The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-10
HIS FINAL RALLY
McALPIN COHORTS GATHERED AT
THE THEATER.
THE HOUSE WAS CROWDED.
SPEECHES ELoQUEN AND ENTHUs-
IAsM AT FEVER POINT.

Has No Right TO Run on a Reform
Platform, the Speakers Declared.
Capt. McAlpin Announced That He
Felt Confident He Would Win.
The final rally Of the clans McAlpin
was held at the Theater last night. The
building was crowded from pit to dome,
and there were few if any less in the
audience than attended the Hartridge
gathering the night before.
Mr.. W. p. LaRoche called the meet
ing to order. On the stage, among 9TH
ers, were Messrs. L. NJ. Norwood, Joe
Molina, Isadore Silverberg, ]. l. Kill
lorin, Richard Wickham, w. M. CO.
burn, w. C. Mcintyre. Gordon Saussy,
W. B. Puder and DIR. ST. J. B. Graham.
Mr.. LaRoche announced that the
first business before the meeting was
the selection of a secretary and in
response there were enthusiastic calls
for Justice Richard Wickham. The
chairman put the question and there
was an almost unanimous response of
AYE" Then Mr.. LaRoche introduced
the first speaker, Mr.. Gordon Saussy.
Mr.. Saussy began by denominating
Mr.. Hartridge a political office seeker.
He said that before the celebrated May
primary, when Mr.. Hartridge was OPP
posing Mr.. Osborne for solicitor gem
eral, Mr.. Hartridge had promised that
he would give all of the emoluments
Of the office above the sum of $1,000 to
the public school fund of the county.
He meant" said Mr.. Saussy, pro
vided the county could find bookkeep-
er who couldn't count more than $4,-
! $685." ~
Mr.. Sadssy said that Mr.. John !.
Morrissey was slated for the clerkship
of the Court of Ordinary in the event
of Mr.. Collins election. He added that
he knew Mr.. Morrissey would not do
anything that was wrong. One candi-
date for this office, he said, has placed
| himself on a high moral platform.
Those who have advocated his candi-
dacy have started their speeches with
let us pray If they had spelt it with
an e instead of an a. we would have
been able to understand what they
meant.
Mr. Saussy condemned the vitupera-
ton in which he said the speakers at
the Hartridge gathering at Masonic
Temple had INDUCED He said that the
slurs that had been cast by Mr. Hart
| ridge upon the candidacy of Capt Nc
Alpin were inspired by the scars of old
political defeats. He concluded by
commencing to the suffrages of the
people of Savannah, as a man physical
| ly, mentally and morally healthy, Capt
Henry McAlpin, and asking for him the
support of the citizens.
The chairman then introduced Mr.
| Charles V. Hohenstein. Mr.. Hohen-
stein said that Walter C. Hartridge
| had proclaimed himself the one ex-
ponent of purity in Savannah's poll
tics. Mr.. Hartridges past political
record, he said, did not permit him to
lay rightful claim to any such dis
| tinction and that the record of Capt.
McAlpin was as clean and as pure as
Mr.. Hartridge could assert, src
Il want to say that the degradation
| of the ballot box is to be avoided and
that Capt. McAlpin is just as much OPP
| posed to it as any man in this race. l
want to say that any man who will
sell the privilege of the suffrage, who
| will sacrifice the dear bought right for
which our fathers shed their blood, is
unworthy of the respect of decent
| men,"
Mr.. Hohenstein said that any man
who would cast his eyes back upon the
history of the political campaigns of
| Walter Hartridge could not say that
he had never countenaneed the use of
| money for the corruption of voters at
the polls. Everybody knew, he declar-
ed, that money had been spent in the
interest of candidates when Mr.. Hart
ridge had been one of their number.
Does anybody believe" Mr.. Hohen-
stein asked, that Walter c. Hartridge
had no share in the distribution of that
money? Think of the May primary
| and tell me IL any man believes that
| spending of so much corruption mon
ev.''
The speaker declared that the
charges that had been made against
Capt McAlpin had been proven to be
false. He read a letter from Mr..
Murphy M. Baker in which that for
nser candidate for the office of justice
of the peace, whom Capt. McAlpin is
said to have opposed in the interest of
a negro. declared that he would vote
for Capt McAlpin and do all he could
to assure his election.
Mr.. Hohenstein declared that every
| imputation that had been cast against
the character and standing of Capt.
| McAlpin had been proven false and
that on the eve of the election the
voters of Chatham county would pro-
claim him their choice for the office
| of ordinary.
Mr. ]. l. Killorin was the next speak
err He said that the humorous side of
the campaign had very forcibly inn
pressed him.
One of the candidates reminded him
of the old Kentucky colonel, whom one
of his friends had asked If he were
running again for office.
=" No, sir the colonel replied, I
started to run thirty years ago and
it's the same old run. That's the case
with Mr.. Hartridge. Somebody might
say that he ought to stop in order to
catch his breath. but IL seems to me
that he ought to stop in order to let
the rest of US catch our breath.
Mr.. Hartridge says that he never
| knew that money was spent in the last
campaign in which he was interested.
| / want to say that l had a remote in
terest in that campaign myself, and
that l know that money was spent.
/ If Mr.. Hartridge hasn't enough legal
| ability to know that money was spent
in that campaign. and if he is willing
| TO accept the evidence he has accepted
! TO back the charges he has made in
| this campaign, he's mighty poor
| lawyer. Tomorrow Wen send Mr..
Walter to his political hereafter, and
| there won't be any mourners to feel
sorry that he has gone"
Then Mr.. LaRoche introduced Capt.
| McAlpin, referring to him as the next
/ ordinary Of the county. There was
deafening applause to greet the speak
er, and IL was continued for some min