The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-10
COMMITTEE TO MEET MONDAY.
MUST ARRANGE FOR DELEGATES
TO CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.


Chairman ID. b. Lester Urges That
They BE Selected at the Primary
of June 23-Chairman Charlton of
the New County Executive Conn
mittee Wants the Purchasable
Element in Local Politics Done
Away With-He Is Satisfied Honest
Elections Can be Held in Chatham
They should BE Such That Any
Poor Man Can Become n Cnndi-
date.
There will be a meeting of the new coun-
ty executive committee probably on Mon
day for the purpose of considering a COM
munication which Chairman Walter G.
Charlton has just received from Chairman
d. B. Lester of the executive committee of
the First congressional district.
Chairman Lester, in his letter, called at
tention to the fact that the congressional
convention for this district has been called
70 meet on July IA in Savannah. The dis
trict committee, he said, had left the mat
ter of selecting delegates to each of the
counties, but he thought 1t would be ad-
visable to arrange to choose delegates to
the congressional convention on the same
day the primary for the expression of a
choice of Supreme Court justices is held.
which will be June 90. He has addressed
communications of this kind to all of the
county committees, thinking that the oc-
casion mentioned would be the best one for
selecting these delegates.
Chairman Charlton said yesterday he
would call the committee together the
early part of the week, probably ON Mon
day, for the purpose of considering this
matter There is no other business of par
ticular Importance TO come before the COM
mittee at that time.
II looks very much as If the new exec
utive committee were going to be a thor
oughly harmonious one. Chairman Charl-
ton met one of the well-known members
of the Citizens Club side of the ticket
Mr. A. N. Manucy, on the street car the
other day, and an interesting little talk
as to the affairs of the committee and of
the Democratic party in the county In gem
eral, was the result. Mr.. Manucy and
other members of the Citizens Club side
of the committee have expressed them
selves as satisfied that Mr.. Charlton would
do everything he could for the good of the
party and for harmony in it's ranks
what we want" Chairman Charlton
said, lis to get rid of the purchasable ele-
ment in the ranks of the party, and put it
on a basis such that any man, no matter
how poor he is, can run for office. In most
of our elections heretofore this has been
impossible, owing to the heavy expenses
particularly in the matter of purchasing
votes.
I'VE need honest elections, and believe
=
primary here in 1894, and we can have
them again. The party should be united
on that point, and with harmony in the
executive committee there will be no
trouble in securing square elections We
want the party united, and this bitter
strife done away with. There will neces-
sarily be factions within the party lines
perhaps, but that is another matter. The
existence of factions, however, need not
prevent honest elections. 1 feel that the
committee is one DESTROYS of harmony
and l am quite hopeful that we will have
it,
The plan is, 1t is understood. after the
primary in the fall for representatives
which will be the first of importance with
which the committee will have to deal, to
see If arrangements cannot be made for
primary for city officials, as the munich
pal election will follow within a short
time. The introduction of the primary
plan there would do away with the pur-
chasable vote throughout, and put local
politics on a far better basis than thew
nave known in some time. It is believed
that the committee will approve these
ideas almost unanimously, and they will
have influence in the matter, even though
they have nothing to do with city politics
per Sc. The indications are therefore
that local harmony has a fair chance of
winning out