The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-30
PRIMARY PLAN ! OF CITY UNION Housing Meeting at the Court House.
 TO SELECT CANDIDATES Reformers to Hold Election for Their Nominees.
 Municipal Union Hay Extend Be-
 yond ward S-Citissns of the
 Other wards 1zprsss Thsir Sympathy.

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 Plans for holding primary for muni- cipal union candidates to enter the race for nomination in the Democratic city primary in April. were adopted by the Municipal Union of Ward at an en- thusiastic meeting at the county court house last night.
 After the adoption of these plans . mass meeting was held tb ascertain tho attitude of citizens of oth7r wards toward the movement inauguSated in Ward g. Over 100 citizens were present. noticeable among whom were many candidates for ofYice.
 President William B. Jones of tho Union presided over the meeting. He stated that the meeting was called for the purpose of nearing tho report of the Executive Committee of the Union in reference to plans for the holding of . primary election of the Union prior to the general Democratic primary in April. He called on Charles F. Moritz. chairman of the Executive Committee for the re- port.
 MT. Moritz said that 1t was.the original intention of the members of the Union to have their officers endsavor to have the citizens of other wards organize similar bodies with similar purposes. The ofYicers. he said. had performed this duty conscientiously, but their efforts had to a great extent failed. They had met with encouragement from many citisens of Wards 9 and {, but no concerted action had been secured. A flood of candi- dates, said Mir. Moritz. for the mayoralty have arisen and the purpose of the Union movement to have in the race for the Democratic nomination only a few good men had failed.
 M. B. Houghton . member of the Executive Committee then read the re- port.
 The committee recommended that in order to obtain a primary vote of the members of the Union. the chairman and secretary of the Executive Committee shall send printed ballots to each mem- Der of the Union' These blanks shall con- tain. instructions as to voting, time when the ballots shall be returned to the sec retary. names of citizens proposed by the Executive Committee, blanks for fill- ing out in event other candidates are preferred. and the signature of the voter and his agreement to abide by the result of the primary.
 The ballot shall contain the names of two citizens nominated by a threc-fourths vote of the Executive Committee. for each position, and must be returned to the secretary within live days after the blanks are sent out
 In case no name submitted by the Executive Committee meets with the ap- proval of the voter his choice shall be written on blank spaces on the ballot
 The Executive Committee shall canvass the vote. tabulate the result and report to the Union, as its nominees. the names that have received the majority votes for each office.
 In case a majority vote is not secured for each ofice a second primary will be ordered. in which none but the two highest candidates for each ofice will be voted on. Originally. the report of the committee required only a plurality vote for the nomination. but on objection from Hon. Thomas H. Watts 1t was changed to majority vote.
 The report of the committee as amended was unanimously adopted. - The privileges of the floor were then extended to every one interested in the movement.
 Bradford Hardie moved that the Ward Union be used as a nucleus for the for nation of e Union from all wards and allow the new members to participate in the ward primary.
 Objection was raised on account of the unknown quantity of the citizens of the other wards who are in sympathy with the movement and Mir. Hardie withdrew his motion until more could be found out as to the Union movement in the other wards
 l.. J. Bugg. young railroad man. from Ward 9 reported that a paper had been circulated for the organization of Union in that ward and he said he thought 1t probable that some immediate results would issue therefrom. Mir. Bugg said that he realized that it was the duty of the good citizens to get together and vote for the man for mayor and the men for aldermen who would remove the police and fire departments from politics and would be careful of the city's finances and pull 1t out of it's present ernbarrass- ment. The remarks of MT. Bugg were roundiy appiauded.
 John c. Crommeiin said that although he knew of sympathy with the move ment in Ward he did not think there was a sufficient number of citizens in clined to form a Union.
 J. c. Haas of Ward said that paper the rounds and that results were ex- pected therefrom inside of a week.
 F. D. Creath spoke and called for volunteers to urge the organization os Unions in the other wards. Several prominent citizens responded.
 The meeting adjourned at an early hour in order to attend the meeting of the Educational Conference at the Mont- gomery Theatre.