The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22
PREPARING FOR THE FRAY.
POLITICIANS NOT LIKELY TO REST
TODAY.


AIdermanie Tickets Expected-The
Total City Registration 3,437,
White and 52S COIored-The Vote
Likely to BE 20 Per Cent Less-De-
faulters Who Have Paid Up in the
Last Ten Days Must Bring Tax RE-
ceipt to the PoIIs-FinaI Rallies
TO BE Held Tomorrow Night.
There are only two more days before
the city election, and it is to be feared
that Sunday win not be a day of rest
with the politicians. In fact it is pretty
well understood that considerable work
has been planned for to-day The plans
Of the campaign viii be reviewed by the
leaders, and many details arranged for
and possible contingencies prepared for.
The colored brother viii receive special
consideration. Whether there will be @
repetition Of the scenes Of two years ago,
when the colored voters were corraled in
halls and kept until morning under the
guard of both white and negro workers.
cannot be said. Both sides claim to feel
well assured of the attachment of the ne
gro voters who have aligned themselves
with their respective sides, and each
claims that it has a number of negro sup
porters who cannot be Influenced by
money but who are acting upon principle
II such be the case il will not be neces-
sary to corral the negro voters. 1t is very
likely, however, that all the colored halls
throughout the city have been engaged
by one side or the other, and that all
night meetings will be held where the
colored voters will be encouraged by
speakers to adhere to the side for which
they have declared themselves, and in
structions given them as to the manner
of voting.
Owing 10 the provisions of the new cleo
ton law, which make 1t difficult to ascer-
tain whether a purchased vote is deliver
ed each side will have to depend to
greater extent than formerly upon appeals
to the negro voter TO stand firm, 20 the side
for which he has declared himself. The
floating white vote also has the opportu-
nifty of taking pay for one ticket and
voting another.
As a matter of fact there has never been
an election law vet that the Chatham
county politician could not circumvent.
was recently repealed, was q soft thing
for the politicians They actually found
its operations to facilitate their work.
They were not only able to ascertain ex-
actly whether a purchased voter had de-
livered his goods or not, but they could
go further and keep up with the non
purchasable vote, and by this means as
certain how the doubtful votes had been
cast
A feature of the election which is freely
predicted on all sides is that there win be
more scratching of the aldermanic ticket
than in any previous election in recent
years. 1t is generally admitted that there
Is a desire on ali sides for a strong alder
manic board and as the partisan lines are
less tightly drawn than for a number of
years it is expected that voters will exer-
else their own discretion and make up
their own ticket without regard to the
mayoralty candidate for whom they vote.
Unless there should be a wide margin be-
tween the winning and the losing ticket
it is practically certain that there win be
q mixed board Of aldermen, with the prob
abilities in favor of the best men on the
two tickets composing the board Many of
the aldermanic candidates have personal
following, and this WIN cut a considerable
figure in the scratching of tickets
The tickets under the new election law
are furnished by the candidates and are
simply the plain straight ticket to which
the voters of Savannah We're accustomed
for SO many years before the adoption of
the Osborne Australian ballot law The
| mayoralty candidate heads the ticket and
the candidates for aldermen nominated
with him follow. There is nothing to pre-
vent any voter who chooses to do so
from scratching as many names as
he please on any ticket and sub
! shutting others A voter can, IL he
chooses to do so, write his own ticket
Ant-Liberal tickets have already been
| printed, and were in circulation on the
streets yesterday. They are simply head
! ed Myers Ticket" with Herman Myers
| for Mayor and the aldermanic candidates
arranged in the following order: David
| Wells, John Schwarz, James NJ. Dixon
! Samuel Reynolds, Joseph G.. farrell
| George w. Tiedeman, j. +. Williams. John
| j. Horrigan, Isaac q. Haas II. H. Bacon
| NJ. J. Doyle, Thomas Screven. In the an
nouncement of the Myers ticket yesterday
! the name of Mr.. Dixon w as
| omitted 1t had been previously anuounc-
! ed that Mr.. DiXon's name would be on
the ticket, and the omission was entirely
| an oversight Mr.. Dixon is one of Savan-
! nah's younger business men. 1t is pre-
dcted by some that his name will lead
| the vote on that side, and it can be relied
! upon, at any rate, that his vote viii not
| be among the lowest on the ticket.
The interest in the election, which was
awakened rather slowly, so far as the
mass of voters were concerned, is now be
coming intense, ana the meetings to-mor-
| row night are likely to bring it to fever
heat The contest will be sharp and hard
fought and each side will strain every
nerve TO win the victory. Considerable
campaign funds have been secured from
The leading supporters of each side. but
the managers on each side deny that they
! have any such quantities of Doodle as
viii warrant them in purchasing votes at
| any price. or that any votes will be
! bought
The exact figures of the registration.
which will be used in Tuesdays election.
showing the number of white and colored
voters registered in each district and an
portoned to each box were furnished che
Morning News yesterday by the registrar.
Mr. Jerome G. Sullivan. The figures are
( as follows:
W're. Col. Toll.
First District. box A to X. 369 1876
/ First district hnx l., to