The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-15
COL. DIXON WILL NOT RUN.
HE Announces THAT HE Is NOT 4
CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE.

Says His Business VIII Not Permit
Him to Re Absent for Forty Days
at a Time and That He Would Not
BE willing to Accept an ONCE
when He Could Not Attend to Its
Duties-He says He Is Not II Candi-
date for Amy Office and Has some
thing 10 say on the subject of
Political Family Trees-Mr. John
f. Myrick and the RecOrdership.
Col Merritt W. Dixon, who has general
ly been regarded as the prospective candi-
date Of the Citizens Club for the state
Senate, announced yesterday in the most
positive terms that he win not, under any
circumstances permit the use Of his name.
No" said Col. Dixon in reply TO a
pointed question as 10 his candidacy, 4
certainly shall not be in the race. I am
not a candidate nor a prospective candi-
date for any public Office, ana even if 1
were l would not be candidate for this
one My business does not permit me TO
be absent from it for forty days at a time
and if l became candidate for the Sem
ate and were elected. l could not consist
emily spend a day or two during the week
at my post of duty in Atlanta and the rest
of the time in looking after my personal
business affairs, which, by the way. has
been the custom of some of the represen-
tatives and senators from this county in
the recent past. l would not accept the
Office unless l were in a position 10 look
after its duties properly. and as I am not
in such a position l would not accept it
at all"
Il have intended to make this announce
ment all along" continued the Colonel,
land l intended to place it somewhat on
the ground taken by my genial father-in-
law in an interview IN the Morning News
l am as averse as he is to being a branch
on a political family tree. | agree with
him that the idea is bad, and l think, fur
Their, that Chatham county and the city
of Savannah have had enough Of it in the
past, when there was another family tree,
that bloomed and bossomed a s the rose
and bore a plentiful harvest of fat public
Offices every year"
However" said Col. Dixon. there is
one thing that can be said of the family
tree to which I belong. The branches may
all be looking for public office, but 1t must
be confessed that with one exception they
have accepted offices not at all lucrative,
and IN this respect not at all similar to
those the branches of the old family tree
demanded and received"
The "other family tree" to which Col
Dixon referred was the one headed by
Hon. j. j. McDonough, to whom it was
said that a number of members of the
then city and county governments We're
more or less closely related A reproduce
ton of an heraldic family tree, showing
this relationship, was among the political
broadsides of the last campaign for the
mayoralty.
The positive announcement from Col.
Dixon that, despite the earnest wishes of
his friends, many of whom have tried to
get him into the race he will not be a
candidate for the Senate, leaves the Citi-
zens Club nomination unclaimed When
Col Dixon was announced, with what was
then felt to be a certainty, as the pros
pective candidate, the others who might
have been in the race disappeared Now
that he has expressed his res
olution not to run, IL is quite probable
that there will be number of others TO
MI his vacant place.
Rumor continues busy with the name
of Mr.. John +. Myrick and the w. F.
Slater Independent Club. which he organ
lied. II is said that Mr.. Myrick's ambi-
ton leans coward the recordershp and
that some time ago he approached Mr..
Osborne and asked him what chance there
was of his being made Recorder, should
the Citizens Club be victorious in the
coming campaigns
We'll john" the solicitor general is re-
ported to have quered in reply. do you
want the truth about this matter?"
That's what 1 want" Mr.. Myrick is
said to have answered
why, none, whatever" was the rather
crushing reply and it is this reply, so
the Citizens Club leaders say. that
strengthened their opinion that the or
ganization of the W. F. Slater Independ-
ent Club was for the purpose of aiding
Mr.. Myrick's candidacy for the record
crship.
Political opinion on the subject of Mai
Jonn Schwarz and the Citizens Club nom
ination for county sheriff is veering about
and ID is now said that he will be placed
in the field and will make the race with
the Citizens Club behind him. 1t is GER
tain that some of the minor leaders of
the faction, who in the past have been
open in expressing their disapproval of
his candidacy for sheriff or any other Of
flee, for which they would be expected to
vote and work for him, are being brought
into line and now preserve a naive re.i-
cence on the subject