The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-05-11
TWO WANT TO Be SENATOR.
WARM CAMPAIGN PROMISED IN
THE ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
Clay County Furnishes Both Candi-
dates. One Willing to Submit
His Claims to People of the
Whole District, While
the Other Is Not.

Indications point to a warm cam
paign and some interesting political
manoeuyer9 in the selection of a demo-
cratic candidate for state senator IN
this (the eleventh. district, composed
Of the counties of Terrell, Randolph
and Clay
Under the rotation system, which
prevails IA the district, the nominee
this year will be citizen of Clay coun-
ty.
There are now two announced candi-
dates, one Of whom, it seems. would
ignore Terrell and Randolph counties
and leave the matter of naming the
senator to Clay county alone, while
the other IS willing to submit his
claims to the entire district.
rms question, according to reports
IS rapidly becoming an issue between
The two candidates and their friends.
ana both sides are lining up for a fight
that VIII prove to be one of the hottest
OF many red-hot senatorial contests
that has occurred in the district,
Two years ago the nomination of
senator was submitted to the dem
attic voters Of the three counties Of
'Strlct, primaries being held i'm
them on the same day under
ing order of the district ex-
lmittee:
sc democratic executive COM
OF the eleventh senatorial dis
heartily endorse the rotation
oem now in operation in said dis
orlcC. 1T has worked satisfactorily in
the past, and we recommend that i'm the
future 1t be strictly observed inviolate
~ each Oh SAID counties in said dis
let
In obedience to the suggestions
~, 'e oy the state executive commit
Wnlch suggestions are hereby
on, ed and approved, it is ordered thai
nT,n, airy election be held in each of
he con htleS composing the eleventh
anatori Al district, to wit: Terrell.
w. ond Randolph, on the first Satur-
law in Jun re, 1896, for the purpose of
giving the democratic voters of said
district a fr. ee and fair opportunity of
Lnressing Il lelr choice fora candidate
lor state sena tor from said district.
"Itis furthel ordered that in each Of
said counties nc CauuluateS for the
nomination for t he senate shall be yot-
ed for direct and the candidate rece1y.
ing the majority Of the votes cast at
the SAID primary SHALL be notified of
the fact by the managers of said Uri
mary. And the candidate who has
thus received majority of the votes
cast shall name delegates from these
counties acting in accordance with
these recommendations, which dele !
gates so named shall attend said con-
vention at Dawson"
In the contest that is now in its in |
ception one side claims that this is the |
democratic way and the just way, and !
that the custom should not be changed; !
that the state senator is the represent |
atVe of the whole district and not of |
one county, and that while he should |
be citizen of the county entitled to |
the senator under the rotation plan |
every democratic voter in the district |
should have voice in his selection.
The other side claims that if the rota-
tion system means anything at all 1T is
60 permit the county whose time it is
to furnish the senator to name him
without interference from the other
counties of the district.
The district committee, which is
composed of the chairmen of the three
county committees, has not called
convention yet for the nomination of
candidate, but it is probable that a
meeting will be held for that purpose
within the next few days. Captain w.
w. Dews, the Randolph county com
mitteeman, was in Dawson Friday for
the purpose of comforting with Colo
mel f, j. Hart, the Terrell county
member, in reference to the matter,
but that gentleman was not IN the city
and nothing grew out of Cap tain
DeWs' visit.