The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-03
FIGHT OF THE DISTRICTS.
LIVELY TIMES PREDICTED AT TO-
NIGHTS PRIMARIES.

Bring Municipal Nominations Under
the Mass Meeting Resolution.
Tonight will be lively one, politically
The democratic voters Of the eight militil
districts of the county will assemble II
their respective districts and select men x
represent them for the next two years OF
the county executive committee. The com
mittee, so elected, in accordance with the
wishes of the party expressed at the recent
theater mass meeting, will have to arrange
Il system of primaries for all future elections
IN the county.
The First district meeting will be held at
Hendv's hall at West Broad ana B ryan
streets.
The Second district will meet at Turner
hall at Broughton and Jefferson streets.
The Third district will express its choice
In the superior court room.
The Fourth district voters will hold forth
in the police court room, at the police bar
racks.
The voters Of the Fifth will meet at Thun-
derbolt, the Sixth at Montgomery, the
Seventh at Moynelo's cross roads, twelve
miles out on the Ogeechee road, and the
Eighth at Pooler.
The First, Second, Third and Fourth dis
tricts will select five members each, and the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts
will select two. In addition, five members
of the committee from the county at large
must be elected by the meetings.
DAY OF SCHEMES.
Yesterday and last night the politicians
Of the city districts were busy planning and
plotting schemes to carry the meetings.
Whether they succeed is a question which
only tonight can decide.
The Second, Third and Fourth districts
have agreed upon one ticket for committee
men at large and the First accepts it with
one change. The slated ticket for this part
OF the executive committee is as follows:
First District-Edward Mcintyre.
Second District-W. W. Osborne, Esq.
Third District-Col. George A. Mercer.
Fourth District-Capt. Thomas Screven
and Mai, John Schwarz
The First district wants Sheriff John T.
Roman instead of Col. George A. Mercer,
but as the sheriff is a resident of the Fourth
district, and the change would leave the
Third district unrepreSented, his friends
say he will decline to allow the use of his
name.
The First District Club held a prelimi-
nary meeting last night at HendY's hall,
which was largely attended. President
William Gibbons presided and Alder
man James Mcclure acted as
secretary. In stating the object
of the meeting Mr.. Gibbons said the pur-
pose was 70 decide upon ticket to be sup
ported at to-nights meeting, aud to have
all the members Of the club understand
thoroughly what they should do. do 1t
quietly and quickly, and make the mass
meeting as short as possible.
THE FIRST DISTRICT TICKET.
John Sheffin introduced the following
ticket, which met with many seconds
William NJ. Gibbons, Frank McDermott
G. A. Lamotte, John F. Lubs and James
Mcclure.
Thomas McNish offered as a substitute
long preamble with ten names attached TO
be submitted to the mass meeting for the
selection of five committeeman. IL was
promptly voted down and Shelfiin's ticket
went through with a whoop.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
instructing the committeeman, II elected, to
vote for district primaries and against court
house primaries.
Mr.. Sheffiin introduced the agreed-upon
ticket for committeeman at large, and JUS
tice McDermott moved the substitution of
Sheriff Romans name for Col Mercer, In
order, be said, to have five men selected
who would favor district primaries. Jus
tice McDermott had nothing against Col.
Mercer in having his name taken Off, but he
doesn't know what his position is on the
primary question, while he does know
Sheriff Romans
The Second district politicians held a
secret meeting and agreed upon q ticket
also, but they didn't give out the names Of
the men they want. 1t was stated, how
ever, that four OF those selected are
Warning Russell, s. L. Lazaron, Esq, DR..
B. F. Sheftall and Justice Thomas Sheftall.
The Third district slate is also being kept
q secret until to-night's mass meetings.
The Fourth District Club has taken no
action, but it is said that several tickets
will be presented.
THE PRIMARY RESOLUTIONS.
The resolution under which the party
acts tonight was adopted at the mass meet
Ing held at the theater on the night of Juue
10. It is as follows:
Resolved, That the system of making nomi-
nations for the Democratic party in all future
elections in Chatham county shall be by mi.
mary election, the plan of holding said pri-
marles to be decided by the county executive
committee.
Resolved, further. That the executive com.
mttee OF the Democratic party of Chatham
county shall in the future be selected by mass
meetings, to be held in the several militia dis
trlcts or the county, to be called by the chair
man OF the Democratic party at such tine and
place as he shall select each city district to
have ttve representatives and each country dis
tricttwo, and five TO be selected from the county
at large.
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of the Demcccatic party of the county call the
mass meetings OF the several districts as early
as practicable, and that the committee selected
by the said mass meetings select their chair
man, who shall be chairman OF the Democratic
party of Chatham county; that the latter clause
does not apply to the chairman for the present
two years
TO BRING IN THE MAYoRALrY.
There is a disposition on the part of some
to construe the resolution as applying TO
municipal as we'll as state and county cleo
ions, but 1t is not likely that this construc-
ton will be accepted by the party. 1t is
the desire of those taking this view to have
nominations for mayor and aldermen made
by the party this fall. Chairman Charl-
ton and other prominent democrats, to
whom this construction has been mentioned,
strongly disapprove of the idea, and say
that the result would be simply to split the
Democratic party of the city all to
pieces. In all previous instance,
where the party has attempted tc
name the candidate for mayor, they say, q
split has been caused and the nominee de.
feated
1t is pretty certain that the candidates
for the mayorelty, who are now in the field
or who contemplate entering it, would moi
pledge themselves to abide by the nomlna-
ton. Under the resolution, it will be seeI
that it applies strictly to county elections
and the committee is elected for county
purposes. A county committee could moi
well preside over city election.
ALDERMEN BY DISTRICTS.
The real inwardness of the move for city
nominations is said to be that some of tn