The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-30
HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE.
CAPT. CANN SAYS HE WILL NOT BE
IN THE RACE FOR ORDINARY.

Amy Announcement of His Intended
Candidacy That His Friends Have
Made Has Been without His APP
prevail or COnsent-He VIII Not Be
in the Race-The Death of This Re-
port Marks the Birth of Half
Dozen Others in Connection With
the Court House Ofices-Present
OmcehoIders VIII Probably Refuse
to Unite Themselves with Either
Political Faction.
Capt. J. Ferris Cam, whom it has been
currently rumored would be a candidate
at the coming elections for Inc office of
| Ordinary emphatically denied it yester-
| day.
Il have been besieged in my Office to-
day" Capt. Cam said, "by my friends and
acquaintances, of both political factions,
who have asked me to confirm or deny
the correctness of the report ! have de-
MED it, Whatever mention of my name
has been made in his matter by my
friends has been without my approval or
| consent, and most assuredly 1 shall not
! be a candidate"
This sets at rest one of the rumors in
connection with the prospective contests
for the Court House Offices but half a
dozen others, Of the same general charac-
ter, crop up to fill it's place. 1t is said
that Mr. Walter King win be a candi-
date for the Citizens Club nomination for
the office of receiver Of tax returns, and
| mat both Justice NJ. Naughtn and former
Sheriff Thomas J. Sheftall desire to DE
the standard bearers of the same faction
in the race for sheriff of the City Court.
For county sheriff Maj. John Schwer2
has already announced himself as cant
ddate, and it is practically certain that
he viii be supported by the same faction
to which Messrs. Naughtin and King be-
! long Sheriff Sweeny and Col j. i
Brooks have also been mentioned as candi-
dates for the office For the other Court
House offices, both factions say there
will be contests, but no names have yet
been prominently mentioned in this con-
nection, other than those of the present
incumbents.
The factlonal requirement that the va
rious officers in the Court House shall
make known their factional preferences
and align themselves either with one of
the local parties or the other, bids fair to
be difficult of enforcement, save in the
cases of those officers who have recently
taken their seats and bear upon them
still thu marks and scars and glorious
wounds of the recent political combats in
which hey have been engaged. 1t may
be possible for the factional leaders to
force these off1ceholders to a declaration
of their POLITICAL principles by applying
the test that whoever is not for us, is
against us" and constructing a working
plan of operations from this simple prin-
ciple of political lore.
With the older oficeholders, who, for a
long tine, have taken no part in factional
politics and have steadfastly refused to
alv themselves with either faction, it
Will be a much more difficult matter to
force the to declare themselves. Indeed,
it locks Ike an impossibllity. These gen
/ tlemen have all held office long enough
to permit the people to become acquaint-
ed with their fitness and fidelity to the
trust that has been delegated to them and
are personally well known and very pop
ular with a large proportion of the regis
tered voters of the county, of the best
class, and without regard to faction.
They are inclined to think, and with
apparent good reason, that there is no de-
mand of ri2ht that can force them to ally
themselves with either of the factions or
to take part in any election other than
that for the office to which they aspire
II is very likely that they will refuse to
be 6rawn into a factional fight for the
offices, state county and municipal, in
VIII h they have no personal interest, and
that they viii rely upon their popularity
with the people to secure their elections.
Certainly when they have once taken
this ground. it will be hard for any am
bilious politician to defeat them
Preparations for the coming elections, by
the registration of prospective voters Of
both factions go merriy on, and there
are other indications that the city AMI
county are in a state of political fermeut
and unrest. Almost every office within
the gift of the people of the county, or to
fill which they are entitled to vote, is to
be fought for al the poles either during
the present year. or during the first month
or two Of next year. The offices thus 10
be filled range from coustabes Of the Mill
tia districts to president of the United
States, and the space between these two
extremes is filled with administrative Of
ficers Of the city and county, representa-
tives in the State Legislature, the judicial
officers of this circuit, the legislative, ex-
ecutve and judicial officers of the state
and senator and representative in Con-
gress. As one of the knowing ones mas
remarked, THE field is large enough 20
reward well the wisely-directed efforts of
any active and energetic politician"
large number of postal cards has been
distributed recently to voters all over tho
city and county, who have not yet quail
fed. Il is s1id that they have been sem
out by the Citizens Club. and a member
of the opposing fiction, who disp aged one
of the cards, proclaimed that this was the
fact l;e added also that his factions
political opponents were sending many of
the cards to man, who if they did regis
ter, certainly would not vote as the send
ers of tho cards intended and des red.
The cards were decorated with large ami
elaling type, conveying this legerd to the
curious and the politically-iuclired "Rer-
lister! Register! The Registration Books
Are Now Open for 1900 Come and Regis
ter! From to q" 1t is evident from
the records of the Office of the registrar
that these appeals, combined with other
methods of inducing registration of voters,
are producing very noticeable results