The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-18
TRICKY WORK TO HELP CRISP.
THE STATE COMMITTEE sIISREP-
RESENTED.

The Committee Refused TO Recon-
mend the Nomination of Candi-
dates for the Legislature at the
June Primary-A Clause in the Res
oIutiOns Stricken Out by the Com
mittee Printed by Crisp's Atlanta
Organ as Adopted.
Atlanta Ca. March 17.-As developments
occur. there appears to have been a good
deal OF Juggling with the resolutions pass
ed by the state executive committee at
its recent meeting in this city, and natur-
ally enough, the Juggling has been done in
the interest of ex-Speaker Crisp's candi-
dacy for the United States Senate.
First. his friends and organs systemati-
caIly, undertook to create the impression
throughout the state that the letter which
Mr.. Crisp had written to the state com
mitee suggesting that candidates for the
Senate be voted for at the primary June
6, was referred by the state committee to
the county committees for action. This
was for the purpose Of getting the county
committees to provide for an election on
this point, although the state committee
refused to recognize its propriety. 1t now
develops that Mr.. Crisps friends and or
gans have taken it upon themselves to give
the resolutions passed by the state COM
mittee an entirely different meaning from
that meant by the committee on an even
more vital point than the Crisp letter. As
the resolutions passed the committee. they
do not provide for the nomination of coun-
ty officers at the same time with the Sc
lection of delegates TO the state conVen-
tion and nomination of candidates for the
legislature. As presented to the commit
tee by Robert Hodges of Bibb county, the
ln ions tai Cd "a a.
for the consolidation Of nominations for |
the legislature and county officers and the |
election of delegates to the state conVen-
ton, but after good deal OF discussion |
that part relating to county OffiCerS was |
stricken out upon the theory that it would |
not be expedient in many of the counties |
TO hold these nominations as soon as June |
g. In the resolutions as they have been /
promulgated by Mr. Crisp's Or |
gans however, the clause relat- |
ing to the nomination of county |
officers at the primary of June at the |
same time as members of the Legislature |
are nominated and delegates to the state |
convention are chosen has been retained. |
The object in doing this is TO bring all |
possible combinations to bear in favor |
of Mr.. Crisp's candidacy. Those who |
are not initiated may fail to see at the |
first glance how punching all the nomi- |
ma lions can result in advantage TO any |
side but this will be clear when it is |
stated that the resolutions passed by the |
state committee calling for this primary /
leave the gates open for populists to |
senator. The original resolutions contain |
ed clause pledging those who voted IN
the primary TO support the nominees of |
the democratic party, both state and ma
tional. But this clause, after various at
tempts TO amend it, was finally stricken /
bodily from the resolutions, so
saad to eney the Obligation atom of those
who vote to subsequently vote with the |
democratic party. When this fact is
considered in connection with the deter |
mi ina nf have
senatorship voted upon at the June pri- /
mary, il Is very significant
This latest effort to distort the reso- |
luton of the state committee was brought |
TO light to-day through Secretary Doug |
lass Glessner of the state committee, who |
wns tb IN Md lore city News co q
Secretary Glessner said that the original |
resolutions passed by the committee, |
which are and have been in his possession |
since the meeting, do not refer to the nom |
ination of county officers at the June pri-
mary. AS stated above the clause was |
stricken out entirely. Clark Howell, mem |
Der of the committee from Fulton county |
Secretary Glessner said, had made copy |
of the resolutions during the progress of |
the meeting, which he said was the same |
as the original. but when the resolutions |
appeared in Mr.. Howell's paper the next |
morning they were not the same as the |
original and no correction has been made |
of the matter by that paper although |
Secretary Glessner has corrected himself |
in his paper and Mr.. HowelPs paper pub /
nshed part of the article written by Sec
rotary Glessner referring to another part |
of the committees work
Fulton county's executive committee |
will meet tomorrow under the call of |
Capt r. p. Howell, the chairman. A spir-
tied fight has been made in this county |
against the nomination of county officers |
at the June primaries, but despite this /
fight the fact has never been brought out /
that the constitution, which is behind the /
fight for the consolidation of all the NOM
nations, has perpetrated a fraud upon the /
public by publishing doctored resolutions, |
which made the action of the state COM
mittee appear TO support its position.