The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-15
SENATOR TILLMAN'S CHANCES.
TALK OF. OPPOSITION TO HIM IN
COMING PRIE1ARY.

Suggestion Grows Out of the Strong
Fight TO De Made by the Probi-
bitiOnists-They Will Hold Their
Convention and Put Out "A Ticket
on May 23-Democrats Hold Their
convention To-morrOw-TaIk of
Candidates.
Columbia s. c., May 14.-Wil Senator
Tillman be opposed for reelection this
summer. or will he be permitted to walk
over the course by himself? That Is the
question of greatest state interest next to
the one of whether the prohibitionists will
win in their fight to capture the state gov
eminent
Senator Tilnan has been keeping away
from the state and will probably not par
ticipate IN the campaign till Congress ad-
iourns. Besides making a canvass in his
own interest, he has pledged himself to
stump the state for the dispensary when
ever that institution was in danger, and
it will be in greater jeopardy this year
than any time since established.
The election of a senator will be by pri-
mary at the same time as that of state
and county officers and congressman. This
primary will be he'd later in the summer,
and the result, so far as the senatorshlp
is concerned, will be by party laws binding
on members of the General Assembly. 1t
Is not at all improbable that the senator
elected will be opposed by the majority of
the legislators.
No one has yet been mentioned as likely
to oppose Senator Tlllman, although the
entry of prohibitionsts into the campo ign
and their earnest fight against the dispeu-
sary and It's friends will render the CHARGES
OF an opponent much brighter than Trey
otherwise would have been. AS candi-
dates for Governor are still keeping in the
background and as the campaign will not
be opened for six weeks there is Still OPP
portunity for sensational aspirants to de-
clare Themselves 1t is somewhat signih-
cant that in the forty county conventions
held, when men were indorsed for various
state offices and for Congress. there was
not an utterance bearing on the sena ori7l
race nor the slightest attempt made to
draw old factional lines.
Prohibition Convention.
A convention of prohibit.onists will be
he'd here May % 70 nominate state tick
e.. They win make their fight inside the
Democratic party, going into The primary
and being bound by the result. 1t has "a
ready been decided by the Executive Com
q mittee of the Prohlbitionists that Gov
ernor and Lieutenant governor shall be
y nominated by the coming convention. and
4 whether a full ticket is put forward will
depend on the advices brought to the con-
ventou by the delegates.
Col James A. Hoyt and Mr.. II. Fl. Brun-
sen are most prominently named IS lead
ers for the cold water ticket, and CT
Hoyt who was for a long time state chair
y man OF the Democratic party, will likely
\ be nominated. He Is editor OF Che Green
Vile Mounte iuecr ard stands very high as
a 10 character, ability and ccnEervattsm
n MIR c c. Featherstone, who, as the Pro-
"A hibidon leader in 1898, ran only few hun
dred votes behind Gov. Elle'be, has de-
clined % be a candidate.
ProhiHtionists viii get many votes If
those who ore not prohibitionists, but who
"A oppose the dispensary, and see no other
N method Of killing it than TO prohibit the
y sale Of liquor The contest viii be a live
n ~ one, rs hey are better organized than
"A ever before, while there will be a full
III set perhaps two sets of candidates who
# favor the d.speusary. With Senator TIL
& man leading the fight for his pet institu-
IN ton, there will be no lack of spice.
Convention of Democrats.
The State Democratic Convention viii
meet here Wednesday, There win be no
trouble about the platform unless a snag
I'll IS struck on the question of expansion
Ia IAere are said TO be quite a large num-
M Der Of delegates chiefly those from the
NJ upper part Of the state, whore the cotton
nhIs are most numerous, who favor ak
II pausion
An interesting question Will be whether
we canvass Of the state going into every
county as heretofore, will be continued.
catlthough this plan was inaugurated by
senator Tillman when he was Governor,
nv is now opposed TO II. A few years
uso the candidate who failed to visit a
county seat and ask for votes. was con-
Uttered TOO urisIocratic in his ideas to hold
oIlce under a Republican form of gov
light will be made to change the rule
WI ~ which candidates must file this pledge
~ aoide by the result of the primary on
~, 9elol the opening day of the campaign,