The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-20
UNION IS IN EARNEST
MONTGOMERY CITIZENS ARE OR
 aANIZINo FOR REFoRM.
After Holidays Unions Will Be Per fected and Plan of Selecting Candidates for City Offices
 Will Be Determined.

When the holidays are over the Mu- nicinal Union of Montgomery VIII pc per fected in each of the wards or the cis and 1t is said that there will DC con cert of action by the ward organisatiohs in the selection of candidates for Mayor and Aldermen. ,s
 One of the promoters of the Union saio yesterdav that the several hundred citi- zens who were moving in the matter or
 municipal reform were very much in earnest and that work was being uohe quietly in the various wards of the city.
 Ii will he remembered that something over 200 citizens of Ward 5 orgahizeo
 Irnion at the county court house abou' two weeks ago and Capt W. B. Jones
 was elected President. This Union now
 has o5o members and its Executive Com
 mittee is preparing form or asreemen.
 or plan to be submitted to the other wara
 unions as soon as they are organised. Citizens of Wards 1. and are saia
 to be organizing municipal unions and It was said yesterday that certain leading citizens of Wards 5 and would take the initiative in the matter of organising those wards as soon as the holidays nave passed.
 It is proposed that when all of the wards have been organized that the Ex- ecutive Committees of the respective ward unions confer as to the best method of selecting candidates for Mayor ana Aldermen.
 chosen is that of the Municipal Union Of l Ward 3, the only ward thus far organ ized. This Executive Committee consists of Charles F. Moritz. w. B. Jones. w. M. Teague, B. Hardie, A. B. Garland,
 T. c. Foster, F. c. Stevenson, J. c. Vir- den, E. D. Creath, P. H. Stern and M.
 R. Haughton J. c. Parker Is Secretary of the committee.
 The next meeting of the Ward Un- ion will take place about January 10 and at this meeting the Executive Committee | will submit a plan for selecting candi- | dates for Mayor and Aldermen. The plan will be either accepted or rejected by the | Union.
 Two plans are said to be under con- sidera tion by the Executive Committee. The first plan provides for the sending to each member of the Union blank bal | lot which shall contain instructions as | to voting, the names of two men accept | able to the Executive Committee to fill | each office and 6 blank space for the name to be voted for If neither name ts
 acceptable to the member. The members
 of the Union are to pledge themselves te vote for one man for each office to be \ ulIC0, 10 dDluO py tuC VIII Ol tiAS tAoJSaahs
 and to support the nominees at the polls.
 These ballots are to be sent to the msm-
 bers sealed by the Chairman and Secre- tary of the Executive Committee and | they are to return them within five days | when the result Is to be canvassed by the
 Executive Committee.
 The second plan prepared varies only from the first plan In that 1t comprehends
 the holding of a primary election under | the direction of the Municipal Union in which its members snail vote in the usual | way for candidates to be submitted to the 1 Democratic primaries.
 | In either case the names of two men | for each office are to be printed on the ballots. These names are to be selected
 by a three-fourths vote of the members of the Executive Committee of the Ward | Union. l At the meeting of Ward Union in l January the method of selecting candi-
 dates will be determined and the Execu- | tive Committee of that ward will then be directed to confer with committees
 from the other wards which 1t is said will be organized at that time.
 l A member of the Executive Committee | of Ward 3 Union said yesterday that
 not a single name had been suggested
 for any oflce and that the suggestion
 of names would not be allowed until af-
 ter the organization had been perfected.