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

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Majority for No Fence .................251
The total vote, as will be seen, was LIST
out Of a registration of ISIS, with a ma
jority Of 2S1 in favor of mo Fence" All
of these figures are official, with the ex-
ception of those from the Sixth district,
which were sent into the Morning News
from the offices of Justice William II.
Mendel and Justice Nelson, and are cor
rect.
The polls opened at SPA o'clock city time,
and the voting began at once. Perhaps
the heaviest part of it was done in the
early morning The voting in the First
district was quiet all day. The polling
place was at the office of Justice Wickham
at No. 212 Bryan street. This was the
only city district that gave majority
for fence" and 1t is thought this was
the case because there are a great many
people In the district who own a COW or
two, and who want them to run at large
in the country. There was no scrapping
In this district.
The Second district was even
quieter than the First. This dis
trict. however, gave a majority
OF So votes in favor Of no fence. The
polling place was at the office of Justice
T. j. Sheftall The number of votes cast
In this district was less by los than the
number polled.
The Third district polled 1856 votes less
than the number registered for that dis
trct. 1t was a no fence district by a large
majority, however, and the voting there
was kept up in good. steady stream all
day.
James Mcbride and his 400 from the fort
took the Fourth district by storm early in
the day. The boys were on hand almost
with the sunrise, and they had solid line
formed for mo fence" before the doors
of the polling place at Justice Reynolds
office had opened. Everything went along
very quietly during the greater part of the
day. The voters came along and were
tackled by the 400 with Mcbride on the
outside and at their head and they some
times voted his way whether they wanted
TO or not. This was the case with several
of the voters who got hold of a ticket with
q COW and a calf on 1t and with the word
fence printed underneath. The word mo"
had been written on the fence ticket in
faint pencil marks and quite a number of
these tickets were distributed among the
fence voters who came along. Several of
them were voted, but Justice Reynolds
stated afterward that they were all count
ed for fence, on account of the fact that
they were Illegal votes, as no marking out
side of the printing is allowed on them.
BY far the most interesting occurrence
In the Fourth district however, was the
rumpus that took place in the afternoon.
The scrap was lively one, and gave prom
Use of resulting seriously until 1t took a
turn which brought peace by the separa-
ton of the participants. An eye witness
states that there We're some countrymen
present, either from Pooler or the Ogee-
chez district, and that they began snatch
ing tickets from the no fence voters. They
were told to desist, it is stated, when one
of them. a man named Horning, said he
could whip his weight in wild cats, and
struck Pat Carney knocking him down, or
Carney knocked him down. Just which
L. -.
This brought about general row, in
which the 400" which had fought for the
no fence ticket all day, took part, and for
a little while blows fell thick and fast.
There were but two policemen present
and 1t took them sometime to separate
the participants. When they got them all
apart they knew so little about those who
had taken part in it that they were I'M
able TO identify any of them or to make
any arrests. Several of those who had
Joined in the row when thew saw they
were outnumbered went across the street
10 the office of Mr. A. B. Girardeau, OF
the Johnson's Chills and Fever Tonic
where the doors were closed, but even
then those on the outside did not desist
and endeavored to break in the doors
The mayor was telephoned and he sent
Lieut.. Reilly to the scene. The difficulty
however, had subsidized and no one present
could identify anyone else as having TAX
en- part IN Ine HEnt. lney All seem &c
have gone into it blindly.
One of the Poolerites, who was engaged
ih the broil, was pretty badly knocked
out. When parties standing by were ask
cd who was responsible for ii, they al
swore that none of the others had any
thing to do with it, and suggested that
the man had a hemorrhage by coming in.
to contact with a brick wall. Some of then
told policeman he had better go and gel
some salt for the injured man and off the
policeman trotted for the salt instead OF
looking around for the assailant of the
victim.
Mr.. G. B. oliver Of Pooler, who was
one Of the participants, said the facts OF
the case were that some man attacked
mon named Hornirg. His brother s.
IL Oliver, went to the assistance of Horn,
ing, who was a friend. and as soon as
he did so two or three others IN the
crowd jumped on him. Just at this time he
came mp and saw his brother being at
tackled, and Jumping from his buggy, he