The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-09

Il. A. NJ. Schroeder. .2,341
II. r. Jones. .......................2.l6 3
w. G. FFipp. Ellis
Richard w. BauEhn................ S03
The Administration forces had a com
plete walk-over in yesterdays municipal
election. The official count shows how it
all happened.
Candidate W. c. Fripp ran at the
bottom of his ticket, and yet he
beat Union Candidate Harris by 1,204
votes. Alderman Dixon lead his ticket.
and will be chairman of Council Candi-
date Robert /. Holland ran only 81 votes
behind Alderman Dixon and will be vice
chairman. Alderman Thomas received
only one vote less than Candidate Hol-
land and came very near being a
lie for vice chairman.
The Trades Unionist Club people CEN
tered on Candidates Jones and Fripp and
for this reason these candidates fell be
hind. While every one from Mayor Myers
down was cut, Jones and Fripp suffered
the most. The labor people polled larg
or vote than was anticipated by the OPP
position, who account for the showing by
the claim that many of the votes re-
ccived by Harris and Baughn, and in ,act
the greater portion, were cast by the
former members of the Liberal Club. Il
appeared that many of the anti-adminis-
tration people who are not allied with
the unions voted for the defeated candi-
dates.
Mr.. L. c. Blase stated last night tina,
in his opinion the open ballot plan had
caused the defeat of the labor candidates.
Mr.. Blase said that if many voters had
not been compelled to vote an open ticket
cutie a different showing would have been
made. There is hardly any doubt but
that this caused some change in the
count. but at no time did the Labor folks
have show to win. Trained politicians
and ward heelers were behind the ad-
mlnistration candidates, while the Union
people had but little organization.
Was "A quiet Election
At 6:45 o'clock the managers. the names
of whom have already been published in
the Morning News were sworn in by
Clerk of the Superior Court, Carr. At
7:24 o'clock the polls were declared open
by Clerk of Council Bailey, and the work
ers filed up to the windows and voted.
There were not great many on hand.
and the squad of police under Senior
Sergeant owen Reilly, had nothing at all
TO do. County Sheriff John Schwarz and
his deputies were also on hand at the
opening. There were plenty of boxes and
at no time during the day was there a
1ush The day was clear and warm and
an ideal one for an election, although
the heelers did not have an opportunity
to indulge in any knockouts. 1t was one
of the quietest and most orderly elections
held in Savannah in quite while and the
contrast with the same day two years ego
was striking. Two reliefs of police were
on hand but only on two occasions were
their services required and even then
there was no serious trouble. The police
blotter shows that not an arrest for dis
orderly conduct was made at the polls.
The First Scrap.
The first trouble occurred shortly before
noon in box A to f in the Bull street
window of the tax collectors office. The
Administration Manager was John r.
Mcguire and the Union manager Thomas
Cooley. Mr.. Cooley objected to several
persons voting during the morning and
the work at this box was rather slow.
The climax was reached when a young
man who had registered as p went up to
cast his ballot. Manager Cooley said that
LnG dDplCdul was not Oh age anu ItluSetl
to allow him to vote. Manager Mcguire
insisted that the young man had register
ed as q and after swearing him as 10
his age marked the ballot and started to
put it i'm the box. Mr.. Cooley placed his
hand over the opening and the Admins
traton man showed the Union represen-
tative aside and pushed the ticket in the
box. 1t looked as if Cooley would strike
Mcguire and shutting the box with a
slam the latter drew back to strike also
In less than five seconds Patrolman c.
w. Dyer had jumped through the open
window, followed by another officer and
several heelers. Chief Deputy Sheriff
Sweeny also rushed in followed by a
large crowd of heelers. For a moment
IL looked as If there were going to be Sc
rious trouble, but this was prevented by
the officers on duty. Manager Mcguire
waved the heelers back with the infor-
nation that the box was heaping up g
big majority for the Administration can
didates After matters had quoted dowr
Mcguire found that he could not oper
the box. He had slammed the covel
down with much force and it had stuck
Put Stop to Voting.
Several minutes were lost in trying Il
open the box and the line was at a stand
sim. Union Manager Cooley did not ap
pear to mind the delay at all, and wher
Mcguire sent for a Ratchet and chisel h'
protested against breaking the box Their,
were several officers on hand at this time
and the administration manager brough
the chisel into use. The lid Of the boa
was pried up without any damage. Afte1
the incident at noon the two managers go
along very nicely together
Shortly after 4 O'Clock in the Afternoon
there was a free-for-all-fght at n to boz
OF the First district. at the Presden
s.reeT window of the county attorney
Office. The trouble began when an up
plicant could not spell his name, although
he was well konwn and had registered.
crowd gathered around the window ant
IN q moment there was a general mix-up
Some stiff blows We're given. and not
few landed on the police, who rushed Il
70 quell the disturbance. Order was fin
ally restored and no arrests were made
This was really the only street fight o
the day and while It was brief, II wa'
quite warm during IT'S duration. No ont
was seriously injured IN the mlx-up
An Easy Administration Victory.
The Administration heelers had an easy
time OF II from every standpoint. There