The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-07
REGISTRARS In TROUBLE.
TO TELL WHY THEY REFUSED TO
REGISTER DAVID WALTERS.


The First District Managers Cited TO
Appear Before Judge FalliRant to
Answer for Refusing Registration
when the Applicant offered to
Qualify Himself Under Oeth-The
McDonough and Harmon alder
manic Tickets to Be Announced
Next Week.
The registration troubles eliminated last
night in the issuance Of a mandamus by
Judge Falligant against the registration
managers Of the First district, Thomas
| Cooley, John CAVITY and Timothy Quinn.
David Walters is the complainant. He has
been a resident OF the state for a year and
of Savannah for over six months and has
paid all taxes due by him. Walters alleges
that he presented himself Yesterday at the
First district office, but was refused regis
tration. He offered to qualify himself IN
der oath. but still was refused.
Walters Immediately employed Saussy &
Saussy, and last night these attorneys APP
piled to Judge Falligant for q mandamus
nisi against Messrs. Cooley, CAVITY and
Quinn, and it was granted. The managers
court Monday afternoon at O'Clock to show
cause why Walters is refused the right TO
register and qualify himself to vote at the
municipal election.
ANNOYING THE TAX COLLECTOR.
Tax Collector McGowan is much annoyed
by the manner in which the registration
managers are acting. He says the work of
his office is being greatly impeded on ac-
count OF the crowds Of men which have
been applying every day since the registra-
ton offices opened demanding certificates to
| prove their right 10 register or fiud out why
they have been refused. Mr.. MoC3owan SAYS
good deal Of this is unnecessary. The
fault seems to be with the books which
have been furnished to the registrars. They
should have been made exact copies of his
| books, but were not.
Mr. Saussy says he has forty more cases
for maudamus against the registrars in the
| different districts, but will await the decis-
ion Of Judge FalliRant in the Walters case
before pressing them. IL it should compel
| registrars to accept affidavIts the principle
will hold good in the others In former
years, IL is claimed, people were allowed to
swear Ia their right to be placed on the
registration list, but the present managers
are not following out this custom.
CITY POLITICS WARNING UPt
| opened, and the political atmosphere is ex-
periencing rapid rise in temperature
which will soon make it as hot as the county
contest, which was decided Wednesday.
The friends OF Mayor McDonough and
Alderman Harmon have begun laying their
wires and arranging their plans. and from
now until election day here will be daily
| and nightly caucuses Of the politicians.
The committee OF twenty-five to select
| twelve aldermen for the McDonough ticket
has not yet been appointed, but is being
made up and will be announced in day or
two. By Monday or Tuesday 1t is thought
the full ticket OF the MoDonough party will
be ready for presentation to the public. A
day or two later the Harmon combination
will be known, and then the voters will
have an opportunity TO see the complexion
OF the two tickets appealing for their
suffrage.
Mai Schwarz has made positive state
meut at last, which seems to delight sthe
Harmonites, but which, at the same time,
II coolly and soberly considered, may not
mean exactly what they think it does.
THE MAJORS POSITION.
A party wrote Mai Schwarz letter ask
ing him to state exactly where he stood, aud
so worded it as to try and get the major to
commit himself to Alderman Harmonls
cause. The answer Of Mai Sohwarz Is one
of the triefest things ever seen in Savannah
politics 1t is as follows: 81 hereby re-
affirm that will not be a party to tri-
angular fight"
That single sentence means, of course,
that If Mayor McDonough and Alderman
Harmon remain in the field Mai. Schwarz
will not be a candidate for the mayoralty,
but at the same time it means that il either
drops out he will 20 in.
There is not a syllable in Mai. Sohwarz's
reply, however. committing him to sup
port Alderman Harmon, and when the
latter gentleman's friends consider this
they may not feel too happy. II Mayor
McDonough should retire, which is hardly
a possibility, Maj. SchwarZ would take the
field against Alderman Harmon without
the slightest hesitancy, and under the pres
ent circumstances of the campaign Alder
man Harmon can by no means claim that
Maj. Schwarz will support him against
Mayor McDonough.
AS GOOD AS A COUPLE OF PAGES.
A MORNING NEWS reporter tried to get
an interview out of Maj. Schwarz yester-
day, but all he would say was, my reply
to my friends letter Is ample and
as good as il / had written a couple Of
pages" He denied an interview purport-
ing to have come from him saying he would
not go into the race if Alderman Harmon
remained in the field. "All | said was |
would not take part in a triangular fight"
said Maj. Schwarz.
The news that the major had declared
himself out OF the race gave rise to a rumor
that Alderman Harmon had been prevailed
upon by his friends to retire from the field
in favor Of Maj. Sch arr, but this proved,
like nearly all the other rumors of this char
acter. TO be untrue. Alderman Harmon
says he has no idea OF retiring. He Is in to
stay If be only gets one vote. A back
down, he considers, want OF courage, but
an honorable defeat nothing to be ashamed
Of.
Mayor McDonough smiles when asked
what ne thinks of the outlook, and remarks
that the weather is fine for politics He is
not man TO make any boasts or tell people
what he anticipates, but prefers to leave
the matter entirely in the hands OF the
voters and do his talking after the ballots
are counted.