The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-26
WILL BE FIVE CANDIDATES.
sv,TH AND BROWN BOTH PRETTY
CERTAIN TO BE IN RACE.

nhev Are Letting Their Friends
SneaIS for Them Just at Present
mt. Will Be Heard From Later.
o,+Iook Is That There VIII BE No
Ioint Debate-DekaIb County
wants Visit From Col. Estill.
uor. Mark Hardin Is in the Race
for the House From Cobb County.
Atlanta, Jan. 25.-The impression is
lining ground at the Capitol that
sbere are going to be five candidates in
tho gubernatorial race in spite of the
.oort in certain quarters to make it
o,near that Hon. Pope Brown of Pu-
,ael1i and Hon. Jim Smith of Oglethorpe
arc only quarter horses"
.you may put it down that Col.
Smith will be in the race to the finish,'
aid Hon. Mark Willingham of Ogle-
,horne who was in the city to-day. II
have heard from Mr.. Smith within the
last three or four days, and know he
&c in it to stay. He is not saying
mich now, perhaps, but he is at work,
ond he will be heard from at the proper
time and in the proper way"
Hon. Pope Brown is quoted as saying
- one of the Capitol officials when last
in the city, that he intended to run to
+bs end in spite of the efforts of certain
II politicians and certain newspaper men
70 make it appear that he is out of it.
az saw a package of letters two feet
biqh addressed to Mr.. Brown the other
dav" one of his friends remarked,
land they were nearly every one fav-
orable That looks like he is at work,
doesn't it?'
wants to Hear Col. Estil1.
Hon William Schley Howard, repre-
sentative from DeKalb county, was in
the city to-day. In speaking of mat
ters political, he said:
81 met Col j. H. Estill of Savan-
nah on the train the other day, as he
WAS returning from Gainesville. He is
man l admire greatly, and we are
anxious to hear from him in DeKalb.
invited him to come over and meet
our people, and I hope he will do so.
The people of DeKalb hope to have the
Measure of hearing from all of the
candidates for Governor during the
course of the campaign"
not going to be any joint debates dur
ing the campaign. Hon. Dupont
Guerry is the only candidate who is
agitating that question, and he has
practically thrown down the gauntlet
to Hon. j NJ. Terrell to meet him on
the hastings. 1t is practically certain,
however, that Mr.. Terrell will not meet
Mr. Query alone. Unless all of the
candidates agree to meet on the stump
Mr.. Terrel's friends say he will not
consent to Joint debates. 1t is not be-
lieved, therefore, that they can be ar
ranged. Mr.. Terrell has not decided yet
where he will make his first speech,
and will not, he says, fix date or place
until after he gives up the office of
Attorney General on Feb. l. His head
quarters will be at the Kimball House
where he has engaged two rooms, and
Warner Hill, Charlie Davis and Judge
Jones of Meriwether county will be his
campaign managers.
Politics and Gossip.
Hon. Roland Ellis of Bibb was in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Ellis still has I'M
der consideration the matter of running
for the House from Bibb, and if he does
his friends say he will be in the race
for speaker and will make it warm for
the boys. He is one of the leading
members of the present Senate, and is
strong in debate.
Rev. A. j. Beck, who announced yes
terday as a candidate for State School
Commissioner against State School
Commissioner G. r. Glenn, is a native
of Houston county, and a graduate of
Mercer college. He has been a Bap-
fist preacher at Eatonton, Monticello
Milledgeville and other points, but has
nevertheless found much time to devote
to matters educational. He founded
the DeKalb Seminary at Decatur, and
was for twelve years trustee of Mer-
Ger. He has been school commissioner
of DeKalb county for the last two
years. He differs from State School
Commissioner Glenn in his platform in
demanding uniform text books in the
state schools, feature to which DR..
Glenn has always been opposed.
Hon. Mark Hardin is going to be in
the race for the House of Representa-
tlves from Cobb county. Col. Hardin
is well known all over the state, having
been for years clerk of the House, and
his friends everywhere will be inter-
ested to learn of his intended candid
acy. Cobb has two representatives.
Hon. Newt. Morris of the present
House, who was speaker pro tenn, is
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