The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
PRIMARY AUGUST Isl
CENTRAL COUNCIL PROVIDES FOR
ELECTION IN WARD SEVEN.
suburbapites VIII Nominate Two Al
dermen On that Date-Clover-
dale II Ready But Park
Candidates Not An
nOunced.

| The voters Of the new Ward will
select their two Aldermen on Monday.
August Is. The nominees Of the pri-
| mary on that day will be formally
elected by the City Council which
meets that night.
There will war se t sn. polling s e1S:s
Heights and the other at Highland
Park At each place there will be
| three managers. one Of whom will serve
governed by the same rules which reg
ulated the last municipal primary. The
expenses of the primary will be borne
by the aldermanic candidates.
the Central Council held last night in
the once Of Col. Charles p. Jones,
Chairman Of the old Central Council.
BY a unanimous vote Colonel Jones
his sixteenth year In that ONCE. The
Central Council will meet again next
Monday night. at which time the de-
tails Of the primary will be decided:
developed the fact that Cloverdale and
Bellinger Heights had practically de-
cided upon the candidate from their end
OF the ward. but that Highland Park
-. Lee Holloway was present as an
announced candidate from the Clover
dale END Of the ward. He was accom-
panied by r. p. Dexter. his neighbor
furthering Mr. Holloway's candidacy.
There were one or two other voters
from the Cloverdale end of the ward.
put Highland Park was not represent
cd The members of the committee
were informed that the absence of the
Highland Park voters did not evidence
their indifference to the primary, but
was WAS s sne ward va campaign in that place
1t has been generally agreed that
Hlshiand Park should furnish one OF
NE Aldermen and Cloverdale the other.
reached as to the Highland Park Al
German The names of several gentle
men iivlng there have been prominent
" mentioned for aldermahic honors,
didates, j. II. Pearson, w. E. pee
pies and Henry vandiver have been
discussed as Aldermen, but none OF
them mas announced. Developments in
days. " ."e "eAe lew
over in the Cloverdale end Of the
ward the friends Of Mr.. Holloway have
cd ab guile lie "a active: They have canvass
and express themselves as much rrat,
ihed at the situation. s'"'-
AT the meeting last night some ~
prediction that there would he onIv
one candidate, Mr.. Holloway. from thai
end or the ward. The name of lanes
e ear q We'll known citizen Of Beiiin-
mentioned n
possible candidate, but he has not yst
race. A' He was IN the
The The Central Council was called To-
sether at few minutes after o,c,ocL
oy chairman Jones' ioon
w Inc members of the Council presen.
Ward 1-Joseph Abraham.
ward 2-D. w. Ford and w n
ward Temple seibels and G
sr Ward 4-charles p. Jones. M. M.
Ward 81. H. Hardaway.
Ward 6-J. j. Farley
M ne ,apstentees were O. C. Dibble
Colonel n Jones' ana sr1 Joseph Toole.
IN me mrst meeting of the Central Couns
eli which had been elected at the Iant
municipal primary and that it wo1iS
a new ece cha,y Tor the Council to elect
J, H, Hardaway nominated Colonel
Jones for reelection. He took the
G cnaor ana put the question. After
elected he told the COMMITTEES that by
course at the. head of the commtttae
would be as It had always becn III
would endeavor to do the right as he
Secretary W. c. Smith was then r.-
eIected to his old place by a unani-
H. f1dTudWdy was chosen TFaaa-
urer of the Council
Chairman Jones informed the Coun-
ell that It had been called together 70
arrange for a primary in Ward I for
the selection of two candidates for
Alderman He suggested that the
date OF the primary be first selected
W. M. Browder moved that MONDAY
August 8. he chosen. Mr.. Browder.
1t was understood voiced the sentfment
or the Cloverdale contingent. Thev
wanted the primary at once
j. j. Farley moved that August II
which falls on Thursday should be
chosen. His motion was voted
d. w. Ford moved that Monday Au-
gust is be chosen. He argued that IL
next Monday was chosen the candi-
dates would have too little for their
work: The polls. ne said, could be
closed time enough for the votes to he
counted and the result certified to the
council which would meet that night.
The vote was taken on the Ford
motion and It was adopted
Mr.. Browder moved that two poll
ing places one az Bellinger Heights
and one at Highland Park bechosen
on account of the two widely separated
centers of population of the ward.
The motion prevailed. There was an
informal discussion of the location
OF the two polling places hut IL was
adopted that the President and SecrA-
tary should select the polling places.
Mr.. Seibles suggested that each NJ
a III ~ nj