by delegations from all of
the counties, and will decide upon the
order in which the senator shall be
furnished by the counties composing
the new district, and call a primary
election for the new district, in the
event more than one candidate an
nounces for the office.
Friends of Hon. w. H. Doris, pre-
sent representative from Crisp coun-
ty, are urging him to enter the race,
and believe that if he does offer, that
he will have no opposition, in view of
the we'll known fact that it was large
ly through his eports that the new
senatorial districts were organized
his services in this omportant matter
practically emitting him to the Of
flee. This of course, if the order of ro-
tation among the counties of the dis
trict can be so arranged as to permit
Crisp county to name the first sena-
tor.
This will not interfere with DR..
Maynard's election to the Senate from
the Fourteenth District, as under the
decision of Attorney-General Walker
furnished Governor Dorsey last week,
DR.. Maynard will be entitled to his
commission form the Fourteenth Dis.
trict in spite of the fact that he has
snice been cut out into the Forty-Eigth
District.
1t is thought that the other cOun
ties will readily agree to the furnish
ing of the senator by Crisp in view OF
the fact that the present senatorshir
is held by Dodge county and that
Wilcox is furnishing the senator from
the Fourteenth district already cleo
ted in the person of DR.. Maynard; and
in view of the fact that Crisp county
has furnished the senator but once
since the creation of the county l.
years ago.
The following is the call for the
mass meeting issued by Chairman A
f. Churchwell.
To the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of Crisp County, and, to the Demo
Gratis of Crisp Comfy:
A new Forty Eighth Senatorial Dis
trict, composed of Crisp, Wilcox, and
Dodge Counties, having been created
by the election on the second Tuesday
II November last
And the Governor of Georgia HAVING
suggested that the ordinaries OF those
counties order an election Of a sena
tor for said district to be held on Jan
uary 18th, 1919, upon which suggestion