The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
GEORGIA SENDS GREETING"
"Clark Howell Tells the Reasons for That
Phenomenal Majority.

The Herald has the following editorial on
Mr.. Howells last letter. published Friday
| morning:
| Mr.. Clark Howelps letter. which appears
on this page of today Herald and has been
| cabled to Paris for publication in our Europe
an edition, will be read with special interest
| as an expression Of the views of a Georgia
| democratic journalist on the Georgia democrat
I ic victory.
'"rhere has never been anything like it. :"
| The democrats have swept the state by 4
| majority-seventy thousand-without q par
| allel. The third party, with Its republican
allies has been completely routed. The ne
| gro vote was divided and in the opinion of
| our correspondent, white republicans probably
| went in greater numbers to the democratic
than to the third party.
Mr. Howell is confident that Georgia S
democratic majority next month Will De
scarcely less emphatic, and predicts that
Cleveland will be elected by the greatest
| majority scored since 1880
| The result in Georgia." remarks Mr.. How
| ell, lis sad spectacle for Mr.. Halstead to
view" But possibly Mr.. HaIstead may see
in the rout Of the third party in Georgia hopes
! of third party falling off in the northwest
! to the advantage of the republicans.
MIR. HowelIs Letter.
! Georgia ha spoken, and its seventy thou
sand majority is fit but Unexpectedly emphat-
! ic rebuke to the effort to repubcanize
the south by using the third party as the APP
| pie Of discord to divide the democratic
strength.
Georgia sends greeting to the national dem
| oeracy, and it is with peculiar pleasure that
| 1 send special greeting to my distinguished
| republican friend, Mr.. Murat Halstead who
| from this day shall be dubbed Georgia
| colonel and shall receive the full consideration
| carried with the title.
| am just in receipt of Wednesdays Herald,
| aipiu Mr. al last lntta in hiph
| he turns with touching expectancy to the vote
| of Georgia, from which he evidently hoped to
| derive some satisfaction, because, to quote
| him, "The certainty that all the southern
| states are democratic has passed away, and
| the knowledge is general that the majority OF
| the citizens, under the constitution, in nearly
! all of them is against the democracy"
| How does Gcorgias 10000 majority cores
| pond with that sentiment? There never has
| been anything like it, and the state is over
| whelmed with the magnitude Of the victory.
| 1t is an evidence of the deep rooted antago-
| nism Of tn people Of Georgia to anything that
| smacks Of the centralzing tendency of the
| republican party; to federal Interference in
| state elections for partisan purposes; to cor
| ruption in the administration of government.
| and to intolerance and sectionalism i'll any
| form.
| have not the slightest doubt that the old
| cry Of ballot box stufiins will be repeated as
| the only cover OF retreat left for the repub-
llcans after their disastrous effort to pull down
| the democratic pillars of Georgia.
Taking advantage Of the slow count in Ala
| bana they have worked the argument
| for all it worth to offset the democratic
majority in that state, but Georgia makes
| prompt answer in advance in the immediate
| consolation of the vote Of every county in the
| state and in the senli-ofiicia announcement
| Of the majority the morning after election.
On account Of the general interest attaching
n hn oft hA
| keen to give the Georgia election national col
| orlng. expecting democratic losses. The Con-
| stitution undertook to present the morning af-
| ter election the semi-oflicial returns from ev
! cry one of the 1877 counties in the state.
| There would be no possible ground for charges
| of collision In the consolidation such as had
| been made in Alabama, as every precinct
! would stand on it's own merits. Governor
| NOrthcn and Chairman Atkinson Of the state
| committee. had previously responded favora-
| bly, to the request of the third party leaders
| for representation in the management Of the
| ballot boxes and fairer election was never
! held in any state of the union.
The returns consolidated by The Con-
| tituiion and published this morning just as
| they Were counted at the ballot boxes, show
| ing Il majority of 10000. which will not be
materially changed by tho official figures
The effort of the republican administration
| at Washington to deliver the vote solidly to
! the third party was n miserable failure AL
! most every republican official in Georgia ac-
! lively worked for the third party ticket on
| the ground that it gave the republicans
| good opportunity to punish their old time en-
| envy, the democracy.
Colonel A. f. Buck United States marshal
| for the northern district of Georgia, made
! himself particularly conspicuous in his advo-
| cacy of the third party. He is looked upon
! as the republican boss ofthe state, and has
| so long enjoyed the notoriety that accompanied
| that distinction that he labOred under the i'm
! preston that the whole republican vote OF the
state was amenabe to his dictation.
He communicated with Washington and
| then he communicated with the negroes. He
| issued formal circular announcing that this
| was a God-gven opportunity to divide the
| white vote and urging the solid support of the
negroes for the third party ticket.
| Many of the negroes repudiated it. and most
Of the white republicans refused to listen
| to what they considered was an otlcious III
| terferonce in assuming an authority that the
republican state convention bad refused to
take when it nominated no state ticket
Roports received from all parts of the state
show that the negro vote was divided anu the
white republicans went probably III greater
numbers to the democratic than TO the tihro
party. ..
Georgia's democratic majority In the nation
q, election will be scarcely less emphatic than
tho vote yesterday. As there are FOUR electo-
raj tickets in the field. however 1t may pe
with assurance Of approximate accuracy at
between $4,000 and lO,oo.
Probably the next step Will be an ellorl ~
consolidate the republican and people part!
electoral ticket but it will share the same
fat, as the attempted coalition wmch was
buried yesterday under such shower Oh pii
lots as has never before fallen IN teors-A.
OF the eleven congressional dStricts VI
the state the democrats carried every one
the smallest majority being that IN Con-
gresham Tom Watson's district W1ch Tue
democrats carried by about l-oO. Inc
other districts of the state show democratic
thouma iorities ranging from SIX to ten thous-
and; Speaker Crisp giving the largest ma
iority. Of the legislature elected there are
only one peoples party senators and ABOUT
ten members of the house. These, with the
three republican members, will e a graft
three republican members, will be IN
gratifying and unobjectionable minority and
will be lost in their assertion with the for
ty-three democratic senator's and l62 dem
ocratic representatives.
This is a sad spectacle for Mr.. Halstead
to view as he turns to Georgia for the pur-
pose of finding evidence of democrats dis
location, as a practical illustration of the