The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-24
RALLY OF UNIONISTS.
Continued From Tenth Page.

compose the present administration OF
Savannah, and it is necessary for you
TO support the whole of the Union Club
ticket if you are to down the gang
| that controls the city.
First and of paramount interest is
the necessity for the election of the
candidates for the Legislature. There
are men nominated by the Citizens
| Club that are men of some standing
IN the community, but the fact that
they have been nominated and thereby
tacitly indorse the Citizens Club and
the present administration is enough
to condemn them in the eyes of the
community.
The Issue stated.
Now the issue is this: If you vote
| for any one candidate of the Citizens
Club you indorse the present admin
istration and put yourself in the posi-
ton of helping to continue the present
state of affairs. There is no middle
ground, for if one of the Citizens Club
| candidates is elected he is capable of
breaking up the plans of the Union
Club, and we can't wipe out that gang
unless we get control of the Legisla-
ture absolutely. The legislative right
is the kneynote of this campaign, for
| if that is lost and the Citizens get pos
session of it they can so fix things that
they will control the politics of the
city and county; they have done it be-
| FORE
Mr.. Hohenstein made some sweeping
| charges against members of City Coun-
ell, and stated that the Citizens Club
had failed to meet the charges. Mem
bers of Council, he said, had compelled
the people working for the city to
vote as they were told or lose their
jobs. Il can point out men in this
hall now who have been fired because
L
| suffrage to be Shackled," he-6aid.
The speaker said that another is
sue of the campaign had been brought
about by the members of the admin
stration taking workingmen who are
paid from $50 to SIS a month to attend
to the city's work and sending them
| to the Court House to help keep in Of
flee the Citizens Club.
1.-THE present fight" he said, sis but
the preliminary bout of this cam
paign; to win the municipal fight is
what we really aim at, and if the
Union Club goes in this time it will
go in in the municipal election, also"
Hartridge Called For.
| "Hartrdge, " "Hartridge" then came
the cry from all over the house, and
in response to it Mr.. w. C. Hartridge
came forward. 1T is with some slight
sacrifice of inclination that 1 address
|
is and always will be in any meeting
opposed to the Citizens Club.
have seen strange sight to-
night" he went on. For a number of
years children have been prohibited
from shooting fireworks at this season
of the year, and yet tonight l saw a
lot of them gambolling down Bull St.
| and firing Roman candles. Another
thing, which possibly the able editor of
| he Of Lot.
| much as 1t appeared in his paper, and,
furthermore, he is a candidate of the
Citizens Club. In the account of the
| proposed parade of the Southside Club
1t was stated that they would march
| to the Theatre with torches and floats,
on the latter Strange Devices
We'll, do you know what those
strange devices were? We hold the
| interest of our city first, and the in
terest of our club next I respectful
ly submit if that isn't a strange de-
vice for the Citizens Club, shen 1
don't know what a strange device is.
If the Citizens Club has ever held any
interest other than its own 1 don't
know the club, and l think 1 have
known it from the beginning. If a
victory of the Union Club meant
nothing more than a change of bosses,
l wouldn't trouble myself to raise my
voice in its behalf: / believe the Union
! Club will put down the worse admin
istration that this city has ever had.
If the Citizens Win.
"If this movement is successful no
man should be secure in his place if his
personal conduct has made him obnox-
ious. Who ever heard of good govern
ment by the Citizens Club? 'Cumbea'
shouted a voice. We'll" continued Mr..
IIartridge, "they stopped Cumbea talk
ing for fear he'd promise so much that
| he'd put them in a hole and make them
nominate a labor man. On float to-
night they say Vote for Stovall; he'll
look after union labor
| Further in his address the speaker
said that the present Mayor, when run
ming for office, had promised to cut the
| interest on the bonded debt of the city
from 5 per cent. to 31a per cent, "but, -"
he said the interest is still per cent"
| He also said that among the present
| candidates for the Legislature, and the
only candidate who was a member of
the past Legislature, was a man who
| had been paid as a clerk in the county
treasurer's office a salary out of the
| county treasurers pocket, as was right
and proper, but who the last Legis-
lature had granted a salary of 5000 a
year. which is paid out of Chatham
| county. There" he said, lis disinter-
Mr. Hartridge then said a few words
in behalf of Capt. John r. Dillon and
| Mr.. P. H. Gearon at the mention of
whose names there was renewed cheer
ing.
Mr.. W. f. Slater congratulated the
club on the personnel of its ticket. and
advocating that each of his hearers
vote the straight ticket. Another
speaker was Mr.. S. L. Lazaron. who
made an address criticising the use of
the profits of the water-works for
1900 for paving, and said he
had been informed that the city is
paying more for its scavenger work
than had been charged by man who
offered to make a contract for the
/ work
Mr.. L. c. Blase was the last of the
speakers. He said he was glad of an
opportunity of addressing the crowd
from the standpoint of a working man.
and then explained why the working
men need a representative in the Leg
islature. If elected, however he said
that he pledged himself not to support
| any measure to the detriment of any
class. and said, further. that he would
see that the child labor bill is taken
care Of
The officers of the club expressed
| themselves satisfied with the attend
ance, and predict that their rally at
the theater Tuesday night will be "a
| monster"