The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-15

I perceive the drift Of all this wrangling|
was in the way and they desired to get
I rid of me and perceiving the sense Of the
great wrong they wished to do TO this
1 club and 10 me, / refused their modest
/ propositions and left them. Shortly after
I this a number Of gentlemen from this
/ committee called at my residence and
persisted in their demand that I should
withdraw my name before this club as
candidate for the mayOralty nomination.
They also notified me that as l would not
accede to their request they would come
before this club and ask the club to
ask me TO withdraw. l told them
that / was willing to lay the mat
ter before the club and would abide by
their action. I did not think that this COM
mittee had any such authority from the
club as they assumed
Assertions and recrminations of every
sort are being made by the partisans of the
two candidates. The Myers men assert
that the Schwarz men found they were In
the minority and that the point made by
them on the enrolment of the new mem
bers was merely a pretext to stave off the
primary. on the contrary, the Schwarz
men say that the Myers men knew they
could not win by fair means and resorted
to foul ones by doctoring the enrolment
books of the club, placing names there
which were not entitled to be there and
leaving off the names of registered voters,
AIeluDeis OF the CluD belonging 10 the OppO-
site faction. They also asserted that
money had been freely used by their oppo-
nents, that wavering leaders had been
bought over and others hired to stay away
from the primary and unsuccessful at
tempts made to buy others.
Many Myers men declared open
~ last night that they would
not vote for schwarz even if
he should be nominated and on the other
hand Schwarz's men openly declared that
they would not vote for Myers under any
consideration. The breach appears too
wide to be healed and many conservative
members of the club expressed their
doubts as to whether it could continue its
existence as at present constituted. More
than one Schwarz man was heard to say
that II was very pro bable the SchWarz men
would withdraw from the club in a body at
the next meeting. One of the Schwarz
leaders declared to a Morning News repor-
ter the night before that if Schwarz's NOM
ination should be prevented by any trick
cry the result would be the withdrawal Of
Schwarz and the substitution of DR.. Dun
can. 1t mattered little, he said, whether
the latter was nominated by the club or
Independently of it, he would sweep the
field.
If the last meeting Of the Citizens Club
was lively one what will the next one
be? According to all indications it will
take the whole police force to preserve Or
der. 1t has already occurred to the leaders
on both sides that when the question
comes before the club the circumstances
will be very much changed from what
they would have been at the primary. At
the primary only registered club members
We're to be allowed to vote. At the club
meeting every member will be allowed to
vote whether registered or not and the 1874
voters whose membership is contested will
also have chance to vote upon their own
eligibility. When all these points come
up for discussion there is likely to be
trouble and the result may be a dissolu-
ton of the club. The next meeting will
probably be held in the theater as the
odd Fellows hall was foEnd to be INSULT
Gent to accommodate the members at the
last meeting.