The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
NOT FROM CITIZENS CLUB.
NoN-FACTIONAL COUNTY OFFICERS
WILL HAVE No OPPOSITION.

WILL HAN r No Ot'POSi iION.
Citizens Club Leader Says 1t L. the
Other side That Is Trying 10 Force
Court House Officers 20 Align
Themselves With One or the other
Political Fnction-Proposition for
Conference Between Leaders Of the
Factions to Arrange for "a Primary.
Liberal lenders Charge That Their
Political Opponents Have Mis-
taken idea ns to Number of Voters
They Have Registered.
One high in the councils of the Citizens
Club said yesterday that the demands up
on the Court House officers for a declara-
ton of where they stand and what they
intended to 90 in the coming political cam
paign are not being made by his party CT
faction
ION the contrary" said the Citizens
Club man. I'VE have no desire to opp s.
the candidacy of any office holder in the
Court House, who attends TO the business
and the duties of his office and lets politics
alone Those county officers who have
held their posts for a long time have dur
ing this dong period been faithful public
servants, let fractional politics one emf
not allied themselves with either o. the
wings of the party. viii have'no opposition
from our ranks
IAN talk of this character" said the pol
itician, "c0mes from the other side. They
have their own reasons for desiring TO
force the county officers 10 declare them
selves and to align themselves with one
OF the factions, but these reasons DO not
appeal 10 us You may be assured thdt
were these offices, whose occupants are
sought to be dragged into factionai poll
tics the only ones in dispute, ana our
side the only side from which opposition
might come, there would not be suillclenf
political wind raised to rattle the old cur
ta,ns in the windows of the Court House
Both factions declare that tney are IN
favor of a primary for the settlement OF
their differences and the selection OF Dem
ocratic candidates for all the offices with
i'm the gift of the peop.e of the county,
but when it comes to a question OF what
this primary shall be Ike, by whom II
shall be managed and whether indeed,
there shall be one primary or two the
factions are not able TO agree. Ihere Is
q wide diversity of opinion as TO which
of the various plans suggested Will insure
absolute fairness.
The Citizens club leaders have already
empowered one of their number, at "a eau
Gus of the faction, to discuss the question
of a primary win the chairman of the
opposition caucus They say that they
want the matter arranged in any way that
will be fair to both sides, providing for
an equal distr button of the managers and
other officers of the election and showing
Partially TO none.
The Liberal Club, on the other mana,
does not seem TO desire a conference be-
tween the factions to settle Inc matter,
nee h.. 4
ton Of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of the county, by which body its
memoirs think that these matters should
be regulated and controlled. The mem
bers of the Executive Comm tee said
Liberal Club leader, ARE representative
citizens of the community and OF the
party, VINO are certainly competent 10 ar
range q plan for a primary that viii be
fair and just to all candidates. Then let
all the candidates for all the offices come
I'm and let have the whole affair settled
al one time.
I'VE don't care what arrangements are
made by the Executive Committee. nor
what registration books are used, wheth-
er for the present year or any year with
in the last five. We believe that we will
win with the registration for any year, if
both sides are given a fair chance and
shown no favor
THE Citizen Club people have been talk
ing loudly about the number they have
registered, but they are doomed to find
out that they have made a very grievous
error. They may think that all of the
voters who sign their names to the resis-
traticn books, under the tutelage and di-
rection Of Citizens Club adherents, will
vote for their candidates, but they are
mistaken. For the last ten days I am
sure that we have registered a majority
of those whose names have been placed
on the books, and that they will support
the candidates nominated by our faction.
Right now we have a majority of the
registered voters of the county, for this
year, and we can win any fight in which
we engage that is settled fairly and le-
ultimately"
And so the story runs. Certain IL is that
the Citizens Club people have at least
one reason for thinking that a very large
majority of the voters registered will sup
port their ticket, and II they are mistak-
en-, as their opponents cons antly and We
hemently assert it would be a joke in
deed. 1t would be like the trick the Beers
are said to have played on the English,
used the Outanders resources to buy
arms and munitions of war with which
TO fight their countrymen.
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