Show GEORGE I A WHITAKER I t Etectei to the Democratic City Chairmanship t 8TOEB UNANIMOUS f 4 j AEETAHZiER S FOWLEB THE 2TEW SECRETARY i 3Tull Attendance of Candidates and 2 Kembers of the Committee Plan C f cf Campaign Discussed Informally IL Infor-mally Executive Committee to 1G Named Monday Night r L County Commissioner George A VTiltaker for chairman and Alexander rs Fowler for secretary was the result r of the delberatlons of the new Demo o cratie city committee and the Democratic i Demo-cratic candidates for office headquarters headquar-ters last evening The meeting was well attended and full of enthusiasm All the candidates were present as were also a Lumber of the active party workers The old city committee was algo it led meeting closed present i a metmg cosd t Ik j 4 ft George A Whitaker I up its business and turned over the i tpartys affairs to the new committee J T Raleigh and Charles Wilkes are ftih only members of the old commlttee frfho were reelected F jtTew Committee The new committee is made up a follows First pracinct A W Gallacher S L jMnyle and Charles Buckle i Second precinct J C Lambert J Thomas Green and A S Fowler Third precinct T Raleigh and E A Folland the chair for this precinct pre-cinct Is t ba chosen at a meeting inJustice t lug in-Justice Nielsens office Monday even lugFourth Fourth precinct James Maxwell B S Young and Thomas F Thomas jr i Fifth precinct Dr H A Anderson Mrs Elizabeth McCune and Charles Wike Election of Chairman E cton Ca The first business taken up by the meeting over vjfiich G B Blakely presided pre-sided was thfe election of a chairman flir the committee VV H Dale D C Dun a Fisher Harris F J Leonard r XXVUPon Judge Burton and G B c Blake have boen much discussed in this connection in the past weeks but t the name of George A Whitaker was not heard once till last night outside off of-f he closest party councils and yet i when his name was presented to the meeting there was not a dissenting vote f F J Leonard nd Alex S Fowler t were placed In nomination for secretary r secre-tary and on n vote Mr Leonard r reived 12 and Mr Fowler 14 Fowlers f nomination was then made unanimous f The matter of choosing a treasurer and execut e committee was left over until Monday evening when the committee vttl meet again Buds A Smith was mentioned in con inection with the office of secretary and 3D C Dunbar J H Moyle W H Dale l t J Leonard B W Wilson B Tie T-ie Lloyd and Judge Burton a probable Tnembers of the executive committee k The plan of campaign was not disc dis-c cUe at the meeting except in an in ioitnal way and this matter will occupy the attention of the committee cupy the attenton te at I > t meeting Monday night WMtaker Will Accept Commissioner Whitaker wa much V surprised at the news of his election r l when seen at his home last night But lie stated that be considered It the duty of every Democrat to bow to the dictates r dic-tates of his party therefore he would i accept Victory Mr Whitaker says is f absolutely certain for the entire ticket i Of course there is work to be done her he-r isays and some of the boys will run ahead of others but he knows from the temper of the community that every emocrat on the ticket will win by eocmt tcket i1 wi a nod round majority c Mr WJiitaker is one of the present county commissioners He is a member i mem-ber of the Cooperative Cigar company a man very popular with the people l ant a hard party worker The new secretary Alex S Fowler is stenographer c stenog-rapher for City Attorney W C Hall and one of the most active young Democrats r Dem-ocrats In the city |