The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-13
The COMMITTEES ACTION.
WHAT BOTH FACTIONS ARE SAY
ING ABOUT THE RESOLUTIONS.

General Meeting OF the Liberal
Club VIII Probably BE Held Next
Week-One side says the ResOiu-
lions Governing the Primary Are
Absolutely Fair. and the other
That They Are NInnifestIy Unfair
and Unjust-Hon. T. +. johnson
Says He Does Not Intend to Resign
as Registrar-PrOgreSs Of the Reg
istration.
The action Of the county democratic
executive committee was an the talk I'm
local political circles yesterday, and
though its interest was detracted from
somewhat. by reason Of the May week
festivities, 1t Is still the talk wherever
the politicians separate themselves from
the crowds.
Members Of the. Citizens Club take the
view that every possible concession was
made the members Of the Liberal Club in
the interest Of fairness. The points to
which the Liberal Club objected. they
claim. were absolutely necessary to the
proper conduct of a regular democratic
primary.
LAS to the referees" a member Of the
Citizens Club said, my idea was to Sc
lect able men. lawyers if possible, in every
instance, and to divide them equally be
tween the two factions. There was no in
tention on the part of the Citizens Club
to take all these referees from its own
ranks, and ! do not see why any imputa-
lions Of unfairness should be made on that
ground"
There is absolutely no unfairness in the
proposition that the executive committee
shall approve the managers appointed"
another member said. If one manager
should be unsatisfactory the faction it,
self, and not the executive committee, Sc
lects one in his place, and the committee
is obliged under the resolutions to select
some manager named by the faction it
self The only object in that provision
was to secure managers VINO would NOT
be personally Objectionable, and the Citi-
zens Club will not insist on the conhrma-
ton of any manager appointed by It's
committee. If objections of this kind are
made by the other side"
With regard TO the purging OF the lsts
the point is made that the primary Is a
party matter which is wholly IN the hands
of the executive committee, and there is no
reason why board upon which there is a
republican should have charge OF n mat
ter with which only the democrauc party
is concerned. In answer TO- TINS the LID
cral Club people say the rules denne VINO
is entitled to vote i'm the primary, ana the
only thing the registrars have to DO IS TO
remove from the lists names which are
there illegally or improperly, regardless
of party or faction. AS the registrars are
the legal judges of these matters IN con-
nection with the regular election, the Lib
eral Club people say there is no reason why
they should not be the same for the pri-
mary. instead of having the matter taken
out of their hands and put into the hands
of a partisan board, such as they declare
the executive committee to be, with a ma
jority of three in favor Of the CITIZENS
I'VE do not intend that the matter of IL
legal registration shall be passed upon by
the executive committee" member or the
Liberal Club said, IF it is possible to avoid
it, 1t is a partisan board, and there is no
doubt that the majority will be favored.
our course will be to press the matter be
fore the grand jury, and indictments will
be secured in every case where we can
show the evidence to warrant II. The
grand jury recommended that the regis
trars purge the lists, and as the committee
did not see fit to follow this recommends
ton there is no reason why the grand jury
should not take the matter up again.
1--WE are going to give them fight In
the primary which they VIII remember,
and though there Is some hard work
ahead, we have no fears of the result.
We deprecate, of course, the spirit or un-
fairness that was shown, but we feel
that we have much In our favor and we
are going into win
Some other members Of the Liberal Club
are not so well pleased with the action
it practically gives the Citizens Club the
management of the whole election. What
action the Liberal Club will take with
reference to it remains to be seen. The
club will hold a mass meeting probably
the early part of next week, and in view
of the situation this meeting will be
awaited with interest. Arrangements will
likely be made at that time also to nOml-
nate candidates for the legislature, a mat
ter which both sides still insist they have
not yet considered.
The action of the executive committee
with regard to the registration lists has
been the subject of a good deal of talk
Mr. T. F. Johnson, who was appointed
a registrar to represent the republican
party, says the report of his having re-
signed as registrar is without foundation
He has not resigned, he says, and he
does not intend to resign.
The registration yesterday climbed I'D to
49l3, the number for the day being twenty
six. Capt J. J. MCGOWAN is now work
Ing on the disqualified list, which, under
the law, has to be furnished the regis
trars in July. Registration Clerk J. G,
Sullivan will begin in a day or two to
prepare the district lists as asked for bv
the executive committee, to be used in
the primary on June 10. 1t is probable
there will be considerably over 5000 voters
registered before the primary, not more
than 800 OF whom are colored citizens