The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-13

] The other leaders counseied differently
Z however. 1lr. Willink said TO Lieut. Reil-
I Is thai he thought IL was extremely un-
/ just that he should be- compelled 10 re-
I move his men. and that while he should
/ instruc. them 10 move he believed that
I they had a right TO remain where they
were. Hle asked what guarantee he had
that when the Myers men were moved
I from in front Of the door the Duncan
men would not be- allowed 10 come In and
take their places, which would certainly
be the case II the police We're withdrawn
Lieut.. Reilly replied that his orders
were to How no one 10 remain in the
doorways or on the sidewalk around the
court nous @ and that when tlae Myers
men moved out ne would see TO If that
no one took their places A force Of po-
lice would remain on duty until the doors
were opened In the morning, ne said, and
would enforce this order. Mr.. Willink
urged that tie Myers men. having been
deprived of heir places by the police,
they should be- allowed 10 resume them
before the opening Of the doors this
morninrg. Lieut. Reilly would not agree to
this Pre- position, however. He gave Mr.
NifIfnk ais positive assurance that no one
should he allowed at the door until
o'clock this morning. when The door would
be thrown open and all given an equal
opportunity OF entering. Mr. Willink then
instructed his men 10 leave their positions
In the alcoVe and move across the street.
which order was reluctantly obcyed.
Lieut. Re lily said in answer to a ques-
ton BY "A Morning News re porter that he
expected 10 remain on dut-g at the court
house an nj. yht and keep the entire police
reserve with him. He detail ed two men to
patrol each side OF the court house and
kept the others in line in. front Of the
Drayton stree at door, The men who had
been summon ed from their beats were sent
back TO them The majority of the men
who came on with the reserve had just
come i'm from their regular tour OF duty on
the street. and il was somewhat of a hard
ship on them to be compelled to do six
hours extra duty when they expected to
sleep.
To say that the Myers men are sore on
Mayor McDOnough doesn't begin to eX-
press il. Their remarks concerning him
last night were not at all complimentary.
The rush of the Yale-Harvar foot ball
game will be merely child's play compared
with the grand rush OF the partisans when
Lieut.. Reilly drops the hat at O'Clock
this morning.
Say us fellows was going to clean dat
gang out if de police hadin't done it. We
had de gang rea dy," renal ked an old fort
citizen to a Morning News reporter after
everything was yer last night
The electoral commission did not meet
yesterday. IL will meet to-day for the pur-
pose Of hearing charges which have been
filed against Regi strars Cooley, Mcintyre
ness in the conduct of the registration in
their districts. Some designations may be
presented and the vacancies filled. The
commission will lso be called to pass
upon the question of afiidavits presented
bv applicants to tho effect that they have
paid all taxes requ tired of them and are
otherwise qualified TO register. This is
presented at the instance of the Duncan
men. 1t Is expected that there will be a
flood of affidavits Saturday which is the
last day of registratio n. Postal cards have
been sent out by the Myers men TO par
ties supposed to be Favorable to them, but
who have not their tax receipts, calling
upon them to come up and make afiidavits
i'm order that they mfly be entitled to reg
lister. The following card was handed to
Morning News reporter yesterday by
Duncan man who said it was given to him
by another Duncan man who had receiv-
ed it through the mail The address had
been scratched Off, but the reverse side
read as follows:
Savannah, Ca. 70, II, lS94.-Dear Sir:
Please call at court house at once and file
affidavit. Your tax is paid. but we cannot
get receipt in time for you Affidavit will
entitle you to register. Yours truly
Thos. ]. ShefEall.
Capt. MCGOWAN was shown the card and
asked IL he had received any large amount
of poll taxes by mail. He said that this
might be the case. but he has not yet
come across them. He was asked il a man
who had sent in his poll tax by mail was
in position to make affidav4 to
that effect and register. Capt.
MCGOWAN was not disposed to ex-
press any opinion which might be taken
advantage of by one side or the other but
he said that he had had a great deal of
trouble with poll tax payments made by
mail 1t is frequently the case he said, that
the names of parties sent in by mail are
not on the books, their names not having
been returned and in other cases the par
ties were defaulters and We're due double
taxes. In all such cases the money or
check is returned to the party sending
il in
Clerk Keilbach of the ordinarys Office
wishes the registrars and the politicians to
take notice that the ordinary's office has
no authority to settle disputed matter re-
garding the registration, with the single
exception of where voter who has regis
tered in the county registration and whose
name was left off the published list. In
such cases the ordinary's office will furn
| ish certificate that the party was regis
| tered in the county registration.