The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-03
THE PRIMARIES SATURDAY.
Battle Is Being Waaed for Their
Control.
SPECULATION AS TO THE OUTCOME
Figured that savers WIN Get a
Large Proposition OF the Votes
Both june 4 and II.

Dallas. Texas. June c.--That next Sat
urday's primaries VIII mark an important
epoch in the hiStory of the present cam
pagn for the democratic gubernatorial
nomination is proposition admitted by
all. The recent gains made By Colonel
X. NJ. Wynne, while not entirely unex-
pected. have put the Savers forces on their
mettle and an incisivc engagement be
tween the two clans is now inevitable
After the withdrawal OF Attorney General
Crane from the gubernatorial contest mae
out of ten democrats in this part OF the
State looked upon the retirement of Colo
mol Wynne as only question of time. lie
was regarded as pugllst who needed only
one finishing blow to be put against The
ropes for good. He has so far eluded his
stronger antagonist. however. and has ac-
quircd considerable wind and a great deal
of nope.
This has so rejuvenatcd his following
that IL Will require two or more solar
plexus straight Always to do the work one
would have done two weeks ago. The
Sayers forces, for this reaso1, are Just
enough alarmed 10 tight We'll and have
gone into the field for blood. Nothing
now but gore will satisfy them AMI on
next Saturday they expect to land on the
Fort Worth candidates vitals in genuine
Fitzsimmons style.
The following counties hold primaries on
June Il Austin 6, Bexar 81. Cherokee 0.
Ellis 20. Freestone G. Gollad 2. Gonzales
6. Guadalupe 5. Lavaca .. Rusk s, San
I'm Lpl ord 1N,1n =
ingtoa 3. having total of 100 votes In the
Galveston convention. or these the eight
votes OF Rusk county are almost certain TO
so for Wynne and there are hard battles
going on In Cherokee, Ellis. Freestonc and
Shackelford
Thus Colonel Wynne has a fighting
chance for forty one OF li2 votes He may
get the entire forty one--he may not get
more than eight In either event Sayers
is certain OF sixty-fye votes to his oppo-
nent's forty-one. This itself Is not bad
campaigning from a Bastrop point of view.
but Colonel Foster, as indicated ADORE
has his fighting blood aroused and has
sent tugboats to tow Cherokee, Ellis and
freestone into Savers waters He and his
lieutenants are making the same night In
these counties they made ia McLennan
ana Coryoll. This fight won in both the
latter counties and the chances seem to
favor success for Foster and Sslyers next
Saturday.
The struggle in Ellis this week Is heat.
cd one Every precinct has been flooded
with literature and every hillside echoes
paek choice samples Of campaign oratory
Inc Wynne people have been sending out
circulars attacking Major Savers all along
the line. aud. incidentally hitting him
several raps below the belt This method
OF campaigning has aroused Considerable
feeling.
Manager Foster went to church last Sun.
DAY morning. as usual, but instead of
spending the afternoon in Bible study he
devoted the greatest part of it to answering
the Wynne circulars, He did this work
very artistically and has lifted the hide
in several places This answer has been
put In circular form and 10 900 copies wer
sent to Ellis county. They are being read
| and illustrated to his audiences by Farm
err Shaw. The Wynne speakers are com
ing back with yigor and as can be easily
imagined, considerable acrimony Is evident
In Ellis county it's truly fight to tho
finish.
On June IL the following counties hold
primaries: Brazos. 0; Brown, 5; Caldwell
g. Callahan. 8; Grimes. Z; Kerr. 2, Vic
toria 81 Robertson, 10. and F'rio, 3, with u
total of "A votes. Practically all these are
regarded as certain to go for Sayers. BY
adding these and the 65 votes he will get
Saturday to the 2i7 already In sight, 1t will
| be seen that by the middle OF June Major
Savers will have over 800 votes.
But for the moral effect. Manager Foster
might safely concede every county to
Wynne the Fort Worth man has made a
fight in He would still be nearly 200
votes short Of Major Sayers' strength. But
nothing will be- conceded. It's struggle
in which Colonel Wynne viii be given moth
ing he does not acquire by conquest.
Although the Wynne boom has assumed
proportions few Sayers men, except Man
ager Foster, ever expected the Bastrop
candidate ia still looked upon In most
quarters as n certain winner. he has
strength in every corner and supporters In
every precinct in the State. The band
wagon Of Bastrop Is the most popular We
hicte of the wear.