The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-31
non,t BE stamneded.

All the signs indicate that a persistent
effort is being made to stampede the coun-
~ executive committees into ordering a
vote 10 be taken on the question Of the
choice for United States senator. and for
county officers. at the June primary. I'm
mediately after the meeting OF the state
executive committee the Crisp organs en-
desvored to create the impression that the
committee recommended a senatorial pri-
mary. and it has been published that the
committee had recommended the nomina-
tion Of county officers at that primary. The
executive committee in each county should
not forget that the state commit
tee refused TO act upon Mr..
Crisp's request that a vote on
the senatorial question be taken at the
June primary. The committee did not even
say that it would leave that matter to
the county committees. All that it did was
to acknowledge the receipt of the letter
containing Mr. Crisp's request. And it
pointedly refused TO recommend the nomi-
mating of county officers at the June pri-
mary. The fact that the committee refus-
ed to DO as requested in both Of these mat
tiers is pretty conclusive evidence that it
did not regard them with favor.
The Crisp managers, however, set out at
once to create the impression that both
had been recommended. Mr.. Crisp seems
to regard it as necessary to his success
that the senatorship shall be voted on at
the June primary He is afraid apparently
to have the matter submitted to fun vote
in October. He fears that the action of the
national democratic convention will not
endorse populist financial views, and if it
should not and it is pretty certain it viii
not, he would be in great danger of being
defeated
At the June primary there will be only
a small vote cast. Thousands will not have
registered at that time. and thousands who
will have will not take the trouble to vote.
At the state election in October the voters
will be registered and there will be a fun
vote cast. At that time. and that time
only, will it be possible to have anything
like fair expression of democratic senti-
ment on the senatorship question.
Mr. Crisp's organs are parading the fact
that the six or seven counties that have
called primaries have ordered a vote TAX
en- on the senatorship question They are
doing that for the purpose of influencing
other counties to order like vote. If we
are not mistaken they induced these half
dozen or so counties to act early in order
that their action might influence other
counties. In other words. they are trying
to stampede the counties into adopting
Mr. Crisp's programme. VIII the counties
be stampeded? We hardly think so. 1t was
a mighty hard matter to get some of those
which have already acted to do as it was
desired they should do. According to our
reports the Crispites in Fulton and Floyd
and Bibb had only one majority. What
work it must have taken to get that slen-
der majority
All this talk in the Crisp organs about
the growing sentiment in favor of electing
senators by the people amounts to moth
ing so far as the Crisp issue
in this state is concerned
What Mr.. Crisp is asking is not that a
senator may be chosen by the people at
a regular election, but that the democrats
shall chose candidate, at a primary held
when the registration will be incomplete
and the vote light. whom the democratic
members of the legislature will support
That is a very different thing from the
election of a senator by the people. If
Mr.. Crisp really wants to know whether
the democrats of the state want for sena-
tor man who favors populist financial
views or not let him say that he prefers
the vote on the senatorship question to be
taken at the October election. The county
committees should not permit themselves
to be stampeded into adopting Mr.. Crisp
programme.