The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-01

The nominating committee returned ar
/ this time and the report was submitted
! by Mr. A. n. Manucy.
/ The report is the ticket published at the
l head of the column.
/ The name Of Capt. Screven was received
with long and continued applause. The
/ names OF other new candidates also re-
ceived special applause.
The question of the adoption of the re-
port was put and carried unanimously
and the gentlemen named were declared by
the chairman to be the candidates OF the
democratic party for the respective offices
President Osborne Of the Citizens Gun,
was brought upon the stage and received
with great applause. lie was presented
by MIR duBign0n as the next solicitor
general OF the eastern Judicial district.
Mr.. Osborne said that he did not come
prepared to make a speech. He had been
working hard. Politics with the methods
adopted by the independents, he said
required the man who undertook to con-
duct the campaign to give a great deal OF
his time to it. Unless the democratic par
ty should be sustained, he said, there
would be a great deal Of trouble in store
for Chatham county. How any one could
be in doubt as to which party he would
support he could not under
stand He reviewed recent po-
litical history, the refusal of the
Liberal Club to enter into the primary,
when, he said they were offered fair
opportunity to settle these differences.
Instead, they preferred, he said, TO re-
main on the outside, in order that they
might register a large and purchasable
element. with the determination Of car
rying the election by money and bull
doing Taxes had been paid for voters
upon the O. r. of Mr.. Meldrim's friend
Love, he said and ne had the proofs in
his possession. With the same line of
policy the Liberal Club had challenged
tho right to vote of several hundred
white men. THE only hope Of the Lib
eral Club" he declared, lis to buy enough
men to win, but well be there with them
when they do 1t. Wen see whether they
will do it or not, and If they do, and |
ann elected solicitor general, | will see
that they go where they belong, and 1t
will not be to "a reformatory, either"
we are not the people who begun this
bulldozing We shall be the most peace
able and quiet crowd at the court house
you ever saw, but we shah not be bull
dozed." NIr. Osborne criticised the
newspapers for what he called
their inconsistency in supporting
the national democratic ticket
and, he said were yet unable to recog-
nize the regular democratic party in
Chatham, after its claims had been es-
tablished by three democratic conven-
tions Mr.. Osborne contended that the
only way in which the best ele
ment can control is by the
party and for that reason the party
should be maintained. lie declared that
the contentious of the community had
been due to the court house officials who
vilified and abuse each other and fought
each other politically, but now when they
thought they were in a little danger they
fall on each others neck
Mr. l. b. Tiedeman was warmly received
Business men a S a rule were not speakers
he said, and he had nothing to add to
what was already said. 1t was his first
opportunity of addressing them since his
nomination, he said, and he assured them
that If elected he would do all in his
power to further the interests of the state
of Georgia and Chatham county
Capt. Henry Kolshorn responded to
calls, and thanked the crowd for its com
plment. If elected he pledged himself TO
do whatever would advance the interests
of this community.
Mr. Manucy responded to calls. He
touched upon' a few points of the cam
paign, among them the alleged attack
upon the citizenship of Jewish and Ger
man citizens by the Liberal club, and
said that it had been done for the pur-
pose of worrying and annoying them.
THE people," he said mean business.
sorry day for the man who begins the
trouble"
Mr.. duBignon, whom the crowd had
been calling for frequently, responded.
He said that he had been trying to retire
from politics for four months and the peo-
Pile of Georgia had tremendously assisted
him on June 6, last. 1t seemed to him
that everybody in Georgia voted against
him except the women and their votes
didn't count. The next time he intended
to run on the woman suffrage issue and
only let the women vote.
There is no question, he said, but that
the only democratic party in Chatham
county was assembled. No fair man,
he said, would question that every man
has the right to leave his party and join
another party, he said, but no man has
the right to be extensively asinine and in
sist that the party has left him and that
he has not left the party. What applies
to one man applies to any number of men
short of a majority, he said. Their oppo-
nents had carried the issue before their
forums and by each it had been decided
that they were not the regular democratic
party. Yet they stnl continue to call
themselves the democratic party of Chat
ham county.
1t was not a personal matter with him,
he said. Two of the nominees were almost
unknown to him, while on the other ticket
was a gentleman who was indeared to
him by every tie of friendship, for whom
he would gladly make almost any per-
sonal sacrifice except his party. The dem
ocratic party means too much to the
south, he said, to be abandoned for any
issue or any man. Its great principles
upon which the government is founded
must be sustained.
Mr. duBignon paid an eloquent tribute
to the history of the democratic party and
its achievements, state and national For
the last quarter of a century it had ad-
minstered the affairs of the state, hon
estly and economically, and not dollar
has been fiIched from the treasury. From
James NJ. Smith to w. Y
Atkinson there has not been a
stain upon the escutcheon of the state. a
high tribute was paid to Gov. Atkinson.
Not even the populist convention, which
nominated his opponent, could find aught
to say against him. In the face of mis-.
fortune and disease he has borne him
self as true and honest democrat
Mr.. duBignon took up the local situa-
ton and dealt with it unsparingly. He
said it was the same old fight, the fight
of a minority against a majority, the
fight of soreheads against success.
Nobody doubts that the democratic