The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-06
READY FOR The ELECTION.
Committees in the Field TO Canvass The
City and Bring Out Voters.

/ Chatham Win Give Col. Lester a Rous-
/ ing Majority for ConEress-The Cam
/ pain COMMITTEES at Last Nights Meet
/ ing Completes Arrangements for To-
days Work-The Country Districts
Have Been Aroused and Win Turn
Out Good vote-Where the Boxes
Will Be Located.
The county campaign committee held a
meeting at the court house last night and
put everything in shipshape for the cleo
ton to-day.
There viii be committees upon COM
ittees at the polls and on the streets ali
day, and if the full vote Of the city and
county does not turn out it will not be the
fault Of earnest workers. The reports of
all the committees were received at the
meeting last night, and from the situa-
ton as reported there is reason to believe
that the city vote will turn out in force.
Committees have been appointed to can
vass the principal business streets of the
city, and they will urge every employer
to allow his men to 60 to the polls and
vote. The Savannah, Florida and West
ern railway will allow its employees an
| hour extra to-day for the purpose of
going to vote, and it is believed that the
I Central railroad when urged by the cam
paign committee will grant a similar pri-
vilege to its employees. The Bay has been
| thoroughly canvassed, and most OF the
business houses have agreed to urge their
employees to turn out and vote for Col.
Lester. The same has been done in part
on some of the other business streets, and
the work will be continued this morning.
In this way it is thought that nearly the
full vote of the city will be brought out.
The political clubs of the city will have
large committees in the field aggregating
nearly $50 to 800, and they are almost all
good workers. The Citizens Club will
have 100 men at and around the polls, and
the Tammany and Railway Clubs will
have fifty each. The committees will
have charge of urging not only the men,
bers of their respective clubs to attend
the polls and vote, but will look after the
democratic voters Of the county who come
within their reach.
Justice Waring Russell, Jr., will be in
charge of the election as superintendent,
and the boxes will be located as follows:
Box No. l, letters A to c inclusive, Bull
ana President streets.
Box No. 2, D to G inclusive. President
street.
Box No. s. H to L. ordinary's Office.
DIVA M T. W W } IAN NOllGClOI > OIllCe.
Box No ), Q to S, county treasurer's
Office.
Box No. 6, T to z, Office clerk superior
court.
Besides the registered voters which
/ number about 5000, there are in the county
more than 1900 qualified voters, who from
one cause and another have failed to reg
lister. This would give the county, with
full vote, between 1900 and 5000. A warm
campaign has been conducted in the
country districts, and it is believed that
they will turn out large vote.
The colored vote too is looked on as
more active than usual and will no doubt
turn out in large numbers. Several of
the colored workers of Savannah have
been in the country districts and have
been working among the voters of their
race with good effect. A meeting of the
/ colored voters was held at Russell street
! hall last night called by John Williams,
better known as Rolling John, and Rich
ard Butler. There were over 800 colored
/ voters present, and there is no doubt
that every one of these will put in a vote
/ for Col. Lester. At the opening of the
/ meeting Col Lester was. Endorsed by a
unanimous vote, and several speeches
! were made in his behalf.
/ Mr.. S. B. Adams returned to the city
/ yesterday from New York, where he has
been for the last two weeks and while
/ there he took an interest in the cam
paisning that was going o. AR. Adams
said that while he could not give an opin-
/ ion to which any value might be at
tached that he had received the impress
sion from what he heard and saw in New
York that Hill would be elected governor
/ by a small majority, but that Hugh J.
! Grant the democratic nominee for mayor,
would probably be defeated
Before I went to New York. Mr.. Ad-
ans said, Il am free to say 1 would have
voted u4ingt Grant and the REGULAR o.
in the local field, but now, If l had vote
there l would vote for Mr.. Grant and the
balance of his ticket. There is no doubt
! that a great deal of the cutlery against
Tammany is illogical The investigation
going on there seems to confne its charges
/ to the police under the control of COM
I missoners, while the abuses complained
/ of have been going on for fully twenty
i've years, and during all that time Tam
! many has been in no position to control
/ the police department, as was shown by
( the statement of Mayor Gilroy AS in
/ most cases the campaign is being run on
/ sentiment rather than logic. The effort
is to make Tammany a scapesoat for
facts and happenings with which the or
| ganization was in no wise connected A
/ surprising illus ration of this state of
affairs is the editorial statement of the
Herald praising Recorder Smyth, and de-
clarng him to he an able judge, but sta
ting that it opposed him because he was
. indorsed by Tammany. AS for the state
election, Hill is making a gallant fight
and he deserves to be elected