Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

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There is some talk this week regarding
the gubernatorial race and not few peo-
pie have expressed the opinion that when
the convention meets none of the candi-
dates will have enough votes to elect.
And following such talk is the statement
that none of the three candidates will be
elected; that an outsider will carry off
the honors. Those who talk this way say
that Query and Estill have gained con-
siderable strength in the state recently.
Friends of Terrell insist, however, that
he will have enough votes TO elect, and
that there will be no dead lock in the con-
venti0n. They have claimed from the very
beginning of the campaign that Terrell
would be a winner by a tremendous ma
jority and they are still of that opinion.
1t has been many years since a guber-
Material convention was unable to nomi-
nate the candidates who were before it,
and If the convention, which meets her9
on July should become "balled up" so
to speak, it would not only bring about
interesting scenes to spectators but an
interesting change politically in Georgia.
There are over 20 candidates for the leg
islature this year who are in the news
paper business and from all reports re-
ceived by The Journal majority of them
will be elected. Newspaper editors Will
make good representatives and the people
in the counties where these newspaper
men are asking for Office could do no bet
ter than to send the scribes to the gen.
eral assembly for term. For years
these editors have been advising legisla-
tors through the press and now they are
anxious to follow out some Of their own
advice.
It is announced now that as soon as
Mr.. Terrell addresses the voters of Full
ton county that Mr.. Query will follow
him here and make a speech. Mr.. Guerry
has made one speech in Atlanta, while Mr..
Terrell has made none. The association
of Query clubs is making strong effort
to carry Fulton county for their candi-
date, but the Terrell men do not hesitate
to say that their efforts are futile
Mr.. Terrell they say. has lived in At
lanta for nearly ten years, and that At
lanta and Fulton county are regarded as
his home almost as much as Meriwether
is. 1t is stated authoritatively by people
from the county, that Query will carry
DeKalb by a good majority. This state
ment is made by several legislative candi-
dates who have made thorough canvass
of the county.
John NJ. Slaton, OF Fulton. has not yet
announced as a candidate for speaker of
the house, but IL is believed that he will
do So after the general primary on June
9Th Mr.. Slaton has many friends among
the legislators and his friends say that
he can be elected. During the last session
of the house Mr.. Slaton was often called
no dn1ibprn tiOng of Tive
house and always showed himself to fbe
an admirable presiding officer. y, A.
Morris of Cobb; Emerson George, of
Morgan: Roland Ellis, of Bib; Walter
Steed. Of Taylor, and Fondren Mitchell, of
Thomas, are working hard for the speak
ership.
Query SAYS ne will be. elected, Terrell is
confident that he will receive a majority
of the votes and Col. Estill is sure that
he will be the next governor. With each
candidate confident and the friends of
each of those candidates confident the
race is becoming more interesting. Cir
culars are going forth with more rapidity
than was ever known before and the men
in the postoffices, and the mail clerks on
the trains are catching 1t right along.
Each candidate has visited nearly every
county in the state now, and there are
some counties to which they will pay
several more visits. Col Estill has made
numerous trips to North Georgia, Query
has been all over the state and Terrell has
been working harder with the South Geor-
gians. o1 t
Guerry and Estill have picked up con-
siderable strength recently but it is said
by some of the Terrell men that Query
will lose some of his support when Sam
Jones and Rev. Len Broughton begin their
crusade. AS predicted in The Journal,
Seaborn Wright declines to enter the po-
litical arena. 1t is urged by the Terrell
men and the EstiIl men, too for that mat
ter that Sam Jones is not a Democrat
that he is a Republican, that he believes
in railroad consolidation and the trusts
This they say will hurt Query more than
il will help him.
According to Mr.. Jones the band-wag-
on will begin the rounds next Saturday.
The opening of the band-wagon, or just
where the band-wagon will begin, has not
yet been announced.
Joe Terrell will make a speech in Allan
ia this week, so his campaign managers
say. And when he makes that speech it
is understood that he will have a ire
mendous audience. Mr.. Terrell is gather
ing some information that he will prob
ably tap off that night. and which in
formation will explode with a great deal
of noise into the Query camp. 1t is be-
ing whispered ABOUT InaL MI. Ierrel VIII
open up in the good old time fashion in
his Atlanta speech and that he will say
a few things that will not sound pleasant
to the other fellows. Mr.. Terrell has
shown himself to be a wonderful cam
paign speaker, and his friends in Atlanta
propose to give him an ovation when he
makes his address here.
The controversy which has been on be-
tween Warner Hill, campaign manager
for Terrell, and S. c. Tapp. chairman Of
the Associated Query clubs, has created
no end of interest. Both men have writ
ten some salty cards to each other. TapD
concluded the argument last week with
the statement that Guerry is against all
the evils that are now running the coun-
try. Mr.. Hill said the other day in one, of
his letters he had known Joe Terrell all
Of his life and was assisting him in this
race without fee or reward or the hope
thereof while Tapp was a comparative
stranger to Query and was helping him
for the notoriety that he could get out of
it. This Tapp says is not true, and that
Furthermore Hill has no right to question
his motives. Mr. Hill says he will write
no more to Tapp and Tapp says he will
dismiss the correspondence, unless Ter
rell will meet Guerry in joint debate.
T. w. Hardwick and w. n. Fleming
candidates for congress IN the tenth con-
gressional district, have at last met in
iOfnf debaf 10 They had ouite filt at