The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20
MIDDLE IN POLITICS
SITUATION IN GEORGIA BECOMES
 COMPLICATED.
Yancey Carter Announees That He Wili Support His9en and Graves. Challenges ALsttie Joe" To
 Joint Debate.

Atlanta, Ga. Sept. i9---Yancey Car- 1 ter, nominated by the Independence Party Of Georgia for Governor. settled all discussion as to his allegiance so far as National politics are concerned when he announced tonight that he would support HIsgen and Graves. This is the latest development la the parfy's split In this State. follow ling the anhouncement of the Chairman of the State Executive Committee. Ber- nard suttlar. that the committee would support the flominees of the Nation- al eanvAntion but woul1 devote their fa4tention b the Etates elmpaiEn. l Captalf skrter aifnsuueeB that he win eontiTfMe his campaign and Na- 1 tionAl Committeeinan clapp says he will continue to push the Carter ight for the Governorship. Another development was a chsl- lenge issued by Carter to Joseph M. Brown, the Democratic nominee for Governor. for series of debates over the State.
 MT. suttler gave out statement to- day in reply to the telegram from Mr. Hearst to the effect that the party did not regret his resignation. Mir. Sut- tier says, referring to Mir Hearst:
 He Is not more pleased to be free from me than l am to be free from him. He also declares in a signed stateme-t that Graves desires the de- IGAL OI &dItGE dH0t (nAS 1Ge OuttAtTs was offered a certain position on a newspaper to be established in Att lanta
 In this general connection. the polit- ical situatlon in Georgia was furtheS complicated by an affidavit signed by H. -.. Suttler and read at Yancey Carter rally, declaring that J. E. Bo denhammer. local politician. had told him. tSuttler). that deal was made with the Joseph M. Brown managers to deliver to Thomas E. Watson. lPop- ulist candidate for President). the elec- toral vote of Georgia If Watson would support Brown for the Governorship. Suttler swore Bodenhammer told him that he, (Bodonhammer). was pres ent when the deal was made.
 Tonight, Mir. Bodenhamnier claimed this was a misrepresentation and that Suttler distorted a personal interview in which he. (Bodenhammer). as a supporter of Watson, expressed "the hope that deal could be arranged by which the electoral vote of the State could be delivered to MT. Watson.
 Tn that conversation" said Mir. Bodenhammer. T said felt sure that number of Brown men would take the same position. Mir. Suttlers state ment that I said any such deal had been made Is absolutely without found ation."
 He declared he had never had any thing to do with any conference be- tween the Brown management and Mir Wateon, but said he hoped some deal of that kind might have been made.
 Even this cid not end the political sensations for the day for it was said that the original announcement of MT. Brown in lis gubernatorial campaign was submitted to Mr. Watson for his approval
 This, however was somewhat dis counted when 1t became known au- thoritatively that two years before Governor Smith had followed the same coarse.
 70 With the campaign less than three weeks to run the situation has bee come exceedingly complicated.
 The election in Georgia takes place nefnhar