The Neshoba Democrat., 1922-07-13
PLANS OUTLINED FOR
PRIMARY ELECTION
STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECU-
TIVE HOLDS MEETING.
Prescribes Qualifications for
Voting and How Same Are to
BE Determined.

Slupoc bclOIS Jlle udCe OF the
1lrst primary election to nominate
democratic United States senator,
a congressman, chancellor and cir
cult judge, the time being August
10. The State democratic executive
committee met in Jackson Saturday
to arrange for the primary, and a
special from Jackson has the fol,
lowing to say of the meeting:
Jackson, Miss. July 1.-The State
democratic executive committee met
here to-day at 10 o'clock a. m. in
the senate chamber. The chief bus
mess before the session was the
question of prescribing qualiflca-
tons for voting in the democratic
primaries, and how same are to be
determined. The committee adopt
ed resolutions distinctly defining
those entitled to vote, but left it to
the officers Of election to test their
qualifications.
There were nineteen members
present in person or by proxy out
OF the tWenty-four. Three vacan-
cles were reported to be filled as
follows: Mrs. Howard Williams of
Hattlesburg, in place Of IN. w.
Mounger; w. H. Alexander Of Bay
Springs, in place of G. w. Thigpen,
and Geo. H. Mobiles of Raleigh, in
place of E. M. Lane.
The secretary was instructed to
, send out the regular sample official
ballot to be used as a guide in
making up the ballots for use in the
various counties. Resolutions were
also adopted calling attention to the
working of the absent voter law.
The committee had nothing to do
with fixing the date of the prima-
ries as they are fixed by statute for
the third Tuesday in August The
resolutions adopted were as follows
Whereas, a primary election is to
be held throughout Mississippi on
Tuesday, August 49,, 1929, for the
selection of q democratic candidate
for the office of United States SEN
ator, one supreme court Judge from
the southern district, both for the
uneXpired and regular term, con-
gresham from each congressional
y district in the state, and a Judge of
the circuit and chancery courts in
each Judicial district of said state,
and,
Whereas, the state state demo-
cratic executive committee is duly
mindful of the obligations as we'll
as the penalties imposed by Section
3717, Chapter 8, Code 1906 (Heming-
ways Code, section 6409), in which
is found this language:
1.-The primary election officers
shall have the powers and perform
the duties, where not otherwise
provided, required of such officers
in a general election and any and
every act of omission which by law
is an offense when committee in or
about or in respect to such general
elections, shall be an offense COM
mitted in or about or in respect to
a primary election;.' Therefore be
Law is Quoted.
Resolved by the Democratic State
Executive Committee, That by vir-
tue of the authority vested in us
under Section 3717 of the code of
1906, Hemingway's Code, Sec 6409,
the following rules and regulations
are hereby established to govern
and control said primary election
to-wit:
That only white democrats who
are duly and legally qualified cleo
tors that voted the democratic tick
ct in the presidential election of
1920, or who would have done so
had they gone to the election, or
been legally entitled to vote in that
election, be allowed to vote in such
primary
BY the words "duly and legally
qualified electors" is meant demo-
Gratis mot those who simply call
themselves democrats and who
voted the republican or socialist
ticket in the presidential election of
i92O) and those who have paid all
taxes required for the year 1921, on
or before the first day of February
this year as we'll as all taxes re-
quired for the year 1920, and who
have resided in the state two years
and will have resided within the
election district in which they offer
to vote one year proceeding the 7th
day of November, 1922, and who are
otherwise lawfully qualified to vote.
County democratic executive COM
mittees and precinct election off,
GERS are reminded that Section 3705,
Chapter IA, Code 1906, Section 6397
Hemingway Code, requires that the
County. executive committee shall
meet on the first or second day af-
ter each primary election; shall re-
ceive and canvas the returns, which
must be made within the time fixed
by law for the returns of general
elections" and that "The vote for
state and district offices shall be
tabulated by precincts and certified
to the proper authority as required
by law, within thirty six hours at,
ter the returns are canvassed and
the result ascertained.
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