The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-01
A. P. Assn ROuNDLY SCORED.
LIBERAL club SPEAKERS DE-
CLARE 1T 4 CITIZENS CLUB
ISSUE.

ADMINISTRATION and Attacks the
American Protective Association.
Speeches by Messrs. G. b. WhatIey
and Il. :. Morgan, Jr.-The Fourth
District Club Also Jumps the 4.
4. 4.
The meeting Of the First District Liberal
Club was enlivened by speeches from G.
p. Whatiey. Esq, ex-Alderman W. I.
O'Brien and +. 5. Morgan. Jr.. Esq Mr..
O'Brlen is the latest speaker 10 be brought
out by the Liberal Club. and judging By
his remarks he is destined 10 prove a hot
member
The club decided. after some discus
sion. 20 change its meeting night from
Thursday TO Tuesday. This Will enable
the members who wish 10 hear the speak
ing at the other district meetings 20 do so
without sighting their own meetings.
Mr. Whauey was the first speaker. and
spoke as usual, on the line Of retrench-
ment and reform in the city government.
He also discussed the A. +. A. question.
and alluded TO the Second district as the
strong A. p. a. district Mr.. Whatley
said he had never had anything arouse
him so much as the A. 2. A. movement.
He predicted that before the close of the
campaign IL would be uncovered, and the
men who are leading the movement would
be put TO shame. He declared that IL is
not only un-American, but monstrous. 1t
is clearly the issue of the campaign, he
said. lie declared that the man who votes
the Citizen Club ticket will vote the A. p.
a. ticket, and that this will be made clear
before the campaign is over He criticised
the administration, and remarking on the
recent reform" in the fire department by
aNaH H-
for the purpose Of putting the department
out or politics, said that the admin5stra-
ton would probably remove the plates
from the Greene and Jasper monuments
on Bull street next for the purpose OF
taking them out of politics
EN-Alderman o. Brien had come modest
ly into the hail and taken a rear seat He
was requested to take "a seat on the stage,
however, which he did, and was called
upon for speech. He responded, but re-
marked That he was unable to make "a
political speech. The crowd may have
thought so, too, but If II did ii changed its
mind before Mr.. O'Bren sat down. He
said he had wandered back to his old po-
htcal birthplace. Six years ago the move
ment was started at that hall, he said,
which made him alderman. Two
years ago ne was invited 10 come forward
again, but on the condition that he would
serve the club as Frank McDermOtt and
others wished him to do This he decin-
ed 10 DO because he was unwilling 10 serve
as member of the board unless he could
90 SO as a free man and unpledged to
anyone.
Speaking of the state of affairs exist
ing to-day in the city, he said, il was
such that criminal, If on the inside,
with the crowd at present in control of
politics, could go free, but If he was on
the outside he was punished to the fullest
extent of the law. He declared that he
was proud that he had stood with ]. ].
McDonough, and that while an alderman
he had supported him in his course as
mayor He wished il to be known he
said, that he was with the Liberal Club
aHaafN = oil
both his influence ana his money small
though they might be. He condemned the
American Protective Association in the
Il am not defending Catholicism" he
SAID i would stand by any denomination
which Is attacked. have been a
member of numerous secret societies, but
l have never Joined a secret society vet
that ! was not willing to proclaim the fact
to everyone and l never expect to do So
Speaking Of the present city administra-
ton, Mr.. O'Brien declared that "abso-
lutely a man cannot get anything out of
TINS administration who will not pledge
himself on the Bible to vote the Citizens
Mr. OBrien's remarks were frequently
interrupted with applause and his speech
was thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd.
Mr.. Morgan was given warm welcome.
He declared that the Citizens Club and
IT'S agents had endeavored to create the
| impression that the Liberal Club is op-
! posed TO the Georgia cracker. This he
| declared to be absolutely false. If the
/ Liberal Club were opposed to any set
| or class OF men, he said he would not be
/ with 1t. 1t was circulated for partisan
| purposes, he said and was intended to
| be used in helping to elect the presi-
/ dent of the Citizens Club TO the office
| of solicitor general by the next legisla-
! ture. He attacked the administration for
! discharging from its employ men who
/ had given faithful service, in order to
| I'LL their places with men whose only
| claim is political influence. If some of
/ the things had been done in the adj
al fftaa hi rana 1.T,
1 Savannah, he declared, there would have
! been raised there. He declared that
/ the people of Georgia would condemn A.
| +. Aism at the polls and would sweep ii
away as they had done knownothingism.
The subject he said, is one to be APP
| preached, not with abuse, but in a calm.
! dispassionate manner. Many good men
] had been ensnared into this secret or
| ganization, he said, under a false i'm
! preston as to its purposes. If reasoned
! with in fair and dispassiOnate manner,
/ they might be brought to acknowledge
| their error and to disaVOw the organi-
cation. The state of dissension and bit
| ter feeling now existing among the peO-
pie of Savannah was due, he said, to this
! movement.
Mr.. Morgan gave some attention to the
| city administration and its commissions.
/ lie criticised Public Works Commissioned
/ Willink for assisting, as a member of the
! legislature, TO create an Office to which he
/ years at the fat salary of s., 500 a year. Mr.
/ Gamble, the clerk of the commission, he
TO have no other employment, is the editor
| Of a rabid partisan sheet in the interests
4 of the administration. The most remarka-
BILE appointment Of all, however. he said
! is that of Mr.. J. 5. Collins as clerk of the
/ city court. As president and receiver of a
large corporation, Mir. Morgan said, Mr.
/ Collins was interested in suits amounting
| to thousands of dollars brought against
! his company at every term of the court
| and as the clerk of the court he had charge
| of impaneling the jurors to try these cases
/ in which ne was interested. He would not
| reflect upon Mr.. Collins personally in the
slightest degree, he said, but the facts
/ We're sufficient to show that the appoint
ment was an improper one. He also spoke
| ironically of the appointment Of Sheriff r.
j. Sheftan of the city court as due 10 his
/ splendid record as a magistrate
In conclusion Mr.. Morgan said that the
I good, welfare and progress of the city are
interviewer in this campaign. The fight
will not be won by talk, he said, but by
/ work.
LIBERALS IN THE FOURTH.
! They Are Making the A. p. A. the
Great md Only IsSua