Bleckley-Pulaski-Wilcox County GaArchives News.....BLECKLEY COUNTY WILL NAME NEXT SENATOR June 1, 1916
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The VIENNA NEWS June 1, 1916
BLECKLEY COUNTY WILL NAME NEXT SENATOR

Senatorial Convention to be Celled et 
Cochran After Primary.

Cordele, May 27.— The new county of 
 Bleckley will name the next Sena­tor 
from the Fourteenth senatorial district, 
comprising Bleckley, Wilcox, Crisp, 
Dooly and Pulaski counties. This was 
decided by unanimous vote of the 
executive committee here this morning, 
after J. B. Peacock,, com­mitteeman from 
Bleckley, backed by a strong delegation, 
had staunchly championed the cause of 
the new county.
 N. M. Patton, acting by proxy for 
Committeeman J. M. Warren, of Wil­cox, 
pressed the claims of this county for 
the right to name the senator, and it 
was here the Bleckley men met their only 
opposition.
 Committeemen attending the meet­ing were 
Peacock, of Bleckley, Patten of Wilcox, 
J.Gordon Jones of Crisp, J.M. Busbce of 
Dooly and Howard E. Coates of Pulaski. 
Col. W.V. Harvard of Dooly, who has 
served in this capacity for years, was 
elected permanent chairman of the 
meeting and H.E. Coates was elected 
permanently secretary, as usual.
 An issue over the naming of the sneator 
hinged on the question of whether or not 
Bleckley should take the place of Dodge, 
which county was removed from the 
Fourteenth un­der the redistricting plan 
of 1912, when Bleckley was added to the 
Four­teenth. Mr. Coates of Pulaski, put 
Bleckley in nomination and Mr. Pea­cock, 
of Bleckley, seconded. Mr. Busbee of 
Dooly, and Mr. Jones, of Crisp, spoke in 
behalf of Bleckley. Mr. Patten put 
Wilcox in nomination but did not receive 
a second.
 The idea of creating a new rota­tion 
plan was opposed unanimously. Under a 
resolution offered by Mr. Pat­ten, it was 
made the ruling of the com­mittee that 
the rotation of counties he in the order 
as before, as follows Bleckley, Wilcox, 
Crisp, Dooly and Pulaski, Patten 
withdrawing his nomination on chances of 
allowing Wilcox to name the senator two 
years hence. 
 Chairman Harvard will call a sena­torial 
convention at Cochran immedi­ately 
following the state primary on Sept. 
12th formally tof nominate the senator-
elect from Bleckley. The sen­ator-elect 
will invite the delegates to this 
convention. Mr. Peacock an­nounced that a 
barbecue dinner will then be served for 
the delegates.

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