The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-09-03
DEMOCRATS OF
GEORGIA WILL
BEGIN A FIGHT
TO ROLL UP USUAL MAJoRITlEs
FOR STATE AND NATIONAL
TICKETS.
Campaign viii Open in Atlanta on
Friday Night and It Win Then
Be Pushed Throughout State
Until Election Day.

ATLANTA, Sept 2.-The democrats
OF Georgia are preparing to open act
i've campaign both on state and nH
tional lines The state campaign k
made necessary by the appearance Of
an independent candidate for COVER
nor, W. Yancey Carter. of Hartwell,
who is running on the Hearst, or in
dependent ticket.
A great deal of Indignation is man
ifested every time it is suggested that
some of the voters who were disap-
pointed with the result of the last
primary, are preparing to throw their
support TO the Independent candidate,
although they are under obligations
to abide by the primary results.
But reports to this effect coming
from all parts of the state, cannot be
ignored. OF course no one would sug-
gest for a moment that Governor
Smith or his friends would Gounten-
ance such a movement as this, but ii
is a thing which, if voters wish to do,
they cannot control These reports
indicate that the independent candi-
date will acquire material following
from the disappointed element in the
state primary, and it is to that ele-
ment that Candidate Carter and his
friends are making a direct appeal
They are offering arguments to show
thai voters who participated in the
primary are not in honor bound to
abide by its results. and are urging
those who voted for Governor Smith
to vote for Carter
While II is not considered that the
support which the independent ticket
will gain from this and other sources.
will be anything like sufficient to pre-
vent the election of the regular nom
inee. Hon. Joseph NJ Brown, still it is
situation which the organized dem
ocracy Of the state cannct afford to
ignore.
The state democratic executive com
mitteo has been called in session for
Saturday next. September 5, for the
purr Use of planning campaigns look
ing to bringing out the fun democra-
tic vote of the state beth in the state
and national elections. It is the pur-
pose of the committee to organize
strog campaign committees in each
congressional district in the state, with
representation in each county. and to
have these committees devote their
energies particularly to getting the
full force of the democratic vote to
the polls on October Z and NoYem-
ber 3.
On Friday night preceding the meet
ing Of the state committee, an ex-
tensive democratic rally, relating more
particularly to the national election,
viii be held at the Grand Opera house
here, under the auspices of the Young
Mems Democratic League Of Fulton
county It has been arranged that
this rally shall be presided over by
Chairman Hewlett A. Hall of the state
committee, and prominent speakers
representing both elements Of the par
ty in the state, will appear on the
platform 1t is expected that practi-
cally the full membership Of the state
committee will be present on this oc-
casion.
Governor Smith will deliver an ad-
dress, and. although it is not expected
that he win make a speech, it is quite
probable that the nominee for COVER
nor Hon Joseph NJ Brown, will be
eonspicuGusly present.
1t is designed to make this rally pre-
limiifdry in a measure to the work Of
the state committee in planning
statewide campaign to bring out the
democratic vote-a campaign in which,
in at least, both wings of the party
will be found united.
The Independent movements as well
as the republicans, have manifest
ed determined designs on Georgia.
hoping fer some measure Of success
here because Of the known split in
the party ranks. But with both wings
Of the party working to the same end,
there is little likelihood Of their ac-
complishing anything beyond the lit
tie they have done in other cam
paigns.