The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-03
IT WAS A RAILROAD FIGHT.
WaTSaW'S Election Something Unique
in Politics.

Parsons and Collins Lines Take
Sides, and Their Employees Said to
! Have Become Lot Owners For the
Occasion-Mr. Ambos to Contest the
Election on the Ground of IIle-
gality.
The Warsaw election, an account of
which appeared in yesterdays MORNING
News, is to be contested by Henry
Ambos, NJ. j. Doyle, J. A. Sawyer, Henry
Raetz and George Howe, the defeated
candidates for commissioners, on the
ground of illegality.
1t is claimed the election was a contest
Of the two competitive railroads
at Thunderbolt. the Electric Railway
Company and the Savannah, Thun-
derbOlt and Isle of Hope road. The
ticket supported by the Electric railway
people won. The vote in the election was
the heaviest ever known in the history of
Thunderbolt. Tt ordinarily ranged be-
tween % and 20, but this year it went up
to IS Twenty deputies were around the
polls to preserve order, and the affair
was as lively in its small way as any of
the recent elections held in the city.
Only owners of lots at Thunderbolt
We're allowed to vote, and it is alleged
that both the Electric railway and the
Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
gave deeds to lots to a large number of
their employees to enfranchise them for
the fight. The authorities of neither road
will deny or affirm the rumor but, at any
rate, there was great tollification among
the Electric railway folks when it was an
nOunced that the Fennell ticket had been
victorious.
In view of the events of the past few
months at IhunderbOlt the story that the
election was one for supremacy between
the roads has an exceedingly likely color
ing. The bill pro siding for a new charter
for Warsaw, which was introduced at the
last session of the legislature by Repre-
sentative DOOlan, was heartily supported
by Mayor Fenneu and equally as bitterly
opposed by Mr. Ambos One of the sec
tions Of that bill provided for the ratifica-
tion of the grant of right of way
along the bluff voted to the Savannah and
Isle of Hope Railroad Company by the
town council, of which Mr. Ambos was a
member which action he afterward re-
pudiated, and il was on account of this
section that Mr.. Ambos said he was
fighting the new charter, He did not
want the road to run along in front of his
property, although at first he had agreed
to it. The other sections of the charter
provided for putting the town authorities
in position 10 properly enforce the laws
ana Dettcr the morals OF the place. II will
be remembered that the bill passed the
House, and, after a first reading in the
Senate, mysteriously disappeared for
day. 1t was found later and passed a
second reading and is now the property of
the special judiciary committee of the
Senate.
Capt. D. G. Purse, president of the
Savannah and Isle of Hope company, has
since been advised by the attorney gem
eral, that the ratification clause is unnec-
essary, and that he can lay his tracks ac-
cording to the original grant, but he de-
cided to await the outcome of the recent
election before proceeding
On account of Mayor Fennell's support
of the new charter and the ratification of
the grant, which he claims is an
honorable obligation which the town
should meet, his friends say Mr. Ambos
made the fight on his ticket day before
yesterday and was backed by the other
road. As lessees of the Savannah and
Isle of Hope the Electric railway people
felt that their interests were at stake and
went into the fight to support the Fennell
ticket.
Mr.. Ambos, however, alleges illegality
and irregularity and says he will contest
the election in the courts.