Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
(Year and number missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 16, 1931
NO PROXY VOTES ALLOWED
ON NEXT MEETING PLACE
Only Delegates Present at East
Texas Meeting to Take Part
in Balloting.
Longview, Texas,
April 16 -- No proxy votes will be permitted at the fifth annual East Texas
Chamber of Commerce convention in Marlin next
week when delegates ballot on the 1931 convention city, according to
instructions mailed today by Hubert Harrison, general manager of the
organization, to all county councillors and chamber of commerce secretaries.
Mr. Harrison has ruled that "alternates may be substituted
at any time, but it will not be possible for absent delegates to be voted
by proxy."
"If a county is entitled to twelve delegates and has only five present in the
convention hall," the instructions read, "this county could cast only five
votes. This ruling has been thought advisable in order to insure a large
attendance of our delegates. Some important questions are to come up for
decision this year, and we believe that this arrangment is fair and
representative."
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The Democrat, Marlin, Falls County, Texas.