The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-28
ELECTOR CAN HOLD
NO OTHER OFFICE
COMMITTEE STRUCK OFF
SEVEN PREsIDENTIAB ELECTORS
ANA 'SOER. 1TEaaATEs,

This Was Done Because There Was
"A Question of Their Eligibility.
Col. j. II. EstiII Was Among Those
Who Were Dropped From the
List-IIe Had Requested That This
Action Be Taken If There Was the
slightest Doubt of His Eligibility.
Atlanta, Aug. 27.-Because they now
hold one state office, or what might be
construed as being a state office, seven
of the Democratic electors and four
alternate electors nominated by the re-
cent State Democratic Convention
were to-day declared ineligible by the
Democratic Executive Committee, were
their places.
The Executive Committee made
clean sweep of every man
on the Democratic electoral tick
ct who held even the SEM
blance of an Office unler the state
government, basing it's action on Sec
tion 293 of the Political Code, which
was construed to prohibit the holding
of two state offices. An elector has
been held by the Supreme Court to be
state officer.
The committee even went to the ex-
treme of ruling out a member of the
Governors staff, not even giving him
the privilege of resigning, and Col. J.
II. Estill of Savannah was sacrificed
because he happens to be a member
of Chatham county's Board of Educa-
tion, where he serves his county with
out compensation. Col. Estill had writ
! ten the chairman asking that his name
be stricken from the list should it be
| decided that there was the slightest
question as to his eligibility.
Howell Tried 20 stem the Tide.
National Committeeman Clark How
| ell tried to stem the tide that was
| plainly drifting in the direction of a
| clean sweep by Offering a resolution as
| substitute for the report of the spe-
cial committee, providing that Chair
| man M. j. Yeomans should submit the
| whole matter to Chairman Taggart of
the National Committee, and In the
| event he considered there would be
danger in electing those named by the
| convention, then Chairman Yeomans
was to replace them with other cleo
! tors.
After brief discussion this resolution
! was voted down by 81 to s, and the
report Of a special committee OF law
| yers, to which the matter had been
| referred was adopted. This special
| committee reported that while II did
| not consider the men named by the
| convention ineligible as electors, yet
| for the sake Of assurance and safety.
! 1t recommended that all such as held
| any state office Of any kind be re-
| moved and the alternates put In their
| places where they were qualified and
| others chosen where they were not.
! A motion that one elector John y.
| Madden of Pike, for the sixth district,
| be allowed 10 tender his resignation as
| a member Of the Governors STAFF and
remain on the ticket was lost
steward In the Church.
| This caused laugh, and somebody
/ raised objection 10 one name that was
offered. on the ground that ne was "A
steward la the Methodist Church.
Mr.. Howell moved that no change be
| made, az 10 Col Estill. on the ground
| that he could mot possibly be dlsqual-
lhed. This motion was lost like the
others.
The committee then proceeded with
! ~ new broom tactics ana put IN new
electors an down the line. No changes
were mnde IN the First, Fourth and
Fifth districts The changes made
were ~ follows George r Monroe 0f
Huena Vista vas chosen eisctor ~
large in place of Col , H. Eahn ~
savannah because the lnttsr 70 a mem