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VOL. IL NO. 62.
THE TIGERS’ FUNERAL
t
Corruption and Bribery Knocked Out by the
Respectable Citizens.
tn ins ms in m ran
Tammany Bolts Everywhere in Order to Get Up Contests.
Beaten Badly in Its Alleged Stronghold, the Fourth.
The Antis Had Them Three to One, and
They Broke the Traces—Tigers
Pleading To-day.
Tammany, the oath-bound, is routed.
The big tiger received a fearful wound last
night from the respectable citizens ol Savan
nah, and, although the animal is still feebly
kicking, a vital spot has been penetrated and
fatal results are bound to follow.
It is only a question of time when the
political requiem of the striped animal will
be sung, and his carcass laid to rest forever
in the grave of political oblivion.
Last night's m iss meetings in the districts
was not a contest of Russell ..nd anti-Rus
sell, nor a contest ol the Citizens’ Club and
Tammany, but a square tight between
the respecable people of Chatham
county against an organization whose
nrinciptes. ts .cauical put Savan
nah in the condition of New YoflT'ffl the"!
days of Boss Tweed’s rule
THE PEOPLE ALIVE.
The people were alive to their interests,
•and turned out en masse in the four city |
districts to put aquietuson the oath-bound
otganization. How well thev accomplished
this will be learned by the true account pub
lished in to-day’s issue of The Daily Dis
patch.
As prearranged, no doubt in the wigwam,
Tammanyites bolted from the meetings so as
to get up a contest, but this line of conduct
will do them no good. They were routed
and defeated beyond contradiction,
and no matter what claims may
be set up they will never sit in the executive
committee from the first, Second or Fourth
districts.
That Tammany had determined in advance
to bolt is clearly evidenced by the conduct
and language of its members in the Fourth.
A Tammanyite informed a Daily Dis
patch man half an hour before
the time for the meeting in that district that
Tammany would decline to go into a meet
ing with the opposition, but would hold a
separate session in order to get up a contest.
And then the man who called Tammany
to order! He may be a democrat now, but it
was well-known that he was a prominent
republican for years.
A GREAT ROUT.
The Anti-Tammanyites won everywhere in
the city. Here are the tickets elected by
them:
First District—W. M. Gibbons, Frank Mc-
Dermott, C. A. Lamotte, J. F. Lubs, James
McGuire.
Second District —Waring Russell, T, D.
Rockwell, T. J. Sheftall, John Juchter and A.
L. Alexander.
7hird District—Arthur Weil, W. W. Fraser,
H, M. Comer, Jr., W. S otia Tison and John
Lyons
Fourth District—John Schwarz, Thomas
Sere ven > Samuel Reynolds, E. Geflcken, J. E.
Maguire.
The >ll v * !n < i- s vole of the Anti ' Tam '
mar.yites on /'w ’ icket for commit
teemen at large:
First District ,J
Second District '•'•’■
Third District
Fourth District ■■■■
Eighth District I:, °
The successful ticket at large is r J° l,n
Powers, H. Willink, W. W. Osborne, J-I’-
Sullivan and W. P. Laßoche. ' /
First District. /
The meeting in the First district w 4 an
orderly one, and there was no necess® for
the police in uniform and in citizen/ dtess
who were ordered to report there / r duty.
At 6:30 o’clock there were fullv persons
in Elbert square and 6:55 o'clock tne crowd
had swelled to fully 760 who we* anxiously
awaiting the tap of the "Big Duke' to an
nounce the time for action/
Ranged north of and about the rockery in
the center of the square were 75 lammany
heelers, while on the western side of the
square, and wholly within the boundary line
of the First district, were over 600 member.-,
of the Citizens' Ckb, and citizens who while
not members of any of the clubsjteie in
Wbe Wai Ip Wiepatcb,
sympathy with the opposition to Tammany.
The little group at the rockery could not
in their eagerness wait until 7 o’clock,
but one Thomas O,Connell, with
out calling the meeting to order, asked E.
W. O’Connor to preside. At this lorn
Fogarty and others set upa yell and then the
farce of selecting N. J. Corish as secretary
was gone through. While O’Connor was
going through the dumb show of counting
with his linger the few yelling Tammanyites
armind the rockery, and promptly at 7
o'clock the mass meeting, under the direction
of the First district executive committeeman
was called to order, Dr. T J Sheftall nomi
nating I'. I. McEneneany chairman, who was
elected without opposition by the votes of
fully 600 people. Mr. Charles Whelan was
elected secretary.
