Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME XV.
ALBANY, GA.. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1, 1906.
NUMBER 162.
IT POLITICS
Action of State Democratic
Committee Received With
General Satisfaction—Lo
cal Factions Are Holding
Meetings.
Special to The Herald.
Savannah, May 1.—The ’date set by
the Btate executive committee (August
22) for holding the state primary,
while It seemed a little late to many
Savannahlans, is generally regarded as
satisfactory. Unless the two political
factions in Chatham county get to
gether and Induce the county execu
tive committee to hold a county pri
mary before the date of the state pri
mary, there will be a long, hot cam
paign In Savannah this summer.
There has been a rest in the politics
of Chatham pending action by the
state committee, but now that that has
acted, the activity will begin anew.
This was evidenced yesterday when
calls were sent out for three or four
district club meetings in Savannah
this week. There will be two tomor
row night. No matter in what pri
mary the factions settle their differ
ences In Chatham, they are going to
have a hot time in the settling.
GOVERNMENT MONEY
FOR CALIFORNIANS
Quickly Spent Under Direction of the
Secretary of War.
Washington, May 1.—During a brief
discussion in the Senate today regard
ing the disposition of the two and a
half million dollars appropriated for
the relief of the California sufferers,
Mr. Allison said that nearly the entire
sum had been expended in procuring
supplies under the dii*ection of the
Secretary of War.
LONGSHOREMEN OF
CHICAGO QUIT WORK.
Chicago, May 1. — Three thousand
longshoremen quit work unloading
vessels at South Chicago at midnight.
Mill Supply
Department:
Genuine Gundy-
Belt, Atkin’s Cir
cular and Cross
Cut Saws, Marsh
Steam Pumps.
Implement
Department:
Harvesting Ma
chinery, Thresh
ing Machines in
stock, all sizes.
SOLID CAR
Twine,
Twine,
Twine!
Sufficient to bind all
the oats in this sec
tion.
Alt any
Mactmery
Co,
Great Precautions Taken to
Keep Down Disturbances.
Many Arrests Made by the
Police.
Paris, May 1.—May first, for which
the government made prodigious prep
arations, finds many quarters present
ing the appearance of armed camps.
The forces concentrated under the pre
fect of police are estimated at 50,000
troops, 12,000 police, and 8,000 guards,
gendarmes and detectives. Troops at
midnight began to guard the sources
of public water, gas and electric sup
plies. Strong bodies of troops were
posted at ’ the principal railroad sta
tions. The Bank of France Is guarded
by infantry and cavalry, and troops
patrolled the vicinity of all leading
banks and Important commercial es
tablishments. Strikers are parading
with cockades bearing the words:
“Eight hours work with a weekly holi
day."
Thousands Arrested.
Paris, May 1.—3 p. m.—The Place de
Republic Is the scene of continuous ar
rests. The number of disorderly per
sons has Increased to several thou
sands. A detachment of four hundred
infantry has stacked arms on the Place
de Letolle.
Paris, May 1.—At 0 a. m. cavalry
and Infantry detachments had taken
positions assigned to them throughout
Paris as a precaution against May Day
disturbances.
At 10:50 a battalion of infantry was
stationed at the terrace of Bourse and
detachments tyere drawn up at each
wing. Traffic. Is ■TUnlqterrunted. ex
cepting cabs. Workmen were quietly
gathering at Place De Republic.
At 11:20 on account of Increasing
excitement at Place de Republic, the
troops Intervened and TOO arrests
were made.
The prisoners were taken before a
Justice, who passed quickly on the
cases, and the disturbers were taken
to jail. A detachment of troops have
just taken positions around the Bunk
of France. Striking printers attempt
ed to march in a procession from labor
headquarters,- singing revolutionary
songs. They were attacked by the
police and the latter drew* revolvers.
The procession was broken up. A po
lice guard has been placed at the
American embassy.
AUTOMOBILISTS
LEAVE SAVANNAH.
Good Roads Caravan Visiting Counties
Near Savannah.
