The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18
How Swainsboro Stands.

Wiregrass Blade: Last week We
Blade scribe took fairly good poll of
the business portion of the town, and
found that Col. Estill led in the guber-
Material race by one vote Our neigh
Dor up the street characterized this as
very imperfect poll" So, this week
| a supporter of Terrell and a supporter
of Estill got their pencils and books
and polled each resident as the resi-
dences came, in coming from Longview,
! and the result showed:
Estill Observation-Disclosures.
] Terrell observation-disclosures. 30
/ Guerry Observation-Disclosures. Z
The above makes a total of 107 votes
where there are about 100 in the cor
! porate limits. The remainder however,
were put down as doubtful Even if
you give Terrell the IS doubtful votes,
it will make him only 81. and give Col
Estill still majority in the city limits
| of votes.
And we consider this poll not quite
so imperfect" as the one of last week
Boston Journal: Col. ]. F. Stone ad-
| dressed the voters of Boston at the
opera house last Wednesday morning
in behalf of Col. ]. II. Estill's candi-
dacy for Governor. Col Stone made a
very forceful speech and won for Col.
Estil quite a number of votes. Col.
Estill is gaining ground every day, and
from present indications he will be the
next Governor of Georgia. He will
make a good one.
Statesboro News: Col J. H. Estill is
gaining ground all the time While
Guerry and Terrell are swapping at
each other. Estill is moving forward to
victory.
! Americas Herald: Col. Estill is not
bothering himself 50 much about the
other candidates. but he keeps plugging
away for himself and is doing effective
work wherever he goes. The Valdosta
| Times says 'he has proven himself
much better politician than he was
| given credit for being and he is straight
| under with it"
Marion County Patriot: Col. j. H.
Estill has been winning laurels all over
| the state wherever he has been and his
strength is rapidly increasing. Col.
| Estill would fill the gubernatorial chair
| With ability and dignity. He is a
clean man, high-toned and honorable
| gentleman, free from rings and cliques.
| The people in this county in the re-
cent past have had some experience
with ring political rule and bossism.
| They are Disguised with such methods
and will vote for no man who sane
lions or sympathzes with 1t. Estill
| is not that kind of a man.
Villa Rica Hustler: To be on the
right side you want to get in the Es-
! till band wagon. No mud sliging there,
| but one steady, unmolested journey to
the Governors mansion. A good man
gives you one more opportunity to vote
! for a candidate who has no string"
| attachments-Estill!
The gubernatorial campaign has at
tracted so much attention recently that
the race for the speakership of the next
House has been almost overlooked. ex-
| cept by the candidates and their
friends The very large number of as
pirants for this position in the earlier
| part of the campaign seem now to
have dwindled down to five. These
are Roland Ellis of Bibb. Walter Steed
| Of Taylor, Emerson H. George of Nor
| gan. Newt Morris of Cobb and Fondon
Mitchell of Thomas. All have had
creditable careers in the State Legisla-
ture. and probably any one of the five
could discharge the duties of the posi-
ton satisfactorily.