The following ticket for executive com
mitteeman were placed in nomination, and
4.«»Wjji)p l Uk | v elected, there being no other
i icket pkiccTTfl’Tiyi I * Tn-ttgawtoaempn
the following were declared elected •
Frank McDermott, Williajji M. Gibbons,
John F. Lubs, C. A. Laino.tte and James Mc-
I Guire.
[ The following ticket for committemen at
large—J. F. Sullivan, Ha<ry Willing, W. W.
Osborne, John Power and W. P. Laßoche--
were then plac d in nomination, and the
voters were massed in line and counted,
showing that 700 had voted tor the ticket.
This was no sooner done than a large number
began to follow the Tammany crowd off to
match them in the other in spite of
the efforts to keep the men in line td be
counted by some disinterested party. Mr
Lester Hubbell was asked to go
down the line and count it. and
he reported 50!), and these figures
were accepted by the chair, who announced
that the delegate ticket at large had received
50!) votes. The chair was tlran instructed to
appoint a committee to notify the n vly
elected members of the district executive com
mittee, alter which three cheers were given for
the Citizens’ Club and the meeting adjourned.
To return to the little Tammany 'quad.
They were not engaged in tlie farce of put
ting their so-called ticket through to exceed
three minutes. They were not on the west
side ol the median line of the district, and
their action affords no reasonable basis for a
contest, as the voting strength was so beg
garly weak that it did not intend to partici
pate in a mass meeting of the voters ot the
district.
A Daily Dispatch representative inter
viewed several disinterested citizens and ore j
policeman, all of whom testified to the!
orderly assemblage and to the overwhelming !
majority against the Tammany contingent.
Tlie Krrond District.
The Tammany tactics in the Secoyd dis
trict were somewhot different. Instead of
holding their separate meeting first, it was
held after the regular meeting of . the citizens,
and here the people were so Largely arrayed
against the Tammany ring, that the weakness
of the latter, and their so-called election after
the real wtsrk of the evening was done was
the subject of considerable lyirih.
Unable to hear file "Big Duke” in Chat
ham square, Mr. John Juchter, a member of
the county executive committee waited until
7:02 before calling the meeting to order. He
■ called for nominations for chairman. T. D.
Rockwell, Esq., was placed in nomi-
nation by the Citizen'.;’ club, and
the opposition, that then numbered
1 less than fifty, placed Matt O'Connell
in nomination Mr. Juchter then put the
question, and on the aye and nay vote Mr. I
Juchter said Mr. Rockwell seems to have
1 been elected. To this decision a Tammany
l ite called for a division, and tellers were ap- I
. pointed, two representing theCitize s’ Club,
. Messrs. V/. P. Laßoche, Edward J. Whalan;
3iuf Wil iam P. Bailey. i nose favoring Mr, j
1 Hockwell were lined off to the right, and j
. /umbered 271, and Mr. O'Connor’s follow-1
Zing to the number of 30 lined off to the
left. Mr. Juchter thereupon declared Mr. j
Rockwell duly elected chairman.
In taking the chair Mr Rockwell sought,
to secure order, but the Tammany crowd
sought to make up in noise what they were
signally lacking in voting strength. Mr.
Rockwell appealed for order, and said if
they would be quiet "every one shall have
equal justice at my funds.”
But it appears that justice- was r.-1 wanted :
so much as delay, so that the small party i
could be reinforced from the First district !
Tammanyites, then vn ll 1 ? rush for the Sec
ond.
Mr. W. p. Laßoche nominated the follow- i
ing for district committeemen : Waring R.us-'
sell, T. I). Rockwell, I. I S.reftall, John
juchter, and A. L.'Alexander. No opposition
i ticket being offered, a yea and my vote was I
i called for, and all the votes being in the as-
firmative the chair announced that the yeas
had it, and the ticket was duly elected.
Mr.A. L.Alexander.placed in nomination the
Citizens' Club ticket tor committeemen at
large. The chair asked for the third time if
there was any other ticket to he offered, and
there being none, Ire asked all in favor of the
ticket to pass before him to Ire counted, and
261 votes did so and were counted, and the
vote duly announced by the chair, after
which on motiorjof Dr. R. G. Norton, the
meeting adjourned. x
After the adjournment of the meeting and
at about 7:t2 o'clock the handful of Tam
mananyites put Matt O’Connell in the chair
and elected H. B. Lemcke, the republican
registry clerk at the postoffice, as secretary.
