The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
THE POSTOFFICE FIGHT.
THE ISSUE IN TIE REPUBLICAN
COUNTY CONVENTION.

Deputy Collector Of Customs Porter
and Joe F. Doyle to Be Before the
Convention for Indorsement-Both
Sides Claiming a Majority of the
Delegates-The Fight For the County
Committee Charm anshiD.
The republican county convention will
convene at 10 o'clock this morning in the
colored Odd Fellows hall, No. Harris
street, at which chairman Of the republi-
can county committee will be elected TO
serve two years, delegates will be selected
TO the republican congressional convention,
and "a legislative and county ticket viii be
placed in the field.
Il is probable that the convention will
also recommend a candidate for postmaster.
The friends of Joe F. Doyle claim to have
the written pledges of a majority Of the
delegates 10 vote for his Endorsement. Mr..
Porter's friends also claim a majority of
the delegates, so that until the convention
is organized and vote has been taken
there is no reliance to be put upon either
claim.
There are contests in the First and Second
districts of the city, but the opposing dele
gates say that the proceedings Of the con-
vention will be orderly.
THE GUARDIANSHIP FIGHT.
1t is not likely that Capt. L. NJ. Peasants
will be reelected chairman of the county
committee, ii he wants it, and it is not
believed that his name will be presented.
1t is claiqxd that James E. Whitemal is q
Candidate and has a very large majority Of
the delegates pledged to bin. S. B. Morse.
deputy United States stamp collector, is
said TO be a candidate, and the story is told
Of him that he approached Capt. Peasants
and proposed that the latter should step
aside for him If Morse had the most votes
in the convention, and he in turn should
step aside IL Peasants should have the
most, and that Morse made proposition of
like character to Whiteman, and that this
coming to the ears Of Peasants Morse is
unlikely to get any votes from the friends
Of either.
DISPUTING PoRTER's ENDORSEMENT.
The Doyle men dispute the accuracy Of
the statement that Deputy Collector Porter
mas now, or ever had, the party indorse-
ment for postmaster, or that the visit of
Joseph F. Doyle and James Mcbride to
Atlanta was unsatisfactory. They say that
DO effort is being made to override Col
Buck, but on the contrary are working in
nal Aunl Win the party leduers III AtlhuVd
Col. A. L. Buck, Col. A. n. Wilson
and Walter G. johnson. They say that
they have in their possession a written in
dorsement of Joseph F. Doyle for post
master Of Savannah, signed by majority
Of the republican county committee, and
they propose to make 1t more bind
ing by the Endorsement of the republican
county convention to-day. and that they
have oral and written assurance that their
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pointed postmaster of Savannah.
They say that the rumor recently pub
lished in the MORNING News that Col. A.
n. Wilson wants the postoffice himself is
without warrant, and that Col. Wilson took
pains to make that fact plain and unmistak-
able when he was in Savannah early in the
month urging Joseph F. Doyle to become a
candidate for postmaster.
Mr.. PoRTER's SIDE OF 1T.
Mr.. Porter's friends have been quietly at
work in his interest, and say they are
going into the convention prepared to meet
the opposition in a square fight Mr.
Porter's Endorsement for the postoffice, they
say, has been on file in the postoff1cs depart
ment at Washington for over year, and
it bears the names Of the leading republI-
cans of the state, the names of a majority
of the republican county committee, of the
leading city and county officials and of
prominent business men, asking for his APP
pointment. The Endorsement, they say, is a
matter Of record and cannot be called into
question. They charge Col Wilson with
having urged Mr.. Doyle into the field as a
candidate in view of the impossibillty of his
fathers getting the appointment, aud they
say that instead of working in harmony with
Col. Buck, Col. Wilson telegraphed Mr..
Doyle and James Mcbride last week that it
was no use to see Col. Buck, and at the con-
ference between Mr.. Doyle, Mcbride aud
Buck the latter was urged to indorse Mr.
Doyle, but declined to do so. Mr. Porter's
friends claim a majority Of the delegates in
to-day's convention, and, in square fight,
they say there is no doubt of his indorse-
ment.
The fight promises to be lively one, and
if former republican county conventions
are to be taken as criterion, those who
witness its proceedings will get their
moneys ORTIZ"