The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-05
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juncture of party affairs 60 discharge the
| duties of the Office.
Mr.. Wei then placed in nomination Col.
| p. w. Meldrim. The nomination was sec
| onded by several voices, and Col Mel
| dr1m's election, like the acceptance of
| Mr.. Charlton's resignation and the other
motions that had preceded it, was ac-
complished without division. Mr. La
| Roche moved that the chairman be re-
| quested to notify Col. Meldrim of his
| election al his leisure and that in the
| meantime the business of the meeting
| proceed This motion was also carried,
the chairman undertook the duty thus as
signed 60 him and announced that in ac-
| cordance with the call the committee was
prepared to hear from the delegation that
was in attendance.
When the chair announced at this juno
| ture that the meeting was prepared for
| the transa of TIE business fer which
/ 1t had been convened Col Merritt w.
! Dixon, chairman of the conference COM
mittee of Mr.. Osbornes supporters, asked
p rm ssi0n to read The resolutions passed
at the Osborne rally and in compliance
with which, Joined to the invitation of
! the retiring chairman, he and his col
| leagues were present.
The resolutions were, read by Col. Dixon
as follows:
Resolved, That a committee of three
be appointed by the chair, of which the
| chairman shall be one to confer with
| Chairman Charlton of the County Demo-
! cratic Executive Committee and request
him to convene the Executive Committee
again to the end that the resolutions here
tofore passed may be amended so as to
allow:
First. Equal representation at the bal
lot box, each side to select it's own man.
ayers.
Second The appointment of a disin-
terested third party on the Purging Com
mittee.
Third. The election of new executive
committee.
Fourth. The omission of clause IS
| from the resolutions adopted April r.
Resolved further, That it is the sense
of this meeting that all political differ
ences in this county should be settled by
! fairly conducted white primary, and we
hereby pledge ourselves 60 enter such prl-
mary for all offices within the gift of the
people whenever the primary plan shall
| be perfected so as to admit of no accusa-
ton of unfairness on either side"
Col. Dixon explained that he and the
other members of his committee wereN
present at the invitation of Mr.. Charlton
and in the interests of good government
and party fairness and success. The mass
meeting that had been held at the Thea
ter had instructed him to place before
| the Executive Committee the objections
to the primary rules embraced in the res
olutions it has passed.
At this juncture Committeeman John
| Power caught the eye of the chairman IT
want 90 know Mr.. Chairman he asked
eff Col. Dixon and his committee intend
to retract the statements that have been
made by them and others that reflect on
the Executive Committee. I should like
TO have this point settled before we pro-
coed further"
/ o1,iaotfov,
in Committeeman Guckenheimer. 81 no
tice that the preamble to the resolutions
that Col. Dixon has read describes the
body his committee represents as a mass
meeting of the Democrats of Chat
ham county. AS understand
| it, this committee is the head
of the party in this county and
the only body vested with power or author
ity to call a mass meeting 1 object to the
designation that Col. Dixon has given the
meeting he represents
Col. Dixon said that he felt that he rep
resented the great majority of the Demo
cratic voters of the county when he asked
the committee to consider the Suggestions
| of the resolutions he had read and appoint
| the committee that had been proposed. "A
great many supporters of Mr.. Hartridge,"
he said favor such change in the resolu-
tons in regard to the primary as will place
it beyond the suspicion even of unfairnes s.
AS to what Mr.. Power has said about this
committee retracting statements that have
been made, I don't understand that we
have authority to make any retraction. If
have said anything that is offensive, am
responsible for 1t personally; if others have
made offensive remarks they are responsi-
BILE for them also. Cur appeal IS made to
you, gentlemen, as the representa- tives of
the party in this county. 1t is for justice
and fair play"
There was much hayward and, as It
@..No f.nts1 L.
sion of this subject. Capt. Cam brought
| 1t somewhat closer to focus by asking
Mr.. Power to say from whom he desired
a retraction, what statements he desired
retracted and how he wanted the retrac-
ton made.
Mr. Power answered by saying that
Capt. Cam, in his speech at the Osborne
rally, had referred to the representatives
of the Liberal Club on the purging COM
mittee as two violent and bitter parti
zans" and to the Citizens Club represen-
tatives as zone gentleman" He wanted to
know what Capt. Cam meant by this APP
| parently invidious distinction. Capt Cam
explained that he meant no reflection
upon either Mr.. Wilink or Mr. Sullivan
and that they 50 understood it.
Mr. Power then said that Mr.. Osborne
| had charged that the regulations provided
for the primary by the committee made
Up "a deliberate attempt to steal" What
did ne mean py tnat! AL the suggestion
of the chairman to Mr.. Power, to bring the
matter up in parlame ntary form,he moved
that no further business be considered
until the offensive charges that had been
made against the Executive Committee or
It's members be withdrawn.
This brought on more talk. Mr.. La
Roche, moved by a desire TO throw oil
upon the troubled waters and to bring
the committee to point where something
other than personal pickering might result
from the meeting, urged the members of
the committee to a more moderate and
sensible course. They were acting, he
said like lot of school boys, rather than
like sober and clear-headed men. "If
there are objections to the resolutions
providing for the primary" he said, they
ought to be removed. The gentlemen who
have come here at the request of Mr..
Charlton and for whom he has besought
kindly and considerate treatment at our
hands. say they wish to avoid friction and
to bring about party harmony? In this