They then submitted the Tammrny ticket
and declared it elected, after which O’Connell
«sii I
Tammany Wanted the Earth-and She Got It—ot; Top of Her.
hurried with the greater part of his following
to join the disorderly portion of the crowd in
the parade grounds.
Third District.
There was no election in the parade ground
a<lj lining Forsyth park. Long before the hour
of 7 o’clock, the people of the Third district
began to line up in the paiade ground near
the park railing. Both sides began to drum
early and 10 minutes before the time of call
ing the meeting the members of the Citizens'
Club drew up on the west side of the Bull I
street walk. Tammany and the “150” and
so-called democratic clubs drew up on the
east side of the Bull street walk.
CITIZENS CLUB IN THE MAJORITY.
The Citizens’ (dub had a majority of from
■-.tiW.tol.YUjqyjLgrid.yoters. Hon F dußig
iion.who was the leacfei^TTTir‘TiTfc-n (-'AH',
and W. G Cann of the Tamm nv. " 150’’ and
alleged democratic clubs, agr --u lh.it Mr J
Rando ph Anderson should call t’u- in reting to
order. Promptly at 7 o’cl.-cx Mr Aiiif-ison
called the meeting to ordci, Mr. Anderson
said that he proposed to preside over tile
meeting until a chairman vi.is elected in an
impartial manner and said i iat nobody who
was not 21 years of age <<r a democrat and a
resident of the Third district was entitled to
vote.
THEY BULLDOZED AND BROWBEAT.
Long before the meeimg was called to or
der the members . <f Tammany,
“150” and the ki 1 glove ele
ment, better known as the Democratic
Club, lead by George W Owens, began
their browbeating and I" li.l zh':; tactics and
carried it on to such an ex’ent that it was
disgraceful in the ex.reine, a- d in this connec
tion it can be charged and i < -.a-ged that the
conduct of Mr. Owens was ill .■ most ungen
tlernanly of any of the men wliom he lead.
Detective Henry Wetherhorn, who was
standing in the background on the west side
of the park, was approached by Mr. Owens,
who demand -d him to get out of the park en
tirely. This Mr. Wctherborn told him he would
not do. saving that lie did not come there
to vote. Mr. Owens then seized him and
tried to carry him away from the crowd
that had gathered about him. He did not
succeed, as Detective Wetherhorn demanded
that no min put hands on him. This act
, | on the part of Mr. Owens came near preci
i pitating the meeting into a gener I row, and
j the bulldozing leader of the minority op
posing the Citizens' Club was forced out of
the crowd and away from Detective Wether
horn to the Bull street walk.
NOMINATIONS FOR CHAIRMAN.
Mr. W. W. Starr nominated Hon. F. G.
dußignon as chairman, and Walter Hartridge
put up Mr. W. G. Cann, who was the choice
of the Tammany, ”150’’ and alleged demo
cratic clubs. Both nominal ions were loudly
and enthusiastically applauded. Mr. Cann
and Mr. dußignon then'agreed to have tellers
appointed from each side, and Messrs. A. S.
Guckenhaimer, W. W. Chisholm and W. P.
Green, representing the Citizens’ Club, and
James W. Mclntire, Bryant Williams and B.
S. Wells of the opposition, were elected to
act.
Messrs. Chisholm and Guckenheimer, rep
resenting the Citizens’ Club,accompanied by
Mr. J. W. Mclntire, representing lammany,
went down the line of the Citizens’ Club
and had counted 305 votes, up to which
time, as Mr. Mclntire stated to the other »el
lers, “the count was as fair as it could have
been, and I have no objection to make to it."
j At this point, however, George Owens began
the ruffian acts of the evening winch brought
i the count to a sudden termination. Messrs,
i Wells and Williams representing the oppo-
I sition Jo the Citizens’ Club, accompanied by
■ Mr. W. P. Green, representing the Citizens’
j Club, up to the time the counting had
. been interrupted, had counted 176, and there
I remained only about 75 in the opposition
I line and about 95 in the Citizens’ Club line
jto be counted. Mr. Anderson, the tempo
| rary chairman, admitted to several persons
j when the two factions lined off that the
Citizens’ Club was in the majority.
