The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-03

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Goettss plurality, so. G1ette's ilaiorit9'
A.
The greatest interest ia the election
waE IA the contest for coroner. AS FOR
the other candidates IL was pretty Wei
understood that they were all 20 be re-
turned 70 Office. but. az viii BE- seen. from
a matter o. choice perhaps, the names of
all Of them were scratched GA NAM
tickets. IT was pretty well unl erat114
that the names Of 8fr Russell and Capt
Dillon would be scratched hy some 81
the friends Of the two sides who have go
strong a personal antagonism against
them. but the scratching Of me other
names was something rather out IF tre
usual run. when % IS CONSIDERED that
the tncumbents have generally given SAT-
isfaction IN office. ana there was no oppo-
eition 10 them. As VIII be seen, a number
voted for nobody but the coroner. though
with what end in view 30 BE- hard 20 see
Tire total vote for coroner b. much higher
than that given any of the un0ppos=1
candidates, an q whom ran from - 20
nearly 80 votes behind ths total number
pOlled.
Mr. Russell was not around the court
house during the day. but Capt. DIE
lon was in his once as usual and watched
the progress Of the election with inter-
est None Of the candidates for re-
election took any active part in the con-
test between the candidates for coroner
Being a county election, 10 was in
charge Of the sheriff and his deputies so
far as the preservation Of order was
concerned This part Of b. Was turned
over 10 Deputy Sheriff Charles toiman'
Constables Eartigan and Smith and Dep
MY Joe Simmons. colored- The day gen
orally was an orderly one, with only a
little scrap Of no serious import OF con-
Fenuence now and then 10 enliven mat
tiers. A Goette man with little too mucn
red eve tackled a Dixon man, and after
some dispute was landed on his back.
No charges were preferred however.
against the Dixon man who did the
Knocking down, and the matter was
dropped.
There was another little scrap Of some
interest about noon. one Of the Dixon men
said he would not vote for Goette because
he was a Roman Catholic. This an
kered a Goette voter who was standing
b.. and who himself was a good Catholic,
and the gentleman with a. =. A. ten
denotes soon found himself on the ground,
aIr Goette and his friends say that this
argument was very improperly used 10y
many on the other side, and lie was very
much put out about II, as he considered
Il unjust and unfair. though he did not
believe he would lose anything by II. lie
said the fact that he was Roman
catholic did not enter into the question
He has always been a law abiding citi
zen. he Edl1s ana HE4-E DEADlE AA4E l-tJa-AA
simply on his merits as such.
The larger portion OF Mr. Goette's vote
was polled before 10 o'clock. He carriel
with him the majority Of the labor vote
a large part Of the German vote ant
nearly all the Irish vote About moor
things looked decidedly blue for Dixon
and his friends began 10 admit that sucf
VS. the case They relied. however. OF
the Bay street vote and others which
were expected about the dinner hour anC
in the afternoon. This vote however
IL seems gave little attention 10 the cleo
ton. and Capt. Dixon's friends did no
turn out nearly 50 abundanly as ha'
been anticipated. This was somewhat dis
appointing. but his friends worked oil
with vim and were determined TO pu
in every possible vote before the poll
closed.
At O'Clock nearly the entire vote ha'
been polled. and what came after tina
consisted Of a few stragglers. -0gethe
with what the friends Of the two candi
dates brought to the polls. Carriage
and omnibuses were kept going all day
and many a voter had free ride to tn
court house and back TO his place Of bus
mess. The friends Of both were exceed
ingly active. and there was skirmishin
for voters all along the line Both side
charge that there was repeating and buy
ing Of votes, and at least 600 or 100 WI
offered their votes were turned down b.
the challengerss because their records u
the registration books were not clear
Supt ". II. Patterson was kept busy muc
of the time during the day hunting %
the records Of voters who had been re
fused the right TO cast their ballots, with
out first bringing certificate from hlr
TO the effect that they were all right
aTr. Goette and Capt Dixon, Il is under
stood, entered into an agreement earl
in the morning that both were 10 run o
their own merits and without the use 0