The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-12
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.
The Acworth Post is anxious that Judge
Akin enter for congress in the Seventh.
T. j. Edwards name is mentioned in
connection with the race for representative
in Tattnall.
Col. J. J. Latham of Campbelltown, has
the race all to himself in the Thirty-sixth
senatorial district.
Hon. H. w. J. Ham of Gainesville is
being urged to make the race for the SEN
ate from the Thirty-third district.
Trox Bankston, the politician who
wants to go to the legislature from Ca
toosa, is just spiling for a joint debate.
1t is reported that Robert I. Collins Of
Macon will be a candidate for tax collector
against the present incumbent, Albert
Jones.
Col. J. F. Golightly of Campbell has
announced for the Senate in the Thirty
sixth district. He is opposed by Col.
Rush Irwin
Congressman Bartlett of Macon is ex-
pected home the latter part of this month.
1t is not believed that he will have oppo-
sit.on for reelection.
There are two additional candidates for
the legislature in Montgomery county-A.
H. McCrimmon and B. F. Connor. The
third in the field is j. B. Geiger.
Col. Wooten is having opposition and a
plenty of it in his race for the Senate
in the Fifteenth. Hons. John McRae and
John ]. Macarthur are both formally in
the arena.
Darien Gazette: Chatham county will
give Hon. Fleming G. duBignon a splen-
did support Chatham democrats will soon
hold a big meeting for the purpose of en-
dorsing Mr.. duBignon. AS Chatham goes
50 goes the state"
Dalton Argus: The attempts of the sill
verbug leaders in Georgia to bully the
party organization wherever possible
would be intensely amusing, as well as
disgusting, were they not threatening to
destroy the party throughout the state.
A free coinage caucus was held in Ran
dolph and Judge w. D. Kiddoo and Dr.
w. w. Binion selected as principals, and
D. W. Hammock and Judge J. G. Sasser
as alternates, to be voted for by the sill
yer men for delegates to the state con-
vention.
A. V. Deadwyler and John A. Suddeth
have announced for the legislature in
Jackson county. The populist candidates
for the legislature Will probably be A. L.
Venable and S. W. Jackson. These gen.
tlemen made the race in 1892, and were
defeated.
Brunswick Times Enterprise: If Flem-
ing G. duBignon should speak at Bruins
wick-which he no doubt will at an early
date-Glynn, sound money Glynn, will
give him such a welcome as would startle
the free silverites with the extent of the
movement they are combating.
The democratic executive committee of
Bibb county may meet at an early day to
consider the question Of reconsidering its
action in ordering registration for the con-
solidated primary on June 6. The commit
tee will also elect a committeeman from
the Howard district vice c. w. Howard
resigned.
1t IS not known when the executive COM
mittee of the twenty-second senatorial
district will meet to call a convention TO
1t is Monroe county's time to name the
senator. The counties and votes compos-
ing the district are: Bibb 6; Monroe 4;
Pike, 2; total, II.
1t is thought that Hon. Seaton Grant
land, of Griffin, chairman of the executive
committee of the Sixth district, will call
a meeting of the committee soon to fix the
time and place for holding the convention
to nominate a candidate for congress. The
counties, and their votes. composing the
committee are: Baldwin 2; Bib, s; Butts
2; Fayette, 2; Henry, 2; JONES' 2; Monroe
4; Pike, 2; Spalding, 2; Epson, 2; total g.
The McRae sound money club was or
ganized at McRae Thursday, with Hon.
c. B. Parker president and A. H. McRae
secretary and treasurer. The pledge to sup
port sound money candidates and the nom
inee of the Chicago convention is being
signed by nearly every voter in McRae and
vicinity. Mr.. duBignon will address the
people of Telfair and adjoining, counties at
McRae on the 14th instant on the financial
question, and the sound money club will
make every effort to get out a big crowd.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: A farmer could
as reasonably expect to buy as much with
a 25O-pound bale of cotton as with a stan
a 52-cent silver dollar will buy what a
1OO-cent dollar has been doing. The pass
age of free coinage laws would soon con-
vince them of the truth of this, and one
good result of the success of this meas
1re would be that ere long the masses
would rise up and smite the politicians
who had mised them.
GAINESVILLE Home Journal 1t will be de-
eidedly to the advantage of the populist
marty in this state to have democratic
senatorial primaries in June in as many
counties as possible. If the pOpulists them
selves had been casting about for a
scheme to diminish the democratic vote in
October they could not have struck upon
q more promising one than this June sem
atorial primary one The democrats, who
are engineering it, are evidently more IN
terested in personal advancement than in
the success of the party. What the party
has done for them in the past is lost sight
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