The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-27
FIGHT OF THE TWO FACTIONS.
KING ENJOINED FROM ACTING As
CHAIRMAN.

The Hearing ON the Injunction set
for Saturday Morning nj II O'Clock.
The Selection of the New Police
Force Fixed TO BegIn AN Hour
EarIier-If Mayor King Names a
Force Chairman English VIII APP
point Rival Onc-The hoard 10
Meet Again To-Day.
Atlanta. Ca. March 26.-It was $50
o'clock this morning. broad daylight. when
the police board. tired out with the dead
lock OF twenty hours continuous sitting,
broke up and the members. went home.
They had balloted or chairman 5s
times.
Soon after Mayor King reached his
residence he received a visit from Sheriff
Barnes. who served him with a temporary
injunction granted by Judge Turnbull
OF the circuit court, restraining him from
acting as chairman of the board until
a further hearing. The English faction
tried to get the injunction from Judge
Gober at Marietta last night. but failed.
Judge Turnbull happened to be in town
on business. and as soon as this fact was
learned this morning he was at once
sought.
The Injunction is set for hearing on
Saturday morning at II o'clock. At 10
o'clock Saturday morning the election OF
a new police force viii be begun. The
granting Of the injunction does not de-
prive the mayor of his vote on the board.
or have any effect on the deadlock be-
a
likely that there can be any election for
members Of the department. In this
event. In case he Is not restrained by the
courts from so doing Mayor King
will have the appointment OF the whoIe
department. which would mean the over
throw OF the present regime. Park Wood
ward, It is believed would be appointed
chief should the appointment fall TO the
hands of Mayor King as chairman. IL
Is said that Capt. English also claiming
TO be the chairman, would appoint force.
which would put the police department
into the hands of two rival forces, each
claiming to be the legal one. The board
is booked to meet again tomorrow for or
ganization. BY that time something may
turn up to clear the muddled waters.
Atlanta has not been so stirred up in
years by political controversy as over
the fight on the board OF police commis-
sioners. The town Is split In two aa
badly almost as In the days OF prohlbi-
tion politics. each faction klving it's
sympathizers and su pporters. and II IL
evident that from now on city politics
will be In the hands OF two bitterly OPP
posed factions Mayor King hns un-
doubtedly made great many friends by
his course In the matter although he is
sharply criticised for losing his temper
when he ordered the election OF Chief OF
Police Connolly from the commission
room to-day, however, there were mutual
apologies between the mayor and the
chief, and that feature OF the trouble Is
somewhat smoothed over.
While the partisans Of Capt. English
denounce the mayor and council bitterly.
yet the general sentiment OF the conser-
vative public Is that Mayor King could not
have done otherwise than he did and
his determination and steady nerve in the
battle royal with ex-Charman English,
for whom politicians have had q whole
some dread for years past, nobody being
willing to undertake the fight against him
face to face, make him almost hero In
the eyes of the more enthusiastic OF his
friends. The mayor was forced to the
front by the council which declared him
the man for the police board In the event
that that board failed to elect a chairman.
a contingency that had already arisen ere
the Nelms ordinance was forced. The
police board Is a chartered institution, and
a coordinate branch of the city govern
ment. and upon this ground Capt. Eng
lish and his friends took their stand in
their resentinent OF the councils right
to interference. They claim that the
council had no right to make the mayor
chairman of the board and that but for
political vengeance against ex-Chairman
English no such step would ever have
been taken, hence their refusal TO ac-
knowledge the mayors right 10 preside.