The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-03
SHALL STOCK RUN ATLARGE
The Battle Of Fence and No Fence to
Be Fought Wednesday.

An Election Concerning City People
as Well as Farmers-Both Sides
Working UP a Lively Campaign
The Claims of the Fence Advocates
and the Answer of the Opposition
mo Fence" Means Development
of the County's Agricultural Re-
sources.
The voters of Chatham county will
have an opportunity day after to-
morrow of deciding whether agri-
culture must give way to stock
or vice versa. The fence election
is an important one, and means much to
the people of Savannah and the entire
county, for it is in the hands of the voters
to say by their ballots whether they de-
sire to encourage truck farming, which
has already been proved a success here,
or if they prefer to have cattle running at
large. s
The adoption of 'tro fence" means en-
couragement to the tillers of the soil, and
Fence means that S. COW can roam at
pleasure, while s. 600 truck farm must
be fenced.
LIVELY FIGHT AHEAD.
Both sides of the question have strong
partisans and a great deal of quiet cam
paign work has been done in the past two
weeks The mo fence" people are said
to be thoroughly organized and expect to
win the battle. The Fence" advocates
are being trained for the fight by a we'll
known and crafty politician, whose only
desire is to make political capital for him
self out of the contest
The argument of the "fence" people
is that if man is able to own a truck
farm he should keep fence around it,
but that many poor people who own
cows cannot afford TO keep the animals
fenced in lot. In other words they ad-
vocate allowing cattle to, go where they
please in the county to prey upon crops
which may be without a fence. The an
swer of the mo fence" folks is brief but
convincing: Must the prosperity
of Chatham suffer for cows}"
IMPORTANT TO. CITY PEOPLE.
1.-THE city people" said well-known
farmer, SHOULD take practical view of
the situation, and, instead of paying no
attention to the election on the ground
that it is a question which concerns them
but little, ought to turn out and vote
strongly for no fence The prosperity
of the outside portion Of the county is as
much a matter of interest to city folks as
any question of municipal government.
increase OF truck farming, which would
come with the adoption of mo fence, of
course would be advantageous to the city
and put more money in circulation
1.-The claim of the fence side that man
who owns truck farm ought to be able
to fence it is all rot They do not stop to
think of what a big item the fencing of a
few acres of ground means, and then.
again, there are lots of poor people in
Chatham county who would cultivate
little truck patches if they were not com
PEELED to build a fence around them to
keep out stray cattle"
AN UNJUST nAw.
'The law is unjust as it stands, and the
sooner fence is repudiated by the voters
of this county the better it will be for the
whole people. With the adoption of no
fence, truck farmers would spring up in
every direction, and instead of immense
barren tracts, we would have highly cul-
tivated fields of produce equal to any in
the country, Chatham county is one of
the few back numbers in Georgia on the
fence question"
The election will be held in each dis
trict at the magistrates offices. All
those who were entitled to vote for mem
bers of the general assembly at the last
state election can vote Wednesday, but
each voter must cast his ballot in the
district in which he lives,