Special to The Herald. ,
Savannah, Ga., May 1.—The first
good roads automobile caravan that
ever left Savannah pulled out early
this morning, when six or seven autos
went skimming out of Chatham county
over the good roads that It possesses
to pay visits to towns in Screven and
Effingham counties. It Is the wish of
Savannahlans to have the adjoining
counties build good roads to connect
with those of Chatham so that more
hauling can be done and better trips
made to the city by the farmers of the
Interior. The party that left today
was composed of several prominent
Savannahlans under the direction of
Mr. F. C. Battey, an enthusiastic auto
owner and a man who wants to see
good roads in Georgia. Today Mr.
Gordon Saussy Is also In Clyde, Effing
ham county, trying to arouse Interest
In road building. Jenkins county Is
already In favor of good roads and la
now taking steps to have them built.
The Savannah delegation is expected
hack tonight.
SOL PAGE
KILLS HIMSELF.
Just as The Herald goes to press
this afternoon a telephone meeeage
came utating that 8ol Page, eon of Mr.
Sllae Page, of Lee county, had accl'
dentally ahot and killed himself with
a pistol. There wae no time to obtain
further particulars.
IE ERIE PORTS
HOED UP.
Marine and Longshoremen’s
Union Men Quit Work at
Midnight, and There Is
Nothing Doing.
Cleveland, 0., May 1.—Every mem
ber of the Marine Transport and Long
shoremen's Union on the docks here
quit at midnight, and not a pound of
ore or grain is being handled in Cleve
land today. The same condition ex
ists at practically every Lake Erie
port. Every tug in the harbor Is tied
up. The strike here affects directly a
thousand seamen. It is estimated that
if the strike continues a month, 30,000
men In Cleveland alone will be thrown
out of work on account of the stoppage
of the coal traffic.
Tickets on Sale.
Tickets were this morning placed on
sale at the Hilsman-Sale Drug Co. for
the performance at the Rawlins the
atre Thursday night, when the Guards’
Fantasy will be presented for the ben
efit of the charity hdspltal.
The stores will Inaugurate the sum
mer 6 o’clock closing movement this
afternoon.
A WHITE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
TO BE HELD IW STATE AUGUST 11
AND THE STATE CONVENTION TO MEET AT
MACON, SEPTEMBER 4.
FIF1Y YEARS
Atlanta, Ga., May I.—The action of
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee at its final session last night
was correctly foreshadowed in these
dispatches yesterday afternoon.
The State Democratic primary will
be held August 22.
The stute convention will be held In
Macon on Sept. 4, 1900.
The county Democratic committees
will meet at the courthouses on Aug.
23, at noon, to consolidate the votes
cast for the candidates.
Voters will cast their ballot direct
for the candidates, and the chairman
of each county committee will appoint
such delegates to the state conventon
as the candidate receiving a plurality
of the vote In. each county shall name.
Each county shall be entitled to two
delegates to the state convention for
each member that it Is entitled to In
the house of representatives.
Each ballot used-In the primary
shall have as a caption a pledge from
the voter In which he declares he Is
an organized Democrat, and promises
to support the organized Democracy,
both atate and national.
The worn "align” Is defined to mean
joining the organized democratic par
ty and becoming a Democrat In good
faith.
All “white Democrats,” as defined,
will be allowed to vote If they have
registered in 1905 or 1900.
DATE AND PLAN -
SUIT ESTILL.
Special to The Herald.
Savannah, Ga., May 1.—Col. Estlll,
South Georgia’s candidate for gover
nor, says that the primary date and
plan suits him exactly.
FULL TEXT OF RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
BY STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
FOR DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY OF 1906.
At a meeting of the State Demo
cratic Committee, held In the city of
Atlanta, this April 30,/1906, called Jpr
the purpose of fixing the time and
place of holding a state Democratic
iventlon Tor nomination of Demo-
5»»tt»' : -eandldateB v forjjggyernor r -.atpA» :
house -officers, judges, soUcltors-gOn-
erul and such other officials as are to
be elected by the people of the state,
at the ensuing elections, it Is ordered:
1. That a Democratic primary eliic-
tlon be held on the 22nd day of Au
gust, 1900, in each of the 145 counties
of the state, at which all white Demo
cratic voters who have registered In
1905 or 1900, not less than ten days
before said primary, shall have an op
portunity to cast their votes for Demo
cratic candidates for the following of
fices, to-wlt: Governor, attorney-gen
eral, secretary of state, comptroller-’
general, chief justice of the supreme
court, treasurer, commissioner of agri
culture, state school commissioner,
three associate justices of the supreme
court, one United States senator, one
prison commissioner, judges of the su
perior court, sollcltors-general. And
the Democratic executive committee In
each county is hereby directed to pre
pare and furnish to the managers of
such Democratic primary a list of the
qualified voters in said county under
the terms hereinafter provided.
