Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-07-01
DEMOCRAT1C EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
45th SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
MEET AT McRAE; ADOPT RESOLUTIONS

gia met in McRae, Ga, this, June
25th. 1926, at II o'clock A. M.
The following members of the
committee were present, to-wit:
Irwin County-Joe Love, Oliver
P,rvis.
Ben Hill County. M. Williams
Wiley Williams.
Telfair County-M. A. Cameron,
w. S. Mann.
The meeting was called to order
by w. S. Mann, chairman, and M. A.
Cameron was elected secretary OF
said meeting.
A motion was made and carried
that all candidates for State Senator
frol;l the 45th District be required to
run in all three counties composing
said district, and that the candidate
receiving the highest number of votes
in all three counties be declared the
nominee.
A motion was made and carried
that in addition to the qualifications
provided by law. that to enter SAID
urinary as candidate for Senator
from said district that the person so
entering must be a resident of Ben
Hill County.
A motion was made and carried
that the time for entering the race
for Senator from this district should
close at ~ O'Clock noon July Bird,
1926; that an entrance fee for each
candidate of $500 should be re-
ouired, and that such entrance fee
should be paid to the secretary OF
this committee on or before IL
o'clock noon July 3rd, 1926.
A motion was made and carried
that the secretary of this committee
arrange with the County Executive
Committees to have the names OF the
qualified candidates for Senator
properly printed on the official tick
ct, and in such of the counties with
which the secretary can make ar
rangements for having the names of
the qualified candidates for Senator
printed on the official ticket, that he
pay over to such counties a proper !
tionate part Of the entrance fees as
sessed against the candidates for
Senator. That such arrangements
shah include the agreement on the
part of the County Committee that
no names except those certified to the
County Committee by the secretary
of this committee as duly qualified
shall be published on the official tick
ct, and the secretary of this commit
tee is directed to certify to such
county committees the names OF all
candidates for Senator who are eligi-
BILE and properly qualified to make the
race. If any of the counties COM I
posing this district refuse to make
this agreement with the secretary of
this committee, the secretary of this
committee shall withhold from such
county the part of the entrance fees
assessed against the senatorial cardl-
dates going to such county, and shall
arrange to have an official ticket /
printed for such county and supplied
to the voters.
A motion was made and carried
that the County Executive Commit
tees for each of the three counties,
on consolidating and counting the
votes for the candidates for Senator
from the respective counties, should,
through their secretary, certify to the
secretary of this committee the total
number of votes received by each
candidate for Senator in each of the
respective counties. That the sue
cessful candidate 1.-THE one receiving
the highest number of votes in all
three of the countfes), shall name
delegates from each of the counties,
two from each county, to conven-
ton to be held at such place and at
such time as the successful candidate
may name, for the purpose of nOmi-
mating the successful candidate as
the nominee Of the Democratic White
Party. That the secretary of this
committee shall. be given notice by
the successful candidate of the time
and place of such convention, and the
secretary of this committee shall GER
tify to said convention the total
number of votes received by each of
the candidates in all three of the
counties. On receipt of the returns,
properly certified, from each of the
three counties, the secretary of this
committee shall consolidate said re-
turns and notify the candidate re-
ceiving the highest number of votes
of his election, that he may name
delegates and arrange for said con-
vention to nominate him.
A motion was made and carried
that said Primary eelction be held on
September 9Th, 1926, the day for
the State Election, and that all other
rules adopted by the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, except
.s herein varied, be in force and ap-
plicable to the election for Senator
from this district.
The secretary was directed to fur
nish copies of the minutes of this
meeting to the Ocilla Star, the Fitz-
gerald Leader-Enterprise and the
Telfair Enterprise, as news items,