The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-09
JUST A FEW FACTS
MIR. COLLINS LIVELY SPEECH AT
THE RALLY OF HIS FRIENDS.
ENTHUSIASM WAS RIFE.
COLLINS COHORTS WITH LIGHTS
AND BANNERS.

Meeting mt Masonic Temple and
There Were 500 Men In the Hall.
The Collins Orators Said Their
Candidate Was the Only One Who
Had Thrown No Mud-The other
Candidates Have Thrown 1t Mt
Each other and II Has Seemed to
Stick-Mr. Collins Tells why the
GarfuDkels Oppose His Candidacy
for the Office of Ordinary.
1t was an enthusiastic gathering
that rallied for Mr.. j. S. Collins at
Masonic Temple last night. The main
hall and the balcony were filled and a
| crowd packed the door. There were
perhaps 500 persons present, and they
listened to some warm speeches.
A parade of the Collins cohorts from
the South Side preceded the meeting at
Masonic Temple. The Southsiders
gathered at Kaiser Hall, and led by
| a band of music, with their officers
in hansoms and landaus and lighted
by red torches, marched through the
principal streets of the city 1t was an
enthusiastic parade and the 300 men
live on the streets through which the
march was made.
Transparencies, with campaign mot
toes, were upheld at intervals in the
line. One of them was to the effect
that, Collins is our friend" while an
| other proclaimed to the world, Down
| with corruption. Nothing doing for
McAlpin." Mr.. Clare Penton was the
marshal of the procession and he was
assisted by half a dozen mounted aides
Capt U. H. McLaws called to order
the meeting at Masonic Temple. He
began his remarks with the request
that the audience would pardon any
mistakes that he might make.
1T has been ten years. he said,
since l have even attended a politi-
cal meeting in this city. 1t is a privi-
lege to look into the faces of this gath
ering and to understand that there are
so many who believe, as 1 do, that a
man doesn't have to be a lawyer in
| order to fill the office of ordinary The
| opponents of Mr.. Collins in this cam
paign have been throwing mud at each
| other and some of it has seemed to
| stick.
| IF you will use your best efforts in
the interest of our candidate he will
win. You want to show the world that
Yankee money can't buy an election in
| Chatham county"
Mr.. COlding's Lively Talk.
| Mr.. R. L. Colding was the next
speaker. Mr. Colding said that the peo-
pie needed a man of integrity and abil-
lty IN the office of ordinary and that
| Mr.. Collins was the man. He said that
when he had started in the campaign
he had hoped there would be no mud
singing, for the man who threw mud
would have it come back to him. "As
the chairman has said, Mr.. Collins op-
ponents have been throwing mud at
each other and some of it has seemed
| to stick.
BE not deceived by the statements
OF those who claim for themselves all
the virtue in this campaign Mr.. Hart
| ridge has said that he never advocated
or countenanced buying. If this
be true, have only this to say: That
1t is an outrageous shame the way Mr..
Hartridge's friends have imposed upon
| him.
Mr.. Colding said that though Mr..
Hartridge and Capt. McAlpin had
abused each other they had nothing
to say against Mr.. Collins. 'They
haven't found anything they could say
| against him that was true and thew
haven't cared to say anything against
him that was not true"
Mr.. Colding declared there was moth
| ing In the contention that only a law
yer could fill the office of ordinary If
this were the truth, he said, the Legis-
lature would have made it a REQUIRE
| ment that the ordinary should be a.
lawyer. This it has failed to do. The
fact is, he said, that to fill the office
creditably requires business ability
rather than legal learning.
| MIR. Wade on the Situation.
Mr. Wade Hampton Wade was the
next speaker. He said, in part:
| When this campaign started there
appeared to be no prospect for mud
Singing and no justification for It.
| some Two week ago, however two of
the candidates started to throw mud
at each other in the most vigorous
| manner. 1t is unnecessary for me to
call your attention to the fact that our
candidate, Mr.. Jacob s. Collins, is ur.-
spattered with mud and his hands are
likewise clean of mud-slinging
1T is true one feeble attempt was
made to throw mud at our candidate.
but the mud fell within the radius of
the thrower's own shadow. I hone ouf
| candidate will deal gently with the
| guilty party, and l am sure he win
| when he remembers ill-health has
| changed the once bright and ioyial
Joe, who had a kind word for every
| one, into pessimist of the deepest
dye. dissatisfied and complaining OF
all his surroundings. During the many
! recurring elections at which our la
! mented Hampton L. Ferrill was a can.
| didate for ordinary was Joe's voice
heard crying in the wilderness that
only lawyer could fill the position.
During all those years the legal talent
was supplied by his firm.
Our friend, Judge Twiggs, has pub
lished a card denying that he spoke
| in favor of Tom Screven in the Screven
| campaign. ! did not charge him with
making a speech for Tom Screven. l
| charged him with supporting Screven.
and so he did. for he voted for him, and
| yet Tom Screven was no lawyer. Now
| Judge Twiggs says only a lawyer is
competent to be ordinary, vet four
months ago he supported a man who.
| according to his own statement, was
| not competent to fill the position.
maintain now, as then, between legal
knowledge and business knowledge il
is more necessary to possess the bust
ness sense than the legal sense. to be
a competent ordinary.
The charges made by Mr.. Hartridge
against Capt. McAlpin and by Cant.
McAlpin against Mr.. Hartridge have
been so serious that no man was ius-
titled in making them unless he had
proof of their truth. If the charges
made by Mr.. Hartridge against Can't.
McAlpin are true, Capt. McAfpin for