The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
GARRARD AT REIDSVILLE.
He and Col. Lester Speak to a Large
Crowd Of Democrats.

he Says Georgia Is Still overwhelm-
inglv Democratic-Will Remain in
Savannah To-day-The Programme
for the First District RalIies-Some
of the Speakers Who win Hold
Forth.
Hon. L. F. Garrard of Columbus reach
ed the city last night from Reidsville,
Tattnall county, where he spoke yester-
day n a crowd Of !, 200 or l 500 democrats.
He and Col. Rufus f. Lester came down
from Reidsville together. Col Lester ad-
dressed the crowd in the morning and
Mr.. Garrard spoke in the afternoon.
The crowd was an enthusiastic one, and
the outlook was for very great dimin-
ishing of third party votes in that county
by the time for the election. The speak
ers were listened to with much interest,
and the crowd was enthusiastic and gen
erous in the applause.
MIR. Garrard will spend to-day in Sa-
vannah. He has a large numberof friends
here, and several of them called on him
last night He will leave the city tonight
for Fayetteville, Ga, where he speaks to-
morrow, and will return in time to speak
at Darien Tuesday. These are big Jumps
for public speaker TO make, but Mr..
Garrard was given pressing invitation
to speak at Fayetteville, and Monday was
the only day he could conveniently make
the arrangements to do so. The conse-
quence IS he will have to do some rapid
travelling to make connections.
MIR. Garrard seems very confident of
the situation in Georgia, and predicts
that the democrats will carry the state
by fully ds large a majority this year
nc HFUH Il ~
cations are, he says, that it will be even
larger
COL. LESTER IN DEMAND.
Congressman Lester is hard at work
now. He has an engagement for almost
every day for the next two weeks, during
which time he will visit nearly every
county in the district. Tuesday he will
be at Darien, where the democrats of
Mcintosh county will hold a rally. Hon.
L. +. Garrard will be on hand and will
deliver an address, as will also Mr. p. A.
Stovall and Mr.. T. S. Morgan of Savan-
nah.
On Wednesday the democrats of Burke,
Screven, Emanuel and Bulloch will hold
their grand rally at Millen, accompanied
by barbecue. Mr.. Garrard and Col
Lester will speak and other prominent
democrats, including, probably, Messrs.
Morgan and Stovall of Savannah.
DabuIudy LHG QbtlOETdLS OF burke
county will hold grand rally at Waynes-
bOrO and Col. Lester will deliver an ad-
dress there. On Monday or Tuesday of
next week the democrats of Screven
county will hold their rally at Sylvania,
at which Col Lester will of course be
present and speak. BY this time, proba-
bly,, other engagements will have been
made sufficient 10 fill out the whole of
next week.
No district in the state has a more pop
ular representative than the First dis
trict has, and he is in demand every
where.
BULLoCH's TURN OUT.
The congressional rally in Bulloch to
take place on Sept. 81, has been merged
into the state rally TO be at Statesbor
Sept. 26. Mr. j. Il. Miller. editor of the
Statesboro Star, was in town Yesterday
He says the people are preparing as they
have never before done for twenty-five
years. 1t is estimated that 5000 TO 5000
people from Bulloch and adjoining coun-
ties will attend the rally. Burke and
Liberty will have their rally on the same
day, and reports from both of these coun-
ties are that the preparations are equally
as active as at States boro.
In a letter from Hon. J. w. Reiser of
the congressional executive committee,
from Efhngham county, to Chairman
Whatley yesterday, he says: "Col. Les
ters speech here on Friday was one of
the grandest efforts of his life in defense
of the old line democracy. You can rest
assured that Efhngham is solid for the
ticket in November