The part taken by Gjorge Owens to brmg
on a general row, seconded by Henry Green
and Fred M. Hull, prevented the completion of;
the count and thus the meeting was barren of
I results. Whether this was to gain time to
| draw recruits from other districts is m J known,
i but by this time Matt o>. nneli, wh > bad ■
presided at the rump meeting of the S .-mid
’ district, was there and with his crowd was ;
; yelling and adding to the genera! divider.
jt was Jound that it would be impossible
i to count the vote and Mr. A'-Jeis ni decided
i that the best manner to get Hie vote would
■ be to have those present pass between hmr
j self and the tellers. This was done, much to
the satisfaction of a majority of those who
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1894.
favored a square count and an honest elec
tion, and they were those of the Citizens’
Club.
THE COUNT BLOCKFI'.
Notwithstanding the protests of the op
position to the Citizens' Club Mr. Anderson
ordered the voting to proceed. It went on
smoothly for sometime, although the tellers
of the opposition, lead by Mr. Owens,
tackled the voters o/ a number of Citizens’
Club men, on the different grimnds used by
the heelers and wire pullers. Mr. Henry j.
Winkers, who was voting with the Citizens’
Club was handled in a very rough
manner. One of the opposition, who had
seen Mr. Winkers in line, gathered a crowd
near the stand and when he came up to vote,
his right to do so was challenged on the
I ground of his being a third pa, tyite. It was a
; paearranged affair. Ile was thrown down,
stepped upon and even after regaining his
feet, w.is pushed and auled around in a
vigorous manner. From this time tellers of
Tammany, the "150” < Lib and alleged demo
cratic clubs, seeing the, were in a hopeless
minority, resorted to tfr- practice in order to
break up the voting
And they succeeded most admirably. When
108»votes had been counted the members of
the oppositi in, lead by Mr. Owens, began to
pull Citizens club men out of ranks, and the
result was that a free fight ensue d. The
voting had been broken no. This was all
thal Mr. Owens and his crowd
I wanted. An effort was made to re:.tore or
der, but it availed nothing, as the opposition
to the Citizens’ club li al set their heart and
soul on not meeting to proceed.
AN INFAMOUS LIE.
The statement in the Uni'.liable that the
members of the Citijens'Club went back into
r.ni'fc tT, voter.ge (Iwy had passed be
tween the tellers and Chairman Aiuieis >ll, is
without a scintilla of truth; in lict, has no
foundation, except hi the fertile br.'.ii, of the
reporter on that paper. When the voting was
stopped 301) members of the Citizens’Club
wlio had voted were congregated near the
eastern walk of Drayton street and Gwinnett
street.
Till. Ml 1.1 ING ADJOURNI fi.
Tliis can be proven by reputable citizens.
This statement on the part of the morning
paper is no surprise, but to the contrary, it was
looked lop and is only in keeping wmi ils
past record. Mr. Anderson, seeing that it
was impossible to restore order, and after say
ing that he saw men coming from the dire< iion
of the Second disLict, which seemed to indi
cate that, coming at tint late hour, they hid
no right to vote, and Mr Anderson, who had
consulted with Messrs dußignon and Cami,
declared the meeting adjourned, to meet at
the theater on Friday night.
In conversation this morning with Mr. J.
Randolph Anderson, temporary chairman of
the Third district meeting, that gentleman ad
mitted to a Daily Dispatch representative
that at the time the meeting opened the
Citizens’Club had the largest force present,
and that Mr. dußignon would have easily
been elected chairman if the vote could Imve
been completed.
AN election held in the third.
When the members of Tammany amt
the alleged Democratic Club, had
left, the Citizens’ Club people elected Dr. L
A. Falligant chairman He called for nomi
nation and the Citizens’ ticket, which had no
opposition, went through,receivin , 315 votes:
II M Comer, Jr, Arthur Weil, W Scotia Tyson,
John Lyons, W. W. Fraser. At large : W.
W. Osborn, J. I-'. Sullivan, John Powers,Harry
Willink, Walter P. Laßoche.
There was no further business on hand and
the meeting adjourned.
hi reference to the subsequent action taken
to elect a committee for the district, Dr. Falh
gant explains why this action was taken.
“The meeting was called to order by
Randolph Anderson, Fsq., at 7 o’clock, and
Messrs. dußignon and Cann were put in nom
ination for the chairmanship of the meeting.
After tlie count was taken Mr. Anderson, in
my judgment, should have announced the
result. Subsequently he stated that by agree
ment between Messrs. dußignon a rd Cann
the meeting would be adjourned to meet at
the theater on Friday night.
