The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-27
REPUBLICANS MAY
NAME CANDIDATE
CALL DISTRICT. CONVENTION.
MAY PUT A CANDIDATE FOR CON-
GRESS IN FIRST DISTRICT.

VIII Select Delegates to the Repub-
Iicnn National COnventiOn-DeIe-
gates TO BE Instructed for ROOse-
velt-ROOseveIt Snid to Have
Asked Harry StillweH ED
wards to Second His Nomination.
District Committeeman Predicts n
Warm Contest I'm the District
Convention.
In accordance with Roosevelt's ex-
pressed desire the Republicans may
name a candidate for Congress from
the First Congressional District.
Strenuous Teddy wants every Re
publican Congressional Committee in
the South to put out a candidate and
arouse enthusiasm so that a large vote
will be polled. And in compliance with
the Presidents wishes the Republicans
in the First district are looking for
some one to make the race.
The Republican Executive Commit
tee of the district will meet
Friday morning at II o'clock for
the purpose of calling the district
convention 70 name two delegates and
two alternates to attend the Republican
National Convention in Chicago next
June. The convention will be called
to meet during the later part of Febru-
airy and will probably convene in this
city.
The County Executive Committee
will meet Feb 8, to call a coun-
ty convention to elect delegates to the
district convention and to the state
convention, which is scheduled to meet
in Atlanta March 23. for the purpose
of electing four delegates and four al
ternates at large to attend the National
Convention.
Collector of Customs ]. H. Deveaux,
who is chairman of the First District
Congressional Committee, said Yester-
day that the convention will discuss
the advisability of nominating can
didate for Congress in this district. 1t
is known that President Roosevelt has
expressed a desire that all the con-
gressional districts of the South name
congressional candidates. and do all in
their power to bring out the full vote
of the party in the various districts.
VIII Instruct for Roosevelt.
Chairman Deveaux would not admit
that he would be a candidate for cleo
ton as a delegate to the National Con-
vention. He said he had not de-
cided whether or not he wanted to
attend the convention. According to
the chairman, resolutions indorsing the
administration of President Roosevelt
will be adopted and the delegates
elected to the Chicago convention will
be instructed to vote for Roosevelt's
denomination.
District Committeeman ]. G.. Sim
mons said that there will be
hot contest when the dis
trict convention meets in Febru-
airy, as every Republican officeholder
in the First congressional district
wants to be elected as a delegate to
the national convention. He said that
the delegation at large will prob
ably be composed of the following
office-holders: Walter H. Johnson,
United States marshal, Atlanta; Harry
Stillwell Edwards, postmaster, Macon;
H. A. Rucker, collector of internal
revenue, Atlanta; Judson H. Lyons,
register of treasury, Washington.
Roosevelt Wants Edwards.
1t was learned that President Roose-
welt recently made known to
Lyons and other Georgia Republicans
who were opposing the election of Har-
ry Stillwell Edwards of Macon as
delegate from the state at large to the
Chicago convention, that he desired the
election of Edwards to the convention
The President is said to have given
Lyons and those who were trying to
exclude Edwards from the slate of the
big Four to understand that unless
they agreed to the election of the Ma
con postmaster they might wake up
and find their names stricken from the
government pay rolls.
A Georgia Republican of prominence
who does not reside in Savannah is
authority for the statement that the
President has requested Edwards to
second his nomination in the Chicago
convention.