The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-23
EsTILL AVID TURNER.
From Charleston News and Cour


From Charleston News and Courier,
Aug. %.
Il am in this race to win, and I am
going to win if / cam" said Col. j..
H. Estill. the editor of the Savannah
Morning News. to a reporter for the
Atlanta Constitution on Monday. We
hope that he will win, and If his friends
in South Carolina were permitted to
vote in the election he would win by a
big majority. II the people of Geor-
gia know what is best for them and
best for their state they would not
hesitate to give him their unanimous
support. Why he should want to be
Governor we do not know-he is a far
bigger man as editor of one of the most
influential newspapers in the State
than he would be as Governor, but il
he can be persuaded to take the Of
flee the people ought to be glad to
elect him. He would make an excellent
Governor-not dress-parade Govern
or but Governor who would throw
his whole life into the work of the Of
flee and strive to secure the prosperity
and happiness of the people. He stands
on a sound platform-Iocal option in
the settlement of the liquor question,
liberal appropriations for the support
of the common schools so as ito give
every child in the state of Georgia
chance to acquire learning" and pen
sons for the destitute Confederate Vet
Grams and the helpless widows of the
veterans who have passed away, with
such a Sitting of the pension rolls as
would free the state from the care of
the unworthy.
Col. Estill will have opposition and
opposition from some of those he has
served with great fidelity in the past.
The Georgia papers tell a strange story
about Henry G.. Turner, who has been
spoken of as candidate for Governor,
and his attitude towards Estill He is
said to have printed card several days
ago in which he charged Estill and
Clark Howell of Atlanta, with having
formed a combination to control the
politics of the state in their own in
terest. We have not seen the card"
but we are satisfied that there has
been no such combination-both Estill
and Howell deny that they have had
any communication upon the subject
and that the story was only invented
for campaign purposes, as many more
stories of the same sort will be invent
ed before the campaign is over. The
surprising thing to us is that Turner
should have written such a card, and
we are disposed to doubt that he did;
certainly there is no other man in
Georgia who has had more loyal sup
port from any one than that given to
Turner by Estill. Being satisfied that
he was not in the field" says Estill,
Il announced myself as a candidate.
Had he said he was going to run, 1
would not have entered, but l am in
the race now to the finish
We all know what EstilPs opinion
of Turner has been: he has spoken of
him in public and private in what we
have regarded as extravagant terms
about his ability, his integrity, his use
fulness as a public servant, until one
would have thought that Turner was
in fact the biggest man in Georgia. 1t
is one of the penalties of running a
newspaper in the interest of others to
have those who have been most faith
fully trumpeted take the first oppor-
tunity to show how little they have APP
preciated what has been done for
them, how cheap is the gratitude of
politicians, how much the newspapers
do for others and how little they get
from those who have had their sup
port. Instead of writing "cards" to
the papers charging his friend with
combining for the control of the poll
tics of Georgia, Turner ought to be on
the stump singing the praises of Estill,
even as Estill has sung his praises in
the Savannah News when it was not
the most popular thing for newspaper
to do
But the Turner "card7 will not defeat
Estill. The people who control cleo
tons do not like that sort of thing, and
when they are apprised of Estills at
titude towards Turner and Turner $
present attitude towards Estill they
will vote for Estill. At any rate that
is what they ought to do.