Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-06-22
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ADOPTS
RULES FOR COMING PRIMARY
Meeting of The Democratic Executive
Committee In And For Ben
Hill County

AT meeting OF the Democratic tx
ecutive. Committee in and for Ber
Hill County, held on the 21st day o.
June 1921 there was present, Jesse
Grantham, Chairman; L. Robitzsch
Secretary; G. A. Roberts and ]. G
Minshew, being majority of the
said committee.
The following rules and regulations
governing the approaching primary
were adopted
THE Democratic Executive Com
Tnittee of the State of Georgia having
duly assembled and adopted rules and
regulations for the conduct of the Dem
ocratic Primary for the State House
officers and having delegated to the
Democratic County Executive Com
mittees to provide for the holding Of
for the 45th Senatorial District, judges
of the Superior Courts, Solicitors-gen-
eral members of the Legislature, and
other officers that shall run in said
primary; therefore, the Democratic
Executive Committee of Ben Hill
County, having duly and legally as
sembled, the following rules and reg
ulations for the conduc, of the pri-
mary for the aforesaid officers, towit:
Judge and Solicitor General of the
Cordele Judicial Circuit, member of
the Legislature from Ben Hill County
and three commissioners of Roads and
Revenues of Ben Hill County, shall be
as follows:
The primary in Ben Hill County
shall be governed and controlled by
the rules of the State Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee in all respects not
in conflict herewith.
2 All candidates for the above stat
ed offices shall enter their names with
the secretary of the said Democratic
Executive Committee in and for Ben
Hill County, not laten than July LIST,
1922, six o'clock P. NJ, and no candi-
date who shall not have filed his said
name, and name of the office for which
he will run with said secretary within
said time shall be allowed to enter
said primary, nor shall his name app
ear upon the official ballot of said
Democratic party.
The voting places shall be held
at the justice court houses of each mi
Lila district, except at the county seat
which said primary shall be held at
the county court house.
The chairman of each militia dis
trict shall have the right, and they are
hereby authorized to appoint in their
respective districts three managers of
said election and the clerks necessary
to hold said election.
After all entrances for the var
AUS offices are filed with the Secretary
of the said Ben Hill County, Democra-
tic Executive Committee, towit: l..
Robitzsch, Fitzgerald, Georgia, RID,
that the said executive committee will
meet on July 9Th and make the neces-
sary assessments against each candi-
date to defray the expenses of said
election, primary; and no candidates
name shall be entered upon the Off
clal ballot of the said Democratic par
ty in said primary unless the said as
sessment shall have been paid into the
chairman or secretary by six o'clock
P. M, July 18th, 1922 and no person
shall be considered candidate nor
will he have the right to run in said
primary unless he complies with all
of the requirements OF these rules.
e Said primary shall be held On the
same day as the State primary, towit:
September 18th, 1922.
Said primary shall be held under
the Australian ballot system, as here
tofore held in the county.
All polls shall be opened at the
hour of eight o'clock A. M. and closed
at. three o'clock P. M. in all of this
districts of the county, except Fitz-
gerald District, in which the polls
shall be opened at six o'clock A. M.
and closed at six o'clock P. M.
9 Relative to the race for Commits
sioners of Roads and Revenues, there
shall be no Single, Shooting. The vo-
ter shall vote for three out of the
number running for Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues, and no ballot
cast for less than three shall be con-
sidered or counted by the managers;
in other words every voter must vote
for three persons for the office of COM
missioners of Roads and Revenues for
said county.
10 Where there are more than one
persons name on the ticket the voter
shall scratch the names of the persons
Tor whom he does not desire to vote,
leaving on said ticket only the name
of the candidate for which he desires
to vote.
Upon motion of L. Robitzch second
ed by Geo. A. Roberts, the foregoing
rules were adopted by the said COM
nittee.
Jesse Grantham, Chmn.
L. Robitzsch, Secretary.