The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-19
CALHoUN's VOTE.


Mr.. Calhoun in both houses rnanaoed to
get one more vote than Gen. Gordon in
the lesser branch of the assembly.
For rejected candidate Mr.. Norwood.
who nearly doubled the anti-Gordon NOM
lnee, seems to have done very we'll He
believes, il is said, that his speeches broke
the backbone of the Gordon opposition.
1t did have s. great deal to do with
1t. However. MeSsrs. Reed and Harper, in
the alliance caucus, on the night of the
4th, broke up ring rule and foreign ma
nlpulation in Georgia, and Gen. Gordon'S
election was assured when Macuneism was
vanqushed.
One of the transparencies tonight suc-
gested that the doctor might now retire TO
the secl usion of home life
THE JOINT BALLOT.
The vote will not be consolidated till to-
morrow, as the enthusiasm which
overran the House and forced it to adjourn
shortly after Gen. Gordon was known to
be safe prevented the clerk from taking
down all the changes. 1t is not known how
big Gen. Gordon's majority is.
After Mr.. Norman changed to Gen.
Gordon and was lifted in the air, three
stories up as it were, by Mr.. Clifton on a
table. 1t took ten minutes for the hurrahing
to subside sufficiently for Sny Individual
yell to be heard. There reigned pandem-
onium of delight.
CLARK HowELL's SPEECH
There was not a bit of hurnbug in Clark
Howells declaration. He claimed no credit
for changing to Gen. Gordon, stating, it
bitterly. yet honestly, that he had declined
as long as such action on his part could
affect the result. The people of Atlanta
have no patience with the war he has made
on Gen. Gordon, however, and it
has cost him his popularity.
Frankness, however, which was all that he
claimed for himself, was all that could be
claimed for him, yet was he given at the
time both more and less than the action de-
served. One man embraced him, and sew
eral cried out, BLESS you" while a voice
late, Clark! you're dead as --W
HOW GORDON TOOK THE NEWS.
While the vote was being taken, upon the
issue OF which hung his hopes, Gen. Gordon,
accompanied by his wife, occupied small
ante-room adjoining the state library where
he could not hear any very definite news Of
what was going on. But knowing the people
to be with him, their frequent
shouts must have Kept up his spirits and
prepared him for the fortunate conclusion.
When the uproar grew SO great and so pro
longed 1t put period to his anxiety, for he
knew that his forces had swept the field,
agitGted man that the members found
when they rushed in announcing
victory and escorted him to the scene
OF his triumph He marched
in at their head amid most dsafening plau-
dts aud hurrahs, and the waving hands of
women and the smiles and tears Of men
for many batte-scarred old veteran was
blub6ering like baby-and mounted the
stand white and trembling, and through the
windows cnna rha hO0m Of connon
LOOKED AS IN DAYS GONE BY.
"By -" cried out an old confederate,
she looks like he was going 20 make a
CHARGE" and again the cannon doomed. All
that he said this correspondent is unable to
report, for his hand shook 30 that his notes
are quite illegible, even TO himself But he
said enough, and said it nobly
enough, and even those who opposed
him must have felt proud of him, and for
given his success. "Ungrateful and Geserv-
ing Of almighty vengeance would be he who
would not devote every impulse of his heart
aud mind to such people, To-day, what
ever else has triumphed. truth has tri-
umphed, and | predict that in sixty days
there will not be an anti-Gordon alliance
man in the country. God bless you, my
countrymen. All that am, all that | hope
to be. Is consecrated to your service under
God"
SENATOR CoLQUITT ON THE STAND.
Senator Colquitt then mounted the stand.
He said this was no occasion for speech
making, but rather for drum beating and
cannon firing and jubilee, and Hoke
Smith announced that the town could just
be turned bottom side upward, and he
would make it all right with the mayor.
DRAWN THROUGH THE STREETS.
Meantime Gen. Gordon had left the build
H. .G..-l l..
seized bodily and mounted on a gun car
riage with pole attached to it twelve feet
long and sevelty-two feet of rope to the
end Of that, and everybody lent hand
that could get to the carriage tongue or to
the rope, and away they hurried MIN
with "a rush. nearly. jolting
the rough pavement to the
Kimball House, where they stood him up
on the register and, that not being high
enough, on the clerks counter, and had him
tell them all over again how proud he was
OF the honor that had been conferred upon
him, and how steadfast in their service, to
the best of his ability. he proposed to be.
DRAWN IN A CARRIAGE.
And then they took him ont in the street
and seized somebody's carriage and took
the horses out and harnessed themqelves in
and pulled him through the streets, shouting
like so many wild Indians, to the executive
mansion, where Gov. Northen was waiting
for him and where, at last, he
was given chance to rest his
dear old bones. Those who fought him in
this canvass fought on this line. 1.-THE
war;" said they, ''is over" Gen. Gordon's
triumph answers: ''Yes; but the memory
of its heroism is eternal"
EFFECT ON THE ALLIANCE.
Opinions in this city vary as TO the effect
Gea. Gordon's election will have ON the
alliance as a political factor. Some think
his success gives it its only chance Of exist
ence, while others prophesy that his election
means the retirement of the alliance from
politics. The alliance has been SO modified
since it came to the capital that it would
not now know itself if it came across
itself in the road. There is no
longer any attempt to regulate
the political destinies of the state from be-
hind closed doors, and it has chosen a sena-
tor who declared against the sub-treasury
scheme. The alliance is, besides, no longer
in the hands of dcmagogues, and, in its
present shape, is likely to do no evil, and,
perhaps, much good. At all events, it has
made itself respected, and will be accorded
a fair trial by the balance of the
people. So far, it seems to have
made no mistakes Col. Livingston ought
to have taken more pains to conceal his
ugly feelings, inspired ny Gen. Gordon's
success. His face was a study. He turned
purple, and Editor Brown was as white as q
sheet. They have had bad luck.