The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-30

THE AIM OF THE CHATHAM DEMO
CRATIC CLUB.

The Plan of the Campaign Mapped
Out by its Organizers and the
Schwarz Boomers-How the Schwarz
Men Expect to Capture the Nomina-
ton in the Convention, and What
They Will Do If They Fail-Trying
to Break the Ranks OF the Clubs.
The Chatham Democratic Club, it is said
by those who ought to know, was organized
for the purpose of being a power in the
politics of Chatham county, and its Or
GAMERS expect to make it the Tam
many" club of Savannah. The Young
Mems Democratic Club is a rival of the
Chatham, and corresponds very closely to
the City Democracy" club of New York,
and its promoters say that it has come to
stay.
The two clubs will no doubt do much to
shape future campaigns, and while in the first
year Of their organization they appear to be
trying to harmonic, there can be, IN the
very nature of things, no harmony between
them. At the very outset they are In oppo-
sition on the mayoralty. The Chatham
Club is for Maj. John Schwarz for mayor.
without any equiyocatlon. The Young
Mems Democratic Cluj is for anybody to
beat SchwarZ. Whether it be Hamilton.
Thomas or Charlton, or dark horse, they
are opposed to Schwarz. The Chathams
have no second choice. They are for
Schwarz first, last, and all the time.
THE CAMPAIGNERS AT WORK.
The Chatham Club numbers between 400
and 500 members, but it has been depicting
its membership in manner which betrays
the political shrewdness and ingenuity of
taN1t t1ia n-th snf ffuy If
the members have ostensibly dropped out,
but they are neither gone nor forgotten.
In fact, they are present in spirit at the
club meetings, but absent In person, getting
in their work where it will do the most
good.
They have been leading actors in organic
ing subordinate clubs and in securing mem
bership in those clubs and in the Young
Mems Democratic Club to divide its councils
and to keep posted as to the plan of cam
paign by their rivals. At the meeting at
Metropolitan hall Friday night they were
present, voting first with the Charlton side
Of the house and next with the Thomas
side If they can get one or two of their
friends on the delegation TO the convention
of the clubs it will break the solid de'ega-
ton and defeat TIE purpose of the club to
vots solidly against Schwarz
BUILDING UP THE LITTLE CLUBS.
The Italian hand of the Chatham COM
paigners can be traced to the organization
of more than one of the smaller clubs
formed during the past two month, in
some of which they dominate. and they
claim that in the Savannah, Florida and
Western club that, in return for two alder.
men, Scnwarz delegation is to go to the
convention of the clubs. If the Chatham
club finds that Schwarz is strong enough to
carry off the nomination.. his name will
60 before the convention; if not,
it will whistle the convention down
the wind, and, unfurling the Schwarz
banner, will bid opposition defiance. 1t is
only coquetting with the Young Men,
De nocratic Cluo to feel its st ength. At
bottom it is "Heads ! win, tails you lose,n
in its attitude in the campaign for mayor.
Although some 100 or 200 short in member
ship as compared with the Young Men s
Democratic Club, it will find an excuse to
keep out of the club convention il it con-
cludes to do so, in a refusal to be given as
large delegation in the convention as the
Young Meas club, which is numerically
stronger.
THE CONFERENCE PLAN.
They will claim a greater number of
registered voters than the rival club, and
there will be the plau ,ible loophole to wash
their hands of { q convention and they and
their allies can walk out of the convention
IN huff, aud leave the Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club and its allies to nominate
whom they please.
The Young Mems Club is composed of
about 600 members. 1t is composed very
largely of business men, with some of the
be t orators of the bar, and some of the
ablest political wire-workers known &,
Chatham county politics, but as the club is
divided on whom it shall support for mayor
1t is not making hay while the sun shine
The very measures it took at the outset t.
start the campaign early were defeated by
the superior generalship of the opposition
The latter wanted delay and they succeeded
FREE FIELD TO WORK IN.
They had but one object in view, and
that was to nave free field for their can
| didate and that they have had since d C.
Z, when the conference committee decided
| to wait until Jan. 3. The Young Mems
Democratic Club, in spite of the eloqueuce
| Of Ho1. p. W. Meldrim, ratified the action
| OF delay. 1--WE have no time to lose," he
| said, San earnest and industrious enemy is
| at work.
''They will be no nearer agreement" said
| a member of the Chathams yesterday,
| Friday night. They will find discussions in
more cluDs than the Young Mems Club,
| when they come to decide on ticketn
| Another gentleman said: "They tried to
| get j. j. Da.e to run on their aldermanic
icket, bus he declined. Mr. Dale gave his
| friends to understand that he did not pro-
pose to pull anybody's che tnnts out of the
| fire He would have accepted the nomina-
ton for mayor, but he had done enough of
the Chestnut business, and prefers to at
tend to his own affairs which absorb the
greater part of his time"
THE RAILROAD CLUBS.
| A prominent spokesman Of the Chatham
| Club says that the Young Mems Democratic
Cub will find. at the proper time, thai
neither Of the two railroad clubs viii
nedile in the mayoralty fight: that each
railroad wants two represe tatives in the
board Of aldermen, and that that will be
/ conceded Whether an alliance, offensive
and defensive, has been made between the
| Chatham Club and the railroad clubs is not
positively asserted, but there is reason t.
| believe that the Chathams expect the
railroad clubs to stand shoulder TO shoulder
with them, and tie liquor dealers will not act
until the result of the club convention is
known. They will make an organized and
~ gorous opposition TO any man that they
have reason TO think will not pursue q
| liberal policy toward them.