The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-04

the best possible defense Of it than can be
made.
At the speaking in Griffin to-day an old
fashioned picnic dinner VIII be spread and
everybody invited TO partake. This part
OF the programme is being managed by the
ladies.
1t is possible that Talbot county will
have home candidates for congress and
the solicitor generalship Of that circuit.
Three candidates are already in the field
for the legislature.
The republicans of Floyd county, besides
indorsing Mckinley, Endorsed the follow
ing delegates to the national convention
from the state at large: J. II. DeVeauX,
A. Z. Buck, A. J. Rucker J. +. Hanson.
A mass meeting of the democratic voters
in Taylor county will be held at Butler
Wednesday next. Delegates to the third
congressional district convention, and a
new executive committee will be elected.
The Talbotton New Era thinks that If
Col. ]. H. McGehee decides to enter the
contest for solicitor general of the Chat
tahoochee circuit ii will complicate mat
tiers for the gentlemen already in the race.
The two avowed candidates for the SEN
ate in the Firty-third district are John H..
Gordon and o. N. Starr of Gordon. The
district is composed of Gordon, Murray,
and Whitfield, and it is Gordons time TO
play the hand, according TO the courtesy
plan.
Macon News: The question is being
asked as to whether or not Mr.. duBig-
non is in the race for the United States
Senate, since he failed to agree to meet
Mr.. Crisp in joint debate at Griffin. face
uously remarks the Columbus Ledger.
Mr.. Crisp and his friends will find ouy
soon enough.
Townsville Tfmes-Enterprise What's
going to become of Georgia's registration
law If primaries are held on the 9Th of
June? Not one-half of the counties will
have complied with it; and yet the law
says that primaries shall be governed by
the same laws governing regular cleo
ton. Here's a nut for the snap conVen-
ton to crack.
Col. w. r. Rankin will open his cam
paign for congress in the Seventh at Dali
ton, April Is. He promises from that time
on to make II lively for the other two can
didates. Col Rankin served six terms in
the state legislature. He will make the
race for congress on the straight silver
platform. 1t is now Judge Maddox, Judge
Miner Col. Rankin.
James S. Wyatt has withdrawn from the
race for the recordership in Floyd. V. T.
Sanford, a prominent planter, announces
his candidacy for clerk of the superior
court School Commissioner J. d. Gwalt-
ney, who succeeds Bridges, the defaulter,
will assume the duties of the office Mon
day next at the regular meeting of the
county school board
Macon Telegraph: Georgia is to be con-
graduated upon having among her sons
two such able men as Hoke Smith and
Charles f. Crisp. Her citizens do not have
to import teachers on either side of the
financial question, or, as a matter of fact,
on any other great economic problem.
Taken as whole, it is safe to say that
No Ct 10 70 In tha mn, hon -
resented so ably in the national congress.
f. Dorsey, the present chairman of the
Clarke county democratic executive COM
mittee will retire from politics when the
democratic mass meeting is held on the
7th. He has been a factor in county, dis
trict and state politics for years. 1t is
probable that the present member of the
legislature from Clarke, Thomas L. Nell,
will have no opposition. There was some
talk of Judge George c. Thomas entering
the race, but ii is understood that Judge
Thomas will not do so.
According to the system of rotation that
has been closely followed and never ques-
toned in the Thirteenth senatorial dis
trict, Schley county will this year name the
senator The Americas Times Recorder,
presumably speaking for the free silver
element in Sumter, gets a hint that Schley
will offer a sound money candidate, and
springs the following threat: There IS
one thing certain, the voice of good old
Sumter will raise thunder before any man
shall represent the Thirteenth senatorial
district in the next assembly unless that
man pledges himself that he will cast his
vote for Charles +. Crisp for senator from
Georgia first, last and all the time.
Abiding to the Smith-Crisp joint
debate, the Macon Evening News
says: Viewed from both stand
| points, the opening debate re-
| hected great credit upon both parties
/ thereto and upon the state. A continu-
| ance of these debates on this line can but
/ result in great good for the voters will
/ be given an opportunity to study the
| financial question impartially and dispas-
| sionately. If the demagogic newspapers
| of the state will simply hold hands Off
| now and give these two able Georgians d
/ chance, they will settle this question one
| way or the other, and the peoples verdict
| will be the correct one, for it will have
| been formed without prejudice and with
all the facts clearly and fairly placed be-
1 fore them"