The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-02
MAJ. RYALS' TRIP
CARRIED COL. EsTILL'S CANDIDACY
FOR GOVERNOR TO ATLANTA.
HELP FROM ALL SECTIONS.
WAS PROMISED MAI. RIVALS IN THE
CAPITAL CITY.


Georgia Man to Succeed Himself
and Atlanta Newspapers, Reflect
ing Something of the Same Senti-
meDt, Take Kindly to the Mention
of Col. EstiIl's Name-Men From
All Sections Assure MaS. Ryals
They VIII support Col. EstiII.
Good Chance for Him TO Win, but
an Active Campaign Necessary to
Ensure Success.
There was JOY in the heart and a
broad smile on the face OF Maj. G. M.
Ryals. as he circulated around among
his friends yesterday, with news of the
results of the trip he had just made
to Atlanta. He had gone there in the
interest of Col. ]. H. Estill and of Col.
Estills candidacy for Governor.
Maj Ryals thought that he had rea-
son to be pleased and gratified with
the information he had gathered on
his trip. He had found Gov. Gambler
in active and avowed sympathy with
the movement to place a South Geor-
gia man in the gubernatorial chair,
the majority of the state house officers
at any rate not actively hostile to the
movement and certainly not hostile to
the candidacy of Col. Estill, every news
paper in Atlanta lending kindly and
appreciative words of encouragement
to Col Estill's entrance into the race
and prominent men, from every part
of the state, promising him aid and
comfort and active sunDort
In a way Maj. Ryals feels himself
somewhat responsible for Col. EstllPs
candidacy, as he was at least among
the first who suggested it and urged
his fitness for the position. Possibly
this fact lends additional delight to the
majors sense of qualification at the re-
suits of his trip.
Il believe, he said to a Morning
News reporter, that there is a good
chance of Col. Estill, or any other
strong South Georgian, whose ability
and talents fit him for the station, to
receive the Democratic nomination for
governor. 1 do not believe that any
South Georgian will be nominated, if
the strength of this section and the
strength of a South Georgia candidate
in other sections, is. divided between
two, actively contesting with each 9TH
er for the honor. My trip and the talks
l have had with men prominent in
every section of the state, lead me to
the conclusion that Col. Estin, enter
ing the race in earnest and making an
active campaign for the nomination,
stands as good a chance as any ops
now in the race of receiving it. l should
regret to see Col. Estill and Mr. Turner
actively antagonizing each other, as
my belief is that this would lead to
the defeat of both and the nomination
by the Democratic conveption of an
other candidate, from some other sec
ton of the state.
Nor is the race to be won by any
South Georgian who sits in supine in
difference to the political storms that
are raging about him and waits till
the clouds roll by He will find that
the political lightning is not striking
anywhere in his immediate neighbour
hood. With Joe Terrell organizing the
officeholders and politicians, Dupont
Query rallying the Prohibitionists, and
Pope Brown seeking, and with some
success, to induce the agricultural and
horticultural interests of the state to
collect around his standard the man
from South Georgia who is to meet
and defeat their forces hasn't time to
wait until the nomination is presented
him on silver Salver. He has got to
get out in the open and fight, and fight
hard. II South Georgian, without any
frills on his Democracy, is to be the
next occupant of the gubernatoriaI
chair. as saF
And when I say the South Georgia
candidate has got to fight. 1 don't care
VINO he may be, whether
Col. Estill or Mr.. Turner. It
doesn't make any difference.
and l say 1t with all respect, how much
of a lion Mr.. Turner is when he is
aroused. the king of beasts is as harm
less as any of his subjects as long as he
sits in his den and dozes. The man
who wins this fight is going to know
he's had one after the thing is over and
he's got TO make his opponents feel
they are having one. before that stage
of the game is reached.
Il don't see why Col. EstiH can't be
nominated by the convention. 1 be-
lieve he will be able to rally South
Georgia solidly, and in every other
section of the state there is strong
sentiment, which Gov. Gambler has
voiced, in favor of giving the nomina-
ton to man from the Wiregrass. His
fitness for the office no single one of
his opponents will venture to question
and he has the promise of the sup
port OF most of the leading politicians
in this section and of many in other
sections of the state. Unless there is
a change In the situation / believe he
will be the next Governor of Georgia"
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