The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-10-12
GAMBLER BRINGS HARMONY.
POLITICAL PRODIGAL HAVE RE-
TURNED TO THEIR FIRST LOVE.
Campaign Dull and Disappointing to Poll
ttcians Who Enis Hot Times. Col
oneI Gamblers Nomination
Saved the State Bitter
Contest.

Saved the State q Bitter
Contest.
When the political historian comes
to write the story of the state cam
paign he will have have hard time
to find enough material to make the
account worth reading, 1t will be as
dry as patent office report as compar>
ed tolsimilarIcamp aignsIdurlng the pre-
ceding decade. With the exception of
the demonstration gotten up by the So
Vannah democrats in honor of the dem
ocratic nominee for governor, the race,
if it can be called race at all, be
tween Gambler and Hogan has been
painfully Disappointing to the politi-
clans who hate dull cine. The con
test for the democratic nomination,
which was carried on IN the midst Of
the war excitement and suffered conse-
quently in public interests, was bad
enough But it was not to be compared
with the ennui that followed the over
whelming victory of the ''one-eyed
plo Eboy Of pigeon roOst' oyer the pol
ished Atkinson and the brilliant Bern
er, and the nomination Of Hogan OF
Lincoln by the populists.
Candidate Hogan did not disturb
enough atmosphere with his lungs or
spoil enough piper with his pen to
make his presence felt IN the political
field, so that the campaign between
demo 3racy and what is left of pOpu~
lism has been worse One-sided than the
game of freeze-out between the three
gentlemen who played for democratic
stakes in the June primary.
The nomination of Colonel Allen
Gambler so completely demolished the
backbone of pOpulism in Georgia that
the party could not get enough Of
It's forces together to make astanu.
And when the ballots were counted on
Wednesday Colonel Gambler made a
clean sweep OF them.
This return of the political prOdi~
gals-for all good Georgia populsts
were oncesgOod democrats has been
discussed and commented on more
than anything 'else during the cam>
palgn among the party leaders. The
time seemed to be prOpitious for their
reconciliation at the very outset OF the
campaign, and throughout things have
been so conducted as TO facilitate 1t.
in fact, tn RpeaCeable.cOnquest of the
populists has been the keynote of the
democratic campaign managers.
Chairman duBignon and other leaders
realized when the campaign was out
lined that nothing great could be ac~
complished by agitation and intense
partizanship. With a man like Allen
Gambler as the democratic standard
bearer, they saw that the time was ripe
for bringing the wandering breth>
rem back into the house of their faith
ers. But it could not be done with
trumphets blowing and banners
streaming, like the conquest of an
armed host The wool-har boys liked
Gambler and felt like coming to him,
but they would never have done it
under pressure, and so the democratic
campaign has been so managed as that
they can cone back and fall in line be-
hind the Gambler banner almost as if
nothing had ever happened to take
tn I'm away from the democratic ranks.
And right here it may be said, with
due regard to the other esteemed dem
Ocrats who Wed with Colonel Gambler
far the nomination, that it was a
fortunatS thing for the party that he
was chosen to lead Had the fortune
of the nominating campaign gone
against him there is not the slightest
doubt that the democrats would have
had fight on their hands as bitter as
any that has been waged since popu>
lism was born in Georgia. The lead
ers all agree upon tins proposition,
and unless all signs fail Governor
Gambler, if he does nothing else TO win
lasting credit, will go down in history
as the man who restored harmony