The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-14

/ IONS BY the interests OF the faction
| TO which he belongs l have not found a
| solitary man who was willing to take an
( impartial view of the situation and ad-
/ wise for The best interests OF the party.
1 The leaders are all arrayed with the fac
| tiOns, and nobody is looking out for the
/ party. II is really very serious situa-
| ton when confronts the Democratic
| party in this county. There is decided
danger Of a split. Unless the leaders of
/ fairness, l do not see how it can result
I otherwise"
ONLY FOUR RETURNS so FAR.
Only four returns were received by Mr..
| Charlton yesterday. p. J. McEneneany
made a return of the Citizens Club meet
ing in the First district According to Mr..
McEneneany return the Citizens Club
ticket received unanimous vote of 800.
with no opposition DR.. Falligant made
a return of his meeting in the Third dis
trict, as already stated. Col. Olmstead
brought in the returns from the Sixth
district and d. L. Christian from the
| Eighth. The chairman will take no
action until all the returns are in.
The compiling of the returns and
the declaring of the result
rests entirely with him, and that is why
MIR. Charlton's position is such ticklish
one. He was elected chairman of the
party at the mass meeting two years ago,
and is entirely independent in this re
spect of the committee, which was suisse
Quently elected al the district mass meet
ings. He will hold over until his success
sor is elected. This is Mr.. Charlton own
opinion Of his position.
TALK OF A PRIMARY.
What is going to be done to get the party
out of the muddle into which it has
gotten is the question which all sensible
dnuonggsu &c az oclrfpC frbaYa mi
Gus suggestions. The one most often
heard is that a primary be held, to be
presided over by managers from both
sides, to decide the real strength of the
factions and who is entitled to the con
troll of the executive committee. The
registry lists, which have now been pub
lished, would be used at this primary,
and none but registered democratic voters
allowed to participate. This suggestion
has been made to Chairman Charlton
among others. it is not likely. however,
that either faction would agree to n
primary. Each boldly claims that it has
already elected its ticket, and that there
is nothing 10 do but go ahead and organize
the committee as soon as the
chairman can pass upon the re-
turns. There is where the rub comes
in, Had the elections been regularly
held in all the districts Tuesday night
the returns would undoubtedly have
shown the election of the Citizens Club
ticket in the First and Second districts,
the combine Democratic and Tammany
Club ticket in the Third and Fourth and
the ticket at large in doubt, but very
likely auti-CitiZens' Club, on account of
the much heavier vote of the Third and
Fourth districts AS it is the claims of
the rival factions put everything in doubt
and nothing is settled.
THE SITUATION IN THE FOURTH.
Nextto the meeting in the Third the
condition of affairs in the Fourth district
attracted the greatest amount of discus
sion yesterday. The claims Of the two
factions in that district are very wide
apart. No partisan Of either faction will
admit that his side carried the day by
less than three to one. Mr. ]. S. Collins,
who was chairman of the Citizens Club
meeting, aI1irms positively that the Tam
many people we're only as handful com
pared with his crowd, while Mir. F. j.
O'Connor, the chairman of the Tammany
meeting, states with equal positiveness
that their opponents were so few in
number that their presence was hardly
known until after the meeting was over
These assertions We're echoed by the
followers of each side.
AN OUTSIDE OPINION.
One man was found last night who was
present at the Fourth district meeting
merely as a disinterested spectator. He
said Both sides were so closely massed
together thatit was difficult to tell which
from t'Other' at first. The Tammany PEG
pie occupied the most ground,
but the Citizens Club people were
more closely packed together. The only
way in which l could form an estimate of
the strength of the two crowds was
when the Citizens Club meeting had ad-
iOurned and their crowd left the grounds,
their presence was hardly missed The
crowd was almost as large as before
This is my reason for thinking that Tam
many had an easy majority of those pres
ent in the square. / estimated the whole
crowd at not over 700 or 800 The crowd
that remained to hear Mr.. O'Connor's
speech seemed to be almost as large"
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEES WORK.
A conference was held between some of
the leaders of the two factions last night
with view of reaching some basis of set
Element of the contested districts The
conference was proposed by Mr. f. G. du-
Bignon, who called upon MIR Charlton for
this purpose yesterday morning. MIR. du-
Bignon's proposition was referred by Mr.
Charlton to The leaders of the anti-Rus-
sell faction, who agreed TO meet
MIR. duBignon and other lead
ers of the Citizens Club for
the purpose of discussing the situation
The conference committees met at the Of
flee of Denmark x Adams at o'clock
Those present were Mr.. duBignon, Hon.
Pope Barrow, w. w. Osborne, A n. Ma
nucy, J. S. Collins and w. w. Starr, rep
resenting the Citizens Club, and S. b.
Adams NJ A. O'Byrne, w. c. Hartridge,
W. G. Cam, G. F. Prendergast, c. w.
Owens and j, r. Anderson, representing
the Democratic and Tammany Clubs
The conference was continued Tor over an
hour, but without any result being
reached. The conference adjourned to
meet again this afternoon or tonight.
Tammany will hold its regular weekly
meeting tonight. The chief business Of
the meeting will be general congratula-
ton over the recent victory.
MERCURY CLIMBING HIGH.