The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-27
TWO PRIMARIES TO BE HELD.
THE POLITICAL INDICATIONS ARE
THAT WAY JUST NOW.


Hold a Primary of Its own aut
Vote for County Officers as Wei
as for Representative and Dele
Entes-A Conference of the Com
mittce of Five Of the Liberal CIuL
at Maj. 1IcIdrfm's once, But NO De-
cisIon Reached rs 10 the Report
10 he Made 10 the CIub-Ciuzens
Club Wen Assert the Fairness OF
the Rules Adopted for the Govern
ment Of the Primary.
There are going 60 be some very inter
osting political developments In the Next
few weeks The indications are that .n-
stead of one democratic primary there VIII
be two. The voter viii have his choice cl
which primary be viii enter.
While the Liberal Club leaders decline
20 express themselves as 10 what action
they win take as the result Of the man
ner IN which their requests by the Citi-
gems Club majority Of the executive com
mittee al the meeting Monday afternoon,
there IL a very broad lntimation that they
will not acquiesce in the one-sided ac-
tons Of the majority and the action OF
the next Liberal Club meeting is easy TO
forecast
A well-posted member Of the Liberal
Club, IN speaking with a Morning News
reporter last night, said that the Liberal
Club Will have a primary Of It's own.
The primary VIII be ordered by the Lib
eTal Club members Of the executive com
mittee" he said, and a full ticket for
the delegates 10 the several conventions,
as Wen as for the legislature, viii be
voted for. In addition, county officers
will also be selected at this primary.
There Is no reason why the coun-
" officers should not be selected by lrl-
mary and the only reason the Citizens
Club leaders were not willing 10 90 into
the primary for the election Of county
officers is that they know this would
bring the A. =. A element in their ranks
10 the front The a. =. A. Is prepared TO
and If this fight were 70 come on IN che
primary they might lose the members OF
the. legislature, which is most important
with the leaders Just at present"
Maj. Z. ". Meldrim, president of the
Liberal Club, returned to the city yes
terday morning from Darien, where he
has been in attendance on Mcintosh coun-
~ superior court. AT noon there was a
meeting in Maj. Meldrims Office Of the
committee Of I'VE appointed at the recent
meeting Of the Liberal Club and its friends
10 appear before the executive commits
Tee ana ask for certain notifications In
me rules governing the primary cleo
ton to take place June TO-
This &C mmittee was fully informed as
70 the action taken by the executive COM
mlttee at its meeting Monday afternoon.
ana met for the purpose Of discussing
me situation and what report to make TO
me body by which they were appointed.
posed q MAJ. P. W. Meldrim. Judge a.
John Fiannerr,y ana and Mr.. E. A. r-s Wei capt.
Al the conclusion of the meeting Mai
M4eiarim informed representative Of The
eitolI,lng news that the committee had
slmplg met Tor conference, and had not
decided upon any course of action or as
70 what report would be made to The
Liberal Club.
The matter is an important one. Mai.
Meldrim said, and IL, of course takes
time ana consideration. We will consider
me question thoroughly ana report TO The
next meeting what we consider the proper
and right thing TO do. II is not deter
mined yet when the meeting viii be
Maj Meldrim returned IN Darien IN Tho
afternoon as he has a case 10 try in the
superior court there this morning He
Mbt ProDaply come back on Thursday at
Whlch time, or very soon thereafter n
meeting Of the committee will be had and
decision reached as early as possible
upon what report 10 make the Liberal
The situation to say the least is quite
an interesting one. The Liberal Club has
Zen gwen practically nothing Of what it
bers of this club SAYS. is the rule in re-
ference TO the confirmation of the an
Polhlments Of managers by the executive
they say, the power to appoint VIVA lever
managers for their side they desire. and to
e es 29t any OF the managers appointed BY
Is probable that if this concession had bee1
MADE the Liberal Club would not have
in it.a at any great length about going
INTO the primary, at least there would have
been much less opposition to II -
one particular consideration IN the mat
IeL OF the primary Is that there are chosen
Wnen 1t is held the county Democrats ex-
eeuuve committee, and an of the demo
cratic delegations. What figure this viii
cut however, remains TO be seen.
All the leaders OF the Citizens Cvlub
Mh9 were seen yesterday, We're prompt
IN declaring that the provisions for the
primary adopted by the executive com
liberal Club people would not abide nv
taem II was simply because they were
tIrald 10 go into a primary where they
had only an equal showing
what fairer provisions do they want?'
inquired one Citizens Club leader. ''Thev
eet nat the managers. The referees are
men 10 whom they can make no obiec-
ton. The executive committee reserves
me right to reject any managers offered
pY either side, and this is done simply to
prevent the Liberal Club from running
IN on US some of its notorious Characters
with whom it would be impossible 10
nohd an orderly election. No sensible
man believes that any respectable man
omered as manager by the Liberal Club
viii be rejected by the committee. The
poillng places are all to be on the South
Broad street green, and the entire block
around each polling place is to be roped
on and the crowd kept out. The Liberal
people have always put up a howl about
not wanting TO hold the primaries in the
districts because the polling places were
surrounded by the tough element We
will guarantee that this will not be the
case this time. The registration list is
TO be purged by a committee of two from
each side, with Judge Norwood as ar
biter. Could anything squarer than this
be asked? I am willing to submit the
rules for the primary to any fair-minded
and unbiased man as to his opinion OF
their fairness or unfairness. If the Lib
eral Club doesn't go into primary il will
De because IL never intended to in the
first place"
Pretty much all the Citizen Club leaders
VINO We're seen expressed themselves on
the same line
raw INTO AN oprv svv,rcu