The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-11-20
AIKEN, DOWNING, WOOD
AND UPPER SELECTED
Highest Man on the Ticket Received
$40 Votes While the Lowest Candi-
date Only Received 157-Po-
tiles on in Earnest,

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This is the result of the Good Gov
eminent club primary held in the city
yesterday to nominate four candidates
te3 Tor members of council to be voted
tGr at the general election to be held
December 8.
AS will be noted, the nominees are
Messrs. Aiken, Downing, Wood and
upper, they having lead the other two
on the ticket by a good, decisive ma
ioritv.
AS was forecasted in these columns
yesterday morning, it will be observed
that the ticket nominated lead the de-
feated candidates by unusually large
majSrities, considering the total votes
cast. This only substantiates the state
ment made by The News that two OF
tie candidates were simply placed on
the ticket by the slate-makers in order
to bring 70 it cerain scattering vote.
The result of the primary must have
come in the nature OF a surprise to
Good Government club headquarters,
for during the past week leaders Of
that faction have been claiming that
from 600 to ESQ votes would be polled.
However, the conservative members of
the Citizens club have conceded all
along that the Good Government club
would poll from 400 to $50 votes. So
far as could be learned last night the
result of the primary seems to have
afforded immense satisfaction to the
executive committee of the Citizens
club. 1t is pointed out by the leaders
of that organization that out OF
white registration OF S31 the highest
candidate on the Good Government
cdlub ticket only received $40 votes.
coming within 46 votes of polling half
of the white registered vote.
1t will also be observed that the
lowest man on the ticket only received
.157 votes, leaving STA white voters
who are not in sympathy with them.
The primary yesterday was indeed,
"a very notable affair, notable for the
fact that nearly every worker at the
polls was an office-holder and almost
every department at the city hall
was having a holiday so far as
Ethe public workings of the de-
were concerned and
were pressed into service; the
office OF the city clerk as well as
that of the city treasurer and the chief
at police being closed for the entire
rday; notable for once again it smashed
a precedents of the past and liverymen
&did good business at the cost of the
offce-holders. During the afternoon
vehicles of every description were put
: TO work hauling voters to white
primary which stood practically with
cut opposition. Couriers OH bicycles
and on horseback were sent to the out
skirts of the city to bring voters to
the primary which had no opposition,
and, in short, Brunswick was secured
from the border lines of Pelicanville
to the tidewater gauges of the point
In the work of beguiling, persuading
and even begging voters to participate
pate in this white primary--in which
there was practically no opposition.
So it was the first primary in the
interest of sweet harmony, with from
fifty to- seventy-five employees of the
city and county actively at work for
weeks in it's cause. only succeeded in
giving it's highest candidate 37o votes
when it was openly claimed that from
so to 80 per cont of the white voters
OF Brunswick were in favor Of the
primary and would participate therein.
However, the campaign has just
only begun, When the registrars VIII