The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-04

graph of section of article Of the
constitution
Against ratification .....,......,.....s.....
Majority for ratification. ....,..........1,9 6i
For Governor, John b. Gordon. ............l,3 6l
For Secretary Of state, N. @, Barnett. 81.
For Treasurer, r. L. Hardeman ,........1.S1'
For Comptroller General. w. A. Wright Ct. 80
For Attorney General, Clifford Anderson. ,87s
For Senator First District F. G. duBignon. l AL
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
William W Gordon, dem. ..................1 ,262
William Clifton dem. 26t
W. II. Matthews, rep. Observation-Disclosures. 374
l.. NJ. Pleasant, REP. ........,............... 367
s. Is. Morse, rep. .....,....,.-.... ....... 800
GOOD DEAL OF SCRATCHING.
There was great deal of scratching
Gov. Gordon suffered to the extent of %
votes. Some of the colored voters, having
no senatorial candidate, placed Mr.. duBig-
mons name at the head of their ticket, Civ
ing him 43 votes more than he would other
wise have polled. Mr.. duBignon says that
putting him at the head of the ticket was
wholly a volunteer act on the part of a
former servant Of his family, and he had
nothing to do with it, neither providing the
tickets nor employing any one to circulate
them.
A republican ticket was also circulated.
on which the name OF l.. M. Pleasant and
w H. hdtbuonS WGic Oils anu bil0
names Of Messrs. Gordon and Reilly were
substituted, but there were not very many
Of these tickets voted. 1t was claimed that
Messrs Gordon and Reilly suffered the loss
Of a few votes because they did not attend
the meeting called by Mr.. Dgiscon at the
theater Monday night. While Mr.. Clifton
was the beneficiary of the scratching, he
made a personal appeal to his friends to
vote the straight ticket, and SO informed
D-sr -
Capt Gordon that he was responsible for
the scratched ticket.
NOT so BAD AFTER ALL.
The scratching was generally deplored by
Messrs. Clifton, duBignon, Gordon and
Reilly, but in the three-cornered fight the
vote was nearly equalized after all, and
while some feeling was engendered, the
party ticket was at no time endangered, the
legislative candidates falling very little be-
hind Gov Gordon. Capt Gordon leads the
legislative ticket, with Mr. Clifton a close
second, and Col. Reilly only eight votes be-
hind. "The scratching was a senseless
thing" said one of the candidates. An
analysis shows that there was not SO much
detection after all. 1t was mostly talk
There were very few who went Off after
strange gods
The following is the vote by boxes: Box
No. l. $50; No. 2, 443; No. 8, 1872; No. 4,
34l. total ], 75S The count was not com
pleied until 1890 o'clock this morning. The
officials of the election took their meals
down town at a hotel There was no dis
order at or in the neighborhood of the polls
There was gre t apathy among the col
oTed voters, as the following incident would
indicate: An old negro came along in the
morning with his saw and wood-horse on
his shoulder, and finding the election in
progress, asked what the excitement was
about. He was told that it was election
day. How much is deY payin'F He was
told that there was no money passing.
Then dar's nothing in it for me, he added,
and shouldering his woodhorse he went on
without exercising the elective franchise.
COL. REILLY's POSITION.
Col Reilly said to MORNING NEWS re
porter lastAlight that the statement that he
ami Capt. Gordon began scratching Mr..
duBignon and Mr.. Clifton, and that the
latter and their friends retalated, is untrue.
but that the contrary is the fact. Col.
Reilly said that the polls had not
been open more than fifteen min
utes when he saw Mr.. John Driscoll
take a handful of tickets from the Bull
street entrance TO the court house and de-
liberately scratch the names of Gordon
and Reilly in the lattsr's presence. Capt.
Gordon, he said, told him that when no
NOUcu, HIS NOOt WAS NO. 4 III th6 L street.
box, and that his name and Col. Reilly's
were then being scratched. Capt. Gordon
asked: Are you democrats and scratch
ing the democratic tlcketf The answer
was: This is free country, and we can
do as we please"
TRIED TO STOP 1T.
Later on Col. Reilly said that he went to
Mr.. Clifton and told him that the ticket
was being scratched, and if it was not
stopped he could not tell what the result
would be. Mr.. G.. b. Pritchard, who
was with Col Reilly last night,
said that when he saw what was
going on he went to Mr.. Clifton
and told him that if the scratching was not
stopped that Capt. Gordon's and Col
Reilly's friends would retaliate. Mr.. Cliff
ton replied that he had already done his
best to put an end to it, Col. Reilly added
that he knew that both Mr.. duBignon and
Mr.. Clifton had used every effort to influ-
ence their friends to vote the straight ticket.
THE RED INK TICKET.
The scratching of Capt Gordon's and
Col. Reilly's names was with red ink, and
the red ink ticket, Col Reilly said, was dis
tributed by Mr.. Driscoll and his friends.
Mr.. Pritchard said that he heard that Mr..
Driscoll sent word to the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway employees to come to
him for tickets. So far as there being
any retaliation on the part of Capt.
Gordon and Col. Reilly, the latter said that
neither he nor Capt. Gordon knew anything
of it, They had nothing do with scratch
ing Mr.. Clifton's name, and used their infiu-
ence in behalf Of the straight ticket. To
offset the movement on the part OF Mr..
Clifton and his friends against Col. Reilly
and Capt. Gordon, Col. Reilly said that he
himself undertook to secure the all of
colored voters.
AN OFFSET MOVEMENT.
Some of the republican legislative tickets
were headed by Mr.. duBignon. who had no
opposition for senator, with the names of ".
II. Matthews, s. b. Morse and L. NJ. Pleasant,
for representatives. Capt Gordon's and
Col Rsilly's name were written on the
ticket, and it was circulated among the
colored voters, and was voted by them.
Mr.. Clifton's name was not scratched
The purpose Of this movement, Col.
Reilly said, was 10 protect the straight
ticket, and get back inside OF the party
what was being lost through Mr. Clifton
and his friends. Col Reilly said that he
started the movement, and be is responsible
for 1t. In no instance, he said, was Mr. du
Bignon's name scratched on any ticket that
he had anything 70 do with.
The Lutheran Church Objects.
The trustees Of the Lutheran church hav,