The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-15
TEE PRIMARY CALLED OFF.
The SChWaTz Men Charge That the
Voting Lists We're DOCtOTed.

and the Citizens Club Did Not Name
Its Choice for Mayor-The sohwarz
Men Claim Their Opponents Were
Trying to Run in Non-CIub Voters on
Them and the Myers Men Claim These
Voters We're Entitled to All the Privi-
leges Of Members-A Mooted Point
That May Split the CIub-sharp Talk
by the Candidates and Their Leaders.
What is the Citizens Club going to do?''
That was the question generally asked
yesterday and las, night VIII the club 20
TO pieces or will the Schwarz men pull out
and leave their opponents free to run the
club TO suit themselves? In that case what
chance of success would the clubs nominee
for mayor have? VIII Maj Schwarz an
nounce himself as candidate for mayor
Independent of the clubs action or win he
oppose Mr.. Waring Russell for county
treasurer?
These are the queries that the people out
side of the club and many inside Of it were
asking last night. A meeting of the club
will be called one night next week to take
some action for the purpose Of pulling the
club out Of the hole into which the war
ring partisans have got it.
The primary which was to settle whether
The clubs candidate for mayor should be
Alderman Myers or Maj. Schwarz was not
held yesterday. The friends of the two
candidates could not agree as to the right
of certain parties to vote in the election
and as neither side would yield an inch
there was nothing 10 do but call the pri-
mary off. The following notice was
tackled to the door Of No. II Whitaker
street, which place had been selected to
hold the primary, shortly before O'Clock,
the time which had been set for the open
ing Of the primary:
NO PRIMARY.
BY order of the committee.
Owing to a disagreement of the confer
ence committee the primary is called off.
large crowd gathered around the door
on which the notice was pasted and viewed
1t with expressions of surprise and dis
gust The comments on either side we're
not complimentary to the other and there
were numerous threats and predictions as
10 the result.
Mr.. A. N. Manucy, who was chairman
of the joint committee that was to have
charge Of the primary, gave an official
statement of the dtfficulty which re-
suited in the primary being declared off
10 representative of the Morning News.
The committee composed of NIessrs.
Collins, Wink and Powers, represent
ing Mr. Myers, and Messrs. Manucy
Reynolds and Gaffney, representing Mai
Schwarz went to the Office of Mr. A. L.
Alexander, secretary of the club. at IL
O'Clock TO get the roll book containing the
n uFaaAg If he oh -,
said they had made a search for It the
night before without being able to find
1t. On examination of the book after it
was delivered to the committee by Mr.
Alexander it was found that there were
l@ names upon it which had been placed
there recently, as was seen by the fresh
ness of the ink They were arranged in
proper alphabetical order
Mr.. Manucy asked Mr.. Alexander how
II was that those names had been placed
upon the book He was told that the
names were those of the applicants whose
names had been handed in at the meeting
of last Monday night Mr.. Manucy told
him that inasmuch as those applications
had never been acted on by the club, and
as the club had decided to lay them on
the table until a subsequent meeting,
they had no right to be on the book
Mr.. Manucy, as chairman of the COM
mittee, then asked the committee to ad-
1ourn to the Office of President Osborne.
and that the two candidates for the nonni-
nation be sent for. Within a few minutes
both Mr.. Myers and Maj Schwarz came
in.
The condition of affairs was explained
to them by the chairman, after which
Mr.. Myers said he considered under the
precedent established by the club the
names had been rightfully placed there,
and that he would not go into a primary
If they were eliminated.
Maj. Schwarz reiterated the fact that
he was in the hands of his friends, saying
he had full confidence in the committee
and would abide by whatever the COM
mittee agreed to. The committee repre-
senting Maj. Schwarz would not 90 into
primary unless the names We're removed
and this was where the horns became
locked
1t was getting close onto the time for
the primary to open, but the discussion
still kept up. At $40 o'clock, just twenty
minutes before the polls were to have
opened, no agreement had been reached,
and II was decided to call the primary off
Mr.. Manucy said all sorts of propositions
were made by one side and the other,
and he wanted to go into the primary
himself. but none of them were entirely
satisfactory to both sides and the dis
agreement was decided on.
This leaves the status Of affairs just
day night" Mr.. Manucy said I've been
endeavoring to do all in my power for a
fair and square registration and for fair
and square elections, and now that l see
triekery and intrigue are to prevail I've
got no more to do with it, At the request
of these people l took charge Of the regis
tration books to see that the registration
was a fair one, and for the purpose OF
doing what I could in the interests Of re-
form, and when ! see some of the very
men who were the loudest in their adj
vecacy Of ballot reform foremost
in trickery and intrigue, / am opposed to
it, and 1 am out. l think however,
that the differences viii be settled and
that a solid front will be presented be-
fore the election. We don't want all this
money talk. The club is top-heavy, as
has been demonstrated, but we win find a
way to purify Il and get a solid front be-
fore January
The question OF the right to vote of the
l6a people whose names were submitted al
the meeting Monday night and placed upor
The rolls by the secretary without having
boon voted upon appears to have been the
only obstruction which prevented the pri
mary. The two candidates and their sup
porters held exactly the same positions as
those held by their representatives on the