The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-12
CITY CAMPAIGN
To BEGIN TO-DAY
CITIZENS CLUB OPENS BALL.
INTENDS PUTTING 1,5OO MORE
VOTERS ON THE LIST.

Marching Club Quarters Will Re-
open Saturday Night-Caucus of
500 Leaders and Workers Has
Been Called for Thursday Night of
Next Week-WOrISers Will Start
Drumming Up Material To-day
and There Is to BE No Let Up In
Activity from Now On-NO OppO-
sitiOn Yet in Sight.
The municipal campaign is now on.
Beginning with to-day the leaders of
the Citizens Club will start planning
and working for the city election. The
Mayor and Alderman will be chosen
on Jan. 10, the second Tuesday of
the new year. This is but eleven
weeks off, and Savannah politicians
seldom let a campaign be of shorter
duration than that.
This morning a representative of the
Citizens Club will be stationed at the
Office of the Tax Collector. He will re-
main there until the books close and
the last name possible has been enrol
led among the list of voters. There are
now about $500 voters enrolled, but
the Citizens Club leaders and workers
propose to add not less than 1,5OO to
that number before the close of regis
tration. The great bulk of these will
I be of men who have never voted in Sa-
vannah before, but who have been resi-
dents of the city for from one to four
years.
Open Marching Club.
The Citizens Club was the only or
ganization that paid any attention to
the registration, there having been no
contests in the last two elections, and
it's leaders realize that it has an enor-
NOUS advantage as a result, in the
event of contest this time. But they
have decided to add to this advantage
as much as possible, and workers will
be securing the city from now on to
bring out their friends to register.
Seven thousand voters is the number
aimed at for the local election of 1905.
Saturday night the Marching Club
opens its doors again. The quar-
tiers of this club, which is the social
and parading adjunct of the Citizens
Club. were closed after the last pri-
mary, but will remain open from now
on. The rooms will be made attractive
and every one in line with the Citizens
Club is welcome to the advantages of
the club.
Big Rally Called.
Thursday night of next week a caucus
of 500 of the most active MEM
bers of the party will be held at the
Marching Club. At this meeting, which
is to be the initial rally of the cam
paign, plans will be laid for the work
in each of the four districts. The Cit
liens Club has always kept up its or
ganization in districts, and will open
the campaign with permanent quar-
ters in two or more of them. District
weekly meetings will begin week after
next, and will continue until after
the election. Whether there is OPPOSE
ton or not, it is proposed to make the
campaign one of interest to the voters,
who are lined up with the club and the
administration Already there is talk
of the greatest torchlight parade Sa-
vannah has ever known during the
first week in January.
Savannah is a city where interest in
politics may lag, but never entirely
dies out. 1t takes but slight effort
to resuscitate 1t, and now that the
Citizens Club has taken the initiative
and begun work in earnest there will
doubtless be an abundance of corner
gossip to satisfy the most craving ap-
petite for that class of news. The
Citizens Club leaders profess their be-
lief that there will be no opposition,
but the policy of the club has always
been to prepare in advance under
such circumstances, just as though the
hardest of fights was ahead.