The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-04

went 10 his assistance. Although a one
legged man he got there quickly and went
for one OF the men who was assailing his
brother. L c. oliver. another brother,
then came up and took a hand. and when
the crowd got too large for them they
went over into the office across the street.
The doors were shut, and the crowd out
side endeavored TO break them in. The
three Oliver brothers were pretty badly
beaten up with sticks. and they thought
for time that they We're going TO be
killed. The police. Mr.. Oliver said, did
not attempt 10 interfere, but allowed some
one 10 take his stick away from him, when
il could have been prevented. He said the
attack was an outrageous one. and that
something more would probably be heard
from it.
There was very little OF interest in any
Of the country districts. PoOler. the
Eighth district, is the only one that fur
nishes anything out of the usual order.
Mr.. S. II. Collins was appointed one OF
the managers as a freehOlder in that dis
trict. He says the polls there were opened
by Justice Bevans fully fifteen TO twenty
minutes before S:2i o'clock city time, and
that although he was there fully ten min
utes before the time for them to open,
d. L. Jackson was sworn in as a man
ager. This was done, Mr.. Collins said,
because two no fence men were appoint
ed as managers by the county commits
sioners.
The polls at Pooler. Mr.. Collins says.
were closed fully fourteen minutes be-
fore 3.24, the proper closing hour, and
he claims for these reasons that the vote
at POoler was an Illegal one. II there
were any necessity for doing so. IL is like
ly a contest would be made on this by the
no fence people. An affidavit TO
these facts was made by Mr.. Col
Inns before the ordinary last night.
The election was very quiet in the other
country districts and a very small vote
was pOlled throughout. In fact the vote
was small one everywhere. 1t was just
9ls short of the number registered, which
was only 2.675 according to the lists furn-
ished by the registrars. This is account
ed for by the fact that very little interest
was taken in the election by large num-
Der who would have voted for no fence had
they turned out.
There was some little dissatisfaction ex-
pressed with the work done by the regis
trars The trouble, however, could hardly
have been avoided as the registrars had so
short a time in which to complete their
work. The main trouble was with voters
who had been properly and legally regis
tered, but whose names were not on the
official lists furnished to the managers.
Several cases Of this kind came up in each
district. In each case where the voter
knew he had been properly registered,
and that all his taxes had
been paid. he went to Tax
Collector MCGOWAN and secured
certificate to that effect, which was rec
ognized as sufficient by some Of the man
ayers, while others required the certif
Gates to be signed also by one of the reg
istrars. A number had to procure these
certificates before they were allowed to
vote on account of the fact that there
names were not on the official lists of vo-
tiers although they properly belonged there
as appears from the certificates given by
Capt. MCGOWAN.
There was some little talk OF a contest
of the election al Harris store yesterday
afternoon. Messrs. u. c. and j. b. New
ton thought they would have some ground
for such a contest against the mo fence"
people. Nothing definite. however, was
done, and 1t is not believed that any such
steps will be taken. The election
was fairly conducted throughout, and
there were practically no complaints on
that score. AS will be seen there were
91S names that could have been voted had
the managers had any desire to cast IL
legal ballots. There seems to have been
no attempt to do so anywhere, however
and so far as can be learned there are very
few who are dissatisfied with its conduct