“No motion to adjourn was put or voted
upon and the democratic citizens present de
clined to be adjourned. I was then elected
chairman, and, after stating the obje ts of
the call, I put the motion as made that the
nominees of the Citizens' Club for members
of the executive committee for the Third
district and for the county al large who re
ceived 314 votes be declared the nominees
of the meeting which qxotio:i was over
whelmingly carried.’’
The Fourth Dlstrirt.
'Hie Fourth district was the center of at
traction, because this was the district which
"animany confidently expected t >cany in a ;
walk. The Tigers, though, finding that;
certain defeat was staring them in I:.-, face, ;
; deliberately bolted the meeting e:d hel i a
little ctnsolation gath'iing of lira;, own after'
: the l itizens’ Club had elected ils ti....n l, ad-;
! journed the meeting and retired.
; Early in tlie afternorai S.ic ! c ; i Bulti-
! mer erected a stand on the west "ide j
I of Troup square and placed it in charge ;
of a gang of the Tig-r biigadej
.armed with sticks, ax h.indies and 1
: other crude implements of war. These fel
! lows evidently expected the CiLzens’ Club!
. to attempt to secure tlie stand but they :
J' were disappointed.
At 6 o’clock abodt 100 Taiiintuiyites had
1
camped in Hie square consoling each other!
when "Mcßride’s Four Hundred’’marched '
up Habersham street. Mr Mcßride led the
hosts and as they entered the square and
tlu. e cheer- for the Citizen s Club a
cold chi;! caused the stripes of the tiger to I
quiver
Ai U:ls o’cL ckthe gang got its second
shock. A large truck drawn by two white!
horses, driven by Mr. Id. C. Gleason came I
around the south side of Hie square heading I
theßailway ProtectiveAssociation,!.sostrong.
On the truck were Hon. W. W. Osborne,
Hon. 1. | Do >l;m, Mr. I S. Collins, Mr. J F.
Sullivan and Mr. Harry Willink. The truck
was driven up on the West side of the
square alongside of the Tammany stand, the
hroses were unhitched and the truck lifted
in on the ground.
Then the opponents lined up for the fray.
Runners were put out to notify those who
came after the organizitions which side to
take according to their political affiliations.
The T.unmanyites showed at once that they
did not intend to g> into the meetingas
thev gathered to themselves and made a wide
space between the Citizens’ Club, which had
4 to 1 over the tigers.
Mayor McDonough arrived on the ground
at 6:45 o'clock, and was greeted with silence.
He took position where he belonged, with
Tammany live minutes later Maj John
Schwarz came down Macon street, and as
soon as he was seen by the crowd a great
cheer went up and he was greeted as •'Savan
nah’s next mayor.’’
Bo
At (1:55 o'clock at least 1,000 men were
gathered in the square, and of the 1,000. the
Citizens’ C'ub had at least 700. Even the
ladies on the balconies of the houses sur
rounding the square, declared that the crowd
on the south side of the square would ovei
whelrn the others. Promptly at 7 o’clock Mr.
J. F. Sullivan arose in the truck and
said: “At a meeting of the Fourth district
executive committee to-day, I was selected
to call this meeting to order and it is now
open lor the nomination of a chairman.”
While Mr. Sullivan was speaking John
Goette, once a very prominent republican and
yyl believed t > bi-f-ng to that faith, jumped
'upon B. i': net’*slam! an.l shouted! “All in
favor of P. J. O’Connor say i. ’ Without
v.-.iitiiiy i r a v. te Mr. O’Connor jumped on
the stand.
The Citizens’ Club and its friends
opposed to the secret oath-bound
gang paid no further attention to the boilers,
i liey had the majority easily and proceeded
to hold the meceting regularly. Mr A. N.
Manucy nominated Mr J. S. Collins for
chairman, the motion was put in the affirma
tive and negative by Mr. Sullivan and Mr.
Collins was declared elected. The latter took
charge ol the meeting and called for nomina
tions for executive committeemen. Mr.
Manucy offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the following named
gentlemen be elected as members of the
democratic execu ive committee from the
F.m ill i'i, oiel: John Scii -'- uz, Thomas
Screven.Sun Reynolds, E Geffcken and J
E. Maguire. Hundreds of seconds follow
ed and when Mr. Collins put the motion it
was carried by a storm of votes.
As the bats went up even the most
•ardent Tammanyite could not help seeing
liow fearfully tlie Citizens’ Club outniim
be ed its opponents.