2. The names of all Democratic can
didates tor offices to be filled’ as stated
above, Bball appear upon the official
ballot, and shall be voted for directly,
the voter striking on said ballot' the
names of all those candidates for office
for whom he does not desire'to vote,
and leaving on said ballot the names
of those candidates for whom he
wishes his ballot to be counted.
3. That on August 23,1906, at noon,
the Democratic executive committee of
each county shall assemble In the
county court house, and consolidate
the vote and eclare the result, and In
each county where any candidate for
office shall have received a plurality of
the vote cast In that county for said
office in said primary election, the
delegates selected from such county
to the state convention shall be con
sidered as Instructed to cast the votes
of said county for such candidate In
the state convention, and the chairman
of the Democratic executive committee
of such county shall appoint as dele
gates from said county to the state
convention such Democrats as the
candidate for governor entitled to the
rote of such county shall designate In
writing. Each county shall be entitled
to delegates for each member that it Is
entitled to In the House of Represen
tatives. All vacancies In delegations
shall be filled in the same manner aB
prescribed above for the original ap
pointment of delegates.. But no county
shall send more delegates than It Is
entitled to Individual votes In said con-
ventlon.
4. The state Democratic convention.
composed of delegates selected In the
manner aforesaid, shall assemble in
the auditorium in the city of . Macon on
tho fourth day of September, 1900, to
nominate a state Dcmooi^ticjdcketppr
idle-above-named offices.' '* 7
.... 5. In each judicial circuit, where
the judge or solicitor-general Ib to be
elected, the white Democratic voters
•In tho several counties shall express
their choice on the same ballot as
hereinbefore provided for, and under
the same terms as to qualifications for
electors. It Is ordered further that the
vote of the several counties In each
circuit for judge and solicitor-general
shall he consolidated by the county ex
ecutive committee of each county, cer
tified to by said committee, forwarded
to the chairman of the state Demo
cratic executive committee, whose
duty It shall be to consolidate the vote
of the several counties In each circuit
for judge and solicitor, and to report
the result of such consolidated vote to
the state convention, which shall,. In
turn, declare the result and make
nominations accordingly for the sev
eral circuits. All candidates for Judge
and solicitor-general receiving the
highest vote In their respective cir
cuits shall he placed on tho Btate
ticket as the Democratlp nominees for
said offices.
6. The official ballot to be voted In
said Democratic primary election shall
have printed thereon the following
caption:
“8TATE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
ELECTION, 1906.
“By voting this ticket, I hereby de
clare that I am an organized Demo
crat, and I hereby pledge myaelf to
support the organized Democracy, both
state and national.” ,
No ballot caat In said primary elec
tion without such caption and obliga
tion shall be counted by the managers.
7. While white voters, without re
gard to past political afflllatjone, who
desire to align themselves with the
Democratic party, are hereby Invited,
in good faith, to participate In said
primary, this Invitation la extended
only to such voters as accept It In the
same spirit of good faith In which It la
extended.
Inasmuch as there has arlten a con
troversy as to the Intent of the word
“align” In t(ie foregoing, we declare
that, as herein used, It means to join
tho organized Democratic party and
become a Democrat In good faith.
8. In case of a vacancy occurring In
the office of judge or solicitor-general
In any circuit of the state, the chair
man of the Btate Democratic Execu
tive Committee Is hereby authorized to
call for a nominating primary election
In such circuit to. fill the vacancy In
ample time before the election shall
be had.
9. The chairman of this commit
tee shall prepare a form of official bal
lot to be naed In said Democratic pri
mary election, containing the caption
prescribed above, and the names of all
candidates for the offices named in
paragraph 1, and shall furnish the
same to the chairman of each county
Democratic executive commlttea.In
stath’Ut Teasrten •daySlrdtee 1 “
"a-.ri'x—
lOffTtt the.event' any picket Is rotid
In said primary election with the pame
of any tmndidate for any of the afore
said offices omitted therefrom, such
ticket ob tickets shall be declared In
valid, and Bhall not be counted.
