The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
THE FIRST DISTRICT.
Messengers Ride Hundreds of Miles to Car
ry the Glad Tidngs

| Messengers Ride Hundreds of Miles to Car
~ the Glad Tidings
The first congressional district compris-
| Ing ten counties reaches from the ocean
! to within fifty miles of Macou, and from
| the Savannah river to th- Altamaha
In nine of the counties the lection pre-
| cincts are widely scattered I'D the re-
turns had to be carried for rs across
the country by messengers o'<rSrseback.
| Chatham has only one voting precinct
and that is in the courtll use in Savan-
| nah. That is one county in which the
| voters had to travel long distances to get
| to the pOllS-that is, those did who live
in the northern and southern parts of the
county. But the county is ~traversed by
six railroads and it is an easy matter to
reach the polling place. The other coun-
ties in the first are Burke Screyen,
Emanuel, Bulloch, Efingham> Bryan,
Tattnall Liberty and Mcfntosh. Burke
was added by the last apportionment,
nine counties south Of the Altamaha being
dropped.
Screyens vote was collected from pre-
cinctS many miles from the county seat,
carried there and consolidated, and then
the correspondent found it necessary to
reach Haicyondale to get his news to The
Constitution.
In Tattnall the returns had to be car
ried by messengers from some pre-
cincts twenty miles distant to Redsyille,
the county seat. When the last one was
heard from. the consolidated returns were
taken in great haste to Collins, on the
Savannah and Western railroad, Il few
miles from Reidsyile, to be wired to The
Constitution.
Each precinct in Bulloch reported by
messenger to the correspondent at States
boro and he ran his horse twelve miles
TO the nearest telegraph office, Ogeechee,
on the Central road.
Effinghams upper and lower precincts
reported to Springfield, the county seat,
the returns being carried from each YOt-
ing place by special messengers. At II
o'clock at night the correspondent rode
rapidly down the avenues of venerable
live oaks, heavily draped with moss and
dashed out into the mOOn-lit, sandy road
leading from Springfield to Guyton, six
niles away. That was o ride of half an
hour over 9 road running mostly tla.ush
heavy pine woods. To add Guyton $ vote
was but the work of q minute and in
another the totals were flashing over the
wires.
Emanuels precincts reported to the cor
ed the result twenty miles to Midwife,
from which point they were sent by tele-
graph to The Constitution building
More than forty men were engaged in
collecting the returns Of the first district
They did their work faithfully and accu-
rately.
The Second District.
The splendid work done not only by the
democratic nominees, but by the men who
l1ca A1I lD,g,
borne fruit in the second district. The
staunch support given the cause by Hon. Q.
3. Stevens and his friends, despite the
strong fight made for the congressional
nomination, hns been Of great service to
tho party. not only of this congressional
district, but of the state at large. The
returns from the counties comprising this
district show that the farmers of South
Georgia are true rs steel in their dcuocra-
cy, realizing that the party of which they
have been and are the backbone, is the
true party Of the people.
Some of the returns from the second
district Travelled through two states to get
here. The second district Includes the
counties of Quitman Clay, Randolph,
Terrell. Calhoun, Dougherty. Worth, Ear
". Baker, Miller, Mitchell, Col
quit Berrien. Decatur and Thom-
discovering it will be seen, a
large territory ( Some of the couna
ties are unusually large, and as many OF
miles and more from Il telegraph office the
difficulty of securing the returns will be
appreciated. But The Constitutions mes
sengerS were true TO their trust. The re
suit of their labor speaks for itself.
The Third Distrct.
The fact that the third is Speaker Crisps
district has made it a sort of national figure,
and, judging by the good reports which The
Constitution presents from there this morn
ing, the democrats take a special pride in
showing that they fully appreciate it. They
have rolled up q splendid vote for democra-
cy-a vote which will be only exceIled by
the ''rouser' given Judge Crisp in Noyem-
Der.
There are thirteen counties in the third
district; an unlucky number--for the third
party. They are Stewart Webster, Sum
ter, Lee, Dooly, Wilcox, Scnley Pulaski,
Twiggs' Houston, Macon, Taylor and
Crawford.
The returns from all the counties are
unusually full and correct. A great deal
of lively campaigning has been done in
tl.e different counties of this district and
every man, woman and child has been
awakened to the necessity of getting out
good vote. The returns from the c0un-
try precincts as well as the towns. come in
promptly and the official cou1t will change
these figures very little if any
The Fourth District.
The fourth district has done well. Il
has always been Il rock-ribbed democratic
district.
The third party vote in the fourth simply
shows that Little jack Turner is in
reality not in the race for congress. Char
ley Moses is good enough representative
for the farmers and they voted the demo
cratic ticket
The fourth district is composed of the
counties of Muscogce, Marion, Talbot, Har-
ris, Merriwether, Troup, Coweta Heard,
Carroll and Chattahooche.
Our correspondents in each of these coun-
t,es had messengers at every precinct who
brought the returns to them at the county
seat or. the nearest telegraph Office, where
operators were in waiting and they were
wired to The Constitution.
The Fifth District.
The fifth district is composed of the coun-
ties of Fulton, DeKalb, Douglas, Camp
bell. Clayton, Rockdale. Newton, and Wal
ton.
There has never been any doubt concern
ing the democracy of this district, though
it has been put to a severe test on more
than one occasion