The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-08

Cleveland. DEM. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1920
Harrison rep -. ''.''.....''''-'.''''%'oo
Streeter, union labor. .....................' 90
Cleveland's plurality. ............."..2,666
FOR CONGRESS.
Rufus E. Lester, dem. ...,............ .....3,962
Floyd SnelSon rep ...................-.. %"
LISTERS majority
INCIDENTS OF THE COUNT.
There were SEINE rather stirring and
some humorous episodes in and about the
court house during the time the count was
in progress. The count was made in the
superior court room, and other than the
managers, tally sheet keepers special bail
IFS and jantors there we're but few specta-
tors permitted in the room, and none inside
the railing About 10 o'clock Tuesday
night some one turned the gas off down
stairs, and the lone steerine candle to each
table did not tend to make the room less
gloomy. A disguised democrat who was
highly displeased with the way the returns
we Q coming in, and who was feeling his
oats, got up to make speech. He said
that the election was a fraud, the gas
fraud, and he made a motion and seconded
1t himself, that the candles be blown out
WANTED THE LIGHTS OUT.
Whether he intended to extinguish them
or not was only known to himself, for he
was unceremoniously hustled out, but not
until he had damaged the door in his strug
giles to get back in, was he quoted. Once
outside, he became involved in dispute
with some one to whom he applied an OPP
probious epithet, and was knocked down.
He got up, and the fight was about to be
resumed, when Policeman Russell separated
the combatants and sent the inebriated man
home.
But the most exciting incident of the
court room was heated political discussion
between two brothers of opposing politics,
which led to blows, one lifting a chair to
strike the other Friends interfered and
further hostilities were prevented.
A HARD NIGHTS WORK.
The managers and tally-sheet keepers
were up all night, the bailiffs taking cat
maps in the hall on the benches. Meals were
brought to them from a hotel, and occa-
sionally during the night detail of two was
sent down town to bring in report of how
the returns were coming in from abroad.
1t was a trying time on the nerves of the
managers, for it was thirty consecutive
hours that they put in-from o'clock Tues
mat the republican, vote was kept down
e. what 1t was is due very largely to Chair
man O'Byrne of the general conference
committee Of the Democratic party, who
stood at the Bull street voting place and
challenged every doubtful voter.
DETECTIVES ON THE WATCH.
Many negroes tried to get their votes in
there who were unable to give their age or
residence. At this box Officer Wetherhorn
was placed to spot nonresident colored
men, and as a result it had a tendency TO
keep away illegal voters and turn away
some who had attempted to vote. At the
DIRK street polling place Detective Hanley
kept close watch, and his vigilance aided
in preventing quite number of illegal
ballots from being slid in.
In the mayors court yesterday the mayor
continued the cases against three colored
men arrested at the court house. Hector
Ranken is charged with trying to incite a
riot and interfering with an officer in the
discharge of his duty in the vicinity of the
voting precinct. John Blaine is charged
with disorderly conduct and interfering
with voters, and Casey Smith is charged
with trying to incite riot. The two coored
women, who wanted TO fight to a finish in
the street near the President street polling
place, Annie Fraser and Alkaline Johnson,
were each fined IS or five days in jail.
TRYING TO LOOK HAPPY.
Very few returns were buIetined yester-
day. Democrats were looking blue all dav.
and some Of the more hopeful were busy
from time to time figuring out a possible
majority for Cleveland in New York. The
MORNING NEWS issued extra editions at 10
O'Clock, noon, and 4:30 o'clock p. m. which
were sold as rapidly as they were taken
from the press, but there was little com
fort in the returns for the democrats.
There was nothing but brignt faces
amoag the few white and many colored re-
publicans, and Col. James Atkins office
was the Mecca toward which many steps
were bent. He had two kilograms that
were read and reread all through the day.
One was from John c. New, claiming In
diana by 5000, and one from Chairman
n fha al
claiming New York by $4,000.
THE EFFECT ON THE coLoRED PEOPLE.
The effect Of the returns on the colored
people was amusing. They Rugged each
other and manifested their Joy In many
ways. 1t is said that pastor of one Of the
colored churches had told his congregation
before the election, that while Cleveland
bad not put the colored people back in
slavery, II he were elected for four years
more slavery would certainly follow.
Whether the parson did or did not say this,
the fact that it was industriously circu-
lated is indisputable, and its effect was as
potent as if it were true. The older colored
people were even more elated than the
younger ones over the election of Mister
Harris
THE NEW ADMINISTRATIONS POLICY.
The policy of the Harrison administra-
ton with reference TO the south was very
widely discussed yesterday afternoon, when
Harrisons election became generally con-
ceded, and it was mainly thought that it
will be a conservative one. Well informed
democrats reason that the strength OF Hill
in New York shows it to be a democratic
state, and that the Republican party, to
hold power, must divide the solid south by
1892 This, it is believed, can only be
effected by policy of Cancellation
and recognition of the Anglo-Saxon
without regard to politics In the distribu-
ton OF the federal offices in the southern
states. There are others, however, who
look upon the dark side of the picture and
say that the old troubles will again come
upon the south; that the colored element
will come to the 'front.' and that the south
may prepare to see the representation in
the lower house cut down in the next apror-
tionment based upon the vote and not the
population, and that this will also extend TO
the electoral college, and the south will not
De the important factor that it now is in
presidential elections and in congress.
NOT MUCH OF A CIVIL SERVICE MAN.
The republicans here do not think that
darrlson will be much of civil service
Teformer, and they predict that in six
months he will turn all the rascals ont .
The post Office, the custom house and The
internal revenue offices are already par.
celod out. 1t is understood that Justice