The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-17
CITY ELECTION CLOSE BY.
HOW TO CAST A VOTE FOR MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN ON JAN. 20.

housekeeping to BE Pat in
Readiness This Week For the
EIectiOn-The Council to Select
Voting Places Tomorrow After
noon and the Commission 10 Name
the Election Managers Tuesday.
The Tickets to BE Nominated This
week and Must he Filed With the
Clerk of Council by Thursday.
The city election is now only ten days
off. The two rival tickets to be voted for
will be made known this week and form
ally accepted by the two opposing organ
| izations.
The Citizens Club ticket will be placed
in formal nomination at Odd Fellows hall
Tuesday night and the Liberal Club ticket
will be given to the public in the same
manner at Masonic hall. There is no doubt
| as to the heads of these two tickets, Nal
+. w. Meldrim for the Liberal Club ticket
| and Mayor Herman Myers for the Citi-
| zens Club ticket
| The committee of ten appointed from
| the committee of 100 of the Liberal Club
| to suggest twelve candidates for aldermen
has completed its labors. it is said, and
will make report to the committee of
100 tomorrow night.
! Several members of the committee of ten
! We're seen yesterday and practically adj
| mitted that they had made up the ticket,
| but they refuse positively to give it out,
| until after it has been submitted to and
| passed upon by the committee of 100. At
ter the meeting of that committee on Mon
| day night the ticket WILL in all probable
! ity, be given out.
The Liberal Club will hold a meeting of
! all its forces at the Masonic temple Tues
| day night for the purpose of receiving the
| 1ff hn aNr1a of $50
mally putting the ticket in the field. Maj.
| p. w. Meldrm, whom the club has nomi-
| mated as its candidate for mayor, is ex-
| pected to return from Atlanta this morn
! ing and he will undoubtedly be present
at the meeting Tuesday night 1t is not
! believed that there is any doubt about his
| accepting the nomination. He knows that
| the matter is an important one with the
! party of which he is at the head, and it
| Is stated by leaders of that club, that he
! would have spoken before now, had he
! intended to decline the nomination
This meeting of the Liberal Club will
| put both Of the tickets in the field at the
| same time, and the voters will have a full
! opportunity to consider both of them.
| The members of the Liberal Club in the
| First and Fourth militia districts will
| assemble at their respective quarters
| Tuesday night to march in bodies to the
| Masonic hall, where the meeting of the
| club is to be held. The Fourth District
| Liberal Club contingent will meet al the
Harris street hail. and the First district
| contingent will assemble at Broughton
| and West Broad streets.
! The city election law requires that the
| ballots for the city election shall be print
| ed by the city and for this purpose the
| law requires that all tickets, which it is
| desired to place on the official ballot, shall
| be duly certified to the clerk of council
| under oath, at least five DAYS before the
] election ha ic nv 10 ha hea
| put in nomination by a mass meeting,
| convention or otherwise, or who have an
nounced their independent candidacy
The managers of the election must be
appointed by the judges composing the
| electoral commission on Tuesday Each
side has its list of managers ready. The
registration books, which have been in
the custody of the ordinary since the close
of the registration, will be delivered to the
managers so appointed on the afternoon
preceding the election, the managers be-
ing placed under oath to produce the
/ books with seals unbroken at the voting
! places on the day Of election.
The city council will hold a special
! meeting tomorrow afternoon, for the pur-
! pose of receiving the report of the com
/ mittee appointed to select voting places
| The places used for registration, in the
| majority of the precincts, will doubtless
I be used for the elections, but booths may
/ be erected in the squares and streets for
/ some of the precincts. The city marshal
/ is required to make all necessary ar
| engagements for the election, to see that
/ the voting places are suitably provided
with ballot boxes, tables or booths, at
/ which voters may mark their ballots, and
! that each booth or table is supplied with
/ pens and ink
The law is specific on this point 1t
/ says: Each booth, table or compartment
/ shall be so arranged that it will be i'm
] pOecihlp for al "a ~ n
/ to see a voter at another table or booth
! in the act of marking his ballot. The ar
/ rangement shall be such that neither the
/ ballot boxes nor the voting booths or ia
! bles shall be hidden from the managers
| for the election"
/ All ballots cast in the election must be
/ printed and distributed at the expense of
the city. The ballots must be printed in
! plain type in straight lines upon plain
white paper, so thick that the printed can
not be distinguished from the back. The
arrangement of the ballot shall be sub
stanually as follows:
Each party having certified a ticket to
the clerk of council shall at the same time
designate a name and device for such tick
! et The device Of the Liberal Club is
star, of the Citizens Club an American
! flag Each device must be enclosed in a
square of not less than one inch, and
| placed Immediately at the head of the tick
ct for which IL is designated. The devices,
names of tickets and names of candidates
must be printed upon the ballot in parallel
! columns The name of the ticket is
| placed Immediately below the device. In
addition to the tickets legally requested
| to be laced upon the official ballot, there
| shall be printed in a parallel column a
| blank ticket. Any voter who may not de-
sire to vote a printed ticket may write
the name of the candidate or candidates of
| his choice in the blank spaces. He may
vote FOR any candidate he pleases whether
| such candidates have been previously
| nominated or not, provided, however, that
| said names must be written with pen and
| ink and il shall not be lawful to use past
! ers. A voter desiring to vote one of the
| printed tickets does so by making a cross
mark in the device at the head of the
! ticket. Should voter not desire to vote
a straight ticket he can write the names
of the candidates of his choice in the blank
! space.
The act is so worded that voter cannot
scratch his ticket He cannot scratch
out single name on any straight ticket
/