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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.