The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-19

are not taking an active part that the
fight is COINS TO be a very close one boln
Mr. Hartridge's and Mr.. Milhnk's sup
pOrters allow Mr. Travis a very small
vote IN their estimates. the highest ng-
ure named by them being 400 votes.
The Travis people viii have meeting
tonight al the Catholic Library nan, at
which they expect 10 demonstrate that
their strength Is way beyond what -
allowed Them hy their opponents Mr.
Travis viii be the principal speaker, and
viii define his position fully on the Is
sues of the campaign. There VIII be other
speakers. who VIII give reasons why a
laboriug man should be elected 20 iill the
legislative vacany. The meeting IS open
10 the public.
The Citizens club people appear to be
doing their Work very quietly Iney Ieel
that they have an advantage in having
the party machinery with them, ald tha-
their candidate having been regularly
nominated. 10 is not necessary for them TO
WhO0p things up with the boys, as their
opponents are doing 1nere VIII he no
more meetings Of the club between now
anu the day ol election out instead a can
for "a general rally OF the party Will be
issued. probably for next Monday OF Tues
day night The meeting VIII De held at
the odd Fellows hail.
The Hartudge committee has adopted
the plan o. district organization with dis
trict rallies. The Fourth district was or
ganlZed last night at the Armory nail
by the election of Mr.. 4. II. GearOn as
chairman and Mr.. w. j. Fitzpatrick as
secretary. The meeting was "a lively one.
\ ilN NiVNA iAl ate lAtAAAiNF ca AAAig
$50 The meeting was exceedingly enthu-
siastic. Col. NJ. W. Dixon gave the his
Alry OF the bolt Of 1852. when the party
split on the action Of the executive COM
mittee According to Mr. Dixon, the pO-
siti0n taken by himself. Mr.. Charlton and
other members of the party who TOOK a
prominent stand against the bolters then,
IS the same held by them now. IL was
a double, back action bolt, II seems.
The nrst bolt was against the action
of the chairman, Col Lester, but it seems
ha fasa I'M of 10
mittee were with the boilers. The re-
suit was that the people sustained the
chairman and sat down on the executive
committee. II Is the same light, to-day,
ne said. The majority of the executive
committee no longer represents the com
mittee and an appeal has been taken
from the committee to the party
Mr.. Charlton. who followed Mr.. Dixon
took the same position.H He entered more
fully into n discussion of the 1882 affair,
and pointed out that the people who are
shouting so vigorously against boilers
now are the same people who bolted the
party then and were defeated. The bolt
ers sent delegates 10 the senatorial con-
veutiOn al Eden and when they were al
lowed half the representative by the other
counties the regular delegates Withdrew
and took no part in the convention. The
convention nominated Hon. Morgan
RaWis. The regulars who now bolted
from the action Of the senatorial conVen-
ton came back home, nominated Maj.
Peter Meldrim for the senate and elected
him. Ii seemed to have been a bolt all
around that year. Mr.. Charlton showed
that while the supporters of Mr.. Hart
ridge were charged with boiting the action
Of the executive committee the crowd
which bolted in 1852 bolted from the
party itself a a mass meeting in the the
ater
Mr.. Hartridge made a speech which de-
lighted his supporters to that their yells
could be heard for several blocks. He rid
iculed the primary of Tuesday and said
that even according to the figures of the
other side their claim to be the Demo-
cratic party was disproved, as out of near
ly 300 democratic voters in the county,
only 200 took part In the primary.
Other speeches were made. by T. NJ
Cunningham, Jr., Esq, MIR. w. G.. Cam,
Col. Peter Reilly, Mr. y. H. Gearon, JUS
tice Samuel Reynolds and Mr.. Patrick
OKeefe. Ii was claimed that the Fourth
would give 200 majority for Hartridge.
The Hartridge men in the First district
will organize tonight at Hendy's hail on
Bryan street. Chairman Dixon said after
the meeting that the Hartridge men will
have a district rally every night this week.
Last nights meeting was held on six
hours notice.