The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-02
CHATHAM WILL DO ITS DUTY.
THE COUNTY EXPECTED TO GIVE
5000 MAJORITY.

| VI 0EElEa as 10 NnC re
suIt-OId Public Officials to BE Re-
elected for Another Term-NearIy
All Are Native GeOrgians.
After the rally comes the election. To
morrow night the Democracy of Chatham
will turn out to greet the chief standard
bearer of the party in the state election.
On Wednesday it will turn out to pile up
the biggest majority that is possible with
the small registration. It is probable that
the Populist ticket will receive less than
100 votes in this county, while the Demo-
cratic ticket will doubtless have over 5000
votes. The full state ticket will receive, it
is expected, 1900 majority in Chatham, at
the lowest.
While there has been an apparent
apathy in this county owing to the absence
Of opposition for the local offices, it is the
belief among the political leaders that
the coming of Col. Gambler and party will
have the effect of arousing enthusiasm
and stimulating the voters to make the
small sacrifice of time necessary to get
| their ballots in.
With a small registration and no reason
for workers pursuing dilatory tactics such
as are common when there is a stiff
fight on, no voter is apt to be kept waiting
more than a few minutes for the opportu-
nifty 20 see his vote go in the box. The
managers and list keepers are all well up
on election matters and will expedite the
voting as much as possible.
There will be five boxes, one for each
! city district and one for the four outlying
districts. The arrangement will be as fol-
/ lows:
No. /. First district, county attorneys
Office Bull and President streets.
No 2, Second district, tax receivers Of
fee, President street.
No 3, Third district, Ordinary's Office,
President street.
! No 4, Fourth district, Office of Clerk of
| Superior Court, York street
No 5, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
districts, county treasurer's office, York
street.
The managers and clerks for the cleo
ton have been announced. The superin-
tendent of the election will be Justice
! Waring Russell, Jr.
In addition to the state ticket the three
members of the legislature from Chatham,
| the senator from the First district, and
six county officers will be voted for. There
is no opposition except as to the state
| ticket, the Populists having a full state
| ticket in the fela. On the Popuist ticket
| appears the name of a Savannahian, W.
| r. Leaken, Esq, for Supreme Court JUS
tlce Mr.. Leaken was not Nominated at
| the convention of the party his name haV-
ing been placed on the ticket a few days
ago without his knowledge or consent. He
| will probably run ahead of the other can
! didates on the ticket, so far as Chatham
county is concerned. As Mr.. Leakeu has
| expressed his opposition to the course pur-
| sued in making him a candidate without
consulting him his friends will not feel in
| clined to give him the complimentary sup
\ port that they otherwise would. ,
The only feature of the state ticket
about which there is any apprehension is
| the constitutional amendments providing
| for the election of judges and solicitors of
the Superior Court by the people. The
| general feeling is in favor of taking the
election Of these officials out of the hands
| Of the legislature, where they have been
used for purposes of trade, and putting the
choice of the incumbents in the hands of
the people. The great mass of Democratic
voters if not ALL are in favor of the
amendments, which require a majority
vote for their ratification. The citizen de-
! string to vote for these amendments must
! see TO it that he strikes out any provision
| which appears on the ticket reading
! against" etc. Some tickets have the
amendments printed twice, with the word
! for before one set, and the word
against" leading the others. All that is
| necessary is to strike out which ever one
| it is desired not to support
| For the legislature, as representatives
from Chatham county, the Democratic
candidates are Messrs. John j. McDon-
ough Thomas H. Mcmillan and w. p.
| LaRoche all three weil-knoWn citizens,
and entitled to the full vote of the party
as the regular candidates. Mr.. Angus
! Grovenstein of bingham is candidate for
| state senator Mr.. McDoEough, while
| business man of large interests, has also
| HAD long career in the legislature, the
aldermanic board and as Mayor Mr. Nc
/ MILAN is another prominent business man,
1 with extensive interests. His public ca
reer has been confined to his services
! as alderman. Mr.. LaRoche, the youngest
member of the next delegation from
| Chatham, is a lawyer, who has established
a reputation at the bar, and who has been
interested in local politics for the past
! three or your years. He has never held
public Office of any character. Mr.. Grow
enstein, the next senator, is native OF
| Effingham, a staunch Democrat, and man
! of high character.
! The candidates for the county offices are
| the present incunbents They are all, with
one exception, native Georgians, born at
| Savannah or in a neighboring county, and
| practically their entire lives have been con-
nected with Chatham. Five of them have
been in office many years, have defeated
| opposition and completed each term of Of
flee seemingly stronger with the people
| than ever before. Without civil service
| regulate they have been kept in office
periods ranging from twelve years to thlr-
| ty. Each of them is recognized as COM
petent as faithfulAin the performance of
| his public duties and as having an official
record which has not been successfully
| inpeached at any time.
Capt. J. J. MCGOWAN, the tax collec-
| tor is the Nestor OF the candidates He
| has held his Office for over a quarter of
a century, and has won a reputation for
afiabilty, efficiency and disinterested de-
votion TO all the work entrusted to him
Capt MCGOWAN came to Savannah in
| childhood, and his life has been spent here
almost entirely, except while in the Con-
federate army. He antedates, in point of
length of service, Sheriff John t. Roman
who was first elected to that office in
January, 1878. Sheriff Roman is a native
| of Savannah. Reelection after reelection
has proved his political strength and the
confidence of the people in his administra-
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