The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-07
JUMPED THE BUNCH
j. r. sAUsSY, JR.'S, ROAST FOR CIT
IZEN CLUB LEADERS.
POLICY ALSO CONDEMNED.
NO CITY OFFICE, HOWEVER WELL
FILLED, HONESTLY CONDUCT
ED, HE SAID.

Union CLUBS at headquarters.
Messrs. LazarOn, Clark, HOhen-
stein, Stevenson and Saussy the
Sneakers. and MIR. Saussy the star.
Every City Office, He Declared,
Dominated by PoIitics-Grand Jury
Came in for Its share of Criticism.
Administration Has Contracted
100000 of Debts without Legal or
Moral Right.
One of the most enthusiastic meet
ings of the local campaign was held by
the allied Union Clubs of the Fourth
district at the club headquarters on
Broughton street last night. It was
rendered notable by a speech from ]. r.
Ssussy, Jr., who lit briskly in and uFon
pretty much everything the Citizens
Club has ever done.
The crowd that gathered packed the
hall and overlooked out on the land
ings. The meeting was presided ever
by President James McCosker of the
North Side, and President Dan T. Ell
lott of the South Side Union Clubs of
the Fourth district, who introduced the
speakers. Among these were Mr.. w.
N Clark Mr.. S. L. Lazaron, Mr.. c. E.
Stevenson, Mr. c. V. Hohenstein and,
last of all and most entertaining, Mr..
Saussy.
Mr.. Hohenstein introduced new
issue into the campaign He said
that the curt and contemptuous man
ner in which the City Council had re-
Gently treaetd the Confederate vete-
rams. when it had taken away from
them permission already granted to
erect monuments to Gen. Barlow and
Gen. McLaws in Forsyth Park, was
but an instance of the attitude of the
Citizens Club towards those it mag
ined it could afford to disregard and
declared that Councils conduct in this
matter alone so thoroughly iIlustrat-
ed it's attitude that it ought to be and
would xe sernly rebuked at the polls.
Mr. Hohenstein reiterated also the
previously made announcement that
when the Union Club went into office
it would turn out the office holders
who opposed il at the polls and in adj
dition all others who had been faithless
TO their oaths and recreant to their
trust.
Council nisregnrds Peoples Will.
Mr. Lazaron also harped upon the
string of Councils disregard of the
best interests of the people. He said
Council had declared it represented a
party of Improvement and progress,
and yet had permitted Bilboa canal an
open sewer, breeding miasma and
death, still to exist.
= There are other issues" he declared.
t'Who, If the Citizens Club wins, is 60
ing to be the next chief of police?"
''Garfunkel.'' yelled the voices of the
crowd.
YES. Garfunkel," said the speaker
There's an issue for you. Do you
want Garfunkel, or an honest, faithful
and able man who can properly man.
age the police department of the city?"
Mr.. Lazaron called attention to the
fact that Mayor Myers had stated in
his last report that he had spent ST.
900 in charity during the year. and
couldn't spend more for the lack of
an appropriation.
And yet" declared the speaker,
there was $685. 900 spent by the direc-
tor of public works during the year.
when only $240 600 had been appropriate
ed The Mayor couldn't spend a cent
without an appropriation, and yet the
director of public works could and did
spend $5S,000."
Mr.. Saussy was received with every
evidence of the expectation of his au-
dience that he would provide excite
Ient-and ne provided it.
OHIcehOIders Political Tools.
Gentlemen" he began, there is not
an honorable man in political office in
this city government who can say his
office is honorably conducted l know
there are plenty of honest men in office,
but they have become and will con-
tinue the helpless tools of a vicious
system "
Mr.. Saussy said the issues of the
campaign had been obscured because
the Citizens Club had refused to say
whom II would nominate for office.
let them say in behalf of whose
election they are going to make their
fight, and I'll be the man to give tire
reasons why he should not win. If he
Is man now holding city office, there
Will be plenty of them
why, take the present director of
Public works-hes absolutely in the
hands of the politicians. He may be a
gentleman and an honorable man, but
he knows he is absolutely dominated
by the gang-and ne won't deny it,"
Mr.. Saussy discussed at some length
the financial conditions of the city
and called attention to the fact that
in 1909 the city would have to provide
for the payment of 50, 500, 600, which il
owed and to reduce which efforts
should be made before its maturity
on the contrary nothing is being done
about it.
Mr.. Saussy denounced the recent
effort of the city government, as it was
originally planned, to extend the
boundaries of the city, as "a bastard
political trick" He said that the eff
fort of the City Council had been tc
take in every new industry around the
city and thus to drive away from Sa-
-yannah institutions that gave work tc
thousands of laboring men.
City Pays Political HeeIers.
why things have reached such a
pass in Savannah that honorable mer
have come to believe that the people s
money is theirs to do with as theN
please. If a man goes up around the
registration office. he will see two OIL
three heelers of the Citizens Club sit.
ting about, watching the registration
whom their superiors permit to do this
work, instead of attending to the bust.
Tess for which they ostensibly EN-.
ployed. I'm told they get S75 month
or more and to pay the salary of one
of them consumes taxes on $100, 900 Of
property.
The other day one of these heelers
cursed and maligned and vilely ant
scurrilously abused a young man en-
ployed in the registration office-a
young man who holds the respect Of
every decent man and has the cuur.
age to do his duty And yet the gram
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