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County Election Echoes.
The knowing ones wager that Col.
Waring Russell will beat Major G M.
Ryals for the County Treasurership
800 votes. This, they claim, is a con
servative estimate.
In the Dillon-King race estimates
are all at sea, each side claiming a
majority. The King advocates claim
the out of town and negro vote.
It is asserted that the largest vote
ever cast in Chatham county will be
polled at the court house next Wed
nesday.
Court house officials say that Mr.
J.K. P. Carr, clerk of the Superior
court will lead the ticket at the elec
tion,
A man went out to the Ogeechee
the other day and attempted to advo
cate Ryals, but the negroes kept cry
ing “Bussell” to such an extent that
the speaker gave up in disgust.
A strong Dillon man said to-day
that a vote was taken at a meeting of
seventy Irishmen a few days since on
the Dillon-Kmg race and every ballot
turned out to be King.
A citizen, who had been a member
of Tammany club, says so many
members have resigned that there is
but few members left to keep com
pany with its officers.
If circulars were to elect the County
Treasurer Major Ryals would sweep
the county, but it is the ballots he
will need.
A citizen thoroughly indentified
with county affairs and well informed
on politics, says that the county
officials at present in the court house
will all be re-elected.
A politician recently canvassed the
shpos and offices of the Savannah,
Florida & Western Railway a few days
since, and reports finding about ten
Dillon men in the entire Railway.
The Ryals club has rented a room
near the court house, where it will
establish its headquarters on Wed
nesday to be near the scene of action.
A gentleman whose name appeared
on the Ryals Club Executive Com
mittee, calling a meeting for last
Thursday night, says that his name
was placed there without his consent.
Very lew Ryals men are making
bets, but the King advocates are ac
cepting all bets that are offered.
With all their bluster the Ryals men
are weak in wagering. Is this an
indication as to how the wind blows.
Pure and clean politics prompted
Mayor McDonough to remember the
policemen and firemen with champagne
and cigars Christmas day. The holidays
have been most opportune to the maj >r
ity of candidates for office this year.
A bad system of drainage and Dr.
Falliganl seem to go together, at least,
one seems to depend upon the other.
“Let us get rid of both,” says a Harmon
man.
So much did the Commissioners of
Election ignore the wishes of the people
in appointing McDonough registrars that
to put up one of i's members for County
Commissioner is adding insult to injury.
And yet it is done.
Humus’’ Talks Politics.
Editor Truth: When I was in
formed yesterday that a campaign
sheet was to be established entitled
Truth, in the interest of dissemi
nating that commodity which is al
most a rarity in every political cam
paign in Savannah, I was delighted,
not only as a citizen but also as one
the people whose rights have been
ignored and outraged since the in
auguration of the present political
campaign.
Great interest is taken in the
county election, which takes place
next Wednesday, and as a looker on
in Venice I, and, no doubt, the pub
lic, have been aroused by the antics
cut up by the clique who are opposed
to Col. Russell.
I am not a Russellite, but a plain,
common citizen, who will go to the
polls on election day and cast my
ballot as I think fit for the best in
terest of the county. Colonel Rus
sell has made a good and faithful
County Treasurer, and I am sur
prised at the bugaboo raised by the
opposition. Major Ryals is a worthy
citizen. Os that there is no doubt.
But he has an itching palm for office,
and if defeated for one, he jumps for:'
another. Because the Major has a i
personal grudge against Colonel Rus- >
sell, and wishes to oust him out of
office to satisfy his spleen, is that any
reason why the voters of the county
should follow him in his wild goose
chase, and defeat a worthy official,
who has always been true, not only
to the interest sos the county, but the
democracy as well.
I do not question Major Ryals’
democracy, but I question his sin
cerity in crying what he is pleased to
call ‘Russellism,’ when the entire
county knows that he is the leader of
a ring and a clique, formerly known
as the “One Hundred,” but now
narrowed down to the “Ryals Club.”
When the Major says he is “totin’ his
own skillet, ’ lie is not anyways com
plimentary to the intelligence of the
people whose votes he wants, but who
are laughing at the anomalous posi
tion he occupies at present in the
political arena.
How can the Major be said to be
totin’ his own skillet when he is the
creature of a clique who want to foist
Mayor McDonough upon the people
again. Would he bow down before
the “One Hundred” demagogues and
cry out against others if he was totin’
his own. Oh! Major, Major, had you
learned to keep your mouth shut, had
you known how to think twice before
speaking once, your friends would
not now be preparing to “tote” you
from the field of defeat next Wed
nesday. Junius.
Every alderman who voted to bargain
away a seat in the council chamber
should be relegated to the rear. That is
a kind of “pure and clean politics” the
people do not relish.
Chairman Charlton of the Democratic
Executive Committee, can perform more
acrobatic feats in the arena of “pure and
clean politics” than any other politician
in Savannah.
Judge Hampton L. Ferrill, of the
Court of Ordinary, it is said, will lead
the ticket at the eh ction next Wednes
• day not only in fac\ but in votes also.
Tlie Clubs Not In It.
I have canvassed the town very
thoroughly and I am satisfied that
the people have made up their minds
to take a hand in the election which
takes place next Wednes day. The
politicians have manipulated matters
m Chatham county too long, anti (he
hour has arrived when they are
doomed to meet with defeat. Major
Ryals and Capt Dillon, two good men,
! are not going to be elected, notwith
standing the noisy demonstrations
being made in their behalf. The sen
timents of the people are against the
politicians controlling elections, and
as Capt. Dillon and Major Ryals air
the creatures of those who want to
poke their fingers in the eyes of the
people both candidates are laboring
under a disadvantage at (he outse?,
and will realize (lie fact on (he night
of election (hat when the people me
aroused they know how to summar
ily sit down upon those who always
endeavor to r*»b them <>f (heir rights.
The of Savannah m eds puri
fying indeed. Too long, indeed, ha\c
the citizens been ruled by a set of
nincompoops, such as the “One Hun
dred,” and until the people sii down
upon such ring and clique rule, all of
us will deeply deplore the absence 1 of
“pur* and clean politics,” which Col.
Mercer ami Major Mchlrim so elo
quently plead for, but which they are
on the wrong side of (he fence iii ad
vocating in the present comity and
municipal campaign.
No Man’s Man.
WHEIiE AKE Till; SPIES NOW.
The Pure and Clean Politician
a Trickster in the End.
It is surprising how all the Mc-
Donough henchmen of the Hughes
ilk—the spies and informers —have
disappeared from view. Not 0m 1 of
them is to be seen. Not even officer
Bossell and his little negro Stevens
now dodge around the barrooms on
the Sabbath. I n the interest of pure
and clean politics the matter has, no
doubt, been dropped for a while, un
til at least, the election is over. But
the people are not blind. A nod is as
good as a wi uk to a blind horse, but
neither a nod or a wink from the Mc-
Donough side will go down with the
element that has been snubbed, in
sulted and injured by Mayor Mc-
Donough for the past two years. The
spy system is doomed in Savannah,
and when it goes McDonough goes
with it. The mayor may be lenient
just now—it is political times you
know and a candidate has to be con
servative— but if Mayor McDonough
is elected again he can be depended
upon to enforce as strict, if not stricter,
the spy system, or in the words of
impassioned orators “pure and clean
politics.” The purity and cleanliness
of the .McDonough element is a mis
nomer, and its fraud could easily be
exposed were other elements to retal
iate, place spies on their actions on
election day and expose the bribery
! and corruption they would practice to
| secure the election of their leader.
FOR COINTI COMMISSIONER,
JOSEPH H. BANDY,
I The Workingmen’s Candidate.