The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
THE G. 0. P. SPLIT IN HALF.
THE CHATHAM COUNTY END OF 1T
Is THAT WAY, AT LEAST.


veaux Faction Controlled the
Meeting and the Police Were Call
ed in to Preserve order and ExpeI
the Defeated CONFERENCE.-The
Doyle Faction Then Held Its Own
Convention Next Door and Adopted
Resolutions Condemnins Deveaux
and Charging Him With Attempt
ing to Run the White Men Out of
the Party.
The Republicans of Chatham county are
accus toned to holding lively conventions,
but the one yesterday excelled anything
in this line in twenty years. It was an all
day fight between the Doyle and Deveaux
factions, which ended as might have been
anticipated, in the holding of two separate
conventions and the election of separate
delegations to the state and district con
vendons.
The Deveaux people consider that they
had decidedly the better of it for the rea-
son that they retained control of the hall
and kept the original convention in their
hands from start to fnish even forcing
their opponents TO leave the hall after the
! Committee on Credentials had decided
against them. The contesting delegations
then went next door and held a conven-
ton of their own
The convention was announced to con-
vene at II o'clock. 1t was nearer noon,
however, before it was really called to
order, and over two hours before it sue
| ceeded in effecting an organization, From
start to finish, or at least from the time
the chairman first raped for order I'M
til the Deveaux people obtained control
on the departure of their opponents at $50
o'clock, the hall was a scene of pandemo-
MUM rarely if ever equaled in the poti-
cal annals of the city The rap of the
chairman's stick upon the table was con-
tinuous, and when he was not talking him
! self, which was the case good part of
| the time, anywhere from six TO forty del
egates and would-be delegates endeavored
to admonish and advise him at one and
! the same time.
Looked Like Free-for-AIl.
A. one time it looked as if the whole
! affair would break up in a free for-all
! fight and this would doubtless have been
! the case had not bakers dozen of police
| men been sent to the hall in charge of
| Senior Sergeant Reilly. This was done
at the request of Col Deveaux who noti-
/
We're attempting to break up the meet
! ing. The presence of the police had
| something of a soothing effect upon the
partisans, but did not prevent heated dis
cussion and accusations and recrimina-
tions of various sorts.
| Col. Deveaux was on hand directing his
own fight. Capt. NJ. j. Doyle was also
there but had little to say Rev. E. x.
! Love was also on hand, but was unusually
quiet. President r. r. Wright of the
| coored college, one of the leaders of the
! Doyle faction, was present and made des-
perate efforts to be seated. but was shut
out by some very shrewd interpretations
of political and parliamentary laws by
| Chairman Simmons. The Deveaux party
| seem to have it in very much for Presi-
dent Wright and Parson Love, and said
| some very hard things about them es-
peciaHy the former.
! Chairman Simmons showed no undue
| haste in opening the meeting and jockey
! ing and caucussing had been going on
| among the delegates for an hour or two
! when the meeting was finally called to
order Simmons gave the crowd to under
! stand at the start that he would tolerate
| no interference from any but regularly
| elected delegates. He was no bully he
| declared, and he did not propose to toler-
| ate any bullying or bulldozne from any
! body. This assertion he repeated at in
| teryals for the next half hour w. D.
J j.
! Ferrebee secretary.
Had Two Rolls.
The fun started when an ATTEMPT was
made to call the roll. 1t developed that
there were two rolls, one prepared by the
| chairman and the other by the secretary
| The chairman being a Deveaux man. his
roll contained the names of all the De-
VeauX delegates, while the secretary, be-
| ing a Doyle man. mad placed all the
I DOV1R DELEGATES
was spent in the effort to get the secre-
| tary to read the roll, as he was evidently
! hestating between the two rolls, which
! he held in his hand The chairman finally
| announced that as the secretary was a
! contestant himself from the Second dis
trict, he was in doubt as to now he should
| proceed. A movement to elect a new sec
| rotary brought on a great row but il was
! finally agreed that Ferrebee should con-
tinue until the temporary organization
| could be effected.
By an understanding between the chair
! man and secretary it was agreed that tho
| roll should be called by districts, the or
! posing delegations being called alternate
| ly. The meeting was not in the secret.
! however and when the secretary begun
! to cal the DeveauX roll for the First
! district there was a great rumpus raised
| by the Doyle crowd who were determined
! that their opponents should not get ahead
| OF them on the organization. A second
| attempt to cali the roll ended in a similar
! row, in which Editor Sol Johnson of the
! Tribune and William Chisholm who head
| ed the Doyle delegation from the First.
/ engaged in a smuggling match Chisholm
! was expelled from the hall and turned
| over to a policeman, who took him to the
| barracks. II was at this juncture that
| Col Deveaux sent to the barracks for
| police to preserve order. The entrance Of
! the police squad was somewhat of a sur
prise to the Doyle faction, but they made
no objections.
Both Rolls Called.
II was finally agreed that the two rolls
4 should be called alternately by districts
and that only the delegates from the nm
| contested districts should organize the
convention. The benches in front of the
chairman were cleared for the delegates
while the crowd was required to stand
| back. There We're contests from the First