The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-22
Democrats Stir Up Quite a Rumpus
In Southern States
MUCH BITTERNESS WAS DISPLAYED
FIVE CANDIDATES IN FIELD FOR
INTERNATIONAL HoNoRs
THIS YEAR.

SAVANNAH, Ca, Aug. 22.-The
democratic primaries are held in this
state today and with them ends one
of the most bitter and exciting polit-
ical campaigns this state has ever
known. Not since the war has there
been a race for the office of governor
in which so much bitterness has been
displayed and SO much personal abuse
has been practiced. There were not
less than five candidates: Hoke Smith.
| former secretary Of the interior in the
cabinet of Grover Cleveland; Clark
Howell, former speaker of the house
and former president Of the senate of
Georgia and now a national democratic
committeeman and editor of the At
lanta Constitution; Col. J. H. Estill,
editor and owner of the Savannah
Morning News; Judge Richard B.
Russell, formerly of the superior
court, and Col. James H Smith of
Ogelthorpe county in northern Georgia,
about the only millionaire farmer in
the state.
There always has been a great deal
of personal animosity between Hoke
Smith and the Howells and for thir-
| teen months Smith and Clark Howell
have fought a bitter and vicious fight
against each other. Col. Estill did not
enter the race until about seven
months ago. His organ is the Morn
ing News, which he owns. Col. Smith
recently started a paper of his own to
present his platform to the people.
bates during the campaign and it is
not believed that their influence will
be felt by any one of the candidates.
Hoke Smith has openly charged that
the other candidates have combined
to defeat him. He declared that their
candidacy was merely a trick of the
state machine to bring about his de-
feat, by preventing him from getting
a two-thirds majority in the state
convention.
HOke Smith had the most radical
platform of any of the candidates. He
stands for a law to keep the negroes
| from voting He wants to take them
out of Georgia politics by the North
Carolina, the Mississippi or the South
Carolina plan. He worked this plank
/, for all it was worth, especially in the
country districts, while for the cities
he had another plank, demanding
equitable railroad rates.
During the entire campaign HOke
Smith has had the, warm support of
Thomas E. Watson, a former populist
States. There are at least 10000 pop
ulists in Georgia who worship Wat
son and will undoubtedly follow his
lead. They will cast their votes for
Smith if they can manage to get their
votes in the ballot boxes.
Judge Russell has been running as
the poor mans candidate. He has a
big family and is so proud of it that
he seldom neglected to speak of it
during his campaign speeches. He has
ten or twelve girls and one was born
during the heat of the campaign. In
one of his speeches he said that it
would be one of the proudest mo-
ments of his life, to parade his cot
ton-gowned children up Peachtree to
the governors mansion.
Col. Estill made his second race for
governor. He ran four years ago and
was second in field of three. His
platform is short. He stands for the
constitution of the state and the en-
forcement of the laws. 1t is not be-
lieved that he has much show at the
primaries. However, he may come in
as a dark horse in the convention,
which will be held in September In
secure sufficient delegates to control
two thirds of the total number, a
dark horse" may be sprung upon the
convention and win the prize Although
Hoke Smiths managers are hopeful it
is by no means considered certain that
he will secure the necessary number
| of delegates to control the conven-
ton. The democratic state convention
will meet in Macon on September A.
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