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The issue to be decided Tuesday,
January Bth, is not a question of your
individual preference for men, but of
principle. Good men forfeit their
right to your support when they lend
their names to an organization that
stands for the things that the Citizens’
Club stands for in this community.
These men of good character on the
Citizens’ Club ticket were put there
by the machine for the purpose of
self-preservation. Their election will
not mean their individual success, but
a triumph for the machine, with all its
baleful influences.
No matter how you feel in regard to
the inidividuals on our ticket, it is your
duty to vote a straight ticket and ad
minister a crushing defeat to the
machine.
Why were the Mcßrides permitted
to perambulate the streets for hours
after the shooting affray in front of
the city exchange? Where was the |
police force?
In 1899 when the Citizens Club ticket!
won, James Mcßride was a candidate j
for Harbor Master. Mr. Geo. W. Tiede- j
man was chairman of council. The
party bosses attempted to get him to
vote for Mcßride, but he flatly refused
to do so. Mcßride was elected over j
his protest.
John J. Garrity, at that time Super
intendent of the Scavenger Depart
ment, and Wm. H. Peck, Clerk of the
Water Works Department, were used
by Mr. Osborne to dig his artesian well
at his Summer Home at White Bluff,
and Mr. T. E. Penton, Inspector of
Sewers, assisted in the plumbing. The
following receipts appear of record in
the City Treasurer’s office: “June 16,
1905, Received from W. W. Osborne
one hundred and twenty-five dollars,
being amount of John J. Garrity’s sal- ■
ary for the month of April, 1905, while
engaged in digging artesian well at
White Bluff.” Another one on July 11,
1905, almost a month later: “Received
from W. W. Osborne one hundred dol
lars, being amount of W. H. Peck’s
salary for the month of July, 1905,
while engaged in digging artesian well
of W. W. Osborne at White Bluff.”
The work was done in April and
was paid for nearly two months later.
It has been publicly charged that Mr.
O'sborne did not return the money to
the City Treasurer until he learned
that these facts would be used for
campaign purposes, but, even if this \
be not the cause of Mr. Osborne re- 1
turning the money, it was highly im
proper to use public officials to do the j
private work of the Boss. If the city
did not need their services, their offices '
should be abolished and the tax pay
ers saved the money. No one but the
Boss could have secured their services.
The City of Savannah paid would-be j I
Alderman Granger almost as much for j 1
the land necessary to purchase streets j 1
through his property as Mr. Granger! ]
paid for the entire tract It pays to 1
be a Citizens Club supporter. 1
—i 1
Mcßride was paid by the city S4O j
a month for the use of one room in
his home. The Boss would call this t
thrift What do the people of Savan- 1
nah think of this form of thrift. f
LEST WE FORGET
Colonel Garrard is the nominee of
the Citizens Club faction. He repre
sents that organization as fully and as
completely as would Mr. Myers or Mr.
Osborne. He has always been an in
tense Citizens’ Club partisan. In the
June primary he voted the entire Citi
zens’ Club ticket, and by his vote en
dorsed the evils that the Citizens Club
stood for.
The same forces are behind Colonel
Garrard today that have been in con
trol of our city for a number of years,
and under whom such terrible abuses
have arisen.
Colonel Garrard is the nominee of
Osborne, Myers, the Garfunkles, the
Mcßrides, Garrity, Creamer, Gad Bry
an and Collins. His election means
the continuation of their control of the
city.
The present administration is un
deniably a Citizens Club administra
tion. This administration has within
the last four days discharged nine city
employes, whom they admit did their
duty faithfully, because these nine em
ployes are supporting Mr. Tiedeman
against Colonel Garrard. Can you
doubt that Colonel Garrard is the
nominee of the Citizens Club?
A vote for Colonel Garrard means a
vote to keep Mcßride in office.
Can you afford by your vote to en
! dorse the evils the Citizens Club ad
ministration has stood for?
