The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-22
WILL HOLD A MASS MEETING.
Liberal Club to Meet and Present It's
Ticket to the Public.

Ticket to the Public.
If the Citizens Club faction fail TO go
into the primary election tomorrow, as
It is announced will be the case, the pri-
mary viii no doubt be rather a tame af-
fair That is, it will be a tame affair so
far as any trouble at the polls is concern
ed, but the Liberal Club people say they
are going to turn out a big vote
The mass meeting at Masonic Hall to-
night at $50 O'Clock will be the main fea-
ture of to-days politics. There has been
no definite choice of speakers as yet, but
that feature will be arranged for to-day
and the meeting viii undoubtedly be an
interesting one.
All arrangements, with the excep-
ton of the appointment of the
speakers, were made last night at a
meeting of the Fourth District Liberal
Club. This meeting was held at the Sa-
Vannah Club, at Bay and Abercorn streets
where all other meetings of the Liberal
Club faction have been held.
1t was decided to go right ahead
with all arrangements for the primary
and to work just hard as if the other
faction had gone into it and made fight
The meeting of the Fourth District Lib
eral Club was called TO order 10y
Col Merritt w Dixon as chairman. Mr.
John !. Morrissey was made secretary in
the absence of Mr.. Ed Leonard who is
the permanent secretary of the club
Chairman Dixon stated at the outset that
he was still the regular chairman of the
club, and propose to remain SO. The use
of his name IN any other connection, he
said, had been Unauthorized.
The situation was fully discussed at The
meeting, at which about $50 Fourth dis
trict voters We're present. 1t was decided
that the Fourth district Liberals should
meet and attend the mass meeting in
body. They will assemble at East Broad
and Liberty streets at O'clock
and will march to the Masonic
hall by way of East Broad, Broughton.
Bull and Liberty streets. The Liberals of
the First Second and Third districts have
been invited TO join them on the way and
the crowd is expected 10 be an interesting
one when 1t arrives there
The members of the Liberal Club were
all talking last night about the action
taken by the other side. The general
opinion was that they had decided not to
go into the primary on account of the fact
that they could not get out ticket The
fact that the Citizens Club side made an
effort to get out ticket showed that there
was an intention on the part of the leaders
10 go into the primary, they say, and they
drew out of az at the last minute simply
because they found out they could not
get a ticket.
1t was said that Mr.. J. p Williams was
one of the principal legislative candidates
they had in view and that he refused 10
run. Other efforts to get candidates met
with failure, IL is said, and the result was
finally action in accordance with the views
of certain OF the party leaders. Thus the
Liberal Club side views the matter, and
Its members say the opposition staid out
of the primary simply for want of a ticket
to put before the people.
There Is q Interesting Story fo15 in oon-
nection with the political situation, and it
may account for the way in which the
whole thing came about. Somebody wrote
a poem once showing now battle was lost
on account of the loss of a horse shoe
nah.
It Is said that on the day of the first
meeting of the executive committee after
the last primary, Mr.. E. c. Gleason
wanted to buy some COWS. 1t is also
matter of tradition that Mr.. b. S. Wells
had some COWS to sell. In addition TO these
two facts il is stated positively that MIR.
James Drury is a cow expert
Accordingly Mr.. Drury went out into the
country, so the story goes, to look at Mr.
Wells cows, behind two-forty horse.
The cows We're examined, and about
80 Mr.. Drury happened to think of the
meeting. Holy Gee" is said to have
been his exclamation, I've got to go to
a meeting of the comi-tay."
With that the horse was turned about
and he arrived at the court house about
five minutes before u o'clock, or Just one
hour and fifty-fve minutes after The
meeting was called TO order. He waited
around for some time and seeing no com
mittee, took a walk down the street Mr.
Drury was soon informed that he was
about two hours late for the meeting
This is the story told. AT any rate, IL
resulted in the election of the chairman
by the Liberal Club, and it is responsible,
no doubt, for subsequent developments So
IL may be said that results in politics
some times depend on very little things