The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28
PLANS FOR PRIMARY
PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS
HAVE ALL BEEN COMPLETED.
TICKETS HAVE BEEN ISSUED.
DISTRIBUTED BY FACTIONS TO EV-
ERY VOTER IN THE COUNTY.

Exactly Alike, They Carry With
Them the Assurance That the BAL
lot viii be Reasonably secret.
Only the Tickets Printed Under the
Direction of the Chairman Will he
Received by the Managers-Chair-
man Cunninghnm's Plea for Nom
Partisan Officers mt the POIls-Re-
arrangement of Boxes as to DiNi-
sion of Names-RaIly of the Citi-
zens Club Tonight.
All arrangements for the Democratic
primary of tomorrow. by which the
election of county officers and repre-
sentatives in the general assembly will
be concluded, have been finally made.
The tickets that will be used were
issued to the factions yesterday by
Mr.. T. Mayhem Cunningham, Jr.,
chairman of the county executive COM
mittee, under whose direction they
were printed. For both factions they
are printed on plain white paper, iden-
teal in shape and size. The rules of
the primary direct that no other ballots
shall be received by the managers, the
purpose being to prevent as far as posi-
bic the purchase of votes. No ballots
which are printed or paper of another
color or which bear and Distinguishing
mark whatever will be received.
II was not twelve hours after the
tickets had been given out before they
were in general circulation through
the mails and almost every voter in
the county had received a copy of one
or the other-in many cases of both.
The voters will have an abundant op-
portunity to decide for whom they will
vote. The tickets, in the case of
every office for which there is
a contest, carry sufficient space TO in
sert the name of the opposition candi-
date.
Chairman Cunningham addressed
letters to Mayor Myers, as the official
head of the police force, and to Sher-
if Schwarz, directing the county
forces, requesting that non-partisan
policemen and county officers be placed
around tho polls. Both the Mayor and
the sheriff said that this will be done.
Mayor Myers was asked what he
purposed doing about Mr.. Cunning
hams request He replied that he did
noe think that ii was quite the proper
thing for such letter to have been adj
dressed to the Mayor, but that he
would acknowledge its receipt, saying
that ii would receive his attention. II
do not know that the police are parti-
sans" said the Mayor. There was one
member whom l considered an extreme
partisan, and that one viii not be as
signed to duty at the polls"
There viii be considerable change
in the division of the voters in the sew
eral districts from that originally con-
templated. Mr. Cunningham reached
this conclusion after inspecting the list
of white registered voters for each dis
trict, summary of which was given
in the Morning News of yesterday The
purpose is to equalize as far as posi-
bic the number of names in each box
The arrangement will be as follows:
First District-Box No. /, A to I,
county attorneys office, on Bull street;
box No. ., X. to u, receiver of tax re-
turns Office, on President street.
Second District-Box No. l, A to L,
County Commissioners office, on Presi-
dent street, fourth window from Bull.
Box No ?, M to z, County Commits
sioners' office on President street,
sixth window from Bull street.
Third District-Box No. l. A to I, Of
flee deputy clerk of the Superior Court,
on York street Box No L to u,
clerks office Superior Court, on York
street.
Fourth District-Box No. l. A to q,
ordinary's Office, President street. Box
No. 2, H to NJ, ordinary's office, Presi-
dent street. Box No. 3, N to u, ordi-
nary's office, President street.
Fifth to Eighth Districrs-County
treasurer's office on York street.
The polls will be opened and closed
by city time, at I o'clock in the morn
ing and o'clock in the evening, re-
spectively. The managers and clerks
will be required to appear at the Court
House before the opening hour. and will
then take the oath of Office and receive
final instructions.
A number of bets on the election
have been made. Among these was one
of 1915 to $500 that Col. Waring Russell
would defeat Mr.. C. H. Carson for
the Office of treasurer of the county
and there were other wagers on the
issue of other contests. Those who are
willing to back their political judgment
with their money seem to be more in
clined to pick out particular candi-
dates than to espouse the whole ticket
Of either faction.