A disgraceful shooting affray, in
which two men were killed and an
other wounded, occurred in front of
the City Hall at three o’clock in the
afternoon. James Mcßride, Harbor
Master, Tim Mcßride, Assistant Har
bor Master, his son, and Jim Lane,
Keeper of City Stables, Mcßride’s
brother-in-law, were engaged in the
shooting, and one of the Mcßrides
fired the fatal shot. These men walk
ed the public streets of Savannah for
hours after the tragedy and were not
arrested. The Chief of Police, the
members of the police force and the
deputy sheriffs of this county did not
dare to arrest them.
The Boss used Garrity, Peck and
Penton to dig his artesian well and
paint his house at White Bluff. Do
you think the Boss should have the
right to command the services of offi
cials paid by the tax payers? Could
you do it?
In response to the invitation to sub
mit plans for the City Hall, in May,
1903, fourteen architects submitted
drawings. The plans the City liked
best, were those of Mr. G. L. Norrman,
of Atlanta, but he had no pull with the
machine. Therefore, a resolution was
passed rejecting all of the plans. In
December, 1903, Mr. Norrman learned,
although he had been notified that his
plans had been rejected, that his plans
were being used by the City. The
architect to whom Mr. Norrman’s plans
were turned over was a friend of the
administration, and was paid over
SIO,OOO for these same plans. Mr. H.
E. Wilson made this charge in a pub
lic speech on March 9th and proved it
absolutely. He produced an affidavit
from Mr. Norrman setting up the
above facts and also exhibited to an i
audience of several hundred people the
original drawings of Mr. Norrman,
which were almost identical with the
present City Hall. Mayor Myers re- j
fused to deny the truth of this charge..
With Garrard we find Osborne on
his right, Collins on his left, Myers, j
Garfunkle, Mcßride, Garrity and Crea
mer behind him pushing.
They say that if the Citizens Club
wins this fight Garrity and Creamer
will again feed at the public crib.
James Mcßride, Harbor Master, and j
John J. Garrity, at that time Superin
tendent of the Scavenger Department,
were caught red-handed in the fraudu
lent naturalization of foreigners. They
plead guilty in the United States Court
to this serious crime and were suf
fered by the Mayor and Aldermen to
hold offices of honor and trust
Remember, Colonel Garrard’s elec
tion means the triumph of Osborne,
Myers, Garfunkle, Mcßride, Garrity
and Creamer.
FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF
MEETING AT WHICH
GARRARD WAS
NOMINATED.
Four Citizens Club Speakers and Indian Jake.—
Garrard Said He Would Wear No Man’s Col
lar—“ We’ll Run it Over Col. Garrard,” Said
Jake to the Pie-Eaters—Mr. Robert Creamer
Spoke—Among Those Present Were Creamer,
Osborne, Mcßride, Garrity, Garfunkels,
Wylding, Campos and Gad Bryan—The Buz
zard Dance.
Accounts of political meetings, like
obituaries, are always glowing. We
never see a plain, literal exposition of
what really happens at the meetings.
But to the knowing ones there is more
humor in a political metting than
anything else. The recent meeting of
i the People’s League at the Benedic-
I tine Hall was one which was pregnant
with humor. The following faithful
account of the meeting has been furn
ished us by a gentleman who went to
the meeting under misapprehension as
to the personnel of the so-called
League.
The hall was half filled with chairs,
which were arranged by some one old
at the game, for while the front and
rear rows reached across the hall, the
intermediate rows were of varying
length, the middle rows containing
some twelve or fifteen chairs. The
object in this arrangement was mani
fest. A la area ■ of the middle
; portion was filled with boys, ranging
jin age from ten to fifteen years. By
actual count there were 363 people at
j the meeting, and yet the Morning
News, on the following morning said
that the hall was crowded and fully
200 stood.
Some twenty or thirty did stand
around the door, but there were empty
chairs. They preferred to stand, in
order to give the appearance of a
| crowd to those who came to the door.
Mr. Collins arrived early, accom
-1 panied by lieutenants Tedder, Clarke,
Herriott, Purvis, Campos and an offi
cer from one of the ships in harbor.
