The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-15
GEORGIA POLITICS.

Houston will furnish the state senator to
be elected by the Twenty-third district this
year.
Hon. Frank Lsverett. of Putnam, will be
a candidate for the position of secretary of
state.
Don't shelve Judge Crisp in the COVER
nor's Office. Remember Alexander a.
Stephens.
Editor Christopher of the Montezuma
Record says that Southwest Georgia must
have the next governor.
The Marietta Journal is doing some good
work in the interest Of Mr.. Nesbitt for COM
missioner of agriculture.
While the state papers continue to discuss
the small salary Of the governor of the
state, candidates continue to enter the race.
Hawkinsville Nei0s: The motion to elect
Judge Crisp to succeed Senator Brown,
ought to be carried without a dissenting
| vote.
Atlanta correspondents OF different papers
| In the state seem to think that Hon. Thomas
Ha-deman Of Macon will be a candidate for
governor.
1t is not unlikely that Houston county
will place candidate for congress in the
field, should Judge Crisp become a candi-
date for governor.
Waycross Headlight: We hear nothing
of Rufus E. Lester of the First district now
adays, but later along his friends may bring
him into the gubernatorial race He will
fill the bill.
Perry Journal: It don't require much to
Induce" an Atlanta man to become a
candidate, and it is not improbable that
Mayor Glenn will be a candidate for
governor of Georgia.
Col. Thomas Hardeman, ex-postmaster at
&c or to 90 Of hat
point. The money value of that position is
almost equal to that from which he has
been removed by President Harrison.
Hon. j. A. Dodgen, who represented
Milton county in the last legislature, says
that he will be a candidate for the Senate
from his district this year. His senatorial
district is composed Of the counties Of
Milton, Cherokee and Forsyth.
Lawrenceville Herald: Some of the
Georgia papers are already beginning the
fight for the legislature. The platform laid
down is opposition to prolongation and to
aosenteelsm, with free passes. Snelson is
being advertised from the mountains to the
seaboard.
Lawrenceville Herald: Judge Crisp is
being doomed for governor. Let Crisp
alone. He is doing Georgia more service at
Washington than he could do in Atlanta.
His mastery showing up of the tyrannical
conduct of Speaker Reed entities him to
seat in congress for ten years.
Perry Journal: 1t would be a graceful
act for Hon. W. j. Northern to resign the
presidency Of the Georgia State Agricult-
ural Society, as he is a candidate for gov
ernor of Georgia. Col. L. f. Livingston
might also allow another man placed at
the mead of the Georgia Farmers Flliance.
Athens Banner: We asked Col James
Nj. Smith if he contemplated entering the
arena for governor. His reply was charac-
teristic of the great planter: mo, sir.
am not an aspiraut for any office within the
gift of the pc pie My whole ambition is
centered in my farming interests, and if l
ever decided to enter politics, the first thing
| should do would be to stick torch to
every building ON my place and turn my
fields out.n
There are eighteen native Georgians in
congress. The list includes Senator George
of Mississippi, who was born in Monroe
county: Senator Pugh of Alabama, who
was born in Burke county; Representative
Cobb, who was born in Ups IN Representative
Wheeler, who was born in Richmond, and
of the Texas delegation, Representative
Martin, celebrated for blowing out the gas,
who was born in Twiggs county; Represen-
tative Kilgore, native of Coweta, and
Representative CulbertsOn, who first saw
the light in Troup.