The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-24
EsTILL A WINNER
ooxGREssMEN WATCH GUBERNA-
ToRIAL RACE.
WHAT COL. LESTER SAYS.
MAY CARRY HIS DISTRICT, SAYS
ADAMSON.

rbe savannah Mans style of Cam
naign Has Proved Very Effective,
say the Congressman and Intro
dnees New Ideas-EstiII Would
Make as Good a Governor as Any
Man in the State, Says Col. Lon
IivinGston-Mr. Brantley Much
pleased with Col. EstiIl's Progress.
washington, April 23.-"Col. Estin
stands a good chance of being the next
Governor of Georgia." said Represent
alive Lester to-day, to his colleagues
and the friends of Col. EstiIl at the
CAPITOL MIR. Lester has just returned
from Savannah, accompanied by Mrs.
Lester. whose health is greatly i'm
nroved by their trip to their old home.
OF course, all the Georgia members are
anxious to hear Mr.. Testers opinion
IN the gubernatorial contest, and, al
though the Georgia members regard it
as a breach of political etiquette to in
trude their opinions in the state cam
paign, there was nothing to indicate
that the encouraging reports which
Col. Lester brought from Savannah
we're distasteful to his Georgia friends
Col. Lester says that Col. EstiH has
steadily gained strength throughout
the state by his novel and effective
style of campaigning. When Col. Es-
till first consented to enter the race he
was not known personally in some
parts of the state. His original idea
of visiting the various cities and towns,
coming in personal contact with the
people and then writing of his travels
in a graceful and pleasing manner, has
proved very effective. He has not only
made many warm personal friends, but
his straightforward, practical and un-
Improbable methods have so i'm
pressed the voters that many of the
most astute politicians in the state now
concede Col. Estill to be on equal terms
with Joe Terrell, who was at first
thought to be a sure winner.
AdamsOn Talks of EstiII.
Representative Adamson bore testi-
mony to the growth of the sentiment
favorable to Col. Estill in his congress
sional district, by saying: 1T looks to
me as though Col Estill is going to
fool some of the fellows who said he
did not know how to make a political
campaign; being a thoroughly practical
and successful business man and owner
of a newspaper, he is giving some of
the boys who think they know poll
tics points in the game. While he was
up in my district, instead of making
speeches, he moved around among the
people, mixed with the men and wo-
men folks, made a good impression
upon them and then sat down and
wrote to his paper a nice story of his
visit. He had number of nice things
to say about the towns he visited, and
the people he met, and according to re-
ports that L get, / would not
be surprised if he carried my
district. His way of getting
close to the people, through his pleas
ing write-ups in his newspaper, has
upset the calculations of many persons
in the state who originally thought
that the race was between Joe Terrell
and Guerry."
Mr.. LivingstoR's Opinion.
Representative Livingston, without
any disposition to be disloyal to his
friend Joe Terrell says that Col. Es-
till would make as good a Governor
as any man in the state. I'm fact"
ne said, IT do not know a better man
for the place." Col Livingston went
on to say that Col. Estill's happy style
OF talking to the people of the state
through the Morning News seems to
be more effective than stump speeches,
Tor he has steadily gained strength
since he commenced to go around
among the people and let them see
him and know him as he is.
Representative Brantley is very
much gratified at the progress Col.
Estill is making in his campaign. He
says South Georgia is proud to have
such an able representative in the race
and the other sections of the state are
beginning to appreciate the fact that,
IN addition to being an honorable and
successful business man, Col. Estill
also has some original ideas of how
politics may be successfully played.
None Is UnfavorabIe.
Some of the other members of the
delegation have personal preferences in
the gubernatorial race, but not one of
them has a word to say against Col.
EslllPs candidacy. On the contrary,
all of them express a warm personal
regard for him and also a high appre-
cation for his ability and his quail
hcatons to successfully administer the
once to which he aspires. Members of
the Georgia colony generally are
watching the steady growth of the
Lstll movement with deep interest and
nave yet to hear Georgia man who
uoes not say that Col. Estill would
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