The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-31
REJOICING OVER OSBORNE.
CITIZENS CLUB LEADERS MADE
HAPPY BY HIS ELECTION.

nents-OnIy a Few of the Pilgrims
Returned as Yet-The New Solicit
tor "A Young Man Who Has Fought
His own Way Up-What the
Friends of the Two Candidates
say-A story on Mr.. Fraser.
The announcement Of the result of the
face for the solicitor generalship of this
circuit was not the longest article in yes
terday's Morning News, but 1t is safe to
say that it was the one first sought and
read with most interest. For week the
solicitor generalship race had been the
absorbing topic of conversation, and many
people seemed to think Of nothing else.
| Hundreds of people waited in the neigh
borhood of the telegraph offices Thursday
night for news from the caucus which
they knew to be in session. Most of them
went home by midnight, but number re-
NAMED The first news of the result was
received at 24O o'clock yesterday morn
| ing, by a party of Mr.. Osborne's friends.
| At once wild yell burst FORTH which
lasted for several minutes. Then about
| fifty of Mr.. Osborne's friends gathered
together and marched around by the Pu-
certain manner. Many kilograms of con-
graduation were fired at Mr.. Osborne,
| and also at his friends, who had done
such effective work in his behalf. More
kilograms followed yesterday morning,
| the active members of the
! Citizens Club were so filled
with joy at the success of their leader
that they could do but little else but con-
graduate each other all day long.
Mr.. ]. II. H. Osborne, the father of the
successful candidate, was the recipient Of
many congratulations.
The Liberal Club people bore their de-
| feat well. 1t was a great surprise to them
after the cheering news they had received
| the day before. They could not under
stand the overwhelming defeat of their
| candidate and did not attempt to ex-
| plain it.
! Maj. G.. NJ. Ryals, a member of the
successful faction, returned from Atlanta
yesterday morning. The majors coun-
tenance beamed with satisfaction.
How did you happen to leave Atlanta
before the fight was over" he was asked.
I'VE had the fight whipped. 1t was not
necessary for me to remain there" said
he. 81 saw from the first that Fraser
| had no show If we handled our forces
| properly. All we had to do was
to keep the other people from
! winning our men away from u.s. Their
success in getting the Richmond deie-
cation after every member of it had
| pledged himself to Osborne and the
| methods used to accomplish this, had
| a boomerang effect
Mr. r. M Hitch, who spent several
| days in Atlanta in the interest of Mr..
| Osborne, returned to the city last night
Other members of the party, which
labored so faithfully for Mr.. Osborne's
! success, are expected back this morning,
but some of them will remain over to the
| inauguration to-day.
Several Of the gentlemen, who went to
Atlanta to work in the interests of the
candidates they represented, returned to
the city yesterday morning They did
not wait for the caucus, as they were
satisfied that things were going all their
own way.
| of Mr. Osborne He wore a satisfied
smile yesterday as he told of the success
of his candidate.
1--WE knew we had it from the start
he said to a representative Of the Morn
ing News. Mr.. Osborne's campaign had
been thoroughly worked up, and we went
there to keep our forces together, which
we succeeded in doing, even beyond our
most sangulne expectations. The day of
! the caucus, however, we expected Mr..
Osborne would receive four more votes
than he did. He had 12S votes pledged
to him that afternoon, and that thor
oughly satisfied US as to the result, even
making allowances for any who might
go over to the other side. 1 do not be-
lieve there is any truth in the report
that Mr.. Fraser had majority pledged
to him at any time"
Mr. W. L. Gignilliat went to Atlanta
to do some hard work in Mr.. Frasers be-
half and that he worked hard there is no
doubt. Mr.. Gignilliat was one of Mr..
Fraser's strongest supporters.
when left Atlanta last night" he
said, there was absolutely no doubt in
my mind Of Mr.. F'rasers election. He
had promises at least from a majority OF
those composing the democratic caucus,
and did not see how he could be defeat
ed
I'm my opinion, however, the whole
trouble was that as we found when we
went there Mr.. Osborne had pledges from
various members dating back three years,
two years, one year, and some of them a
few months Many of them were made on
the understanding that they would sup
port Osborne under any circumstances,
some of them being given at the time that
MIR. Fraser was a candidate for the judge
ship of the city court, and the belief then
being that he would not be in the race for
reelection There is no doubt that these
pledges were held to be stronger than
any promises that may have been made
to Mr.. Fraser. This Is one of the prin-
cipal reasons, and there are others which
contributed to Mr.. Fraser's defeat"
There has been a great deal of talk one
way and another about the election. All
sorts of statements have been made. One
was to the effect that Mr. Fraser had 121
votes pledged to him the night of the
, caucus Mr.. Osbornes friends deny this
with regard to Mr.. Fraser's defeat, it has
been stated that the effort to bring the A.
p A. question into the matter may have
had something to do with 1t. 1t is said
that argument proved a sort of a boom
erang so far as the representatives from
the country counties were concerned. and
to a certain extent the tables were turned
so to speak.
There are very few people in Savannah
who do not know Mr.. Osborne. Although
born in South Carolina, he came here wher
quite young was educated at the public
schools of Savannah, graduated from the
high school and completed his education
when he graduated from the state univer-
eftv In 1gSh He read law I'm the Offices