Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-24

persuaded to be present. Livingston is re-
garded the best stump speaker in
the state, too, today. That is. he il
the best in the sense that he is the most eff
fective before a rural audience He is the most
plausible reasoner and the most seductive OF all
the campaigncrs. He is speaking almost every
day in one district or another. and be il
drawing the "wool hat and one-galius boys
back to the democratic party in regiments.
THIRD PARTY MEN LESS CONFIDENT.
The campaign between democracy and third
partyism is on in earnest now. Up to two
weeks ago there was a feeling of dread among
the democrats. but sentiment is changing. The
tide has turned. Tom Watson looks discour-
aged himself. Ellington, the rev third pare
president of the state alliance. is not so conf
dent as he was. Peek, the third party candi-
date Tor governor, is ratified. Gov. Northon
opened his campaign Saturday in Peek S
own county, Rockdale. and the crowd was sol
idly democratic. Peek sat on the stage with
the democratic speakers. More than half the
voters in the county were present and when
asked if they were going TO vote for Peek for
governor shouted NO" as il with one voice.
G. c. Posi-, another of the third party lead
ers, has mysteriously disappeared He is sup
posed to be in the neighborhood of the repub-
hcan national headquarters negotiating for cam
paign funds.
SAM sNALL's CANDIDACY.
II.
is the national prohibition candidate for Con-
gress in this (the fifth district. Sam is out in
the west somewhere lecturing. He came within
fractional part of vote of getting the third
party's Endorsement. which would have made
him formidable candidate for Col. Livingston.
Before leaving for the west Small said to Liv-
ingston: "Yol keep on boring in that third
party hole until you get tired and will come
back and give the auger few turns" Small
makes a breezy campaign speech and be will
add fresh life to the canvass when be returns.
Thomas Cobaniss. who will succeed James G.
Blount in the sixth, had a hard fight for the
nomination, He Is a strong man and has long
been identified with public affairs in the state.
Ben Russell, the democratic nominee in the
second, Henry q. Turner'S cid district. is the
editor of a weekly newspaper i'll cambridge, a
town of three or four thousand people. He is
strong on native wit. The third party will
make "a hard fight on him, but he is pretty sure
to win. Judge Maddox. who has defeated Ev-
erett in the seventh viii have hard race. as
the third party is coquetting with the republic
cans and they may unite on some third party
man or independent democrat The democratic
party of the state Is exerting itself 70 defeat
Tom Watson in the tenth. The party would
rather lose any two districts and crush Watson
than to carry all the others and lose his.
Henry G. Turner. who finds himself in the
eleventh district under the new superintendent.
will be returned. Rufus f. Lester,
in the first, has third party OPP
ponent named Kemp. The third party
has strong following in some of the wire
grass counties, but has none at all on the coast.
Charles l.. Moses will win hands down in the
fourth. and Congressman Lawson will SO back
from the eighth.
DOUBTFUL DISTRICTS.
The seventh, ninth and tenth are the only
doubtful districts. In those the third party has
a fighting chance. The negroes, it is claimed.
will go to the side which has the money. The
third party has none.