The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-08

with set speakers. he said, but the meeting
could call upon any one IL desired 10 hear
from He suggested M Manucy as one
whom the club was always delighted 10
applause.
Air. Manucy indOrsed the platform. He
gave particular attention 10 the school
book question and said that il was time
a change Is affected.
know from practical experience" he
said. the burdens OF the present system
! know THAI when a child IS promoted 10
one class and younger child succeeds
nm IN the same class, have 10 60 down
IN my pocket and pay for an entirely new
set OF books for the younger child, in
stead OF his being able to use the books
Mhien the older child used IN the same
Mr.. Manucy discussed other pIanks Of
the platform When the public pay roll
was only pension list, he said, il was
proper that the pension should be small.
Dut wnen the men employed by the city
gave an honest days work they should
lgce. s- iull day pay; This is the state
tlhue 10 be as long as the present party
remains in power. Never in the history
OF the city he said. has a more COM
petent ana ADLER body of business men
3sen IN charge Of the city government.
MI Aanucy criticised the old admins
oIaIon and praised the work Of the
present, 70 the satisfaction Of the crowd.
ne grew elOqlen as ne discussed the
history OF the Citizens Club, and declared
tnat the date Of its organization, Marcn
II, 1891, would ever be the most pre-
clous treasure in his stOrehouse Of mem
DRY. lie called upon those present who
were registered TO hold up their hands,
anu lOtu those who were not registered
that II they did not feel able TO pay their
taxes, the committee would arrange that
Tor them, and If they had any friends in
the same fix, and who could be depended
on 70 vote their way. 10 bring them along,
TOO. he asserted, further on, that il was
the Intention Of the Liberal Club to carry
the erection, II possible, with the pur-
chased negro vote. He said that, though
the other side might be registering the
negro voters, some OF us are pretty good
at hustling around after it,"
Mr.. ". +. Slater was called on by Presi-
dent osborne as representative Of the
people, who had come to Savannah in
recent years from adjoining Nities. Mr..
Slater responded with a rafting speech,
and poured hot shot into the Liberal
Gun. He said they were a lot of boilers
from democratic caucuses and nomna-
tons from the president down to Mon
Key Butumer. A lot of them, he said,
are living on Doodle around the court
mousse now, but after the election, If
CoXeys army should come through Sa-
Nannah, II would take half of them with
T. Mr.. Slater cOntrasted the old anti
Russell fights of the Tammany Club and
us present alliance with County Treasurer
russell. He roasted the Liberal people,
ana told several jokes, the points of
which were that Mr. Russell had not
only gone with the wrong crowd, bun
would get left himself.
PRESIDENT Osborne closed the meetine
"+Nu AuNitG u the members ABOUT
campaign reports. The first idea of an
amateur politician is to start a lie. he
SAID. he told the members not to be
worried about these lies, of which there
would certainly be a number during this
campaign, and not to waste any time con-
tradicting them. They should come to
headquarters and get the exact truth, he
SAID. The leaders have nothing to con-
ceal, he said. The campaign will be con-
Quoted open and above board, he said, and
every member of the club is welcome to
KNOW what heinz ! Ia
Importance of registering.
II the primary were to be held now" he
added, Il am satisfied that we would win
by a thousand majority. We have every
reason to believe now that the other side
does not intend to go into a square night
before the white people Of this county.
Ihelr purpose is to win by means of the
negro vote and though we have a large
majority of the registered white vote we
can not afford to run any risks. II our
1000 white majority is to be offset by 900
purchased negro votes we shall need 500
more white votes TO give US our majority"
The meeting adjourned subject to the
call of the chair.