The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-16
COL. ESTILL GAINING GROUND.
HIS POLICY MEETS APPROVAL OF
BUSINESS MEN.

Does Not Say More Than He Pro-
poses Nor More Than He Can DO.
A Well known Politician shows
How a business Man Could Advise
the Legislature in the Matter of
Appropriations where Poll
ticfan Would BE HelpIess-Lee
Langley Declares for EstiIl-Thc
south Georgia Candidate Develops
Surprising Strength in Greene
County.
Atlanta. March 15.-There are evil
dences in the reports which are being
brought to the capitol every day that
Col. ]. H. Estill is steadily gaining
ground in his campaign for governor.
that he is not only holding the friends
he has made but is gaining
new ones wherever he goes and where
ever the people are informed of his
policy on public questions.
Il like Col EstilIs honest, open pol
ICY" remarked a well-known Georgia
politician at the capitol to-day. There
is every evidence of the fact that he
means just exactly what he says, and
that he does not say more than he pro-
poses to do nor more than he can do.
For instance, you take the question of
taxation, of income and expenses. The
other candidates, I notice, are making
broad and general promises that they
will do this and that, If elected, that
they will seek to reduce taxation by
cutting down the expenses of the state
government. Now, anybody who will
analyze the matter will readily see that
no governor can reduce taxation nor
can he cut down expenses. These are
things which are wholly within the
power of the legislature, unless the
governor should see fit TO veto a whole
appropriation, a thing which has sell
dom been done. The legislature says
how the money shall be spent; it pass
es the appropriation bills, and the tax
rate must be fixed accordingly.
Now Col. Estill is not seeking to in
duce the people to believe that he can
and VIII cut down the states expendi-
lures. He does not promise to reduce
the peoples taxes. But he does
promise g. business administration,
promise which there is no man know
of more capable of fulfilling. That is
what we need A business man will
see where expenditures can be reduced
and where there will be correspond
ing reduction in the rate of taxation,
and it lies within his power to bring
these matters in proper light to the
attention of the legislatures through
his messages. A business man can see
where the finances of the state can be
so handled as to make the burden
lighter on the people where a politician
or a man unfamiliar with business
methods would not. l have been in
politics some myself, but primarily /
am business man, and know where
OF l speak. l would like to see a good
business man elected governor, and 1
don't know where we could find a bet
ter one than the South Georgia can
didate."
Reports from Greene county say that
Col. Estill has developed surprising
strength there. None of the candi-
dates, however, will have a walkover
there, it is stated, and the outlook is,
1t is going to take some good work to
land the county. So far none of the
candidates have spoken in Greene.
though the Indications are that it is
splendid missionary field.
Lee Langley, a wellknown young At
lanta lawyer and a brother-in-law of
Congressman Brantley of the Eleventh,
announced today that he was for Col.
Estill and expected to vote for him and
TO support him. Mr. Langley said he
admired Col. Estill's business ability
as we'll as the fact that he was free
from political alliances and entangle-
ments-facts which make him pre-
eminently a proper man to hold the
high office to which he aspires. Mr..
Langley is only one of many who
are heard to express similar sentiments
every day.