The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-16
BOTH SIDES TO TURN OUT.
THE FINAL RALLIES BEFORE THE
PRIMARIES TONIGHT.

The Citizens Club TO Meet at odd
Fellows and the Hartridge Men nt
Masonic HaII-The Travis Men To
Meet Later On-The Situation as II
Now stands-BOth sides Have some
thing to Say.
The Citizens Club will hold a meeting
tonight at odd Fellows han and the sup
porters of Mr.. Hartridge will hold mass
meeting at the Masonic hall. Both meet
ings viii doubtless be largely attended.
Speeches will be made by prominent MEM
bers of the respective factions at the
meetings.
The speakers at each meeting will
doubtless haul the other crowd over the
Goals. The Hartrdge and Travis people
viii be spoken of at odd Fellows han as
boilers, while the speakers at the Mason
ic temple will denounce the arbitrary ac-
ton of the executive committee and rio
icule the pretended fairness of the district
primary.
Evidently the campaign is going to be
warm one as campaigns in Savannah US
ually are. Both sides have their blood up.
The supporters of Mr.. Hartrdge seem to
have no computations at bucking the
executive committee and the decision not
to enter the primary seems to have stiff
fened their opposition rather than other
wise.
Mr.. Hartridge will be the principal
speaker at the Masonic hall and will de-
fine his position on the issues which have
been raised during the campaign. There
will be other speakers, but Col. M. w.
Dixon, who is chairman Of the Hartridge
party informed a Morning News repor-
ter last night that the programme had
not been completed as yet Mr.. p. J.
O'Conner telephoned the Morning News
that the announcement that he would
speak at the meeting was a mistake. He
did not state at the caucus Friday night
that he would resume his speech tonight.
There will be several speakers at the
Citizens Club meeting, of course. Mr..
Willink will probably be called upon.
Whatever he has TO say will be of inter
est because of the charges OF the opposl-
ton that he is ION the fence" on several
questions of interest just now.
The A. z. A. will doubles be mentioned
at both meetings. MI. Hartridge is ex-
pected to take strong grounds in opposi-
ton to the organization Several promi-
nent members of the Citizens Club IN in
informally discussing the matter yester-
day declared that the Catholic members
in their ranks would not be hoodwinked
by the A. 2. A. bugbear, and that the
manner in which the issue was being fore
ed by the other side was an insult TO ev-
cry self-respecting Catholic.
Col. Dixon said last night There will
be nothing personal in the speeches at the
Hartridge meeting. The campaign is not
being waged on personal issues, but on
real principles and quest ions Of the hour.
In my remarks in the discussion at the
meeting of the executive committee Sat
urday afternoon / had no intention of
making any reflection upon any gentle
man present, ana especially Mr.. Collins,
for whom / entertain the friendliest feel
ings"
"Win you resign your position as
member of the executive committee|' he
was asked.
Il shall not" was the reply. Il am
as much a democrat to-day as I ever
was, and nothing that the majority of
the committee may do or say can make
me anything else. The action of Mr.. Hart
ridges friends is not a bolt from the
Democratic party, but an appeal to the
party from the unjust action of the COM
mittee.'
The supporters of Mr.. Travis held a
meeting yesterday afternoon at knights
of Pythias hall. The meeting is said to
have been well attended. One of its pur-
poses was to arrange for a grand rally
of the Travis forces to be held one night
this week.
Mr.. Kellogg who is at the head of Mr.
Travis campaign committee, said last
night that there was nothing new on their
side 1.-THE member of the executive COM
mittee" he said, who informed you that
Mr. Travis would not be allowed mana
gers in the primary was telling no news
We were aware of that fact several days
ago. In other words, this gentleman, who
was elected to manage the democratic
elections in Chatham without fear or favor
admits to the public that he is not capa-
BILE of carrying out the wishes of the peo-
pie. This exceptional democrat, whoever
he may be, without any foundation in
fact, declares that 'Hartridge and Travis
are pulling together; that Travis would
have been a figure-head and Hartridge
would have had four managers to Will
links two at each precinct The only
way in which Mr.. Travis and Mr.. Hart
ridge pulled together is that they stand
on common ground for self-protection.
Any man who has ever attended district
primary in this city, where there was OPP
position viii understand what | mean by
| self-protection. This member of the exec
utive committee shows by his own utter
ances that he is a strong partisan. man
up in a balloon can see that. He makes
an unjust charge against Mr.. Travis and
| Mr. Hartridge, and I think these gentle
men acted wisely in declining to enter
into a primary which he had a hand in
| arranging. However, Mr. Travis told me
/ this afternoon that he felt that he was a
stronger democrat to-day than ever be-
| fore, and anybody who knows Mr.. Travis
believes what he says