Nonegaove voles were cast against the
ticker, and then Mr. Manucy put up the
ticket for committeemen at large: John
Power W. W. Osborne, W. P. Laßoche, J. F.
Sullivan and Harry Willink. Tellers were
appointed and reported hat 810 voteshad
been cast for the citizens' ticket and none
against it. 'Hie ticket was declared elected,
and the meeting adjourned.
By this time the bolter's meeting, on ac
count of the disorder of the Tigers, had only
got as far as nominations for executive com
mitteemen. The Fiist district Tammany
bolters had arrived to help their stupid
brethren of the fourth, and the combination
proceeded to elect Maurice A. Buttimer,
Thomas Ballantyne, Jr., John T. McMahon,
John McLaughlin, jr., and Henry C. Cunning
ham
Alter getting through this farce, Ai
derman McMillan, who was lead
ing the Tigers, nominated
George A. Mercer, P. It Gearon, J. R.Saussy,
Henry G. Green and W G. Charlton for
committeemen at larg'. John Goette and
Alderman Bohan were tellers and counted 679
votes for the l ammany ticket.
S. B Adams, Eiq , tried to make a speech
for harmony but he never got the opportunity
to talk. Tammany did not want harmony.
After adjourning their farce the
Tammanyites, led by a few of
the 15') Club and a crowd of small
boys, marched up Liberty street cheeriix'
They were counted as they passed tlx
Soto and numbered exactly 362. ,.ie
First district contingent and the boys lire de
ducted it can be readily seen how ridiculous
were the figures reported by the Tammany
tellers. The marching of the Tigers was a
fatal mistake.
Unbiased people who attended the Fourth
district meeting from curiousity are unami
mousin the statement tiiat the Citizens’ club
outnumbered the tigers 3 to 1.
Mr. Meritt W. Dixon said: “It is useless
Tor Tammany to churn the- Fourth. The
I Citizens’ Club, al tire lowest estimate, had
271. The TamniZ are bolters.”
| Mr. Albert Wylly Lys he looked on as a
disinterested party and the Citizens’ Club
has several hundred to spare easily.
Mr. John Screven, I : “Tammany was
■; clearly beaten. The Citizens' Club had the
l best of it by far.”
Mr. W. G. Morell says he was present at i
-! the Fourth and it was clearly demonstrated ;
■ to him that Tammany was far outnumbered.
Rev. Dr. Schaeffer, pastor of the Lutheran
1 1 church, says lie looked at the meeting from
• his piazza and without hesitancy can testify
> to the fact that the crowd on the Citizens’
-: Club side was easily in the majority.
Messrs. Joseph l-'erst, A. E. Smith, A.
1 Ehrlich, John V/. Norton, Abbott Thomas,
Hal Bacon and others say they are willing to
testify that Tammany was easily beaten.
The Tigers received then- death wound in
the Fourth last night and while
they are still struggling death
i will soon relieve their sufferings. In a prim
-1 ary in the Fourth district the gang would be
beaten three to one.
It is rather peculiar that Tammany could
i not get a known democrat to call its side to
! order. Mr. Goette may have been converted,
but no proof has been offered of such con
version. He held office in the internal rev
enue service under Lewis M. Pleasant ; was
also in the barge office under a republican
administration, and was in the postoffice for
awhile under Col. A. N. Wilson.
Ihe morning paper man, who reported the
Fourth district mass meeting told a Daily
Dispatch man to-day that he would willingly
testify that Tammany was defeated in the
Fourth district, “Why," said he, “I cannot
understand how any fairminded Tammany
man can claim the fourth. The Anti-Tam
manyites had at the lowest calculation be
tween 109 and 150 more men in Troup square,
and 1 propose to tell Mi. O'Connor so Tam
many was beaten and ought to acknowledge
its defeat.”
The Fifth District.
The Fifth district meeting was rotten. The
anti-Tammanyites had a clear majority at 7
o’clock, but the Tammanyites delayed action
until two car loads of boys were brought in
from Smithville. Then the meeting was
called to order and George' f. Cann, Esq.,
and John O. Smith declared elected by 47 to
29. The Tammany general ticket was also
elected.
The Sixth District,
1., the Sixth district only 10 people attended.
Col. C. fl. Olmstead and J. B. West were
elected as Tammanyites. The anti's did not
put up a ticket.
The Seventh Hint let.
