The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-03
THIS PARTICULAR BRAND

known, and has been stated many
times before in these columns and
elsewhere the cclcnel never makes a
speech Estill men say that Terrell is
second choice with them in the event
Col. Estin does net secure sufficient
number of votes to nominate him some
OF his supporters will go to Terrell.
Mr. Guerry is also second choice with
number of the people in the state,
and will get lots of the Estill support
in event Col. Estill fails of the neces-
sary nomination. Should Mr.. Terrell
fall short of the requisite number of
ballots to assure him of the guberna-
torial chair. his supporters would no
| doubt 90 to Col. Estill, who is very
popular with everybody
Present indications point to the fact
that Terrell will carry a ajority of
the counties. This statement is made
after careful investigation of the con-
ditions Just now AS / stated before,
however, changes are likely to occur,
| and things are likely to happen that
will cause a reversal of present con-
l dit1ons. Many men have been assured
| of success up until the very day of
election, when there would come a turn
in affairs that would give the nominal
| ton to somebody else.
While ii is conceded by many that
Mr.. Terrell is in the lead, it is not a
certainty by any means that he will
get 100 counties as has been predicted.
If he should carry that many only
! seventeen would be left for Mr.. Guerry
and Mr.. Estill to wrestle over and it is
sure thing that these two men to-
4 gether are going to make a great in
road into the 1877 counties that Georgia
boasts of.
Mr. Guerry doubts and doubts very
seriously that Terrell will get 120 coun-
ties. He is making no claims, but is
| of the opinion that he will have a say
in the securing of that 100. Col.
Estill also has his views on that mat
ter, which views are decidedly aVerse
to Terrell getting so many of the
votes.
The conditions are very interesting
Just now. Each candidate is thorough
ly confident of election, and the friends
of each candidate seem as confident as
the candidates themselves. Bets are
already being made, and in many in
stances the money has been put up
The odds are not so large as they
were three months ago. and the indi-
cations are that they will be cut down
considerably by June 5. Terrell sup
porters were offering 10 to 1 at the be-
ginning of the fight. but now the 10 to
bet is scarcely ever heard of.
| A majority of the committeeman who
|
and they were representative men,
! stated that Terrell was undoubtedly
| in the lead in their section of the state.
| The committeeman are, of course in
close touch with the political situa-
| ton in their respective districts and
are in position to hear and see lots
| OF things that the candidate some
times does not know about. There
were men on that committee, however
| who held out that Query would carry
the state, and there were men who were
of the opinion that Estill would be
| the next Governor, but the majority
expressed the opinion that the former
attorney general would get the biggest
| vote.
Besides the members of the commit
tee there were lots of men from the
different counties who came up to at
| tend the meeting and a majority OF
| these with whom I talk predicted that
Terrell would win out in the campaign
L In preparing the rules of the primary
Saturday the committee forgot that
Secretary of State Phil Cook was to
be elected again or they thought that
| Mr.. Cook was such a popular man
that he would not need to be voted on
The following is a paragraph of one of
the rules. which omits the name of Mr.
| Cook altogether:
That general primary election be
held on June 5, next, in every county
in the state, at which time all quail
fled white Democratic voters, who have
| registered in 1901 or within ten days
before the primary in 1902 shall be
given an opportunity to cast their votes
for the following officers, to wit: Gov
| ernor, attorney general, controller gen.
eral, treasurer, commissioner of agri-
! culture, state school commissioner, two
justices of the Supreme Court, one
prison commissioner. the Democratic
Executive Committee, etc.
Mr.. Cook said this morning that the
chairman of the committee. Hon. E. T.
Brown, had assured him he would be
taken care of.