The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-06
WOODWARD DOWNS MACHINE.
ATLANTA GIVES THE PRINTER
CANDIDATE BIG MAJORITY.

First Time in the History of the City
Tint a WOrkingmRn Has Occu-
pied the Mayors Charlie Re-
ceives the Vote of Kid-GlOVe
Reachtree District as Well as That
of the Workingman-Unfni Pro-
ceedings of BrOthertOn's Machine
Turned the Tide of Public Senti-
ment in Favor of the Printer-A
Man of Ability.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 5.-James G. Wood
ward, the printer candidate" will be the
next Mayor of Atlanta.
For the first time in the history of the
city, a working man coming from the
masses, has been chosen 10 preside over
the municipality.
Woodward won against what seemed TO
be insurmountable odds at the beginning.
His victory is a handsome one, TOO, the
majority piled up for him reaching to 200
or more votes.
His opponent, Lawyer and ex-Represent-
alive Martin. carried his own ward
by but seventeen votes, while WOodWard's
home ward went for him three to one.
The election was one of the most excit-
ing in the annals of local politics. Martin
had The whole local machine at his back,
including the earnest support of the Con-
| stitution, while the Journal where Wood
ward works. was neutral, though leaning
| TO him.
An indication Of how the machine
! fought woodward may be had from the
| act IF he WI
| him only one manager out of twenty-one.
| This aroused the sense of fair play in the
| public mind, and the result was complete
reputation of Brotherton and his ma
| chine
Martin, the defeated candidate, is him
| self a good man, but he was brought out
under bad auspices of the Brotherton ma
| chine, and the Consequence was he was
| sacrificed on the altar of public opinion
by the method of persecution and unfair
! ness adopted to elect him. Even the
| Sixth ward the Peachtree kid-glove vote,
went for the printer candidate Mr.. Mar
tin carrying only two out of the seven
| wards, and then by close margins.
Martin and his friends inserted the
liquor question into the fight Martin
| standing as the prohibition representative
and Woodward being saddled with the
supposed handicap of the whisky ring,
| though he Is a teetotaller and against
| changing the present saloon regulations.
| Woodward was cartooned and ridiculed
because of his rather rugged appearance
and manners, and this undoubtedly had
much to do with the result. Although ne
is a printer working at the case every
day, Mr.. Woodward is, nevertheless, man
of wide Information and of a character
above reproach. During his ten years in
the City Council as alderman, he made
a reputation for independence and honesty
of purpose that will make him marked
| 10 &c ahnir 10 no
be bought or bulldozed by the clques and
rings that corner everything worth hav-
ing in the municipal pit and
for this reason, this clement
fought him bitterly.
MIR Woodward is a poor man in the
worlds goods, living in a modest cottage
over in the Third ward which is the resi-
dence section of the prosperous working
people. He has never made any money
out of his position in the city government,
and with all regard to every other Mayor,
who has occupied the chair within the
past ten years, the people know as a GER
tainty from his record that there will be
no municipal jobs while he holds the reins
of government One of the grounds of
opposition to him was that he was not a
society man, and could not wear spike
tailed coat and grace "a reception. But
the people who elected him to-day think
their printer candidate will make up in
honesty and horse-sense for this little de-
ficiency in his accomplishment.
Another significant feature of the day S
election was the defeat of Joel Hurt, the
Consolidated Street Railway magnate,
who has been described in these dis
| patches as the most popular man in town.
He was beaten by John S. Parks, a for
mer employee of the Atlanta Journal, ny
| about 400 votes. Hurt made the fight of
his life, working every scheme known to
the manipulators in a legitimate way,
| spending barrel of money. But the peo-
pie did not want to let him into Council
to work for his schemes, and although
| hercu.ean efforts were put forth in his be-
half, they gave 1t to him in the neck.
Hurts right-hand man of the last Coun-
ell, G. p. Howard, son-in-law of the late
Senator Colquitt, who was running for
| alderman, also went down in defeat along
with his mentor, the successful man being
| almost totally unknown outside of his i'm
mediate neighborhood. The people would
not have him because he was a Hurt man.
j. T. Orme city treasurer for eight
years, who was supported by Hurt, was
| also defeated, his opponent being T. J.
Peoples 1t was a Waterloo along the lines
for Hurt and his ticket. While there was
no open combination, Mr.. Martin was sup
| ported by Hurt.
The proposition to issue 5000, 600 bonds
to improve the city water system by ex-
| tending the mains was lost by So votes In
| nearly all the wards the managers will
not be through counting the ballots till
| tomorrow
The Australian system of secret ballot
ing was used in the election for the first
time in Atlanta, and everybody is delighted
with it. as the election was only abso-
lutedly fair and almost totally beyond the
| influence OF the hired ward heeers, who
/ heretofore have made life miserable at
the pods to the average citizen.
| -o-S-sT
PROMOTION OF DEWEY.