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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