The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-15

POLITICS IN THE STATE.
Candidates in the Field and News
paper Talk on Party Policy.

Candidates in the Field and News
paper Talk on Party Policy.
waycross Herald; The boy orator Of
the Plat has hypnotized the nation.
Fort Valley Leader: Wiley Tom Watson
thinks ne has set trap to catch suckers
But he hasn't.
Douglasville New South: When Gov. At
kinson starts to running you can't see
Wright foT the dust.
Dublin Dispatch: The prohibitfonists
did a bad days work when they tied them
selves to the populist corpse.
Abbeville Exponent: seab is an accom-
plished and magnetic orator. but his fine
rhetoric vivid meteoric flashes and round
ed periods viii avail him nothing in this
campaign.
Albany Herald: Prohibitionists will gain
very little by hitchlng on to the populist
kite. Singular enough. the prohibition
populist candidate for governor is said to
have barrel.
Jesup Sentinel: In this section Of the
state there is practically no opposition to
the populists, except perhaps a few isola-
ted instances where the democrats will
elect a minor officer or two.
Atlanta Journal: It was not a reed
shaken by the wind that the multitudes
went out for to see in New York last night,
but an earnest man moved by the con-
seriousness of great emergency.
Americus Herald: These days we have
been having are hot enough for anybody.
but they are not circumstance when one
thinks of Seab Wright and how hot At
kinson is going to make 1t for him when
they meet on the stump.
administration of our states government?
Can any man put his Anger on a single
corrupt or unwise act OF Gov. Atkinson?
OF course not, and he is going to be re-
elected by $1,000 majority.
Tattuan Press: Hold on to the grand
old party. The new issue sprung is an
open acknowledgement that the populists
are sick of their old doctrines and that
this is the last campaign in which a
straightout fight between democracy and
populism will ever be made in Georgia
Douglasvine New South: The populist
party is being called the fusion party
from the fact that they stand ready TO
join hands with any other party where
there is an office promised. But their
right name just at this time is the con
fusion" party, as they are in a state of
| bewilderment.
Hawkinsville Dispatch and News: The
fusion of the populists with the prohibit
tlonists does not necessarily mean that
| they are going to have dry" campaign.
The prohtbitionists are lust a
| liable to run up on a blind tiger in the
populists camps as they were in the demo-
cratic party.
Blackshear Times: The prohibitionists
have sacrificed all their political opinions
on governmental matters and have made
a deal with the populists party. The Times
| any party or person who viii sacrifice their
! principle to gain strength from outsiders
regardless of their political creed.
Cedartown Standard: 1t is Haralson's
county's turn to furnish the senatorial
! timber for this district, and two strong
| candidates are in the field. Hon s. L.
| Craven, popular citizen of Talapoosa,
| populists have nominated Or. w. f. Gold
| in, a clever citizen of Draketown. Both
gentlemen are good campaigners, and it
will be an interesting race.
The Montgomery Monitor has a card
from Capt. J. ]. Macarthur, withdra wing
from the senatorial contest. This he does
| because, as he says, he cannot enter into
scramble for the office. He said before
he ever announced himself that he had
been solicited to run. and that if he could
do so without entering into a scramble for
the office he might; but that he would not
do that If ne knew Vt would elect him.
Fort Valley Leader: Suppose Messrs
seabom Wright and william C. sibley
are nominees of the party. Isn't the par
ty populist? And they go outside the par
~ to give tone to their ticket Don't
let anything or anybody fooi you into
voting the popuHst ticket. You can't be a
democrat and vote with the populist any
more than you can be a democrat and
vote the republican ticket. Don't fool
yourself in that way
Townsville Times Enterprise: Mr.
John A Sibley, the populist candidate
for congress from this district, spoke at
the court house for an hour and a half
yesterday morning. The number of pop-
uHsts in town was smaller than was ex-
pected to see. The court house rras