The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11

In commenting on the primary last
night, "a prominent Liberal Club leader
wl1 voted iu rle primary The watchers
We're supplied Win copies or the regis
trati1u. and tIe name Of every man who
voted was checked An exact count was
kept. and the statement of the watchers
rlat 1873 men voted in the primary is
CORRECT TINS makes a very poor showing
4.31s REGISTERED white voters ga ihe four
city districts, and subtracung from This
tle number who voted in the Ho-called
primary. you have . $50 voters in the city,
WHO d-d not respond TO the riugmas ters
"l-p ana march 20 The polls IL must
also Pc considered that there were 20
men In the police and lire and other city
departments. who had 10 vote or lose their
lohs. and who voted against their own
1851 and you have l.2u as the strength
shown by the Citizens Club IN the city
lI us primary, or considerably less tnaE
0ne-tllru OF the registered white votes.
] don't blame them Tor running 10 mp a
little, but 10 was necessary for them TO
De careful not TO overdo the thing on
account or our watchers
a Citizens Club man. TO whom these
comments were mentioned, offered the fol-
"The vote polled I'm the primary last
september, when Mr.. Willlnk made the
legislative race alone, was about 100.
The vote to-day was nearly so greater
IMAM tnaL AT that time, too. as VIII be
remembered, considerable effort was made
70 get out votes. IN that primary, as to-
Nasr llir opposition htnA men 0A teLtu OF
the polls max ng an alleged count OF the
votes pOAed. IL you viii look in the news
papers of the day after the primary you
VIII see mat the returns made by these
watchers showed that but $40 votes were
polled. These were the figures given out
by the Hartridge managers as the actual
watchers say. I understand. that we poll
ed about 1850 votes. According to their
own figures, then, the Citizens Club tick
et in to-day's primary polled over 80 more
votes than il did in the primary nine
months ago. and that with not half the
ehort to bring out voters. Rather strange,
isn't &c, when it is remembered how fire.
QuenUy Liberal Club orators have as
sured the public that I'd 60 % per cent.
Of the Citlzeus club members had Qult
that organization and Joined the Liberal
There is one thing clear, and that is that
yesterdays primary has settled nothing
The light VIII 20 on JUST the same.
Mr. NJ Y. MacIntyre. appointed "a mem
per OF the congressional deiekauoh' @uu
MIR. j. A. 9. Carson, selected as member
of the senatorial delegation by the mass
meeting of democrats neld at the theater
night before last. have rendered their res
ignatiOns as members of those delegations,
for the reason that their business interests
viii not permit them to take part in poll
with regard to his statement at the
mass meeting about members of the Amer
lean Protective Association on the Citi-
zens club ticket, Maj. p. W. Meldrim said
"The liberal Club has no intention or
desire TO injure any one i'm his business or
reputation. In giving point to the argu-
ment, last night, that the Citizens Club
was In sympathy with the A. L. A., / re-
ferred to several names on the Citizens
ticket. ] said that Capt. KOlshorn was re-
ported TO be a member Of that Organiza-
ton. / did not mention the names of either
Mr.. Parish or Mr.. Wade. ] said that Mr..
John L. Archer was a member of the A.
i. a. That statement is absolutely cor
rect. He was member, but / am this day
reliably informed that he does not now be-
long TO 70. ! further SAID that many good
Heved that they were advancing the cause
of true Amerlcanism, others because they
thought they could get employment. but
that ID was hoped that these men when
they discovered that they were TO be used
70 inJure and Cypress a class of their fell
der l trust my reference to Mr. Archer
will i'm nOwise iniure him for it was not so
intended. Why he Joined the A. l.. a, and
why he ceased to be member I do not
know, but knowing him as / do. 1 am sat
ished that without desiring to do a wrong
to his former associates, he is equally UNI
willing TO- Cypress any other class of his
fellow citizens"
A member of the Citizens Club asked per-
tinently yesterday: Where do they get
their information with regard to the move
ment of the A +. A. and those who com
pose it, As / understand it the members
Of the organization are oathbound and If
any OF tnem give away infOrma tion they
violate their oaths, or to speak plainly
they perture themselves. Now I want to
ask, is the statement of a man who will
perJure himself worthy of any credit Pillow
can trey accept the statements of such