Tammany carried the Seventh district with
out contest, electing Henry Schuman and
Charles A. Norris.
The Eighth District.
The Eighth district meeting was held at
Pooler and 153 votes were present.
Mr. W. H. Bourne was elected chairman
and Judge G. E Bevans secretary, nomina
tions being in order S- H. Collins nominated
J. B. Newton and Dave L. Christian, the
present members ot the executive committee
for re-election and they were unanimously
elected; there was not a dissenting vote in
the meeting.
Dave L. Christian then nominated the
Citizens’ Club ticket for the county at large.
There were no more names r resented, and
the vote, 153,was unanimous by given for the
ticket at large. From the time the meeting
opened until it was closed, was only twelve
minutes
THEY ARE PLEADING.
The Tammanyites and the alleged Demo
cratic Club evidently have realized that they
were beaten everywhere they showed them
selves'last night. This morning Messrs. S. B
Adams and M A O'Byrne, representing the
above-named clubs,called on Chairman Charl
ton and had a lengthy conference with him
The gentlemen went there '“in the interest of
the party,” (Tammany and its tools) to see if it
were possible to bring about an amicable set
tlement ol who wre and who were not
elected at last night’s meeting.
As a natural tl ing, the result of the mass
meeting last night was unsatisfactory to
them. For that reason the gentler en de
sired that another election should take place
It was suggested to Mr. Charlton that, "in the
interest ol the partv” ahothr electi >n should
be held by primaries, to occur at the court
house at an early date. The conference was
brought to a close by Chairman Charlton tell
ing the gentlemen, who desired it, that he
would endeavor to get a like committee from
the anti-Tammany, so that the two factions
could hold a joint consultation,
MR. CHARLTON TALKS.
The different political leaders of Tammany
and the “150” club, finding that they were
beaten in each of the city districts—beaten
because figures will prove it—started the old
cry of ‘‘we’ll contest.” Chairman Charlton
was seen by a Daily Dispatch man this
morning and asked what, in his opinion,
would be the proper manner in which to
decide who were elected in the city districts.
“Well,” said Chairman Charlton, “those
elected in the districts that have not or will
not be contested, are, in mv opinion, the
proper parties to decide who have been
elected in the contested districts.”
This is received by many as a novel con
struction on Chairman Charlton's part, and
this morning wherever the position of the
chairman had become known, the utterances
of Chairman Charlton were roundly con
demned.
Tin. Daily Dispatch intends that, in the
event of a protest on the part of Tammany
and their other tools, which act would be in
thorough accord with their pr,t records, Mr.
Charlton is still chairman of the party, but
differs with him, in that the old executive
committee must serve and direct affairs until
a new executive committee is elected and
qualified.
A CIRCULAR ISSUED.
Mr. J. Randolph Anderson has issued a
circular, calling for a mass meeting of the
: voters of the Third district at the theater on
I Friday night for the purpose of electing
members of the executive committee. This
caffs for more talk. On the one side Mr.
Anderson's authority toadjourn the meeting
is questioned, while on the other side his
action is held to be 'legal and the most ap
propriate thing that could have been done
under the circumstances.
Mr. Charlton was interviewed on the ques
tion as to whether or not Mr. Anderson had
authority to adjourn the meeting. “I think
he had a perfect right to order the meeting
adjourned, if it became apparent that noth
ing could have been done. 1 will order
another election to be held as soon as practic
able.”
Judge Falligaut, who is reported to have
said that the Tammany club had a clear ma
i jority in the Fourth district, denies it. To a
Daily Dispatch man this morning he said:
“I made no such statement, as it was im
possible forme to have judged the strength of
either side, in fact, I have no opinion on the
subject to give.”
• HE DENIES IT.
Judge Ferrill denies emphatically the state
ment inthe Morning Unreliable that he said
I Tammany had the Fourth by 3to 1. “I did
not say anything of the kind,” said Ferrill to
PRICE 3 CENTS
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M . "»5 J A,
a Daily Dispatch man this mcrivag.
cause I had no way of judging,having reached
Troup square after the anti-Tammanyites had
adjourned. Again the statement that I d >
not live in the Fourth is untrue. I reside at No.
70 State street.
NO OPEN AIR MEETINGS.
The Popular Will Should he Observed.
