The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-11
POW OF THE COUNCILMEN
.,1ERMAN FALLIGANr THINKS IT
p1GH TIME TO GALL a HALT.

Gre That His self-Eespect VIII Per-
.,,+ Him to Serve a Second Term
With the Present ADMINISTRATION
Tho Issues Betwee Alderman Falli-
can't and the Mayor.
Editor Morning Ne,cs: I had not been
,rorn in as a member of council two weeks
.ofors Mayor Schwarz approached me in re-
io,ion to supporting him for second term
- mayor. He did this on two occasions.
LA him that could not tell what might
t.nnen in two years. might be dead.
I..,,ss might arise in which he and 1 might
10Th be regarded as mere pigmies. and
NIGHT not be even thought of for the office.
Tbetas between him and others l thought
10. of- and between issues that might center
."-onrd him and issues that were less i'm
.o1rtant. | would support him without hest
pIotion: but l would not promise my brother
That would do two years hence.
About this time, in speaking about me to "a
,ontIeman who happened to be friend OF
ss'ina he gravely informed him dat de
5octor was very smart, but you had to keep
Tonr tum down on him"
A few DAYS after the election of Alderman
uainaS TO the Smith vacancy, a clerk in the
nsca of Col. Peter Reilly (Scnwarz's cleo
,ion beadouarters) said to me, Doctor, they
are going to try and railroad you out of
@Whv. where did you get such stuff as
thatn | asked.
council" he replied.
1What member of council!
81 don't think l ought to give his name;
hit YOU are a friend of this Office. and have
mt good deal of business in the colouel's
hands. and | thought it no more than right
to put you on guard"
"What reason did ne give why was to be
railroaded out of office"
"He said that there was a combination
forming to get hold Of you upon the first
thing they could get hold of, never mind
what it was, and drive you out just as
straight as they did Smith-that they
wanted to get rid of you; they wanted you
out of their way"
The names of Aldermen Cam and Haines
we're given me as two of the combination
both happening to be strong friends of mine,
and gentlemen incapable of such conduct,
and both of whom subsequently informed
me that the charge of their ever having
such an idea was an infamous falsehood.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT INTERVIEW.
All this happened week or two prior to
my writing, or even dreaming of the cleo
trio light interview, which was Immediately
bounced upon by John SchwarZ as the
opportunity for the ''railroading" process.
A little after IL O'Clock on the morning
after the publication of that interview l
went into the mayors Office and found him
in great state of excitement. He asked
me, "Have you received your zummonsp
What simmons. Majorp
"Vy, de luminous to de meeting OBJ goun-
Gil AT half-bast dwelve O'CLOCK"
rs there a meeting of council at that
time, Major? havn't heard of it! What
is it fora"
"You hat not heardl Veil, it is to put you
on drial"
"Me on trial. Why, what do you mean,
sirs What are tine charges against me. sir ~
"Dey will be menshunned to you ven de
council meetp
you mean to tell me, sir, that I, citi-
zen of Savannah, an alderman of the city.
am to be hauled up by you for trial in twenty
minutes, without charges of any kind,
without an opportunity of preparing my
defense, without counsel during so grave a
proceeding, involving my personal honor
and reputation as citizen, and my honor
and dignity as an alderman of the cityl
Surely you will await until | can send for
my brother as my adviser under these grave
circumstancesm
well, you can zend for him, if he gifts
yere in diner
"And if he don't get here in time, you
will certainly postpone this remarkable
until he does get herew
mo. it will be heard.n
"Why Mai. Schwarz, what kind of an
idea have you of free American govern
ment and the rights of an American citizen?
All need say further to you, sir, is that
you won't find any Smith business in this.n
added as we walked into the long room of
the exchange, where was perpetrated upon
me as gross an outrage as ever was perpe-
trated upon citizen of Savannah, and
where was engrafted upon the records of
council resolution intended as apermanent
stlng-a proceeding 50 uncalled for that |
could not reconcile myself to the belief that
| sat among body of sane gentlemen I'M
less they were under the stimulus of some
poisonous influence of which they were
themselves not cognizant.
70 think that and to prove it were two
different things. | could afford to wait and
gather my facts at leisure, and then ask
council to erase the dishonorable proceed
lngs into which they had been dragooned,
should such prove to nave been the fact.
AFTER 1.-THE TRIAL"
AS council ad journed, and the day fol-
lowing, avoided Mayor Schwarzs pres
ence, for the reason that considering the
source of my warning and the malignity of
his attack, together with his indicate eff
fort to embarrass my political conduct for
the next mayoralty election, l suspected
him of being the member of council" who
knew of ''the combination forming to rail-
road me out of council" and in my intense
Indignation, it would not have been well
for Maj. Schwarz had we then crossed
swords.
. On the second day, however, | went into
his Office and said to him: "Mr. Mayor,
you informed me day or two ago when
you attempted to dishonor me by an infa-
nous pretense of trial that you regarded it
as your special duty to take care of the
honor of your board | thought your
board were capable of taking care of their
own honor; but as you have assumed this
paternal duty yourself, l want to remind
you, as it seems necessary for me to do, that
| am member of your board. and mg
honor was very seriously involved in that
olsgraceful proceeding. Now, sir, had in
formation a week or more before / ever
dreamed of the electric light interview that
there was combination formed in coun-
eli to railroad me out on the first possible
pretext that could be taken hold of. l now
demand Of you hearing on my charge,
and am prepared to put the evidence be-
lore council and have the member named
who made the declaration"
Il dink dat must be mistake. | don't
dlnk any off dem felt dat way. Dose dings
makes hard veelings. I would not.say any
ding about dat if l vos you. would let dat