: The officer was quite a nice looking
fellow and seemed ill at ease in his
surroundings.
Gen. Peter W. Meldrim, Mr. W. W.
| Osborne and Judge Twiggs had not
| arrived. The first and last mentioned
never did arrive. In place of Gen.
Meldrim came a long letter reviewing
the history of the Savannah harbor,
! with which the General grew very in
timate during the recent Greene-Gay
i nor trial. The General, after explain
ing that he would not be present at
any of the meetings, and discoursing
at some length on the beautiful city
which we live in, incidentally endorsed
Col. Garrard, his law partner for mayor.
Os course the crowd received this
letter as the neralded “active support.”
Judge Twiggs being elsewhere, it be
hooved Mr. Collins to find other speak
ers. Accordingly messengers were
despatched through the audience to
corral any respectable people who
could talk. Mr. W. W. Sheppard and
Mr. Dan. J. Charlton were the People’s
League orators who were brought
forward.
Meanwhile Col. Garrard had arrived.
Mr. Tedder and Dr. Herriott were en- j
lightening Colonel Garrard by exhibit
ing to him the paraphernalia for the
scheduled buzzard dance. There were
numerous placards. On one was writ
ten “Crasamum Bob.” Qol. Garrard,
naturally, was nonplussed. Mr. Ted
der explained that the crasamum was
a flower. Then Mr. Tedder exhibited
a placard bearing the slogan “Down
with Tzar Cunningham.” Col. Gar
rard was highly edified and doubtless
agreed fully with Mr. Tedder that
“This Cunningham has something
coming to him. Just wait until I ge^
through with him.” Os course Col.
Garrard recognized that Mr. Cunning
ham was no match for Mr. Tedder and
he was glad to have Mr. Tedder’s sup
port instead of Mr. Cunningham’s.
Col. Garrard vouchsafed the informa
tion that the inclement weather doubt
less interferred with the attendance.
It was a typical Citizens Club meet
ing. The beaming countenances and
familiar whoops of J. Robert Creamer,
Gad. D. Bryan, Jr., Charlie Garfunkel.
Abe Garfunkel, Louis Garfunkel, the
Mcßrides, McKenas, Britt Rogers, J.
J. Garrity, Lovie Pitts, Neil Gildea,
Jasper Wylding and others equally as
prominent in the councils of the Citi
zens Club were right there There
was one familiar face missing and en
quiry developed the fact that Doc
Rosenthal was in jail.
Fortunately the glare of the foot
lights prevented Col. Garrard’s getting
a good square look at this assemblage.
Prominent in one of the front benches
(and they were nearly all at the
front) was Mr. Frank F. Jones with
hair, as usual neatly parted down the
back of his rosy head and leading
dignity to the occasion by his superior
respectability.
After Col. Garrard had recited his
statistics which were readily and en
thusiastically grasped by the intelli
gent audience. Mr. W. W. Sheppard
read Gen. Meldrim’s letter Mr. Shep
pard then told of the proud history
of Savannah.
The meeting was fast asleep and Mr.
Collins thought he would have Boss
Billy turn the hose on them, which
he did. Now Jake, in introducing
Billy had referred to his high charac
ter and wonderful mentality. Mr. Os
| tome said he was embarassed but he
! appeared nauseated. He knew that
Jake meant it though, because Jake
had said so many nice things about
him in the June fight.
Mr. Osborne went backward forty
years and discussed Col. Garrard’s
war record. He tripped lightly over
more recent events. He neglected to
i say that the only reason Mr. Tiedeman
| wasn’t in the Civil war was because
| he wasn’t old enough to handle a rattle
much less face the rattle of musketry.
The peace de resistance of the even
ing was Jake’s speech. As chairman
of the meeting he proceeded on the
theory that the best orator should be
retained for the last. He said he
would talk a few minutes and he talk
ed an hour.
