The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-21
DEFENDED ALDERMAN DIXON.
CAPT. CANN REPUDIATES~> THE
CHARGE AS TO yIRTRIFIED BRICK.

Interest in the Brick Company ana
No Man Dnres Charge Him TO His
Face with Using His Chairman
ship of the street and Lane Com
mitfec Improperly, Capt. Cam
said-The Collar Issue Discussed.
Partisans of the other Side-NIust
Make Way for the Pure in Heart
the Cry.
The regular nightly flood OF campaign
oratory was turned loose last night at
Southside Armory. The orators favored
the candidacy Of Solicitor General Os-
borne for a second term. The gathering
was made up Of members and friends of
the Southside Consolidated Club, sympa-
thizers with and supporters of the pres
ent administration
The principal speaker was Capt. j. Fer
ris Cam. The others were Mr.. Shelby
Myrick, Mr. r. NJ. Lester and Mr. Os-
borne himself, who. however, spoke only
a few words, contennng himself with some
humorous references to the charge made
by Mr. w S. Coburn, that he had threat
ened a city empIoye with dismissal from
his position in case he was seen speaking
with a Liberal Club member, and with an
expression Of his willingness TO make the
race strictly on his record, adopting the
estimate of it made by his political op-
ponents.
Mr. Cam reviewed what he esteemed the
issue of the campaign at rather greater
length and with considerably greater free
dom and emphasis He said that he had
been prevented in the past from address,
ing any gathering of the supporters of the
administration or from attending one, and
he had CLEANED from the newspapers what
he knew of the issues that had been made.
One of these issues, it seemed, said Capt
Cam, was whether or not Tom Davis
had promised 10 vote for Billy Osborne.
What possible difference does it make, the
speaker queried I'VE can afford 10 lose
500, yes, 900, Tom Davis with their prom
Uses, and yet win the fight hands down
There had also been some discussion, he
said, on the subject Of mud pavements
and vitrified brick 1t went without say
ing that even if the Liberal Club got back
into mower, which, parauthetically, would
never happen 1t would never dare TO foist
a mud pavement on the community, or the
community on a mud pavement.
IAN attempt has been made" said Capt
Cam, TO impute to the chairman of the
Street and Lane Committee Of the City
Council some improper interest in the
purchase Of vttrified brick by the city.
The charge, if charge il was was made
in a public political meeting, where it
gained the cheap applause of a few ignOr-
ant partisans." Here the crowd howed
with appreciative delight. THE man Who
made it would not dare to make ii to Jim
Dixon's face. He knows it is absolutely
and unquahfiedly false" The crowd howl
ed again.
1T seems to be an admitted fact" sai1
Capt Cam, that Col. Merritt Dixon in
PRODUCED Mr.. Hartridge to the Liberal
Club. Well, Col. Dixon has seen his mis-
take and has got with the right people.
1t is a pity that Mr.. Hartridge does not
come to the same conclusion, cross the po-
ltical fence and get with the men who
will not use him to pluck hot chestnuts
from the fire"
Capt Cam discussed the question that
SEEMS a necessary topic in every political
speech of this campaign-that of political
collars. He treated it, however, in rather
a new light and incidentally threw one
of the hottest shots yet projected into
The collar wearers of the other faction.
They talk about the Garfunkel collar"
he said. "Well, talk as they can and will,
ii must be confessed, and l proclaim it
here, that the Grfunkel collar is as re-
spectacle, yes, more respectable, than the
O'Byrne collar"
The opposition speakers have said that
the headquarters of the Citizens Club,
and this campaign is being run between
the City Exchange a lawyers office and
a Broughton street store. If that is true,
certainly it Is equally true that the head
quarters OF the Liberal Club are situated
between lawyers office and a rum shop
they lack even the responsibility of the
BroughtOn street store"
Capt Cam said Mr.. Osborne had been
charged with Threatening to dismiss a
city employee for talking with a Liberal
Club sympathizer. The charge was alb
surd. However, he said If a city employe
spends the time he ought to devote to the
city's interests in working and securing
votes for the other faction, if he becomes
a partisan. and an offensive partisan.
when he ought to give impartial attention
to his duties, then when the election is
over and the Citizens Club is victorious,
he ought TO lose his position and he will"
Capt. Cam did not say what would hap
pen to the city employee who became an
offensive partisan OF the administration,
and spent the time when he should be
giving impartial attention TO his duties"
in securing votes for the administration,
but the audience seemed to understand
and not to be afraid.
Capt Cam was preceded by Mr. Shelby
Myrick who made forcible plea for the
return of Mr.. Osborne to the solicitor
generals Office. Mr.. Myrick said that Mr..
Hartridge could no more be compared to
Mr.. Osborne than a tallow candle could
he compared to an electric light: The au-
dience applauded this.
Mr.. Lester eulogized Mr.. Osborne's con-
duct of the Office of solicitor general. and
said that even his opponents We're com
PEELED 10 confess that he had made one
of the best prosecuting officers the county
had ever had.
The meeting was well attended and the
crowd was fun of enthusiasm, which was
turned loose at regular intervals. Most
Of those present had an interest through
their place of residence or business, in
the pavement of Bull street, and they
were especially pleased with Capt, Cams
denunciatiOn of the mud" pavement AL
though. as Capt Cam said che pavement
question has little TO do with the pres
ent campaign, his audience was respon-
sihle for its introduction. NO more mud
pavements" was inscribed on half a doz-
on of the banners carried by the Southside
Consolidated Club in its recenS torchlight
procession through the streets of the city.
The ''vitrified brick" intmation. or insinu-
alton, or charge. or whatever IL was. was