The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-01-30
RULES and DATE FOR
PRIMARY ARE FIXED
By Executive Committee In lis Meet
ing at Court House Last
Saturday

tee met at the courthouse at Ii
o'clock Saturday and set the date for
Cobb county's primary for the date
on which the preferential presiden-
tial primary is held or III case there
should be no preferential primary
the date is to be April 6.
New committeeman were elected to
fill the places made vacant by deaths
during the past year. A committee
of five was appointed to fix the en-
trance fees for candidates.
Georgia, Cobb County:
BE 1T RESOLVED, By the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee of said
count, now in session, that white
primary be, and the same is hereby
ordered to be held in said county for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior
Court, Sheriff, Treasurer, Tax Collec-
tor, Tax Receiver, County School
Superintendent, County Surveyor and
Coroner for the regular November
election of 1920. Said primary is
ordered to be held on the date fixed
by the State Democratic Executive
Committee for the preferential Presi-
Dental Primary in Georgia, should
such a primary be held, if not, then
said county primary shall be held on
the 9th day Of April, 1920, under the
rules and regulations fixed by this
committee, and as provided by law
governing primary elections.
Section l. Said primary shall be
held at the Court House of each
militia district in said county by the
Executive Committeeman of their re-
spectiye districts throughout the
county, who will be authorized to en-
ploy clerk or clerks when needed,
provided all managers shall take and
subscribe the oath now provided by
law to be taken by managers of pri-
mary elections, provided that if the
Executive Committeeman shall fail or
refuse to hold said primary election
in their respective districts on the day
fixed by the Committee, and open
said election at the hour provided by
these resolutions, then any two quail
fled voters Of said district, selected
by the majority of the voters present
at the place for holding said cleo
ton, May proceed to open and hold
said primary under the above and in
cluded rules for holding the same.
Section 2. 1t is further ordered
that a comittee of five (5) be selected
from this body composed of the
Chairman, the Secretary and three
other members to formulate and pre-
pare the official ballot for said pri-
mary, said ballot to contain all the
names of the candidates for the vari-
Gus offices. Said committee shall
have all tickets printed, get up blanks
necessary for holding said election.
including registration lists, and fur
nlsh the Executive Committeeman of
each militia district an amount suf-
hclent for the needs of each district.
SAID Committee so appointed shall
assess and collect all assessments fixed
by them on each candidate for the
purpose of defraying the expenses of
said primary. They shall estimate
the cost Of said primary and in no
event shall they assess a less amount
than the expense of holding the same.
mote: This Committe consists of C..
w. DuPre, Chairman, J. G. Roberts.
Secretary, ]. B. Dodgen, J. H. Can
trell and E. C. Wolff
Section 3. In the event said pri-
mary election is called before the re-
glstration books close, then said subj,
committee shall have copied from
the registration book list of all per-
sons registered by districts, arranged
IN alphabetical order, and furnish the
same to the Managers of said cleo
tino.
Section a. Any road district in said
county where commissioners term
shall expire on January /, 1921 NAV
vote in said primasy for his success
sor, and the name of the candidates
to fill said place shall be added to the
tickets used for each respective dis
trlct where such vacancy will occur.
Section 5. No person shall be al
lowed to vote in said primary whose
name does not appear upon the reg
lstration list so furnished the mana
gers, and each person voting in said
election must cast his ballot in the
distict of his residence.
Section 6. Any person using mon
ey, whlskey or othre thing of value
to influence voters shall forfeit the
right of having himself declared the
nominee of the Office for which he is
running, even thougs he should re-
ceive the required vote to entitle him
to the nomination, and upon satisfac-
tory information furnished this BODY
that any person whose name Is placed
upon the official ballot has used any
of the above named means, he will be
declared mt autif1ad ~ bovo