The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-05
WHO ARE TRUE DEMOCRATS?
No MEMBERS OF A PROSCRIPTIYE
ORGANIZATION CAN CLAIM
THAT TITLE.

That L. the Position OF the Liberal
CIub-A Democratic Mass Meeting
TO Be Called soon TO Provide for a
legislative Ticket. TO select Dele
gates 10 the Conventions and 80
Choose a Neyv Executive Commit
tec-The Citizens Club 10 Place Its
Candidates In Nomination To-
nIzht-Some Of the Wen Talked OF
for Nominees.
"The Liberal Club has decided to re-
furn 10 the good old democratic Plan OF
mass meetings" said a prominent MEM
Der of the club to- a Morning News repor-
Ter last night. "A mass meeting will De
called at an early date at which steps viii
be taken 20 select a strong legislative
ticket and delegations TO the congress
sional. senatorial and gubernatOrial con-
venuons and also an executive commit
Tee Of twenty-five"
You propose TO act as the democratic
party then7' the Liberal Club man was
asked.
we are the democratic party" was the
reply. The issue IS now plainly drawn
between A. P. Aism and the democratic
party. No true democrats can have any
connection or affuation with such an or
ganization. Il Is perfectly plain now that
the Citizens cub Is dominated by the A.
p A. This was demonstrated when the
a. P. A. members Of the club demanded
and secured sixty members of the advis-
DRY committee Of 100. The deal is that
The present leaders shall have the nam
ing Of the legislative ticket and that the
A. p. A. is TO have the naming of the can
esf7 Fqf
IS the programme which has been agreed
upon and which Will be carried out by the
Citizens Club. In Augusta the A. p. A.
was defeated and its members were ruled
out of the democratic party. II will be
the same thing here"
How about the negro vote? DO you
calculate upon its aid to VIM
THE other side secured the majority OF
the negro vote in the last election, and
may DO so again We hope to get pOr-
ton OF IL this time, but we know the ca
liabilities of the other crowd in this line
and, therefore, we do not place our depend
ence for the victory upon the negro vote.
The democratic party will win in the fall
election, and, as ! have told you, the real
democrats are now with the Liberal
You will observe" he continued, that
the work on South Broad street has been
abandoned since 1t was seen that there
would be no contest in the primary or
dered by the Citizens Club members of
the executive committee. 1t was seen
that the votes of the street gang at work
there would not be needed IN the primary,
and hence the work was discontinued. II
will be resumed in the fan In time for
the October election, when the paving
gang will be increased according to the
Judgment of the leaders as to the number
of votes needed. other means Of getting
the voters in hand by placing them on the
public works will be devised in time to
be of service at the election"
The Citizens Club win hold mass meet
ing tonight al Odd Fellows hall al $3.50
o'clock for the purpose of nominating
legislative candidates executive commit
feemen, and delegates to all of the dem
ocratic conventions to be held this year.
These will be the only candidates to
90 before the primary called for next
Wednesday, June 10 The Citizens Club
now has two committees, one OF twenty
i've, which is practically steering COM
mittee, and another of 100, which con-
siders the matter of nominations and
presents them TO the club. The committee
OF twenty-five held a meeting yesterday
afternoon, and the committee of 100 held
meeting last night at Odd Fellows hall
What the committee Of 100 did will not
be known until tonight The meeting
OF the committee was a short one, most
of the practical work having been done
i is understood, by the committee Of
You may say that the meeting of the
committee Of 100 was a brief and a harmon
lous one, said one of its members. we
selected all Of the forty-siX candidates TO
be placed In nomination before the Citizens
Club tomorrow night legislative candi-
dates included and all l can tell you
now is, there will be some surprises. The
caucus was a secret one, and we all
agreed to say nothing whatever about
it before the meeting, at which the COM
mittee report will be made"
A representative of the Morning News
saw several members of the committee
after the meeting All of them, however
refused to give any Information as to
what the committee did.
Was Mr.. w. w. Gordon, Jr, or Mr.
J. P. Williams or Mr.. w. S. Tison, or
Capt. Henry Kolshorn on the ticket?"
was asked.
Yes, they were all there" was the re-
ply, but you viii remember there are
forty-six names on the ticket and / am
not telling. you in what position they
We're placed on it,"
With regard to Maj. G. NJ. Ryals. how
ever, one Of the committeeman stated
positively that he would not be on the
ticket. He said Maj. Ryals had been ap-
preached, but had decided not to run.
The meeting will undoubtedly be an in
-terestsng one, as it. is expected the prin-
cipal nominees will be called on for
speeches, and there will, no doubt, be a
big crowd to see what happens.