The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-27

Nidalia Press: Col. Estills fine
financial abilities, his success as a
business man and his clean character
are strong cards in mis- race for the
gubernatorial nomination.
Atlanta Journal: The Macon Tele-
graph frankly announces that it will
not indorse either of the three guber
Material candidates. This, then, will
give no two of'them an advantage over
the other one.
Clarkesville Advertiser: 1t may be
that while Joe Terrell left to speak in
South Georgia. Uncle Jim Smith got
into the gubernatorial wood pile and
commenced saving wood and saying
nothing.
Thomasville Times Enterprise: South
Georgia and the wiregrass should be
loyal to Col j. H. Estill. Let us stand
for our section and doing so we will
be standing by a man whose sterling
integrity and unquestioned business
qualifications eminently fit him for the
position of Governor. If Georgia ever
needed a first-cass business man at
the helm, she Will need him in the
next two wears.
Waycross Herald: The Tennille
News says: Query undertakes Estills
strength" and it is altogether probable
tina he overrates his own heft.
Coureous Treatment.
LaGrange Graphic: Although a cam
didate himself. Mr. Estill treats with
gentlemanly courtesy all the other can
didates through his paper. the Savan-
nah Morning News. Not many men
know how to be gentlemanly and court
eous and a candidate at the same time,
but Mr.. Estill certainly understands
the art. 1t was always strange to us
how people could become so absorbed
in their own personal ambitions as to
forget that among the multitude of
clashing human interests there might
possibly be some who did not always
see things just as they saw them, and
from their erroneous premise proceed
to lambast and harpoon and villify all
who differed from the lines of their
own ambition, but such people exist,
and they are generally the most noisy.
Say Estill is Gaining.
Atlanta Constitution: According to
reports from South Georgia Col. j. II.
Estill's campaign work in the south
ern counties has been productive of
results in his favor, and it is said his
strength has been materially increased.
C. w. Deming of Brunswick, who was
in the city yesterday, said Col. Estill
was making rapid progress in his cam
paign in that section, and had won
many friends who, it was first thought,
might favor other candidates. There
is no doubt about Col. Estills strength
in my section of the state" said Mr..
Deming, in talking of the campaign
in South Georgia. The people of
Glynn, Ware. Wayne, Pierce, Camden.
and other counties in that section,
now look upon him as the South Geor-
gia candidate, and they are support
ing him on that idea. They feel that
1t is their time to have a Governor,
and that feeling is turning the tide in
that section to Col. Esill where there
might have been a sort of general
apathy earlier in the campaign. That
apathy, / think is rapidly disappear
ing. and people who thought to make
light of Col. EstilPs candidacy three
or four months ago. are now found din
the ranks of his most ardent support
ers. I have personal knowledge of
several instances of this kind, and
am satisfied that Col Estill will give
the boys some surprises when the time
comes. People who have met Col. Es-
till like his rugged honesty and in
tegrity They see at once that he is
a man of strength, of character and
purpose and will do what he says he
will do. There is no doubt whatever
that, if elected. he will make Georgia
an able and capable governor.