The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-20
DIR. FALLIGANT REPLIES.
And Gives a Caustic Answer to Chat
hams Article in Yesterdays Press.

ana Gives Caustic Answer to Chat
nam Article in Yesterdays Press.
Editor Morning News: In the Savannah
Press Of Saturday. Jan. 1s. over the anony-
nous signature of Chatham" is a com
munication 10 which I desire to respond
categoncally. At the time when 7 wrote
that Honor weeps when Doodle steals
her bed" I found a threatening cam
paign, in which it was openly declared
by the opponents of the Citizens Club that
the club was composed Of poor men and
toughs' with a sprinkling of good men
IN their midst amongst whom in quiet
way they were kind enough TO include
myself for which hattery I am
truly thankfuD; and the boast
was made that their side had
all the money and most all the brains.
and they could easily wipe the ground
with the Citizens Club Under these
threats, the prudent leaders of The Citizens
Club recognized the fact that
the other side intended to keep
their death-grip on the public
leafs by Doodle, If no other means
sufficiently suficed, and that if they 1.-THE
Citizens Club expected to win victory
they would have to fight the devil with
fire. Upon careful review of the MEM
bership of the club, it was ascertained
that nearly 1000 members were, because
Of lack of employment and other reasons,
unable to pay their poll taxes and qualify
themselves to vote. In addition to this
expense were the natural expenses Of
running the campaign. which would nee
essarily be large-so that if both sides
confined themselves to these expenditures
alone, the campaign was likely to be
costly one. so expressed myself to Mai.
Schwarz, telling him that / would not
take that much money from my wife and
children to spend in a political campaign
for all the honors in the gift of the peo-
pie of Savannah. l told him, further
more, that beneath the surface and froth
of this local municipal contest was another
more gigantic in its character, engineered
by representatives Of millions of dollars
of interested capital: and that individ-
uals of the small financial caliber Of
himself and myself would be ground to
powder between the grindstones Of these
contending interests unless we consented
to play the part of pawns on the checker
board of the game. / told him, further,
that believed in having fair play for the
city of Savannah and her people in the
progress of this battle of millionaires,
and that l should hold aloof for the time
being and use my discretion and judgment
as to what L would do later on, and 1 adj
vised him to the same course, telling him
that while he thought he might
get the mayoralty nomination
and felt assured of DR.. Duncan's
support, the political advising machines
behind Dr. Duncan would play him
(Schwarz) like a fisherman plays a fish
until 1t gets exhausted, or the fisherman
gets tired of the amusement, and then
land him and cock him. The major evil
IDENTIFY had confidence in those friends"
or in his genius to prove himself their
equal in political legerdemain, and he
continped with them until my prophecy
came true Now, when the major was
thus being played (and humbugged) by
by some unseen direction, whilst he was
swallowing DIR. Duncans sugar-coated
promises of support (Which proved, like
some more Of the doctors pills, rather
drastic in their effect-so much so as to
lay the major fiat in his bed I think
displayed considerable foresight when,
in reference to the other reasons" which
induced me to send in my resignation to
the Citizens Club, l said, that seeds
were being sown in the club which were
producing the very crop of impurities in
elections which the club in its organiza-
ton denounced and in this place 1 call
to the public mind the fact that l left in
the club the Duncan-McB ride combina-
ton under the able and skillful generalship
of the Doctors political accoucher-the
latter afterward exhibiting a sad need
of a pair of scissors. After they went
out, I went back.
1 think l was equally correct when ]
stated that "such men, or combinations
of men. do not furnish large sums of
money without expecting in some way to
make it back" The future will show
whether that decoration was not equally
prophetic; and, whilst I did not have
either of the candidates for the may
orality in mind, in writing the above,
but expressed my views on general prin-
ciples 1 publicly challenge the Duncan
Mcbride combination, with its political
advisers and sympathizing saints to stand
in the presence of God and man and swear
that none of them are using any money
in this campaign! THE pot shouldn't
call the kettle black" We are only
fedglings in politics compared with those
presiding genii who are holding the doc
tor and his twelve disciples close to their
pulsatng hearts and hungry appetites:
but we are not quite so green as the
grass Nebuchadnezzar fed on. and which,
in my Christmas carol dedicated TO DR..
Duncan, l predicted that he would feed
on also If he staid in that crowd. 1 was
afraid that if the doctor staid between
the grindstones of political intrigue on
the one side and Mcbride Sundayism on
the other, I might have to give him a
dose of his own pills to purge him from
his sufferings and keep him from sink
ing under the effects of the combination.
Bring in another horse!
L. A. Falllgant.