The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-12
ARE SOLID FOR ESTILL.
JOHNSON, LAURENs AND BULLOCK
WILL GIVE GOOD NAJORITIES.

Col. A. e. Cochran Declares That in
These Counties the Size of
the Majority Is the Only Remain
ing QuestiOn-GoOd Chance for Es-
Till TO Carry WiILinsOn-Bitternes
of other Candidates Towards Each
other Helping Col. EstiII-Terren
Realizes He Must Make a Desper-
ate Fight-An Argument Against
Guerry's Election.
Col. A. E. Cochran, who has recently
been constantly on the stump in adj
vocacy of Col. ]. H. Estills candidacy
for Governor, finds nothing but encour-
agement on his way. Col. Cochran said
last night that he believed. if I'M
foreseen occurrences do not change the
present trend of events, "the nominal
ton will be handed to Col. Estill on a
platter"
I'm Laurens and Johnson counties"
declared Col. Cochran, "it has reduced
itself to a question of majorities; Es-
till is certain to carry them both. The
same thing is true in Bulloch-perhaps
in an even greater degree. Wilkinson
county is doubtful, but the soldiers of
the Confederacy are making strong eff
forts to elect their comrade and friend,
and I believe they will be successful"
THE bitterness with which the two
other candidates are conducting their
campaign as to each other cannot but
be contrasted, in the mind of the
thoughtful citizen, with Col. Estills
dignified canvass of the state. In this
contrast Col. Estill has all the adj
vantage and it cannot serve but to win
him votes. He is pitching his cam
paign on a high plane, he has not de-
scended to abuse his opponents, and
neither of them has ventured to abuse
him; it is crystallizing public senti-
ment in his favor.
The meeting of ten or a dozen solicit
tors general in Atlanta the other day."
said Col. Cochran, shows that Mr..
Terrell realizes fully that he is losing
ground and must make a desperate
fight The political ring that is back
ing him has been driven TO the use of
the argument that a vote for Estill is
vote for Guerry and prohibition, and
in this manner trying to drive the Els
till supporters into line for Terrell.
Nor are the people of the country
anxious to vote for Guerry. They re-
alize, when their attention is drawn to
it that the state has been twenty-five
years in accomplishing local option,
and that it was a hard and bitter
fight. If Query Should be elected and
a state prohibition law enacted, it is
altogether proba bic that the prohibition
legions would feel content to rest upon
their laurels The altogether likely con-
sequence is that the next legislature
would be anti-prohibitlOn and would
repeal the state laW-thus destroying
in one blow the fruits of twenty-five
years of striving against the univer-
sal sale of liquor.
The arguments that point to the
nomination of Col. Estill as a safe and
conservative pilot for the ship of state
in its present dangerous and CRITICAL
position" said Col. Cochran, ARE
appealing powerfully to the re-
sponsible men CT the country, and
more and more of them are dropping
into line. / see and talk with them
everywhere, and everywhere they are
looking to Estill as the man of their
Choice, whose nomination their judg
ment strongly dictates"
Col Cochran was somewhat annoyed
by a statement in the Atlanta Con-
stituton, contained in special dis
patch from Tennille to the effect that
though he was advertised to speak
here on Thursday afternoon in the
interest of Hon. ]. H. Estill, candidate
for governor, failed to speak owing
to the fact that there was no crowd
to hsar him. Mr.. Cochran spoke at
Sandersville at noon to an audience of
twenty people"
All this Col Cochran characterized
as an entirely baseless fabrication.
AS a matter of fact" he said, II
was not advertised to speak at Ten
nile at all on Thursday, but on We'd
nesday night. l postponed this on &C
count of the fact that a cantata was
to be given that evening, in which
practically everybody in town was
more or less interested. In Sanders
vile, instead of having an audience of
twenty people, 1 had one of the best
meetings that have been held in that
thriving little city during the present
campaign"
col Cochran spoke at Irwinton, in
wilkinson county. Saturday, and will
ADDRESS the voters of Wayne county at
JeSup' this morning. Wayne Superior
court is in progress and Col. Cochran
Will speak at the noon recess.
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