The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-27
EARLY PRIMARY
WILL Be FIXED
SAY THE Committeeman.
EITHER MAY II OR MAY Is WILL.
PROBABLY BE DECIDED UPON.

Stnte Democratic Executive Commit
tee VIII Meet in Atlanta Monday.
Chief Interest Centers in Selection
of Date for state Primary, which
Must Necessarily BE Held Very
Early This Year-State Convention
Will Have to Take Place Before
National Convention.
There will be an early primary this
year and in all probability either May
IL or May Is. will be agreed upon as
the date.
Mr.. A. A. Lawrence, one of the menu
bers of the State Democratic Executive
Committee from the First Congressional
district, leaves tonight for Atlanta,
to attend the meeting of the commit
tee, which has been called for Mon
day. Mr.. r. NJ. Hitch, who is a MEM
Der from the state at large, will leave
Sunday night for the meeting. These
two are the only members of the state
committee from Savannah.
The committee has been called to-
gether by Chairman E. 7. Brown, of
Atlanta, for Monday noon, at the Pied
mont Hotel. BY far the most
important business that will come
before the meeting is the fixing of the
date for the state primary. Almost
all the county primaries will be held
at the same time as the state primary.
1t is the unanimous opinion of all the
prominent politicians that very ear
ly date will be fixed for the state pri-
| mary.
VIII Elect Delegates.
At the primary delegates to the state
| convention will be elected and these
delegates in turn, when they
| meet in convention, will elect
delegates to the national convention.
| Sufficient time must therefore inter-
Vene between the holding of the state
| primary and the session of the national
| convention for the state convention to
meet and elect delegates. The ma
| tional convention is to be held in St.
Louis early in July.
Several weeks or a month should
| intervene between the state and the
national conventions, and the primary
| will almost certainly be held in May,
as some time must necessarily be Civ
| en- between the primary and the state
convention. The state primary is usu-
| ally held on a Wednesday. 1t is very
| probable that either May II or May IS
will be selected by the Executive Com
mittee for the state primary. The
state convention would then follow in
June.
Must BE Early Primary.
Mr.. Lawrence, one of the members
| of the committee from the First dis
trict, said the fixing of the date was
the most important matter that would
be taken up.
THE primary must necessarily be
held early" Mr.. Lawrence said, land
1T is probable that it will be fixed for
either May IL or May IS. The committee
| will also make the rules for the hold
ing of the primary. No changes are
contemplated that 1 know of. The
| only question of any Importance in
| making the rules is whether it will
be proper to use last years regis
tration list or not. 1 think it probable
that the registration for Inst year will
be allowed
Mr.. Hitch, who will leave to-mor-
row night for the meeting of the COM
mittee, said also that the date of
| the primary and the rules to govern
the same were the only matters of
Importance that are to be taken up.
Besides the members of the committee,
who go from here. there will prob
ably be on hand quite a number of
politicians from Savannah.
state Executive Committee.
The State Executive Committee,
which is to determine the date of the
| primary, is made up as follows:
E. T. Brown, chairman; M. j. Yeo-
mans. vice chairman; Clark Howell,
| national committeeman, eX-officio
member; ]. w. Goldsmith, secretary.
From the State at Large-H. w.
Hill, Greenville; Hamilton McWhor-
ter Athens; J r. Gray, Atlanta r.
M. Hitch. Savannah.
First District-A. A. Lawrence,
Chatham; John e. Foye, Dillingham;;
Frank Mitchell, Emanuel.
Second District. l.. Boynton, Call
houn; John Triplett, Thomas; A. H.
Russell. Decatur.
Third District--John A. Cobb, Sum-
ter; w. C. Hamilton, Dooly; L. d.
Shannon, Twiggs.
Fourth District-Philip Lanier,
Troup; George C. Palmer, Muscogee;
George P. Monroe, Marion.
Fifth District-A. c. Stone, Walton;
j. j. Spalding, Fulton; j. S. James,
Douglas.
Sixth, District-z. t. Blalock, Fay
cite; r. w. Roberts, Baldwin; ]. T.
Oglesby, Butts.
Seventh District-J. T. Foster, Cobb;
S. n. Maddox, Whitfield; Moses
Wright, Floyd.
Eighth District-L. M. Heard. Ell
bert; H. j. Rowe, Clarke; S. 7.
Wingfield, Putnam.
Ninth DISTRICT. T. Witzell, Fan
nin M. l.. Ledford Union; M. S.
Cornett, Gwinnett.
Tenth District. r. Phillips, JEFF
ferson; T. II. Thigpen, Washington;
Boykin Wright, Richmond.
Eleventh District-R. L. Ousley,
Lowndes; J. r. DeLacy, Dodge; S.
c. Atkinson, Glynn.
A SPLENDID ATLAS.