The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-30
POLITICS IN THE STATE.

Candidates in the Field and News
paper ? ala cn Party Pole.
1t is estimated that 500 votes viii be cast
at the Dahlonega precinct on Oct. 7.
The democrats of Toccoa have organized
a democratic club of nearly 200 members.
There seems to be no doubt that Mr.
Wright's home county will go for Atkin-
son. Floyd will roll up a majority of at
least 700 or 800 for democracy.
Chairman r. B. Russell Of the Jackson
county democratic committee, says Atzin-
son will carry that county in October
Jackson gave Hines, the populist Nominee
for governor. nearly 400 majority in the
last election.
Hon. B. F. Simpson of Alpharetta, in a
letter to the Free Press, accepts the dem
ocratic nomination for representative from
Milton, and declares that he will enter
into an active campaign, not only for him
self, but the democratic state and national
tickets.
In a characteristic card in Mondays
Macon News. Hon. w. A. Huff accepts the
popuHst nomination for senator in this dis
trict and promises to give Mr. Berner
hot fight. In concluding his card he says
"Mr Berner, you cannot expect to go
in Monroe county with a glass of water
on your shoulder and in Blbb with a glass
of beer On the other, without spilling one
or the other"
OF the 1,76S names registered and turned
over to the registrars of Spald-
ing county. they checked off
AGO as not qualified to vote.
frsf.
evidence why they should be put back on
the lists. On Friday sixtytwo came be-
fore the board and all but three proved
that they were not disqualified and were
put back. Saturday a much larger num-
| Der, including many factory operatives,
went before the board with about the same
result.
Augusta Herald: If reports be true. the
democratic voters of Columbia county have
been treated in the most shameful man
ner by the populst sheriff and tax col
lector and they are entitled to redress.
We are told that these officials went
around during the night and got the ne
groes to register and furnished every OPP
portunity for the populists to get their
names on the books. But when it came
to the question of opening the books in
democratic communities, they failed to
keep their official engagements and thus
refused to allow the democrats to register
Replying to Rev. Sam Jones charge in
a recent letter to the Journal that there
has never been but one populist on the
grand jury in Cobb county and me was
there through mistake the Marietta
Journal publishes the names of twelve
we'll know populists taken from the jury
| lists for 1928; eighteen from the jury
| lists Of 1895, and twenty-siX from the list
for 1896 on the petit jury lists the Jour
nal found a large number of populists, in
! Guiding John ID. Cunningham, chairman
| of the populist state executive committee
and James l.. Sibley, editor Of Tom Wat
sons paper.
The friends of Hon. Walter B. Hill were
greatly disappointed in his speech at
Americas last week. 1t consisted mainly
/ in abuse of the democratic party and lau-
| dalton of populiSts. He declared Tom Wat
son one of the best and greatest of men.
! He had much to say Of the rascalty of
the democratic party, and said that Major
]. c. c. Black refused to run In the Tenth
district because a registration law was
! passed, rldiculing the idea of registration
| in Richmond county being honest. The
fact that about half the audience left the
/ opera house before Mr.. Hin concluded ms
speech evidenced its effect,
The republicans Of the Third congress-
ional district are considering the advisa-
bility of putting a ticket in the field At
a recent meeting of the district executive
committee at Americas, the question was
! discussed at considerable length, but no
action was taken beyond referring the
matter to d. A. Dudley, district chair
man, with power to act as he thought
best. The populists have a candidate in
Seaborn Montgomery, Of Taylor county,
and the putting out of a republican cam
didate would help the democratic ticket IN
that 1t would draw the negro vote from
the populists. There is no fear. however,
but that the district viii give the demo-
cratic nominee, Hon. f. b. Lewis, the
usual handsome majority.
A large mass meeting Of the republicans,
representing four or five districts, was
held at Palmetto a night or two ago In
which the action taken by recent meet
| ing in putting out a republican county
! ticket was severely condemned They
claimed that the ticket was put out irree-
hlarly and without the action or consent
of the proper party authorities, and that
the meeting which put out the ticket did
no represent the voice of the republican
panty in Campbell county. This meeting
/ refused TO support the ticket mt ont