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TFIE THU L'H.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1892.
TO EVERYBODY.
The causes which have given birth
to this little paper may be briefly and
frankly stated. We are upon the eve
of an election of extraordinary impor
tance and all absorbing interest
Devested of the stuff and nonsense
with which it has been obscured, it is
an issue between established and
time tried Democracy, and a clique
of professional spoilsmen, who are
posing before the public as political
reformers.
Colonel Waring Russell, Mr. Wal
ter S. King and their associates upon
the people’s ticket represent an ele
ment that has served honest, Dem
ocracy and good government times
without number in Chatham County.
They stand for principles that have
stood the test of years, and are closely
identified with the entire interests of
the people.
The opposition is the creation of a
clique, composed in the main of
sore-heads, defeated office seekers
and aspiring wire-pullers, with a keen
scent for spoils. In order to divert
discussion from the real issue, they
have raised the cry of “bossism” and
“Russellism,” and have endeavored
assiduously to convince the public
thay they are seeking to overthrow a
one'man power in Chatham County.
What they are really trying to do is
to seize the reins of government and
establish a formidable machine.
In no sense do they represent the
people, or are they in sympathy with
the masses. No better demonstration
of this is needed than the fact that
they have picked upon Major Ryals
as the opponent of Mr. Russell.
Major Ryals’ public career has proven
beyond all doubt that he is the pliant
tool of monopolists and rings, and he
has at no time been influenced by the
faintest consideration for public weal,
in spite of his lame denials and com
plicated explanations, the fact re
mains that he was intimately con
nected with the oyster and fence
legislations, that he has proven a
curse unmixed to the poor and hum
ble. This is one of the men with whom
they propose to reform politics.
(’apt. John R. Dillon is a politician
for revenue only. He holds five
offices now, and if elected it is prob
ably only a matter of time when he
will absorb the balance of them.
His hand has been plainly visible in
the appointment of partisan boards
for the management of elections, and
he is in brief, a full blown flower of
the ring government which recently
received a crushing blow in the new
County Commissioners’ law.
Teese are the men who are plotting
to throw the pilot overboard. Are
they lit to sail the ship?
Waring Russell has been a wheel
horse of Chatham County Democracy
from time out of mind. From the
dark and direful days of reconstruc
tion to the past election in this
county, the party has turned to him
invariably in its extremity, and has
never turned in vain As a public
officer he has been brave, staunch ami
true, and the fact that he is to-day a
poor man at the end of 40 years of
conspicuous services, is one of the
highest tributes that can be paid to
his manhood.
Walter 8. King is a gentleman who
stands high in public respect and es
teem. He is a typical American citi
zen; quiet, modest and unassuming
and able. He is not an office seeker,
nor a chronic office holder, and it is
unnecessary to state to those who
know him, that if elected he would be
at the back of no clique, and would
wear the collar of no ring.
In advancing the interests of the
ticket which these candidates
lead, and the balance of it is com
posed of gentlemen whose standing is
beyond the peradventure of a doubt,
we believe we are advancing the in
terests of the community. Further
on we will have something to say
about the municipal campaign, and
our friends can rest assured that
there will be no hesitancy in these
columns in calling a spade a spade.
All issues will be treated with fair
ness, and a patient audience only is
asked.
REGISTRATION OFFICES.
Where They Will be Opened Dur
ing the Two Weeks in January,
The following places have been des
ignated as offices for the registration
of voters for the city election, to be
held on Tuesday, January 17. The
offices will be open from 9 a. m. to 2
p. m., and from 4 p. in. to 8. p. m.
The books will open Monday, January
2, and keep open two weeks:
First District —No. 64 West Broad
street.
Second District—No. 47 Barnard
street.
Third District—No. 22 Bull street.
Fourth District—No. 17 East Broad
street.
Fourth District, second Division —
Liberty street, between Houston and
Price, (swimming pool.)
KING VS. DILLON.
The workingmen of the county will
be called upon next Wednesday to
choose between Walter 8. King, who
is one of them, who has been faithful
to every trust reposed in him, and
who resigned a lucrative position,
rather than impose unjust burdens
upon those under him, and John R.
Dillon, who has never been in sym
pathy with them, has tried to grab
everything in sight, and who com
pels other employes in the Court
House to perform the work for which
he is paid. Will they hesitate?
Every man of them should rally to
the support of King, and we believe
they will.
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Does Major Ryals Want the Earth ?
An article in the Morning News
some time ago stated that Maj. Ryals
was making SIO,OOO a year out of his
farm. If elected County Treasurer he
will get $3,000 additional, or in other
words will then be getting $13,000 a
year. Don’t this strike the average
man as being a bit too greedy?
Who paid the expenses of Mayor Mc-
Donough and Alderman Charlton to
Atlanta to argue against the registration
bill? Perhaps the incidental account.
A«k “pure and clean politics.”
THE FBEE LANCE.
Everybody in Savannah knows Col.
R. F. Harmon better known as
“Fuller,” and everybody knows that
he is to the “manor born ” His
whole interests are centered in his
native city, and what is tor the good
and welfare of Savannah is what he
will most naturally bend all of his
energies to accomplish.
His candidacy for Mayor was from
the first, over and above board, and
was not hedged round with the mis
leading and Rich lieu like methods
resorted to by others, and this alone
should bring to his aid the assistance
of those who really believe that
“purity in politics” is something
tangible, and not a myth.
Col. Harmon has no barrel to be
tapped ; has no committee of one hun
dred to write school-boy compositions
for publication; does not imagine he
is the only alderman on the present
board that possesses any brains;
but he comes before the people in a
modest manner and asks their sup
port, and as he is a Sayan nah boy,
we hope and believe that he will be
elected; and we also feel confident
that if this is the result the next ad
ministration will be one that will
reflect credit upon our Forest City.
Capt. John R. Dillon’s friends say
that “wrecks” will be plentiful after
the election, as no one can possibly
beat the greatest office holder in them
all Now let us see: Can it be pos
sible that Capt. Dillon’s friends are
trying to pun! If so, we are willing
to go on record as saying that the
only “Rex” that will be around in a
lively manner will be Walter King,
and his address will be County Court
House, Savannah, Ga.
Major Ryals is a right clever gen
tleman, and it is a pity that he should
have allowed himself to be made a
sacrifice of by his friends. No one
that knows the inside of the Ryals
movement has any idea that the
Major expects to go through ; but des
perate cases require desperate rem-
Idies, and on the one chance out of
one thousand his “friends” have put
him up, and he will certainly make a
grand offering on the altar of de
feated ambition.
Col. Waring Russell is saying noth
ing, but is confident that his past
record will not be forgotten, and on
the day of election bigotry will be
thrown aside and the people will with
no uncertain voice teach the would-be
bosses of Savannah a lesson that they
will remember for years. It is safe to
wager that Waring Russell will be
the next County Treasurer.
Major Ryals the day after election:
“He who steals mu Purse, steals only
trash.”
The railroad boys are a unit for
Walter King, and their vote is going
to teli the tale. Mr. King is an old
railroad man, and was the idol of his
employes. He is universally recog
nized as a courteous gentleman in
every way, and his election seems to
be assured.
Is it not about time to publish the
Charlton-Russell complimentary letters
again? The publication would, no
doubt, drive the anti-Russell faction into
a hole.