The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-12
AT NOON OF MAY "a
NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR NoMI-
NATION MUST BE HANDED IN.
VOTES WON'T BE COUNTED
FOR CANDIDATES WHO FAIL To
CONFORM TO THIS RULE.

Two Weeks Left for Nominating
Committees of Factions to Get in
Their WOrk-EROrt VIII Be Made
by Both Factions to Match Candi-
dates of the Other-Citizens Club
Has Engaged Theater for Night of
May 23, ut Which Time and Place
Its Nominating Rally Will Be
McId-Campaign WAKES Hot and
Registration increases in Numbers
as Election Day Approaches.
The subcommittee of the County
Democratic Executive Committee, to
which was conhded the decision of de-
tail questions relative to the primary
for county officers, has determined that
the names of all candidates must be
in the hand of the chairman five days
before the day of the primary. This
in fact. is but the declaration of an
existing rule of the party.
Two Weeks tor Nominations.
The subcommittee consists of Chair
man T NJ. Cunningham, Jr., Mr.. w. P.
LaRoche, representing the Union Club,
and Mr.. A. A Lawrence, representing
the Citizens Club. The decision reach
ed means that the factions must place
the names of their candidates for Of
fee in the hands of Chairman Gun
ningham by noon of May "a. Those
whose names are not handed in by the
time stated will be debarred from rec
ognition at the primary.
This leaves less than two weeks
time for the nominating committees to
make their selection of candidates and
they will be busy men until the nom
nations are made. AS usual, probably,
the effort of each faction VIII be TO
match the nominee of the other for
each office with candidate appealing
largely for support to the same class
of voters, and the usual attempt will
be made by the adherents of the one
to force the DICTIONARIES of the other
to show their hand first.
In one respect the Citizens Club has
taken time by the forelock and has
engaged the theater for the night be-
fore the day on which the nominations
will be handed to the chairman.
Citizcns' Clubs Final Rally.
On the night of Friday, May %, the
club will hold its nominating rally
and its candidates for all the county
the Executive Committee, will then be
named.
The Union Club has not determined
when its rally for this purpose will be
held, nor where. 1t may be that the
theater will be engaged for Thursday
evening, or else that a rally will be
held in some other hall or in the open
air on the evening of Friday.
From now on meetings of both the
factions will follow each other in rapid
succession and 1t is to be feared that
the campaign will increase in bitter
ness as it approaches its end. The
Union Club orators are vigorously at
lacking the record and the policies
of the administration and it is not to
be apprehended for moment that the
Citizens Club will quietly endure the
attack.
Last Week of Registration.
This will be the final week of regis
tration, as the books will close for the
primary on next Monday, and for this
week both factions will be jealous in
the effort to induce their followers to
qualify to vote. Under the rules of the
Executive Committee only those who
have registered during the current
year are qualified to express their
choice for nominees of the party in
this county.
Names are being added to the list at
the rate of 70 or 80 a day, and of these
additions both factions claim to have
a decided ma jority. AS usual also
the claim is made by each faction that
the other is registering men who will
vote against it on the election day, and
in this latter statement there is prob
ably some truth both ways.