The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-06
HEAVY VOTING LIST
0,374 QUALIFIED VOTERS FOR PRI-
MARY ELECTION.
SURPRISE TO THE PROPHETS.
MANY ESTIMATED THE NUMBER
WOULD BE SMALLER BY 1000.

Plans of Campaign Must Be Changed
to Meet New Conditions-The Win
ner in the Primary Is Likely TO
Receive 1000 Votes, Instead of
1900, as Has Been Thought
EnOugh-New Voters Added to List
Account for Discrepancy Between
Estimates and Facts-Thfrd Dis
trict Makes Big shOwing-The
"GIOrious Fourthv Turns UP with
2,O59 Names to Its Credit.
There will be 6,374 qualified voters at
the primary election for ordinary next
Thursday. There are that many white
voters on the registration lists for the
last general election with those who
have registered since that time. All OF
these who agree to support the nomi-
nee of the primary will be entitled to
vote.
The announcement of this number or
voters will be source of considerable
surprise to some Of the politicians, VINO
have been figuring on the vote at the
primary. During the last several days
1 udS DCCA ldlhV0 NOAAShohNAS 49,
streets that the number OF white quail
flied voters at the primary would not
exceed 4,200 and those who have pre-
dicted that more than $500 votes would
be cast at the primary have been look
ed upon as just little off their base.
1t has been announced that from l.
500 to 1900 votes would be number
amply sufficient to insure the election
of any candidate and that any one or
them who could get that number could
feel that he had the office in his pocket
The supporters of some of the can
didates have been figuring freely on
this basis and offering to show from
lust what sources this number OF votes
supposed to cinch the election, would be
secured.
1t is evident that all Of these calcu-
lations will have to be gone over
again. 1t is reasonably certain that 1t
will require 1000 votes to elect, or at
any rate that the winner will receive
that number, and some new plans OF
| campaign will have to be arranged, IN
order to meet and provide for the new
conditions with which the candidates
will be confronted.
The trouble with these political pro-
phets has been that they have not f1g-
ured on the fact that large number
of those recently registered were not
Registered at the time of the last gen.
eral election. They have taken 1t FOR
| granted that just about the same per-
sons were getting on the list. They Will
be aware this morning that new blood
has been injected into the campaign.
1t is the blood of voters, however, and
| not of candidates.
A surprising feature of the campaign
| is the number of voters who nave
qualified in the Third and Fourth dis
tricts. The Third district is that in
which the Law and Order people have
their principal strength and when that
| agitation was in fiercest progress a
large number of its sympathizers quail
| flied to vote. The showing is scarcely
less remarkable in the Fourth, where
| the qualified voters number 2,059.
The arrangement of the boxes which
has been made by Mr.. A. L. Alexand-
err, acting chairman of the executive
committee of the party in Chatham
| county, is as announced as the proba-
BILE arrangement in the Morning News
last Friday. There have been some
changes made in the division of the
voters in each district, the large addi-
tons to the registration having made
this necessary. The number of voters
| at each box in each district, with the
| total number of votes in each district
and the total number in the county, is
| as follows;
First District
Box 1. A to G, inclusive ..........52S
Box 2, H to N, inclusive ............4SS