Editor Daily ‘Dispatch-. The turbulent
and disorderly mass meetings held in the
squares last evening ought to be enough to
satisfy the people that such a system is
chaotic and abortive and oug .t to be abol
ished. These mass meetings will probably
suffice in the country districts for purposes
of convenience, but in the city proper a
primary is the only true method of obtain
ing the actual true will of the people.
Every honest man, no matter to which fac
tion he belongs, or whether he belongs to or
sympathizes with neither faction, should be
willing to be bound by the will of the ma
jority of the whole people.
This principle is truly democratic and in
keeping with all our institutions of self
government. Suppose political excitement is
at fever heat, this is no harm, but on the con
trary, is commendable, if we have the good
of the whole people at heart, but we should
not lose our heads, we should keep perfectly
composed, with but one object in view a id
that is the consummation of those aims and
principles which we are striving to carry out,
and which we believe to be for the general
happiness and welfare of our community.
Il yesterday’s mass meetings do not give
satisfaction and the people are unwilling to b.:
bound by it, if consistent with democratic
usages and precedents, let the chairman of
the Democratic party of Chatham county
issue a call for a primary to settle the matter
by the actual, the only true voice of the people
—the ballot box. G. B. Whatley.
Repeated oy special request.
Ob! where are the daring
Who eistwhile were swearing
That they would l.eat Waring
And all of his kind?
tn vain did they hustle
They r-onldn't down Russell,
An t like a girl’s bu-tle
Cante way out behind.
AT FLEETWOOD.
The Great Intercity Amateur Cup Hares Takes
Place Tu-tlay.
New York, June 13.—[By Postal Co.]—The
first of the great intercity amateur cup
races are to be held at Fleetwood Park to
day. These were undertaken by the great
clubs of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York for the purpose of developing the art
of reinsmanship among the gentlemen whips
of the country. All of the city trills
were held two weeks ago, and the finals to
day will attrac- the attention of the entire
country Belmont follows Fleetwood Witn
us cup races on June 20, and Pimlico on
June 27. In all cases each club pays all ex
penses of shipping and the keep forth:
horses representing it.
these novel cup races have excited very
general interest in the three cities named,
and many a good horse has been bought bv
members of either club since the races were
decided on Some ot the Philadelphia men
have bought fast onss during the past few
weeks.
William Rockfeller is a member, one of
the oldest; he has the fast pair So Long,
2:13| and Virginia Evans, 2:15J, Frank
Work's latest purchase Sea Girl, 2:18j and
Mahala, 2:19j, are eligible and they will, if
the reports ot their speed in company b ■
true, make a very strong bid for the team
cup, which New Yorkers are more anxious
to win than any other of the four. Matthew
Ritev’s new pair, Addie 1. and Ethel 11 ,
both with records better than 2:19. Another
pair that, barring accidents, are sure starters
in Fred Gerken’s Vidalia, 2:234 and Elmo
Maid, 2:231. This team will be in shape to
beat 2:20. Three clubs interested have de
cided to offer four similar Cv, v for an Au
tumn series, and also to make tSe.'» 'xrng w
and fall cup contests annual events in which ’
other neighbors driving clubs may join.
ROCHESTER WHEEL MEE<
Rochester, N. Y., June 13.—[By Postal
Co ] —The Lakeview Wheelmen ot Rochester
will hold a bicycle meet to-day. Ten even's
are on the programme, including a 15-mile
road race. Johnson will compete and try to
break the state record. There will be a mil.;
race on a quadruplet between a team from
Rochester and one from Buffalo. The total
. value of the prizes is $2,500. There will be
‘ five class B events.
THE HIGHEST AWARD.
Dr. Price's Unking Powder Receives It.
' For leavening power, keeping qualities,
purity and general excellence the World’s
Fair jury decided that Dr. Price’s Cream Bak
ing Powder had no equal. On each of its
I claims it was awarded a first prizis, or a di
: ploma. All the baking powders entire* Rm
; prizes were subjected to a most exhaustive I
■ examination and the jury was the best '
• equipped to take the decission of any ever
■ got together. Their verdict wasst pp >,rted by
the testimony of Dr. H. W. Wiley, ch ef.chem-
: ist of the United States department of agri-
■ culture at Washington. Dr. Wiley is an ex
i pert on food products and the highest author
ity on such matters in America. This verdict
settles a long debated question as to which
among the many baking powders is the best.
: Chicago Tribune.
Tennessee Edltnrs Meet.
Jackson, Tenn., JunelO.—[By Postal Co.] I
The State Press Association meets in annual |l
convention here to-day.