Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-07-05
ELECTION BOARDS MEET
AND SELECT OFFICERS
Registrars Appointed and Registra-
tion Will Be Held at Every
Precinct in County.

! The three election boards met Sat-
urday in the Court house and the Reg
ular Election board and the Republic
can Primary board selected the officers
to hold the elections August 3. The
Democratic board met and adjourned
to later date. 1t is probable they
will meet this week and select the Of
hcerS for holding the Democratic pri-
mary which will be held August 3
also.
Besides selecting the officers for
holding the Regular Election, the
county board of election commission
Litton Thurman and C. p. Burnett
also selected the Registrars for hold
ing the supplemental registration, that
must be held twenty days before the
date of election, to be in conformity
with the law
G.. P. Burnett, the third member of
the board is in Nashville and wa; not
present, but the two democratic IN m
bers appealed to republicans who were
present as to the republicans t. he
placed on the several election boar Is.
|; is very gratifying that there is never
any manifestation shown by any of the
election commissioners of this county
at any time to take an unfair advan-
tage. Entire hamony prevails at all
times.
The list of Registrars will be found
in this issue of the Chronicle and
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tice and prepare to discharge their
duty.
There has been some question as
to whether or not it is necessary for
all persons to be registered before
they can vote. 1t is claimed that the
law simply extended the Dortch law
to all voting precincts in the state and
did not extend the registration feature /
to such diatricts IS do not have o.5oo
population. Attorney General Frank
NJ Thompson has been appealed to for
a ruling on that feature of the elec-
tion law, but up to this time he has
not given out any ruling. The county
election commissioners decided that in
order to be safe and that no person
may be denied the right to vote, be-
cause some might construe the law
20 mean that all persons must regis
ter, they decided to call registration
period for ALL precincts in the county
and registration books have been
forwarded to those named 10 hold the
registration twenty days
before August3, the date of the reg
liar election.
1t is generally admitted that the pre-
:incts in the First and Fourth Districts
ire subject to registration under any
construction possible to place upon
he law.
The Regular election board did not
all an election for Byrds Branch or
Millstone as it is planned to have
hese two precincts annulled at the
session of county court that
onvenes next week. The reason for
his action is, that in the past for sew
raj elections, the polls have not been
opened at these two places as the
oters went to other precincts to vote.
By annuling these two precincts
he county will be saved quite an item
f expense and the people be served
ust as we'll
In the coming primary elections
here seems to be only contest in the
epublican ranks, that is in the case
{ selecting two state committeeman
or this district. There are four as
irants for the places.
With the democrats there are sew
raj contests. Among the number is
he contest between former Senator
:. G. Toilet, of Crossville, and L. D.
ill, of Sparta, for the nomination
or State Senator from this ninth
istrict. Senator Toilet has served in
9th houses of the legislature, the last
me he served he was speaker OF the
enate. Mr.. Hill has also served in the
legislature on one or more occasions.