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


gia was called for September 13, the
date of the statewide primary, at a
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 candidate,
and that a 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. L. Car
ter, of Lumpkin, acted as chairman
of the meeting, and John M. Greer,
of Oglethorpe, was secretary, The
committeeman in attendance were E..
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. NJ.
Bell, of Bluffton and John M. Greer,
of Oglethorpe. All others of the
15 counties of the district were repre-
sented by proxies held by 7. NJ. Fur
low of Americus.
| Visitors who sat in the meeting,
included F. L. Purvis, of Howard /;
j. H, Brown of Howard; S. X. Bush,
! Of Blakely; and C. T. Lawton and
A. B. Collier, of Bluffton.
The Resolutions.
Following is complete copy of
| the resolutions adopted by the COM
mittee, which were said to embrace
the full news OF the session:
"Be it resolver by the Democratic
Congressional Executive committee
Of the Third Congressional District of
Georgia, as follows:
'First.-Tna5 Democratic rr:-
u Sry 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
10Th 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 cast
| 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
vidcd, 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 said
secretary shall consolidate the vote
cast in the fifteen counties of the
district, and the candidate who re-
ceives a 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 OF
the Congressional committee shall
present to said convention certified
statement of the vote cast in said
district of Congress, and the candi.
date receiving the plurality of the
votes shall be, by said convention
declared the Democratic nominee fol
Congress. Said convention shall have
power to elect new Congressional
committee for the ensuing two years
to make platform and TO pass upon
any question that may rise as to the
qualifications of the nominee to hold
the office for which he has been
nominated.
"Sixth.-No candidate for Con.
gress shall be declared the nominee
Of the party if it is proven that, in
the conduct of his campaign for the
nomination, he vioalted any of tn,
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 Sepembei
primary shall announce their candi.
dacy before midnight of July 1
1922; and, whereas, the statee com
mittee has supreme authority in the
all party matters, as was decided
four years ago in a contest arising