The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
WARM SoLICIT0RSHIP RACE.
CHARGES OF POPUIIsM BROUGHT
AGAINST \ CANDIDATE.

Reported to The Governor That His
Firm Rented Their Paper tn the
PopuIists OF Conee COunty-COI.
O'stecn Denies the Charges Made
said the Paper was Rented as a
pure Business TransnctiOn-COv-
crnor VIII soon Decide 1t.
Atlanta, May IA committee composed
Of senator r. 6. Dickorson Of bonneville
aud Messrs. Quincy aud Mcdonald Of
Douglas. called on Gov. Gambler to-day in
the interest Of COL Levi O'Steen, who is
candidate for the office Of solicitor OF the
CIV Court Of CoHee county. Col. O'Steen
also went before the Governor with his
committee.
Col w. T. Crawley who was also an ap-
pBcant for The same position, has with
drawn from the race. which leaves the
race between Col. II. A. Hendricks OF Wil-
lacoochoe and Cob O'Steen.
When Col CIawley was here last. he
called upon the Governor and produced a
COPY of a contract purportng to have been
made by Messrs. quincy and Mcdonald
VINO are members OF the law firm OF
quincy. Mcdonald and O'steen, in which
they contracted with certain prominent
Topullsts OF Coffee county 10 lease them
their newspaper outfit with the under
standing that the same was to be run as a
Fopuhst newspaper This was two years
ago and az time when the politics of the
county was about evenly divided between
the Democrats and the PopuAsts and some
aha rrfafl
that Niessrs. quincy and Mcdonald were
catering 60 the Populists.
He also charged that Col. O'Steen had
been writing newspaper articles FOR the
Populist paper advocating Popuist doc
trine and the election of Populist officers in
Coffee county.
These charges were to-day vehemently
denied by Mr.. O'Steen
Purely IL business Matter.
In reply to the charge that they had
leased the newspaper TO be run as the
Populist organ OF Coffee county, Messrs.
Quincy and Mcdonald say that II was
purely a matter of business on their part,
as they had the newspaper outfit and were
receiving no income from 1t.
They produced strong letters from a
number of the most prominent Democrats
OF the county, among them being members
of the Board of County Commissioners
and other Democratic officials of the eoun-
". stating that Messrs. quincy, McDon-
aid and O'Steen are among the most act
i've Democrats of Coffee county, and dur
ing the last campaign did good work for
the Democratic party and Gov. Gambler.
Col O'Steen and his friends claim that
there was a private understanding between
Col Crawley and Col. Denton, who mas
Just resigned the Office of solicitor; that
Denton should resign without letting 1t
be known publicly and aid Crawley in Sc
curing his appointment from Gov. Can
dler.
Several days ago the attorneys of Doug
las held meeting for the purpose of in
dorsiug some attorney for the position,
and Col Hendricks received a majority OF
the votes cast. Col. O'Steen, however, re-
fused 20 submit his claims to the meeting
for the reason. as he stated, that the
meeting was called by the friends OF
Messrs Hendricks and Crawley, and ii
was generally understood that before they
went into the meeting they would indorse
Hendricks.
The Governor will probably decide the
matter within the next few days.