The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-04
REILLY Is THE MAN.
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are of the opinion that no move can be
made now that will cement those who
have been allied with the administration
in the past The staunchest supporters
of Mr.. Charles Garfunkel, who was out
of the race Tuesday night. feel sore, and
several expressed themselves in no
unmeaning way. Magistrate Naugh-
no unmeaning way. Magistrate Naugh-
tins advocates are also particularly blue
and announce a determination to get re-
venge. They hoped until the very last
minute to win out. and expressed them
selves openly after the action of Council
The Naughtin people feel particularly
hard towards Alderman Colding. They
believe the alderman has his eye on the
solicitor generalship and when he is ready
no spring his candidacy for that office
he is likely to find solid line in front of
him.
Although the alderman denied in the af-
+ernoon that he was pledged to Naugntin
and while he had been placed in the
Reilly column the Naughtin people re-
fused to credit the report. At least half
a dozen of them stated that he had some
time ago pledged himself to vote for
Naughtin and there were other reasons
they said, why he should have have stood
by their candidate.
Mayor Myers too. was censured, but the
brunt of the criticism was of Alderman
Colding.
Alderman Coldng stated in the after
noon that if Justice Naughtin was de-
feated he had no one to blame but him
sely This rather startling statement
was followed by the assertion that if
Naughtin had agreed to stand by a party
caucus he would probably have been elect
ed. The alderman was of the opinion
that because Naughtin's friends would
not submit to any such mode of procedure
they sealed his fate. Alderman Colding
was of the opinion that party caucus
should have been held and that the matter
should have been decided there.
The election of Supt. Reilly was put
down as a play for the conservative ele-
ment by many and some of the conserv-
atives themselves viewed the situation
from that standpoint. One of this class
of voters said that while electing the act
ing superintendent was the proper thing
TO do, it had not fooled anybody. He
did not believe that a factional board
could play a card of that sort as a last
resort and make the public believe that
1t had done the proper thing.
Deputy City Marshal J. Robert Creamer
was one of the few who considered the
election of the acting superintendent a
feather in the cap of his faction. He
expressed the opinion that it had
strengthened the administration and pre-
dicted that those who are sore at this
time will gradually drop into line for the
next fray Mr.. Dreamer says that to
have elected Naughtin would have been
to throw Garfunkel down good and
hard" and to have elected Garfunkel
would have been to give Naughtin an
icy hand of the coolest sort. In either
Of these events the losers would have
been holelessly lost from the faction.
Mr.. Dreamer says that as matters now
stand the Garfunkel and Naughtin peo-
pie are only temporarily sore and they
will soon timber up and forget the things
they have promised to do to those who
opposed them. The deputy marshal is
of the opinion that the election of Lieut.
Reilly saved the administration faction.
Those politicians outside of the faction
now in control are elated at the outlook
and say that they will win at the next
election. They affect to see the funeral
of the administration people, and say the
death of that crowd has already occurred.
They do not propose to lose any time, and
will meet the dissatisfied with open arms.
Magistrate Naughtin refused to discuss
his defeat land allowed his friends to do
all of the talking