The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-04
DU BrGNON CONFIDENT OF GAMBLER
Says He VIII Have an Easy Majority
over Both Opponents.

Hon F. C. duBignon returned yesterday
morning from Atlanta, where he
spent several days last week look
ing after business matters and in
cidentany comforting with the party
leaders, and also with his friend, Col.
Gambler.
Mr.. duBignon expresses the greatest con-
fidence in Col. Gamblers success. Chat
ham, he says, Is not the only county in the
state in which Col. Gambler will have
walkover. He will carry between 80 : nd
100 counties, Mr.. duBignon thinks, includ-
ing many of the larger counties of the
state and wall have an easy majority over
both Atkinson and Berner.
Mr.. duBignon is very much interested in
the proposition TO bring the party together
in Chatham and doing away with faction
al divisions. To Morning News reporter
he said: II am heartily in sympathy with
any effort to heal the local divisions in the
party in Chatham, and see no reason
why this result should not be easily ac-
compnshed. I have conferred with DIR.
Duncan. who is chairman of the other
committee, and We are both fully agreed
that it is very desirable that the party
should be united and that the proper time
to take steps to this end has arrived. The
solution of the difficulty seems very SIM
pie. The plan which l have in view just
now is this: Let the two committees joint
ly select the managers for the primary to
be held June 6, the committee of twenty
five to be elected "a this primary to choose
its own chairman. BY this means the par
~ will again be united under one head. 1t
is time that We gave up our factional
fights. IL Chatham county is ever to eX-
ercise any influence in the state conven-
tons it can only be done by presenting a
solid front"
Mr.. duBignon expressed himself as de-
cidedly in favor of white primaries and
the settlement of all differences within the
party itself. There is no reason why the
candidates for all the offices, in county and
municipal as well as state elections, should
not be selected by primaries. Atlanta has
adopted this system and IL works we'll 1t
is only in this way that the purchaseable
element can be eliminated The eXpendi-
ture of money in our local elections has
become enormous, and it has about
reached the point where the first question
that comes up when a candidate is men
toned for an important office is how many
thousands of dollars he can put up. The
decentralization resulting from such a state
of affairs is too well known. If by uniting
the party and agreeing upon a different
line of action we can bring about a differ
ent state of affairs we will have accom-
plished a great deal and the Gambler Club
will not have lived in vain"
In my position as chairman of the
Democratic party of the state" said Mr..
duBlgnon, II do not feel that 1t would be
proper for me to crlticise Col. Candlef's
opponents. 1t is we'll known of course,
that l favor Col Gamblers nomination. l
have taken no active part in the campaign
so far, other than to look I'm on Col. Cand-
Ter in Atlanta occasionally, and advise
with him. He is handling his own cam
paign and doing 1t successfully. l was sur
prised in looking over his political CORE
spondence to see how many of the con-
sentative business men of the state in
Guiding number from Chatham, who or
dinarIly take no interest in politics, had
written Col. Gambler assuring him of their
support"
Mr.. duBignon referred to Col. Gamblers
reply to Judge Atkinson, published in yes
terday's Morning News, as a very salts
factory reply to the structures made upon
him by Judge Atkinson in the latter's re-
cent communication, criticising Col Cand-
Ter for refusing to enter into a joint de-
bate