The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-22
MYERS FoRoEs TURN OUT.
Enthusiastic Speeches at the Citizens
Club Rally.

M HEhS FORCES TURN OUT.
Enthusiastic Speeches at the Citizens
Club Rally.
Enthusiasm is mild term to apply TO the
feeling manifested by Mi. Myers friends
and supporters at the meeting al Odd Eel
lows hall last night. II there were not
700 citizens crowded into the hall gale
ries, supper room windows ana doorways,
there Was not a man.
Every seat held "a man and some OF them
/ two. Every available square foot of space
! ia the aisles and between the seats accom-
modated man, and from one end of the
nall 10 the other they We're packed like
sardines. Some of them stood i'm the win
dows, many crowded onto and around the
platform, they were packed almost too
tiGht for breathing in the supper room and
/ in the gallery the Colored voters ignored
! the seats and moved them out of the way
! so as to make more standing room
In opening the meeting at $50 O'Clock
/ President Osborne said that the members
of the club should know but one way to
vote and that was to make q cross mark
over the flag. He explained how the sup
porters of Mr.. Myers should vote, and said
the contest was one of principles and not
nlen and that by scratching any man on
/ the ticket he said, a voter would vote
against his principles lie spoke of the
practically perfect organization Of the
/ Myers forces, and alluded 10 the fact that
/ they had all the hacks and carriages TO be
| secured. This, he said, was one occasion
/ on which the poor man would ride and the
rich man walk to the polls. lie pre-
/ dicted a majority of go TO $50 for the entire
I Myers ticket.
Just then Mr. Myers and Col
| William Garrard entered the hall,
/ and the cheers, prolonged and loud,
/ first for Myers and then for
Na .sssl1 tsN s4I
| ing Russell suggested then in view Of the
/ very crowded condition Of the hall that
the meeting be adjourned to the square
/ just outside, but the suggestion did not
/ seem to meet with much favor and the
crowd stuck to the hall
President Osborne introduced Mai. Ed
ward Karow, whom he said the commits
tee at one time had hoped to have on the
] Citizens aldermautc ticket
Mai Karow said the question before
/ the community was. as to which can
didate now before the people would make
the better mayor of this city, which is
. essentially a city of trade and commerce.
/ Mr.. Myers, he said, was the man to place
at the head of the city government.
I'VE don't want any pills" came from a
voice I'm the crowd.
During his ten years as an alderman
! Mr.. Myers record, he said, was unblem-
| ished. He would not 80 into the office
/ Maj. Karow said as a novice. He had
long ago concluded his apprenticeship,
/ and was in a position to take hold of the
| rens of the city government with a mas
| ters hand. lie spoke of Mr.. Myers COM
/ mercial ability and the success with which
he had met i'm his career. He spoke of the
/ article signed Chatham" and said Mr.
/ Myers was not running for this office on
| his pedigree, but on his record. Pedigree,
/ he said entitled no man to consid-
| Grafton and respect unless he was en-
titled to them without that pedigree
/ Nothing but a cCol-headed business man.
he said, could cope with the difficulties
| that now confront the people of Savannah,
( and such a man, Mr. Myers, he said had
. proven himself to be. With Mr. Myers
at the head of the city he said we could
look confidently TO the future with no
fear as to how the affairs Of the govern
ment would be administered.
Col. William Garrard, the head of the
Citizens aldermanc ticket was intro
/ duced by President Osborne as a man who
is at the head of the bar of Savannah.
Col. Garrard thanked the club for the
I honor conferred upon him in placing him
upon the ticket. He said he had never
been an office seeker, but there were times
when men should respond to peremptory
calls. and under the circumstances he con-
/ sidered It duty to accept this nomina-
ton A man elected to this Office, he said,
should go there with the intention of
should be ready 10 devote due and
I proper portion of his time TO the work
No one i'm the city of Savannah was bet
ter capable of filing the high office of
mayor than Mr. Herman Myers. He has
T always been, Col. Garrard said. broad
minded, fair, public spirited, with not a
/ bot on his fair name, a man of the
soundest Judgment, uncontrolled by any
man or set of men, such a man is Her
I man Myers
II can say that when he makes up his
mind he is right, he disregards all conse-
quences' He believed those who had
/ nominated the ticket would go to the polls
and vote the straight ticket On account
of the condition of his throat, CoLGa-
nard said he would have TO conclude, but
he believed he had made himself clearly
and distinctly understood.
Capt. n. G. Purse was called for but
was not present. Mr.. r. S. Morgan. Jr..
was attending one of the country courts
and Hon Pope Barrow, who was also to
have spoken, was in attendance on the SUI
preme court
1t was just here that the explanation
about Mir. Myers action in taking out
citizenship papers was explained by Col.
Garrard. il was here too the colored con-
tingent from the Harris street hall and
I other quarters came along, about 400 strong
headed by a brass band. The cheers from
/ without and within were long and loud
Mr.. A. y. Manucy was next introduced
He had evidently heard Mr. duBiguon's
speech al the Catholic Library hall He
spoke of what had been said there with
regard to Mr.. Myers declaring his citi-
zeuship. 1t was by d man who tried TO use
the Citizens club as a tool he said. and
who has never been known to face an
issue Can you guess who it is ?" and five
hundred voices said duBignon. Mr. Man
/ ucy then explained his strong advocacy
of Mai SchwarZ's candidacy and said he
was supporting Mr.. Myers because he
was the clubs candidate.
He said Of Mr.. duBignon that he was an