The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-06-02
Democratic Executive
Committee Of Third
District Meets.

Oh Ine lnlfu CONGRESSIONAL DlSCrcJ meI
in Americas with good attendance and
with proxy votes from those counties not
personally represented.
They passed the following resolutions:
| BE IT RESOLVED, by the Democratic
Congressional Executive COMMITTEE for
the Third Congressional District OF Geor-
gia, as follows;
FIRST That Democratic Primary
Election shall be held in each of the
counties comprising the Third District of
Georgia, on September 18th, 1929, for
the selection of the Democratic candidate
for Congress to the Goth Congress from
the said Congressional District.
SECOND That all persons qualified to
vote for the selection of Governor and
state house officials shall be qualified to
vote in said primary fer the selection OF
the Democratic candidate for Congress
| THIRD That the entire vote cast for
Congress in the fifteen counties compris-
ing 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 Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress from said
district, il qualified, as hereinafter pro-
vided, to hold said office.
FOURTH That, as soon as the Demo-
cratic Executive Committees of the res
pective counties of the district shall
declare the result in Their respective
counties, as to the vote for Congress, the
/ Congressional Committeeman from each
county shall certify the result in his
county to Hon, w. j. Parks, Dawson,
Georgia, Secretary OF the Congressional
Executive Committee for said district.
The said Secretary shall consolidate the
vote cast i'll the fifteen counties OF the
district, and the candidate who receives a
plurality of the votes cast shall be en-
titled to appoint delegates from each Of
said counties to a Democratic Congress
sional Convention.
FIFTH That. said Congressional Con-
yention shall assemble in Americus,
Georgia, on September 20, 1922, at ten
O'Clock A. M. The Secretary of the
Congressional Committee shall present to
said convention certified statement OF
the vote cast in said district for Congo ss,
and the candidate receiving the plurality
of the votes shall be, by said convention,
declared the Democratic nominee Tor
congress. Said convention shall haye
power to tlect a new Congressional Com
mittee for the ensuing two years, to make
a platform and to pass upon any question
that may arise as to the qualifications OF
the nominee to hold the office for which
he has been nominated.
SIXTH No candidate for Congress shall
he declared the nominee of the party II
it is proven that, in the conduct OF his
campaign for the nomination, he violated
any of the laws of the state OF Georgia
or of the United States
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 candidacy
before midnight OF July lst, 1922; and
whereas, the State Committee has su-
preme authority in the state in all party
matters, as was decided four years ago
in contest arising from the Tenth Con-
gresgional District, THEREFORE, any
candidate desiring to contest for the Demo
cratic nomination for congressman for
the 68th Congress from this district shall
on or before midnight Of the first day OF
July. 1922, in writing, notify Hon. W.
jB. Parks, Dawson, Georgia, the Secre-
tary Of the committee, that he Is a cant
date for such office, RENTING With ms
notice the sum OF ten dollars tor the
purpose of paying postage and other
expenses incident to the discharge Of the
official duties OF the secretary; ana altei
said date, all entries shall be closed and
no person subsequently thereto shall be
eligible for, or can become candidate II
said primary for, the Democratic nomlna
ton for Congressman from this district.
EIGHTH That all candidates tor Con
gress shall pay to the Democratic Exc
lcutive Committee OF the respective coun
ties OF the district whatever assessment
shall be levied againstsaid candidates fol
Congress by SAID committees to defral
the expenses Of the primary, and th'
name Of no candidate falling to pay stici
assessment shall be placed upon th'
official Democratic ticket.
NINTH That the newspapers Of tn