The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-25
THE BATTLE BEGINS
-FOUR CANDIDATES HAVE ANNOUNC-
ED FINALLY.
FILED WITH THE CHAIRMAN.
ARE NAMES OF PARTRIDGE, COL
Inns, McALPIN AND LAzARON.

/ No other Candidates Can Enter the
Primary Elections, but Some May
Drop Out-They Must Come Across
With Their share of the Election
Expenses by Oct. I-FrOm Now on
the Fight VIII lie Warm-A Week
of Meetings and Speeches-Big
Rallies Scheduled for Tonight n nd
Tomorrow Night-Some stories of
the HeeIers and Their GuilefuI
Games.
There are now four candidates in the
race for ordinary, Mr.. Walter c. Hart
ridge, Mr.. j. S. Collins, Capt. Henry
McAlpin and Mr.. S. L. Lazaron. Their
names and their agreements to comply
with the rules of the primary and sup
the office of the acting chairman of the
Executive Committee.
There cannot be more than this num-
Der of candidates. as at noon yester-
day, the time when their names could
be filed expired; there may be fewer,
as there is nothing to prevent any can
didate from dropping out of the race
rules require them each to deposit with
the committee his pro rata share of
the committee their prorata share Of
the expenses of the primary election.
The names of Mr. Hartridge. Mr..
Collins and Capt. McAlpin, as an
nounced in the Morning News yester-
day, had already been filed with the
ffr.er OH &c ~ ~
rather. as Mr. Alexander is out of the
city, left at his Office. A short time be-
fore the hour of noon, Mr.. Lazaron's
notice of intention to become a candi-
date was also filed. Mr.. Keilbach, as
the Morning News had predicted, de-
cided not to make the race, and his
notice of intention was not filed.
There have been small battles and
much skirmishing between the advo-
| Gates and partisans of the contending
candidates for the past several weeks.
but it is to be seen that from yester-
day dates the actual inception of the
campaign. From now on there will be
fight every day all along the line
| The armies of the candidates are mix
| ed in ineXtricable confusion, many of
the old warehouses; of the factions of
Savannah are aligned under new ban
ners, there has been a general running
across the political lines and the man
who can predict the result of the
election that is TO decide who shall be
| the next ordinary of the county has yet
| to be found.
Notwithstanding, there are not a
few who are willing to make the effort
On every street corner in the business
section, as the days draw toward their
! close, are men who are willing to take
up the question with any passer-b by
and demonstrate, with mathematical
precision, that one or another of the
candidates is bound to win. He will
| tell his victim of the votes his candi-
| date is sure to receive and, accepting
| all his statements as true, it is i'm
possible to pick flaw in his predict
ions. The only trouble is that on the
next corner the voter finds a bowler
for another candidate, who claims the
same votes.
This will be a week of meetings, two
of these gatherings having been al
ready announced and others being in
more or less immediate prospect. The
flood of political eloquence will flow
steadily on from this time until the
election.
Tonight the supporters of Capt. Nc
Alpin will gather at South Side Arm
Thirty Second streets. 1t is promised
that the meeting will be warm at
fair Besides the usual run of SPELL
binders. Capt. McAlpin himself has
promised to be on hand and address
the faithful. 1t is understood, how
ever, that one of the orators at the
last McAlpin meeting will be absent,
as Mr.. John E. Myrick, since that
| time, has transferred his allegiance
| No lpin 10 Mr
Tomorrow will witness the first big
rally in favor of the candidature of
! Mr.. Hartridge. 1t is to be held ut
Masonic Temple, and a number of
prominent speakers, among them Judge
H. d. d. Twiggs, will address the
meeting. Mr.. A. p. Wright will also be
| among the speakers.
There appears to be no doubt of the
| fact that there are many persons with
Influence" who are walking around
the candidates and throwing a front,
with both hands out. There are many
ways in which requests for the long
| green are made. Loans are asked for
or money is requested to be used in
| bringing some other heller into line.
Others are more scrupulous, and make
| a play for the coin in a more subtle
way To better illustrate this point
an incident that occurred during the
week is related.
A man who claimed to have no more
than his own vote-few such are to be
found-insisted that he wouldn't sell
his vote, and refused to offer it to the
highest bidder. He fixed a price and
declared that he would vote for the
candidate who first offered to expend
the paltry sum of $40 in paying his
wife's dentist bill.
ITS just like this, fellows" he said
to a gathering of heelers, my wife's
teeth have been in a bad fix, and
had to send her to the dentist. He took
'em all out and then said 1t would cost
$40 to put new ones in. Now I amt
making much at this job. and I amt
got that $40. Do you suppose II one
of those candidates came along and
gave me that $40 to get my wife some
more teeth that l wouldn't vote for
him? l wouldn't sell my vote for any
thing. but of course I'd vote for the
man that done me a favor by giving me
money to get my wife some teeth, when
she amt got any. Any of you fellows
can tell your man what say. but mind
you l wouldn't sell my vote"