The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-13
THE D1soRDERLY THIRD.
The Meeting Adjourns without Any
Election.

regret of the large m.ority of those pres
ent, who were unaccustomed to, and
heartily opposed, to such conduct. This
was the more unfortunate as an arrange
ment had been made between the leaders
Of the two sides before the meeting be-
gan. by which it was hoped a chairman
might be selected without confusion.
Hon. f. G.. duBignon, Mr.. w. w. Starr
and others, representing the Citizens
Club, aud Mr.. w. G.. Cam, w. G. Hart
ridge, Esq, and Others, representing the
Democratic Club, met in the park about
G:30 o'clock. Mr. duBignOR suggested
that some member of the executive COM
mittee be selected as temporary chair
man, until the selection of a permanent
chairman by the meeting in order to pre-
vent split on this point.
Mr.. Cam said that Mr.. j. Il. An
uerson was the only member of the com
mttee present. Mr. duBignOn replied
that he would be perfectly satisfied to
have Mr. Anderson preside as temporary
chairman, and MIR. Starr agreed with him.
Mir Cam and Mr.. Hartridge announced
that Mr. Anderson would be satisfactory
to them and the others present concur
ring, it was decided that he should open
the meeting. This programme was car
ried out.
Promptly at olock Mr.. Anderson
mounted the stand on the north side of
the confederate monument and called
the meeting to order. He stated that he
had been requested to preside as tempo
rary chairman, and called for nOmina
lions for permanent chairman.
Mr. Starr then nominated Mr..
duBignon and Mr.. Hartridge
nominated Mr. Cam. Both nominations
were received with loud applause. MIR.
Anderson stated that il would be useless
to take a viva voce vote and requested
the two factions TO line up on opposite
sides of the walk-the Democratic Club
on the right and the Citizens Club on the
left This was done and by request Mr..
Anderson named six tellers to count the
vote, three from each side. The gentle
men representing the Democratic Club
were b. S. Wells, j. B. Williams and J.
w. Mcintyre, and the Citizens Club a.
b. Green, A. 5. Guckenheimer and ".
W. Chisholm.
It was here that the trouble began.
The chairman instructed the tellers to go
down the line and count the votes on each
side. AS soon as they began counting,
voters from the head of the two lines be-
gan slipping down as soon as they were
counted to the rear in order to be counted
again Both sides made this charge
against the other, and the result was the
count was stopped The chairman then
ranged the tellers in front of him and or
dered the two sides to march BY in single
file and be counted.
The Citizens Club men were started
through the line first. The count
had not gone very far, however,
when the challengers of the Dem
ocratic Club discovered that there were a
number of men in the Citizens Club
line who were not entitled to vote, some
not being residents of the dis
trict and some under age An at
tempt was made to get these illegal
voters out of line, and as both sides had
become excited several scrim-
images resulted and the count was broken
up. Numerous attempts were made by
the temporary chairman TO quiet the
crowd and allow the count to proceed, but
the hot heads on both sides prevented
this, and the crowd did little for nearly
an hour but indulge in repeated cheers
for Cam and duBignon, according 10
which crowd was doing the cheering, be-
sides INDUCING III frequent scrimmages.
Almost all of the latter were in a semi
friendly spirit and nobody was hurt,
though the police were called in to pre-
vent their recurrence.
The meeting opened with over 800 peO-
pie on the grounds, and before it closed
| there were over LOCO. The business
men were slow in coming out, and
the two sides appeared to be evenly
divided at first. The Democratic
Club forces were rapidly strength
ened, however, and by the time
the count by tellers was ordered, the
Democratic Club had nearly two votes
for every one of its opponents. The
Citizens Club men saw this, and delayed
the count. knowing that their forces
from the other districts would pour in as
soon rs the meetings were over in those
districts This is just what did occur
Il
the Second district in body, besides
largo numbers from the First and Fourth
From the chairman's stand they could be
seen iiOckng into the parade ground from
all quarters. Constable Ike Nathans
headed the crowd from the Second dis
| trict, and evidently came with the inten-
tion of running the Third district meet
ing to suit himself.
The Democratic Club people did not
propose to be run over and they protested
against the intrusion in most vigorous
manner. Nathans was IN hot water from
the time he reached the park until the
meeting adjourned. lie fought until the
clothes were almost torn off his back and
his coat hung in tatters. The whole meet
ing was IN danger Of engaging in free fight
when the chairman called in the police
They made poor show of handling the
crowd. In fact.it was so dense that they
could hardly move, and this fact pre-
vented the bellgerents from doing any
serious damage to each other. Some Of
the policemen were pretty well slugged
In the melee.
Seeing that il was impossible to take a
vote under these circumstances Mr. An
dersOn conferred with the leaders of the
two sides, Mr. Cam and Mr. duBignon,
and it was decided, each of the candid
ates agreeing, that the meeting should be
adjourned until Friday night at the
theater. This announcement was not re-
ceived with any great favor by either side
as both wanted to fight it out right there.
| The confusion continued for some time
Repeated calls were made for a speech
from Mr. duBignon. He attempted 70
respond, but the yells of his opponents
drowned his voice and he gave IL up. DR..
Folligant gained the stand after the meet
ing declared adjourned, and madea heroic
effort TO speak, but met with the same
fate. 1t was evident that Dr. Fall-
CANT was trying TO call
meeting, with himself as chair
man, 10 put a Citizens Club ticket
through. This would have caused serious
trouble. Mr. r.. A. We'll mounted the
stand at this juncture and securing the
attention OF the crowd exclaimed ::
"Gentiemen. we can't do anything; let's
all 90 home" Mr.. Wells suggestion was
adopted by the crowd which gradually
dispersed, leaving DIR. FalliPant still
speaking. The meeting will 90 on record
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