Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-30
RULESAD0PTED
FOR CONGRESS
RACE IN THIRD
Committee Fixes Date To Coin
eide With State p imary.
Sept. 13

of a Demo- ratlc canQluate Tor con-
gress from the Third district of Geor-
gia was called for September Is, the
date of the statewide primary, at
meeting of the district executive
committee at the Windsor hotel to-
day. Other rules to govern the pri-
mary were fixed, including the stipu-
lation that a plurality vote in the 5
counties should nominate; that vio-
lation of any laws governing cleo
tions should disqualify a candidate,
and that district entry fee of $40
should be charged in addition to the
state fee.
In the absence of Chairman Greg
ory and Secretary Parks, +. l.. Car
ter, of Lumpkin, acted as chairman
of the meeting, and John M. Greer,
| of Oglethorpe, was secretary. The
committeeman in attendance were Z.
l.. Carter, of Lumpkin, Hollis Fort,
of Americus; F. R. Purvis, of how
ard; E. L. Simpson, of Smithville;
D. w. lowers, of Georgetown; G. M.
Bell, fBluffton and John M. Greer,
of Oglethorpe. All others of the
Is counties of the district were repre-
sente dby proxies held by I. M. Fur
low of Americus.
Visitors who sat in the meeting,
included F, L. Purvis, of Howard;
j. II. Brownf of Howard; S. X. Bush,
Of Blakely; and c. 7, Lawton and
A. B. Collier, Of Bluffton.
| The Resolutions.
| Following is a complete copy of
the resolutions adopted by the COM
mittee, which were said to embrace
the full names of the sess shrd lshrd
the full news of the session:
"Be it resolver by the Democratic
Congressional Executive committee
of the Third Congressional District of
1 Georgia, as 1Vllows:
First.-Tia1 a Democratic Err
II cry election hall be held in each
of the counties comprising the Third
District of Georgia, on September 13,
1922, for the selection of the Demo-
cratic candidate for congress to the
t6th congress from the said congress
sioral district
Second. That all persons quail
fled to vote for the selection of gov
ernor and statehouse officials shall
be qualified to vote in said primary
/ for the selection of the Democratic
candidate for congress.
/ Third. That the entire vote east
for congress in the fifteen counties
comprising the Third District of
| Georgia shall be consolidated, and
/ the candidate who receives plurality
of the vote cast in the entire district
! shall be declared the Democratic
nominee for congress from said dis
trict, if qualified, as hereinafter pro-
vided, to hold said office.
To Certify Results.
Fourth. That, as soon as the
| Democratic executive committee OF
the respective counties of the district
shall declare the result in their re-
spectiVe counties, as to the vote for
congress-, the congressional commit
teemen from each county shall certi-
fy the result in his county to Hon.
w. b. Parks, Dawson, Georgia, sec
retary of the congressional executive
committee for said district. The saio
secretary shall consolidate the vote
cast in the fifteen counties of the
district, and the candidate who re
ceives plurality of the votes cast
shall be entitled to appoint delegates
from each of said counties to a Dem
ocratic Congressional convention
''Fifth.-That said Congressional
convention shall assemble in Ameri-
Gus, Ga, on September 20, 1922, at
| 10 O'Clock, a. m. The secretary o.
the Congressional committee shall
present to said convention certifiet
statement of the vote cast in saiO
! district of Congress, and the candi-
date receiving the plurality of tht
votes shall be, by said convention
declared the Democratic nominee foi
| Congress. Said convention shall hav,
4 poHGt " ciSGt HSW ttSSibild
committee for the ensuing two years
to make a platform and to pass upol
any question that may rise as to tn,
qualifications of the nominee to holt
the office for which he has beel
nominated.
| "Sixth.-No candidate for Con
Igress shall be declared the nominee
of the party if it is proven that, IL
| the conduct of his campaign for thl
! nomination, he violate dany of ths
laws of the state of Georgia or Of
. the United States.
Must Enter by July /.
] Seventh Whereas, the State
Democratic executive committee has
| provided that all candidates for state
office to be voted on in the September
primary shall announce their candi-
| dacy befoer midnight of July l,
| 1922; and, whereas, the statee com
mittee has supreme authority in the
all party matters, as was decided
| four years ago in contest arising