The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-26
WANT HIM FOR CHIEF.
LIEUT.. GREEN'S FRIENDS ACTIVE
LY AT WORK

Capt. White Says That He Is Not a
Candidate-What the Acting Chief
Says About the Situation-An Ordi-
nance in the Way of Some Of the
Candidates a $4,000 once That
Will Not Go Begging.
The review of the situation in the Chief
of Police contest in yesterdays MORNING
News served to remove one of the names
from the list Of those mentioned in connec-
ton with the Office Mr.. Charles J. White,
in an interview with a MORNING News re
porter last night, discl lined being a candi-
date; yet he was free to say that he is will
ing TO be the darkest kind OF a dark horse
and wear the uniform of a chief of police
at s., 600 year fer the sake of harmony, if
the City Council would elect him.
Lieut.. Green, with his usual reticence,
was not inclined TO De quoted, although lie
does not seem to take as roseate a view of
his chances as do some of his friends He
Is willing IN the future, as in the past, 10 do
the work assigned him. and while be does
not complain at the candidacy of those not
connected with the force, it is not difficult
70 see that he shares the views of his
subordinates that promotion is one Of the
main elements of efficiency in the working
force OF the department.
LIEUT.. GREEN'S FRIENDS ACTIVE
The friends of Lieut. Green were even
more active yesterday, when they learned
from the MORNING News that there was
possibility that their candidate was il
danger Of falling to secure, on the first bal
lot, as high a vote as they had been count
ing on, and some of them went as far as to
say that under the existing ordinance no
Alderman can vote for a Chief of Police
who is not a member Of the police force
without violating his oath of Office, and
no one can be added TO the police force who
has attained q greater age than IS years, as
the ordinance governing the police depart
ment precludes il.
These points will be vigorously pressed
by Lieut.. Green's friends, and they will
contest the case zealously if the
ordinance is not repealed. They claim
that, even waving the plan of pro-
motion, no outsider could take
charge Of the police force and so success
fully control its operations as one long con-
nected with its workings, and who, upon
the first report Of a crime, would best know
how 10 guard every avenue of escape, and
guard it promptly and successfully.
THE MISTAKEN IDENTITY BUGABoo.
One gentleman said last night. in abiding
70 the "bugabo0" made in the Angel case
that there was the prisoner Anderson,
arrested during the administration of the
late Gen Anderson. another case of mis-
taken identity. The prisoner was kept
locked up FOR SIX months, until one day the
officers took him down TO the market and
almost got down on their knees and begged
him 70 run away and say nothing about it.
And there was Forester, the great bank
burglar, for whom there was q reward of
several thousand dollars, and yet he was
allowed 70 slip out Of the city, and nothing
was said about IL
The contest Is waxing warm, and the in
dications are that the strength Of the can
didGtes Is in the order named: Lieut.. Green.
Charles c. Hardwick, r. J. Davant and
Gen L McLsws. It is thought the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western railway people
want Mr.. Hardwick, and the Central rail
road people favor Gen. McLaws. The re-
suit is In doubt, with Lieut.. Green still in
the lead