11. No person shall have the right
to vote In said Democratic primary
election whose vote has been pur
chased, and no candidate who buys or
procures to be bought votes in said
primary shall receive the nomination
of his party, and the Democratic execu
tive committee of the county shall
have the power, and It Is hereby made
Its duty to throw out Bnld purchased
votes, also ballots which do not con
tain the caption and pledge hereinbe
fore prescribed and also to refuse to
daclare as nominee any candidate who
purchases or procures to be purchased
any votes at said primary election, and
the county Democratic, executive com
mittee when notified of a contest for
such purposes or on other Irregulari
ties, shall delay the declaration of the
result and take time to hear evidence,
and when the result Is declared, either
party Interested shall have the right
to appeal to the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, which shall adopt
such rules to hear such appeal as to
It may seem proper.
12. Each candidate for state house
offices, supreme court judges and Uni
ted States senator Bhall be assessed
250 to met the expenses of said Demo
cratic primary, which sum shall In
clude all assessments against such
candidates for state and county pri
mary elections, and the name of no
candidate shall, appear on the ticket
who falls to pay the same forty days
before said primary.
13. The county Democratic execu
tive committee shall appoint the man
agers for said Democratic primary
election ten days before said primary,
and, as far as practicable, shall give
representation to contesting candi
dates In the selection of managers of
said primary. Upon timely requesi
and refusal of the county committee
to comply with'such requests, any can
didate shall have the right to appeal to
the state Democratic executive com
mittee.
14. It Is ordered that upon a consol
idation of the vote in each county the
candidate for United States senate re
ceiving the highest, number of votes
for that office shall be declared the
Democratic nominee from that county
for said office, and the representative
or representatives and senator from
such counties, and the senatorial dis
trict Including such counties, are con
sidered Instructed to vote for such
nominee In the next general assembly.
INDSTINCT prI^T); i
Mr. A. S. McCollum and Sis
ter Visited Albany, and
Are Repeating the Visit.
Mr. A. S. McCollum, of Mitchell
county, a resident of the Baconton
neighborhood and a man with hun
dreds of friends in Albany, is In the
city today, In compdny with his sister,
Mrs. Mattie WUltamB, of Thomasvillo..
Exactly fifty years ago, on the first
day of May, 1856, Mr. McCollum, then
a boy, apd his sister, Mattie, two years
his junior, drove up to Albaily from
the plantation of their father, ten-
miles south of town. It was a holiday,
for the farmer hoy and his sister.
They were given a $10 bill by their
father and told to spend it as they
pleased. Their father also alloWqd
them the use of his horse and buggy,
and they left home In the, early morn
ing full of pleasant anticipations.
They gathered many flowers on. thp
way to Albany,- and spent some time
in town, making suah purchases on
their respective fanoles suggested.
They were accompa'iled by a' llttro'fetal
from Lee county who had been: at
tending school In the neighborhood la
whleh the McCollum family lived.
During the years that have followed,
Mr. McCollum and his'sister have
never failed to communicate with each
other on the first of each May. The
rule was Nearly broken once .
the War Between the Statei, I _
Mr. McCollum, was confined in a t
oral prison at Chicago.-
happily exchanged In time;to.a
him to write i to his sister as 1
their custom.
This being the fiftieth.annlye
that memorable trip to Alban)
McCollum and Mrs. William's dci
to drive , to Albany today oijer
same route they followed la I860. T
plait would have been carried :out, ,t)u
- jBgJii^iiirWiihaA"^
them to "change their, mode of t
insteod '4..wmlpgjiwipte7W*^U^p.n-.
yeyancp, they came On the w-c-t—
A. 0. L. train, and are spei
afternoon In the city with llj
loin’s son, Mr. H. E. McCo
will return to Baconton .ori‘
departing at 4 o’clock.
i
uyier s
Cand
anaies,
Sodi
Wat
‘1
er,
i
iream.
Hilsman-Sale
Drug Co.
mmm
