The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-15
SWEENY ROMANS SUCCESSOR.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER APPOINT
HIM SHERIFF..

Election Not Likely 10 BE Held BE-
fore the Latter Part of November.
Plenty of Candidates for the Of
flee VIII Be in the Field in "A Day
or TsVO-WIu BE a Lively Canvass
with no Lack of MateriaI-Candi-
dates Holding Their Announce
ments Until After Sheriff Romans
Funeral.
In accordance with the programme pre-
vously arranged, and announced in the
Morning News yesterday Thomas J.
Sweeny has been appointed sheriff of
Chatham county, for the term intervening
between the present time and the qualih-
cation of the successful candidate at the
election, to be called by the County Com
missloneTs. The appointment of Mr..
Sweeny was made by the commissioners
at the special meeting at the Court House
yesterday morning.
The order of appointment recites the
death of the last incumbent of the Office,
and the power conferred upon the commits
sioners to appoint fit and proper person
In his stead, until an election can be call
ed and had in terms of the law. 1t is then
ordered that Mr.. Sweeny be thus appoint
ed, and that the clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners certify to the Gov
ernOr, his appointment so that hIs>com-
mission may be issued. The order is sign
ed by Chairman Dale and all of the COM
missioners. Last night the order was sent,
properly certified, to the Governor. and it
is expected that the commission of the
newly appointed sheriff will arrive within
the next few days.
There has apparently been no develop
ment in the situation of the contest for
sheriff The various applicants and aspi-
rants, as if by common and decent con-
sent, have deferred all announcement on
the subject until after the funeral of
Sheriff Roman this afternoon and each of
them has maintained a becoming silence.
The names of one or two other prospec-
tive candidates have been in the air,
where, by the way, they have remained
suspended for the last two months, but
there seems no immediate danger of their
reaching terra firma or of the political
lightning striking anywhere in their inn
mediate vicinity.
In all probability ii will be the latter part
of November before 1t will be possible for
the commissioners to hold an election and
between that time and the regular election
AOi NpultS OlllC0TS ii peIlOQ Oh less tIldn a
year will intervene. 1t is not impossible
that both of the stronger candidates, or
those named as prospective candidates,
would, be willing to have this length of
time to marshal their forces and to get
their battle line adequately and properly
laid out More than this they are under
stood in some quarters to be willing to al
low Mrs. Roman to receive the revenues of
the office for the unexpired term of the
late sheriff.
About tomorrow 1t may be expected
confidently that the fun tide of political
clamor will be at its flood and that there
will be street corner nominations of a
dozen or more very admirable gentlemen
each of whom would make an admirable
sheriff, ON but one condition, the ability
and the popularity, namely. to- draw the
requisite number of votes. 1t may be- too
that these nominations and the ardor for
political preferment that possesses many
and will be much in evidence, will dis
arrange all the calculations that the poll
ticians have been making and precipitate
the fight at the special election, instead
of the regular one that is to be held in
the fall of next year.
The mute eloquence of the numerous as
pirants and their friends will then be
changed for something more audible, if
not more pleasing, and the claims of the
rival candidates for the office their vir-
tues and their deserving attributes, will
be noised abroad by their followers, with
vigor that will be equaled only by the
deClamatOry efforts of their political enc
mics to demonstrate their unfitness to hold
the Office of sheriff or any other There
is calm brooding over the situation that
is suspicious to say the least of it, and
that to the eye of the trained observer
seems to presage the political storm that
is about to break.
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