The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-06-13
OLD PRIMARY LAW
UPHELD BY COM.

Session at jackson Hold
Candidates Can Announce
up to Is Days Before Elec-
tion-First Primary Date
Set for Aug. S; RunoH to be
Held August 19.
JACKSON, Miss, June e.-Not-
withstanding the opinion of the at
torney general that the law of 1918,
requiring all candidates for Office in
a party primary to be formally de-
the first Monday in May prior to the
holding of such primaries nullifies
or abrogates the older law, the Dem
ocratic state executive committee
went on record today for broader
and more liberal construction of the
statute Of 1918, taken together with
the provision of the code of 1906.
1t was decided that the later statute
is more of qualifying than nullify-
ing or abrogating law; that the for
mer is not to be repealed by impli-
cation" or its provisions set aside
through ex parte declaration, or
opinion.
After somewhat animated dis
cussion of the whole subject, the
committee, by vote of IL to 3,
adopted a resolution offered byl
Judge Rob't. Powell from the Eighth
district:
Resolved, That Section 3715 OF
the code of 1906 has not been a
mended or repealed, and is still in
force"
Being literally construed, this
means that the party managers dol
not hesitate to declare against the
policy of changing statutes by inn |
plieation, especially whepe strictly
political and party procedure is con-
cerned. 1t means also an extension
OF the time for announcements for
office to the statutory period of is
days prior to the first primary, re-
gardless of the absentee soldier. |
sailor and war worker voters, at
home or overseas.
This means also that these can
didates for state Office and state dis
trict offices who have gone along
under the impression that they are /
immune from opposition and have |
been since the first Monday in May
are not clear of the woods, and viii |
not be until Is days prior to the
flrst primary date, which is fixed for
Tuesday Aug 5.
The following is the full roster of
the state Democratic executive COM
mittee of Mississippi as constituted
in 1906 which was called to meet at
the state capitol today by Chairman
5. W. Mullins:
First District-A. J. Mcintyre.
Prentiss County; j. w. P. Boggan,
Lee; j. T.. Savage, Monroe,
Second District-John Kuykendall.
Tallahatchie; Steve w. Mullins, Mar
shall; W. A. Williamson, DeSoto.
Third District-W. X. Herrin, CO.
ahoma; s. D. Neill, Sunf1ower; s. C.
Kern, Holiness
Fourth District. T. Dunn, Web
ster; H. E. King, Chickasaw; E. G.
Montgomery.
Fifth District-G. E. Wilson. Ne
shoba; c. W. Thigpen, Jasper; W. G.
g. Bennett, Winston.
Sixth District--Mims Williams,
Simpson; A. s. Hinton, Lamar; W.
J. Pack, Jones.
Seventh Districts. Kemp, Copiah
W. D. Mounger, Adams; Jos. E. Nor
wood, Pike.
Eighth Districts. L. McLaurin,
Robert Powell, Kinds; C. II.
Yazoo.
Of this % men about one-fourth
we're present and of the IA menl
present proxy-holders predominated.
Among the proxies We're Judge Rob
srt B. Mayes, Capts. Frederick Sui
ems of Jackson, A. B. Schauber of
laurel, Noel White of Lexington, D.
=. Lawrence of Grenada, George w.
May and A. s. Coody of jackson.
The committee was called to or
der in the Senate chamber shortly
after IL o'clock, with Chairman
Mullins presiding and Joseph T..
Norwood of Pike secretary. Scat
tered about through the auditorium
were several noted men who, as can
iidates for some Office or other. are
directly interested in the proceed
ngs. Seated well back in the gal
cry was the familiar and striking
hgure of Lieut.. Oscar G. Johnston,
tSauiiiS SdHuiudtc Tor governor, II
who was in the city for the purpose
of meeting his speaking appoint
ment at the Century in the evening.
He was an interested spectator, but
took no part in the proceedings. i
An abortive effort was made to
put through a resolution sent from
Prentiss County to arrange the date
for the first primary for the first
Jay Of August, which would be Fri
lay, instead of Tuesday the 5th. 1t
was pointed out that the Tuesday
late would seriously clash with the
circuit court session at bonneville, i
which convenes Monday, Aug. all
The majority of opinion was oppos-
ed to this, and a substitute, fixing
the date at Tuesday, Aug. S, was
eventually adopted, the second or
runoff to follow on Tuesday, Aug.
10.
A much bigger question for dis
cussion was that pertaining to the
qualifications Of those-who would be