Mr. Collins told the office holders
and hangers on that Col. Garrard
would have appointive power and not
elective power. He added that he j
would look after them and every man
who worked would get a job. He said
nothing about qualifications and, for
getting for the moment that he was
not yet nominated, promised, as an
alderman, to “run it over Col. Gar
rard.” Col. Garrard, who had but a
short while before stated that he
would wear no man’s collar, smiled
approvingly as the crowd awoke like
a volcano from long sleep and spon
taneously exploded with shouts of ap
proval of this policy.
Mr. Collins started to say something
about Mr. J. I. Killorin but someone
in the rear wispered to him: “Look
out, Joe is with us, Jake.” Jake duck
ed and referred to Mr. Schwarz. He
started to say something characterist
ically dirty, when he noticed two
clergymen in the wings.
The polished clergymen. Col. Gar
rard and the one or two other gentle
men who were present were particu
larly impressed with Mr. Collins’
chaste English. Collins is bad enough
on English without effecting bum
grammar, and when he essayed the
| Sam Jones style the combination was
! horrible. The speech should have
| been reproduced in the language in
j which it was delivered. Jake got a
cold reception from the crowd but it
didn’t feaze him. They didn’t seem
j to care how long the Jack ass’ ears
grew, for the whole crowd of Citizens
Club grafters wanted to hide behind
them until the present campaign was
over. Mr. D. J. Charlton, another
Citizens Club orator, made a speech.
He studiously avoided any reference
to Seventy-five cents Jake, nor did he
praise J. Robert Creamer as he used
to in the last campaign. Mr. Creamer
was not only present but he too got up
and let off a little wind.
The buzzard dance was dispensed
with. The reason was given that the
stage was too small —to accommodate
so many buzzards, it is presumed.
“What’s all this hollering about?” the
curious stranger cried:
"For Tiedeman, our future mayor,” tfc*
citizen replied.
“What makes ’em shout and wave
their hats?” the curious stranger
cried;
“Cause they know he’ll be elected,”
the citizen replied.
“Fat its down and out for Osborne and
Collins and the rest;
They’ll never win this battle thoagh
they try their level best,
We’ve got ’em skinned, as all will see
when comes the final test,
And we vote for Tiedeman on Tues
day morning.”
! “Why should you vote for Tiedeman?”
the curious stranger cried;
“Cause he’s the man that’s clean and
straight," the citzen replied.
"And when he’s in what will he do?”
the curious stranger cried.
"He’ll give this town good govern
ment,” the citizen replied.
"For Savannahians are tired of Bos
sism, graft and greed.
The People’s Democratic League will
answer to their need,
And we ll rally round their banner, t*
the rescue come with speed,
And we’ll vote for Tiedeman on Tues
day morning.”
j “And how about the Aldermen?" the
curious stranger cried,
“O! they’re the best you ever saw!”
the citizen replied,
"And will they all be just and fair?”
the curious stranger cried
Just read the list, their names will
tell,' the citizen replied.
For we've got a man for every class,
who’ll do his duty sure;
They’ll open all the windows, and let
in air that’s pure;
And what is more, they’ll keep it so,
and make a lasting cure;
'So we’ll vote our ticket straight o*
Tuesday morning.”
“What day you say will see the fun?”
the curious stranger cried;
"Next Tuesday, January Eighth," the
citizen replied;
And you don’t think there’s any
doubt?” the curious stranger cried,
Whay man alive, I know there ain’t,”
the citizen replied.
“For the other side’s nowhere in sight,
we’re gone so far ahead,
We”ll beat ’em by two thousand votes,
they’ll have to go to bed.
Just, wait, and watch, and listen to the
League’s resounding tread,
As we vote our ticket straight o*
Tuesday morning!”
Do you want Garfunkle to remain at
the head of the police force?
Do you wish the evils that have
flourished under the Citizens Club ad
ministration to continue? If you do
not, your duty is clear.
City employees feel that, in order to
retain their positions, they must pur
chase their supplies from Garfunkle &
Sons. One of the Garfunkles is on
hand every pay day at the City Treas
urer’s office to collect the bills of the
firemen before the men themselves get
their pay.
Can you vote to have the same old
crowd to control.