The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-31
THEY WILL NOT JUBILATE.
THE MEMBERS OF THE CITIZENS
CLUB SEE No VICTORY TO
CELEBRATE.

The TOrchIight Procession Called
on After 500 Torches Had Been
bought and Other Arrangements
MGde-The Clubs Members Think
Some of the New Aldermen Went
Back on Them-AppIIcatiOns They
say Were Turned Down without
Excuse or Reason, and They Are
on n Big Disgust.
There will be no jubilee meeting Of the
Citizens club. and no torchnght process
sion. although last night was the time
when so or more torches were TO have
burned in honor OF the election Of the
clubs candidates.
The weather. 1t is true, has furnished
a good excuse for calling it OF, but the
weather is not sufficient on many occa-
sions to suppress political enthusiasm
and tubilation. Weather. used in a fig
urative sense. may serve as an expla-
nation, and there was a decided streak
Of blue running through it,
Most Of the clubs members consider that
there is practically little or nothing to
Jubllate over. and they do not consider
themselves AA0Ei any ODAAkaLlOnE 10 DuEn
their torches. and turn out brass bands
in honor Of those who have failed to come
up to their expectations in the matter
Of giving proper consideration in their
way of thinking to certain applications
for Office.
The procession was to have taken place
last night and the committees which had
IL.
days ago making elaborate preparations
for It. Brass bands were in readiness,
500 brand new torches were bought and the
necessary funds we're in process Of
being raised, when the damper came. with
the spirit Of waning enthusiasm which
fell like a pail on the club Monday, the
death kneIl Of the gala occasion
was sounded. The Offices had not gone
around as the members of the club had ex-
pected them to do, and while ready to
serenade the five aldermen who voted
their way, there was not a sou forth
coming to do honor to those who had
stayed the fall of the Ratchet, where the
club thought it was most needed.
There IS simply a big disgust on the
part of the members" one Of the promi-
nent members Of the club said yesterday,
"and that is why there will be no torch
light procession. The Citizens Club peo-
pie don't think they have been treated
rightly and fairly in this matter Some of
our people applied for office and were turn
ed down, and there was no excuse for 1t.
Those aldermen who voted against Us in
these matters simply betrayed the people
who elected them, and what little the
clubs candidates got they had to fight
for They are wild about the way they
have been treated, and there is not a sat
ished man in the whole club.
Those aldermen went into their caucus
pledged to our candidates for city attor-
ney, assistant chief of police, recorder,
and one or two other offices, and they
simply went square back on their promises
The people in those positions were objec-
tionable to the club on account of the
statements they had made against its
members, and we thought they ought to
be put out. l think the money collected
for that procession has all been returned,
and II not. / understand it will be-"
Aldermen Willink, Gleason, Kolshorn,
Hudson and Carolan are looked upon as
the only members Of the board who re-
NAMED faithful to Them and many MEM
bers say the other seven could not be
elected to office again no matter what they
offered for. 1t is hardly probable that the
club win hold together longer. at least this
is the opinion OF several of its prominent
members and two years from now it is be-
lieved that the issues win be fought on
entirely new lines