The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11

as soon as the rain stopped the crowd be-
gan to get b0isterous and lose its temper.
The first. racket of any importance oc-
CURED in the court house corridors shortly
after noon. The people. who made Capt.
Dillons office their headquarters, became
tired of the swarm of both friends and
opponents who crowded the room and il
was partially cleared and a prominent
Tammanyite stationed at the door to keep
the crowd out. Several parties who came
TO the door and asked for admittance
kicked loudly when they were refused by
the dOorkeeper Finally Justice Sam
Reynolds came along and demanded ad-
mittance. Mr.. Reynolds statement that
he had business with Capt Dillon was
not needed by the doorkeeper
and a dispute ensued, in which sew
eral others took part. Some Tammany
man took hold of Mr. Reynolds and tried
10 drag him off, when a scuffie ensued.
There was a lively racket for awhile, but
the combatants were separated without
damage TO anybody. Capt. Dillon, who
had been out Of his Office, came up after
the affair was over and stated that he
had not authorized the shutting out of the
crowd from his Office. Mr.. Reynolds then
weSt in and transacted his business with
Capt. Dillon
CHARGED WITH REPEATING.
Some excitement was created about
u 30 o'clock over young man whose
name was said 10 be Charles Heron, who
voted at the d 10 G box under the name
of Goodwin. Heron was arrested imme-
diatey afterward on warrant sworn
out before Justice Patterson by Mr.
Osborne. Mr. Mcmillan stood his bond,
which was 5000. The greatest row of the
day occurred at 80 o'clock at box 2 ID
to G.. Henry Dreeson was the challenger
for the Citizens Club at this box,
and Benny Winters for the Tam
many Club Both were Justly declared
by their respective sides TO be trumps.
Both men were certainly deserving Of
great commentator for the manner in
which they kept their tempers and at the
same time exerted every effort, both men
tai and physical, III behalf of their tickets.
THIRD PARTYITE IN TROUBLE.
Walter S, Dayton, painter, who OBJ
tanned some prominence by distributing
third party literature two years ago,
came up to vote the Citizens CluO ticket.
Winters objected very strenuously TO
Dayton voting, and attempted to put him
off the stand. Dreeson endeavored to
keep Dayto on the stand. AS many sup
porters of both sides who could crowd
around, rushed to the assistance of their
challengers. John keenan, and "Kihie"
Cullon led the Tammany men, and John
Carr the Citizens men. Both sides
fought and scrambled for fifteen minutes.
Dayton was first showed down from the
stand by the Tammany men and then
showed up again by the Citizens men.
Part of the time he was up in the air
above the heads of both. A number of
side fights sprang up and the affair be-
came almost a general free fight.
THE POLICE CALLED ON.
The police made little show in handling
the crowd at first In fact they
were generally charged with displaying
a lack of interest in their duties until
urged by MIR. Mcmillan and other caudi-
dates to clear the sidewalk and put an
end to the affair. 1t took them several
minutes to accomplish this. Dayton, who
had been taken on with the wind knocked
out of him, was brought back and voted
after being sworn, much to the satisfac-
ton of the Citizens men. Having once
cleared the sidewalk the police kept it
clear for the balance of the day. Nobody
was seriously hurt in the melee.
An old man named John Kilroy was ar
rested in the afternoon on warrant
sworn out by Frank Quinley, charging
him with attempting to buy his vote.
The arrest caused much Indignation.
Quinley asserted that Mr.. Kilroy offered
a negro 50 for his vote and that he after
ward made him the same offer Mr..
kilroy told a MORNING News reporter
that he was mere joking with the negro,
whom he knew would not be allowed to
vote at the primary, and that Quinley APP
preached him while he was talking with
the negro and wanted TO borrow IS from
him, which he refused to let him have.
WIND Up OF THE VOTING.
The voting dropped off almost entirely af-
ter o'clock, at which time there were
1908 votes in the boxes. One vote every five
minutes at each box was about the aver
age after that time. Both sides claimed
the election from the very beginning, and
numerous bets were made at the polls. 1t
was evident all the time that the Citi-
zens Club had the most men around the
court house, but the Tammany men
claimed that their friends were
quietly depositing their ballots
and going away Notwithstanding
the large vote there was evidently a very
small proportion of business men voting,
and Bay street men were especially
scarce Tammany did it's full share of
the work. II its allies had done half as
well there would have been another tale
to tell. 1t was evident to everybody
In the afternoon that the Citizens
Club had the best of it, It's
members were more confident, and
were willing to bet on the size of
their majority as well as on the election
of their whole ticket. The Tammany
men kept stiff upper lip and claimed the
election by good-sized malorities up to the
last moment. They even accepted bets
which were offered late in the afternoon.
They hated very much to acknowledge
defeat after all the hard work they had
done, and hoped to find that their oppo-
nents had miscalculated their strength
They hoped to secure enough votes late in
the afternoon, relying especially upon the
business vote, to put them ahead of their
opponents, but in this they were disap-
pointed. If the polls had been closed at4
o'clock it would not have affected the re
suit.
CLOSING OF THE POLLS.
AT 6 O'Clock the polls were proclaimed
closed, and the windows were shut down.
There were some shouts from the parti-
sans, but the crowd had thinned out con-
siderably by this time. IL had not been
decided whether the managers should
count the votes in their rooms or whether
| the boxes should DC taken to one of the
court rooms and counted in the presence
of the candidates. The latter was de-
cided upon by general consent. City
Sheriff Blois proffered the use of the city
court room TO the managers, and it was
accepted. By agreement, proposed by
Mr. Anderson, IL was decided that only
the candidates on each ticket and
committee representing each side
should be allowed in the court room, the
idea being to save the managers from the
annoyance of diSOrderlV crowd 40