Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-06
THE LAST BEFORE NOVEMBER
People of Georgia Will Vote for State
Officers TO-mOrrOw-Interest
in Result.
Big DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY PREDICTED
Contest is Between Silver Democrats
and Populists-Anomalous as itMay
Seem Goldites Are Supporting
Populist Candidates.

! Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 6.-The state o.
Georgia will hold state election to-mor
row. 1t will be of national interest be-
cause the lines have been very closely
drawn, and a Democratic victory will
mean more than the Republican victory
meant in Maine.
conservate estimate, based on the
claims of different party leaders and
gathered from reliable information, which
comes direct from the various counties
gives 10000 as the plurality which the
Democratic ticket will receive. Two
years ago the Democratic state ticket re-
ceived a plurality of little more than
10000. This year there have been many
com plications in the campaign, and the
Democratic candidates are being fought
from within and without; yet, despite the
fact, there is every reason to expect a
more signal victory than that of two
years ago.
There will be an effort to discount a
Democratic victory by claiming that
ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION
the platform of the Populists is identical
with that of the Democrats, and that the
issues given place in this campaign are
strictly state issues. On the surface,
there seems to be truth in this estimate
of the situation; but beneath the surface
it is seen that not only will Seaborn
Wright, the Populist candidate for gov
ernor, receive the votes of large number
of those who have heretofore acted with
the Populist party, but he will receive, in
addition, the votes of the Prohibition
Observation-Disclosures of the national
Prohibition party-and he has received
the very active assistance of most of the
men who lead the gold standard fight
here in Georgia.
1t may seem an anomalous condition,
this of the gold standard men supporting
a Populist, bat they claim that at heart
Wright is opposed to the free coinage of
silver; and they are bitterly opposed to
Atkinson, because he and his friends we're
most active in carrying this state for sill
YER, and in making platform which 80
clearly outlined that subsequently adopt
ed by the national convention at Chicago.
A great many of these Dem ocrats fight
under cover, and for that reason it was at
first believed that they would make
serious inroads into Atknson's vote. The
result of the
ACTIVE CAMPAIGNING
which has been going on for months is,
however, disappointing to these people;
for, while the Populist leaders are just
as active in their opposition to Democ-
racy as they we're two years ago, many
of the rank and file of the party, being
more interested in principles than in
men, have gone back into the Democrat
ic party and are doing their part to pile
up ajority which will be Georgia's
answer to Maine.
The Republicans are divided, the lead
ers especially, and the white men who
figure in party councils down here are
doing all they can to aid the Populist
cause. The campaingn fund by means
of which the Populists are able to make
an active canvass throughout the state
has, undoubtedly, been recruited largely
from Republican sources.
The colored leaders, the more intelli-
gent of them, at least, are for Atkinson
because of his record during hie term of
Office, in which he has proved willing and
anxious to give the negro full justice and
TO look after his rights.
The registration indicates fuller vote
than two years ago, and good proper
tion of
THE NEGROES HAVE REGISTERED.
In some sections they are reported as
bsing almost unit for the Democratic
state ticket, while in others they are for
the Populist ticket; 80 it is, perhaps, a
fair estimate to say that this vote will be
equally divide between the two parties
which have tickets in the field, and there
fore the votes received by the heads of
these two tickets will indicate clearly the
respective proportions into which the
white people are divided.
There is every reason to believe that
Atkinson's plurality will be in the neigh
borhood of 10000. In view of the way
that the campaign has lined up, with the
active workers of the gold element sup
porting the Populist nominee, that 40,-
900 votes will indicate how strongly sill
yer is in the majority here in Georgia.
1t is vote which means much more to
the country at large than the vote in Yer
mont, where there was no division as to
the money question, or the vote on
Maine, where there was less than
months campaigning for silver. Here
in Georgia the agitation has been going
ON for two years, and the gold cause has
been in able hands.
The people of Georgia have studied the
financial question, have had it presented
to them in every possible light; have
withstood the cajoleries of admlnistra.
tion politicians and the temptation Of
administration pap; and will declare
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