The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-01
COLLINS REPLIES
HE AND HIS FRIENDS CRITICIZE
HIS CRITICS.
MEETING AT KAISER'S HALL.
HELD IN HIS INTEREST AND
LARGELY ATTENDED.

Candidate Himself the Chief
Speakers-Judge TNyiggs Called In
consistent by Mr.. Wade, who Also
said Political DEVICES We're Proph-
esying Defeat of MIR. CoIIins-Mr.
Collins Made Some salty Refer
ences to Nr. Anderson.
The Southside League, in Kaiser's
Hall, last night, held most enthusi-
astic meeting in the interest of Mr..
]. S. Collins for ordinary. Mr.. r. L.
Holland presided, and Mr.. w. l.. Gray
son acted as secretary in the absence
of the regular secretary, Mr.. Fred But
Ter.
There We're three speakers: w. II.
Wade, Capt. w. M. Tumln and Mr.
Collins. The meeting was called to or
der by Mr.. Holland. who, in a short
talk. told the gathering that things
were getting hotter and hotter; that
so far, however, there had been no
mud singing by Mr.. Collins and his
supporters, and that he hoped that
there would be none. He then intro
duced the first speaker, Mr.. Wade.
After telling of the pleasure that it
gave him to address Southsiders, and
to support Mr.. Collins in his race for
ordinary, the speaker paid a passing
comment on those that he termed the
political DEVICES, who because tied
hand and foot to the other candidates,
prophesied the defeat of Mr.. Collins,
and then took up the meetings and the
speakers of the other candidates.
"Of the many meetings held by our
opponents" he said, 1.-The most of them
were what would term 'mill-end- sales.
Last Wednesday there was a meeting
at Masonic Hall, that was, as Twiggs
| naturally would pronounce it, a 'glo-
what drew the crowd, when Twiggs
ceased to speak. although Mr.. Hart
ridge was to follow, the crowd made
| break for the door"
He paid a number of compliments to
Judge Twiggs' ability as a speaker,
but said that the crowd that gathered
| to hear his oratory was no sign OF
| strength for Mr.. Hartridge. Judge
Twiggs, though, he said, is inconsist-
| ent, for one of his chief objections to
Mr.. Collins for ordinary was that he
I Is not a lawyer, Wnlle III lHe CdllLpdlSh
| in which he spoke in the interest of the
late Thomas Screven he said that this
| qualification was not necessary. He
| has made a complete change" said Mr..
| Wade, land now, with all the eloquence
| of which he is master, he tries to per-
suade people to the contrary
The speaker disposed of the state
ment attributed to a speaker at the
Hartridge meeting that it was as nee
| Ham fOrO n lima a
it was to have a lawyer for judge, by
| saying that the cases were not at all
similar, that a judge of the City or Su-
| perior Court must be a lawyer, because
| he is called on to act at once, so soon
as the evidence in a case is presented
to him. while in the case of the ordinary
an immediate decision is not necessary,
and that there are other qualifications
more necessary to an ordinary than is
a knowledge of law.
Mr. Wade closed his address by say
Ling that the Collins workers must keep
| at work ceaselessly until the primary.
| 81 know who the managers are going
to be-" he said, and / promise you
that they will look out for Jake Col
Inns and see that he gets what he
wants, that he gets, what's coming to
him, and he doesn't want or expect
| any more"
Capt. Tumlin, who came next pre-
faced his talk by the statement that
he wasn't going to make a speech. He
then talked for half an hour, during
which he praised Mr.. Collins for his
various good qualities, said that he was
the only man in the race, and gave
iab at what he termed the young
| lawyers" by saying that though Mr..
Collins wasn't a lawyer, he could go
into the ordinary's office and in sixty
days be a better lawyer than IS per
cent. of the young ones"
Judge A. H. MacDonell who was in
the hall, was called on for a speech,
but declined, saying that he had been
at meetings of all of the candidates and
| had enjoyed all that he had heard.
Mr.. Collins then took the floor He
said that he had hoped it would not
be necessary for him to say anything
more in the present campaign, especial
ly in his own interest, but that the
meeting of the other night showed that
he would have to say a good deal more.
ut is perfectly natural that law
yer who aspires to the place of ordi-
| nary" he said, should have the sup.
| port of his brothers in the profession;
they know a good thing; they all
want it, and they like to keep ii in the
| family. But l am compelled to refer
to one legal gentleman. l had hoped
wouldn't have to, but / must For
| more than twenty years charlton q
| Mackall were my attorneys. During
| my business transactions with them
Mr.. Anderson appeared on the scene"
| The speaker then made some rather
salty references to Mr.. Anderson, and
| said:
Wen leave him to the Judgment of
the people on his great temperance
speech-he must have been pretty well
mixed, when he made it for he's been
explaining 1t ever since"
Mr.. Collins said that so far Mr..
IIartridge had said nothing unkind
about him. aud therefore he would act
! likewise but" he said, Il feel under
no such conjunction in the case of
McAlpin." Here he took Capt. Meal
pins published explana ton of his let
ter to Grady and began to read from
! it. He. was offered the original letter
by someone in the hall. but declined it,
saying that he didn't need it, as the ex-
PLANTATION was worse than even the let
ter could be.
He paid his respects to Mr.. Nor
| wood. whom he styled Little Lacy"
and closed his address by requesting
his friends to gather early at the polls
on the morning of the election.
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