Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-31
State Politles.

/ The Democrats Of the Eighteenth district
/ viii nominate candidate for the state Sen
/ ate at Augusta tomorrow.
4 In Terrell county the negroes have nomi-
/ mated T. B. Fitzgerald, cOlOred. as their can
didate for Representative, and II is quite like
I IL be viii make the race IL has been many
1 years since Terrell county had a negro candf-
+ date, Notwithstanding there is a majority Of
4 negro voters in the county.
/ Three districts in Troup held primary cleo
I lectIous Saturday. Col. j. II. Travlor and
Z Dr. (. d. PIttman were the candidates for
/ the >enatOrship- Col. Trsylor carried all By
a handsome majority. The candidates for
representatives receiving the highest vote
we're Hon. 4. c. Crenshaw and Mai. j. f.
Jones.
Sylvania correspOndence EIoRNINg NFws
July 30: At the convention held Yesterday
Dr- Jonn W. johnston was nominated by the
Democracy OF ScrIVen county as a candidate
for Representative TO the Legislature. The
domination was made by primary election in
the various precincts. More than LOCO VOtes
were polled. JohnstOn's majority over hrs
opponent, Hon. r. A. BrinsOn, is about gOO
Everything passed of quietly.
,. D. Bradwe writes as follows in the
Hinesyille gazette: The undersigned was
candidate for the nomination for Congress
before the late convention in Savannah-not
on ms own motion. but BY the unanimous and
unsolicited vote OF large mass meeting Of
his county. He went before the convention
with but seven votes for first choice. He has
every reason to be proud Of his following. for
a band Of devoted friends. He went into that
convention unpledged and Gnfettered; he
came out free. without a bargain, without q
fetter and without frOwn OF disappointment
or chagrln. His only promise Is that he Will
meet his friends again-ig t1C0 years.
DUPONT tGa,l correspondence MORNING
NEWS, July %: Politics are almost a dead
letter in this section. While majority OF our
people preferred the nomination Of Judge NJ.
l.. MershOn, yet IL is generally conceded the
nomination OF Hon. T. NJ. Norwood was the
very best that could have been made. His
past political record Is all the platform we
want. The purity Of his social life stamps
him one OF the best among the best, and his
ability ls unquestioned.-In county politics
the caldrOn Is barely simmerIng. Possibly
later il viii be boiling hot, for there is talk OF
a wet and dry" ticket. If the signs
60 for anything the ''dry" ticket will VIM
The best indications we have at hand are
Inat OLD Chnch is for prohibition that pro-
hlbits. To our hOnOred Representative we
are indebted for our rdsenthrallment from the
corner grocery and its attendant evils. Had
liquor" as they call il. remained a few
more years in our midst, expensive court SER
vice would have run old Clinch INTO bank
ruptcy--lt Is the general wish when there is
vacancy IN the Judgeship Of the Brunswick
Circuit that Clinch's self-made states
man and lawyer, Hon. J. L. Sweat,
It rs scurrently rumored that Clinch's eN-tax
Collector. her One-armed Confederate soldier,
Hon. NJ. NJ. Carswell, will be in the legisla-
tive race. He was Tax Collector for years,
and as long as he would have It. He has
never been defeated for any Office he has Of
Tered Tor in the county, and il is safe to pre-
met MS triumphant election.