The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-02-22
GEORGIA POLITICS OF 1874.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

just at present VIII disclose the tact that
the waters are tritle more disturbed
than would at first appear.
Already the politicians are looking for
ward to the campaign that VIII come in
'94 Already they are talking about the
incident to arise in that campaign and
some of them are even dealing in names
OF candidates for this office or that out
right. The prominent lawyers from
every section of the state, who are in At
lanta from day to day in attendance upon
the session of the supreme court, talk
these things over, and, really, there is
great deal more interest manifested in
state politics than in the outlook of the
incominh democratic administration at
the nations capitol.
Who will be governor in '94?
Who will be senator when the legisla-
ture is called upon to elect one in '94?
These are the questions that the poll
ticians are asking and all in seriousness,
for there is a serious side to these guess
tons despite the fact that they will not
he answered for two years to come, they
are foretelling a heated campaign in
Georgia for "a. The political situation
that will confront the people of Georgia
when the ides of October, '94 have come
will be unique and full of intense inter
est and concern.
1t will be the beginning of a new polit-
cal era almost in the Empire State of the
South, If signs count for aught, there
will be new set of candidates; a new
ring, if you please, since these rings gen
orally go by rings, or combinations Of
candidates and sympathizing aspirants
for office. There see ms to have come a
great change in the state nowadays.
When one sits down and gives the
matter a seriC us, sober thought it occurs
to him that whoever gets into power in
the offices of state in '94 will be the lead
ers of new band of political sympathiz-
ers and for the most part younger set
IA
This governor will be in power in the
state four years if the custom OF giving
our governors a second term is not broken
and nobody believes that it will be. This
means that the friends of the new gov
ernOr will have ample time to get in full
sway the new political forces that elect
ed him.
Again, senator is to be elected. That
sympathy that combined to put the new
governor into office will be the same that
must, of fair reasoning, put the senator
in office, for these things are always set
tied. by the strength of the governor and
his friends in the legislature elected oy
the same votes that elected the winning
candidate for governor. In this way 1T
is easy to see that the formative inttuen-
ces that go to build up the political crys-
tai are already at work in Georgia and
that new band of political sympathizers
are getting themselves together. These
political crystals, when formed, are not
soon destroyed. political rings" as
they are some What unfairly called. are
not easily broken, particularly when they
are formed under such favorable envi-
ronments as having two of the most con-
spicuous offices in the affairs of the state
TO fill all at the same time and has been
shown by the same friendly link of polit-
ical aspirants and their friends. The
senator to be elected in '94 will be in
mower for the next twelve years most
probably, it being an exceptional case
when a senator from Georgia has not
been given two terms.
Thus with new governor to hold
sway for four years, according to the
probability of custom, and senator to
hold sway for twelve years, by the same
fair reasoning, it is not difficult to see
that the men to combine to elect these
two high officers will be the organizers
OF new political ring that will hold
SWAY in the state of Georgia for many
wears to come.
Perhaps all these things are excuse
for the seeming haste and improperly OF
political talk on the state camp align that
is two years away yet The fact that the
campaign will mean so much to the peo-
nile of the stale and that it will brins in
2 new and untried set Of political aspi-
rants all goes to show whyit should have
the serious as well as the jestfuI conSid-
Grafton that is awakening among the
Georgians who are to be found in the
corridors of the capitol and in the rotun-
das of the hotels from day to day.