The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-18
STUDYING THE CANDIDATES
LIBERAL CLUB FACTION MEETS TO
DISCUSS THE SITUATION.

Ticket. messrs. meiuFiHs NJ
Douough and Duncan-Dr. Duncan
Retired From the Meeting of the
Committee of Ten when the Mat
ter Was Observation-Disclosures VIII
sunport Judge Fish as Against
Judge GOber.
The political situation assumed rather
calm and quiet aspect yesterday in spite
Of the dissension in the executive COM
mittee the night before.
on the Liberal side of the matter there
were discussions and discussions, with one
result-the expression of the opinion that
the right thing had been done.
The members OF the Liberal Club fac
ton. so called or rather certain men,
hers of that faction, held a meeting last
night at the Savannah Club, upstairs, al
Bay and Abercorn streets, for the pur-
pose Of discussing the situation and max
ing preliminary arrangements
This was known as the committee Of
100. but there were about fifty present.
They attended in response to invitations
sent out yesterday signed by Messrs. M.
A. O'Byrne, John Power and Waring Rus
sell, Jr.
The meeting was called to order about
O'Clock by Justice Russell, and organlza-
ton was perfected by the election of Mr..
NJ. A. O'Byrne as chairman and Mr.. a.
l.. Alexander as secretary. Mr.. Alexan-
der. as viii be remembered, was for two
years secretary of the Citizens Club.
The meeting first entered into a'dlscus-
sion of. the Supreme Court justice question.
Chairman OByrne having announced that
the meeting was called for the purpose of
considering matters relating to the APP
preaching primary. The discussion as 20
Judge Fish and Judge GOber, who are OPP
ponents, proceeded for some minutes. 1t
was the sense of the meeting that the
members of the Liberal Club faction would
support Judge Fish in the race against
Judge Gober This will be readily under
stood when it is remembered that Judge
Gober is said to have done some work IN
Atlanta against plans which were on foot
there by the Liberal Club element.
After a brief discussion of the question
of candidates, il was decided to appoint a
committee of ten to take the matter into
consideration, select candidates, ana re-
port back TO another meeting of the com
mittee of 100 to be held at the same place
on Monday night. After the action of that
committee q mass meeting will be called
and the candidates thus placed before the
people
MIR. NJ. A. O'Bryne was made chairman
of the committee Of ten which held meet
ing Immediately after the adjournment Of
the large meeting. The committee spent
some two hours in discussing various
names of prospective candidates
1t was learned after the meeting that
the sentiment of the committee was in
f4r,rr tf1lre &c
before, namely, Mayor Meldrim, TDr. Dun
can and Hon. J. J. McDonough. This re-
port is further supported by the fact that
DIR. Duncan retired from the meeting dur
ing the discussion, and there seems to be
no doubt that ne has been selected as one
of the candidates 1t is said, however,
that Mayor Meldrim does not care TO make
the race again. He was present at the
meeting of the committee of ten, arriving
when its deliberations were about half
concluded. 1t is also stated that Mr.. Nc
DonOugh is not DESTROYS of making the
race. 1t is understood, however, that all
of these gentlemen have agreed to take
the matter into consideration. and the
committee of ten expects to be able te
reach some definite conclusion to-day.
Others, who have been mentioned as
candidates, are Messrs. w. z. LaRoche
A. S. Guckenheimer and Judge A. II
MacDouell. In case the present represen-
race again, 1t Is probable that some OF
these gentlemen VIII be found on tn,
ticket.
Members OF the Liberal Club faction say
that the action of the executive commit
tee was the proper thing. il is fair for al
concerned, they assert, for both sides hav,
the same time in which to get their forces
into the field, and get to work among tbs
voters.
I'VE have still to select our ticket" they
said. "as well as the other side, and tn,
fixing of the primary for June % gave u
no more advantage than it does them. Be
sides, we provided for equal representa-
ton at the ballot boxes, a thing which
they did not do two years ago, when the.
wanted to name two managers at eacl
box, and let US name one, who would serV
only in case he was satisfactory to them
Now, they have the right TO say Just VIII
they want at the boxes. Both sides vii
name their own men, and both will hav
the same representation. / cannot 70
the life of me see where there is anythin
unfair in anything that has been done"
While there is a deep interest in the sit
uation among the politicians and those VIII
usually serve on political committees, an
take an interest In local politics general
ly, there Is a general lack of attentio
on the part of the people at large.
discussing the matter with several bus
ness mer who have been allied with on
faction or the other and who have al
tended meetings of the political clubs. the
stated that it made no difference to thel
what was done, they would simply TAX
the two tickets and vote for those whit
in their opinion. are the best men to repr,
sent the county.
In some instances business men said the
did not know whether they would vote ,
not. Altogether the local situation does n,
seem to be so important an affair it h;
appeared heretofore. Several people sa
they were not worried at all about Il
shortness of time. They would find no tro
BILE they said in deciding who to vote f
as soon as they saw the tickets, and tn,
would be glad they said when the matt
was disposed Of and politics are forgot,
for month or two at least.
With a war and politics both to dive
the minds of the people one or the 9th
must necessarily suffer from lack OF a
tention, and II begins 10 look as il 1t we
going to be, politics. However, there Will
some short, but thorough campaigning. al
there is little doubt that the vote in 4
primary viii be a large one.
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