The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-04
The COMING PRIMARIES.
Late 10 Announcing for Holding
Them.
A DOUBLE DECKER DELEGATION
Some Confusion TINT May Arise Ont
of the Recent Division OF the
Larger Wards.
DELEGATION

II has not yet been announced where the
ward primaries. called for Saturday night.
May Z. will be held.
The probable reason for this 10 that the
county executive committee has raised no
fund for the holding Of the primaries, hence
the committeeman in the different wards
are forced to the necessity OF selecting
places free OF rent, and as room rent for
election purposes has always been rgard-
ed as "fat picking" by favored landlords,
the committeeman are having some trouble
by violating long established precedent
in asking for the free use OF rooms for
election purposes
If the candidates for county Offices were
Interested in these primaries the situation
would be different. some OF them would
get hurt in the general rush to pay for
these halls for holding primaries, but the
primaries to be held Saturday night will
be very tame affairs compared with the
primaries that will nominate county Off
GERS.
They will be interesting in this, however,
that they will be apt to determine how
this county will 90 in the gubernatoral
race, as the delegates to be selected at
| them will attend a county convention to be
held on May 10. which in turn, will select
delegates to the State, district. Congress
slonal and judiciary conventions,
The committeeman in the Third and
Fifth wards are presented with a Dilemma
with which they have not hitherto been
confronted. These Two wards have been
divided by the com nissioners court, each
Into two election precincts. and following
up this division the county committee has
appointed committeeman from each of the
precincts in the two wards.
1t is Understood that the two committee
men in the Fifth ward, Messrs kavanaugh
and Lyle, will ignore the geographical d.
vision of their ward and make a Joint call
for one primary to elect the full quota Of
delegates, to which the ward Is entitled,
| thirty nine. Following this course they
will have smooth sailing.
1t is said that a different plan will be
pursued in the Third ward where Messrs.
Latham and Banner will hold TWO prima-
ries one in the lower, the other III the
upper end OF the ward, with Dallas street
as the dividing line agreeing among them
selves as To the number of delegates 10
which each section OF the ward will be
entitled
The entire ward. upon the basis of the
last democratic vote for governor Is e.
tttlcu TO lllty- three votes In the ConVeu-
ton, and no matter in what way the two
executive committeeman OF the ward de-
eide to divide up this representation, the
ultimate decision will rest with the Gre
dentials committee of the convention, and
as no vote for governor has ever been taken
| separately in the subdivisions of the ward.
upon which to FIX basis of representa-
ton, the committee on credentials will
likely give each division of the ward TWEEN
six and one bali votes, irrespective Of
the number Of delegates they may elect
and In disregard OF any arrangement the
committeeman of the ward may have en-
tered !n'o
This double set Of delegates from the
Third ward presents the possibility of rem
dering absolutely uugatorv the hitherto
powerful Influence Of this ward in CITY and
couoty conventions. Should one section OF
the ward elect a Savers delegation and the
other Crane delegation. one delegation
would simply counterhalanco the other and
the ttty-three votes of he ward would he
practically lost to either candidate.
The Third ward is always prolific of pol
iucal surprises and history may repeat st..
self at the forthcoming convention.