The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-08
BOTH FACTIONS CONFIDENT.
LABOR CLUES FIGHT THE FEA-
TURE OF CITY ELECTION.

FinaI Rallies of Trades Unionists
and Administration FOrces-UniOn
Club Unable 10 Agree Upon a Plan
for Scratching the Administration
Ticket-A Flood of Freak Tickets.
Arrangement of the Ballot Boxes.
Police VIII be on Hand Early.
Both the Trades Uniomst element and
the Administration forces were hard at
work yesterday and last night, getting
their men in shape for to-day's fight at
the polls. There was much concern In
some quarters as to who the labor peo-
pie would decide to scratch, but as far as
rs known no agreement was made.
The more active members of the union
advised that their associates vote the
straight Unionist Club ticket and not haz-
ard predictions as to who are the two
weakest men on the opposition ticket. Just
how far they will stick to this PROPOSE
ton will not be known until the ballots
have been counted. That many scratched
tickets viii be voted, and that the man
ayers and clerks will be kept pretty busy
at the count seems TO be quite certain
1t was street talk during the day that
one element Of the labor people wanted to
scratch f. F. Jones and W. c. Fripp and
the other faction was in favor Of siashing
Horrigan and CAVITY. It would appear that
all of the parties had friends in the
union who would not agree to the plan,
and nothing was accomplished 1t was
ahen that the staunch supporters of the
organization urged that ballots be cast
for only Mayor Myers, Harris and
Baughn.
The Administrative workers held
meeting at Labor Hall, at Abercorn and
Bryan streets, last night and laid out
their plan of battle for to-day The meet
ing was not public one and only those
who were known to be true to the cause
were present. The crowd was a large
one and from all accounts every one had
some suggestion to offer. Among other
things it was agreed that every man
should vote the straight ticket and vote
it openely. The idea is that every voter
must go to the box with his ballot flying
in the breeze to show that he has not
soiled it or effaced any of the names.
Naturally every candidate on the ticket
is not the choice of every member of the
administration faction and some fear was
expressed that there might be some quiet
cutting just for spite. The open ticket
racket would do away with all paying
back of private grudges. There was no
all-night staying near the polls neither
side considering that a necessary pre-
caution. There are plenty of boxes and
nobody will be shut out from voting. The
opposing forces will probably reach the
polls by $50 o'clock and then will come
the tug of war Plenty of scrapping is
looked for.
police relief will be on duty at the
polls and Superintendent Screven will
himself take charge of and direct the men
during the early morning hours. There
will be patrolmen at the Court House as
early as 5 o'clock. but the relief will not
arrive until o'clock. During the after-
noon Senior Sergeant Owen Reilly will
relieve Mai. Screven and direct the Off
GERS This was agreed upon last night and
an effort will be made to preserve the
best of order and reduce the number of
fights to a minimum
Many freak tickets will make their APP
pearance at the polls this morning and nc
doubt not a few ballots will be thrown
away by voters who are careless in Sc
Iecting a ticket. At every election there
are fake tickets in profusion and this
municipal fight is no exception TO the rule
Several kinds of this class of ticket dp-
peared yesterday. One of the freaks
caused considerable amusement IL con-
tanned the names of a candidate for mayor
and the names of twelve proposed al
dermen, all of whom have regulations
of some sort. The ticket was improved
upon in the afternoon and one of the
names on the first ticket was supplanted
by another. These ballots were marked
independent Ticket and the last men
toned was printed on pale blue paper.
Both tickets are very near the regulation
size. and several may drop in through
mistake. Another ticket containing the
names of all fourteen candidates for al
dermen made its appearance. The first
ten Administration candidates are fol-
lowed by the names of Harris and
Baughn, after which come abe remaining
two candidates on the regular ticket.
There appears to be quite a number OF
these fourteen aldermen tickets floating
around. Other tickets contain the names
of twelve candidates for aldermen, but the
names of Harris and Baughn are in the
number. This can only be discovered af-
ter the ticket has been carefully read.
The ticket containing the names of four
teen candidates bears the label of the AL
lied Printing Trades Council At the Ad-
ministration meeting the heelers were in
structed to keep their eyes open for freak
tickets.
The voting places are congested, and
there will probably be plenty of excite
ment. There are six booths on the Pres
ident street side of the Court House
closely huddled together. The stands
were placed in position by Janitor Dono-
van yesterday afternoon, and the boxes
were taken out of the cellar and brushed
off in anticipation of the flood of ballots
The Third district platforms, located just
outside the windows in the office of the
receiver of tax returns are so close to-
eether that they resemble one stand, The
same thing is true of the two booths out
side of the windows of the county treas
urer on York street. The other booths
are not more than two feet apart, and the
ward heelers will have things their own
way. A fight in any one line would nee
essarily cause turmoil and confusion in
the other lines.
The managers will be sworn in by clerk
of the Superior Court Carr in the court
room. just before the opening Of the
polls. At 7:24 OF clock the signal will be
given and the voting will commence. Al
6:24 in the afternoon the boxes will be
closed and the work of counting the bal
lots Will begin.
The location OF the boxes was announced
in the Morning News yesterday, and nc
change has been made I'm the original
plan. The following will act as managers
an the boxes designated: First District
BOX A TO f, Bun street window, in tax