The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-22
MASSMEETINGS ORDERED
TIE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE TO BE ELECTED.

Democratic party of Chatham county, has
announced that he will call the district mass
meetings to elect members OF the democratic
executive committee. as provided in Mr..
Rockwelrs resolution passed at the mass
meeting Monday night, for June I.
The resolution provides for the holding Of
mass meetings in eachi district to select five
members of the executive committee from
each of the city districts and two from each Of
the country districts and five for the county
at large. This will require a separate meet.
ing in each Of the eight districts of the
county.
Mr.. Charlton said yesterday that he will
| order all the meetings held at the same
| hour to prevent the possibility Of voters
from one district attempting to run The
meeting for another district. Where TO
| hold the meetings IS the problem that is
worrying the chairman. AS each hall used
/ in the city at least VIII have to be paid for
| the number of halls demanded will make
! quite till, and more than the chairman
| would like u undertake TO be responsible
| for. The only thing to do seems to be to
! let each meeting pay for its own hall. 1t is
! not likely that 'the boys" will relish chip
! ping IN in this way, but there does not ap-
| pear to be any help for it, as it would not
| do to hold.the meeting in the open air.
PLACES OF THE MEETINGS.
| 1t is proposed to hold the meeting in the
| First district at Hendy's hall at Bryan
and West Broad streets, the Second district
| meeting at Turner hall on Broughtou
| street, the Third district meeting aJ the
! theeter and the Fourth st Catholic Library
! hall. These appeared TO be about the most
! available halls.
/ Just how the mass meetings will work in
| the country districts is not certsin. In fact,
| the resolution is evidently misfit as re-
| gards the country districts. Except at
Pooler. it is doubtful if enough
democrats can be gotten together
! at night in any of the
other districts to hold a meeting. Then
| there is the question of where to order a
meeting in district that stretches ten to
! twenty miles across. Another ditfl Guilty is
the election of delegates at large. As the
meetings will be held separately no general
vote can be taken for these delegates, and
the only thing to do will be to let each dis
! trict vote for whom it pleases for delegates
| at large and consolidate the vote of all the
districts, declaring the five gentlemen
who receive respectively the highest
number of votes to be elected members a5
| large. It is more than possible that the
mem ers so elected might have failed TO
secure anything like a majority Of the
total vote.
MODE OF ELECTING THE COMMITTEE.
1t must not be forgotten, said
Mr.. Charlton, that the object of elect
ing the executive committee by a
| popular elections is to secure @ committee
| qualified TO pass upon the question of pri-
mary election and decide in what manner
| the primaries shall be held. While large
| number Of democratic voters are advocating
general primary &c the court house, aud
mother large body is advocating primaries
in the districts, it might not be a bad idea
| for the party to give its attention to some
thing differing entirely from either plan
! proposed, and which might prove more
satisfactory than either one Of them. The
plan was drawn up by Mr. Charlton when
the discussion OF a change IN the method of
electing delegates was first begun with the
| intention of presenting it to the recent mass
| meeting, but the discussion drifted so far
away from the idea involved in his plan
that be did not propose it at the meeting.
Mr.. CHARLToN's FLAN.
1t is published as follows for the consid-
GRAFTON Of the democratic voters Of the city
| and county:
/. Hereafter the delegates to any state. SEN
| atoriai or congressional c convent n Of the Dem
| ocratic party, and candidates for any state,
county or federal office, who, under the present
| system, are chosen cr nominated BY mass
| meetings, shall be Ominated or chosen BY con-
| ventons Of the Democratic party of Chatham
| county, to be held at such times and places in
Savannah may be designated by the eX-
ecutive committee Of the party in Chatham
! county.
? The conventions referred to in the proceed
ing paragraph shall consist OF O men bersbIp
| made I'D as follows; One delegate from each
| municipal ward in Savannah, the realty in
| which is now taxable, and wherever there sAall
be more than fifty males in any such ward ad-
herring to the Democratic party, and such eN-
cess over fifty snail not be less than twenty i've
! or more than fifty, any such ward shall he en-
titled to an additional delegate in said conven-
tiOnS, and for each Additionally excess not under
| twenty-five or more than fifty an additional
| delegate. Outside the limits of the taxable
| municpal wards The reprs sentation shall be
taken by militia districts in Chatham county,
| each of which shall be entitled to six delegates
| in said conventions.
PRIMARIES BY WARDS.
| 8. On days to be fixed BY the executive com
| mittge Ottle party in Chatham county, primary
meetings shall be held ia each taxable ward in
the city of Savannah and outside of the limits
OF said wards, III the militia districts il the
county, under the supervision of one or more
persons to be appointed by said executive com
| mittee, all OF which said appOiutess shall be
| democrats in good standing and, so far as prAc-
ticabe, resident in the ward or district to which
they are accredited.
l. The persons suggested in the preceding
paragraph shall be known as managers of demo-
| cratic primaries for Chatham county, and shall
! hold Office uuJu new executive committee is
named in 1894. In the holding of primaries SAID
act Of the legislature OF Georgia, approved Oct
/ q, 1881, both in the manner Of con-
| Quoting said primaries and deter
! ming the qualifications OF voters Their at
| each white male TerSOn adharing to tle Demo-
cratic party over the age Of u years being en-
titled to vote once in the ward in which he
resides, or it ou5 of the limits Of the taxable
| wards OF Savannah, in the militia district in
| which he resides at the time of casing said
| vOts-If otherwise qualified under sad act.
| 3. Delegates TO said conventions, when elected
! in tie manner aforesaid, (t-e returns of said
! elections having been at once transmitted to
the executive COmmttee}. shall assemble at a
time TO Dc desig ated by SAID executive com
| man Of said party in said county.
THE FIRST Co2niITTEE.
6. The convention which first assemblies under
the operation Of this plan SHALL as The hrst bust
ness after the report OF the committee on
| membership elect by majority vote chair
| man OF the Democratic party Of Chat
| ham county, who shall hold Office until
| the meeting of the first of sad
! conventions in 1894 Said chairman
| shall be eX-ufficiO the presiding officer Of all
conventions until his successor Is appointed. and
! should any vacancy occur in the Office the same
! may be Temporarily filled by tIe executive COM
| mittse until tins first convention thereafter
! assemblies, which shall at once fill the
| office. Tho chairman stall be Democrat in
| good standing, and neel not be of The member
! ship Of the convention which elects him He
. shall appoint tue executive committee of the
/ parry, consisting of twenty democrats from
| the city of savannah, and five from the county
| outside of the city limits
Z. Each convention shall be the Judge Of the