Evening star., 1938-09-15
7A[MADGE MAKES
STRONG EARLY BID
Georgians Seem Undecided
on doW Emphatic mo- to
Roosevelt Would Be-.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The race between Senator George
and former Gov. Eugene Talmadge Of
Georgia indicated today that the
Georgia voters were little undecided
about how emphatic they would say
''No" to President Roosevelt.
If the former Governor had won the
Democratic senatorial nomination it
would have been equivalent to tack
ing a couple Of strong adjectives to
the front Of the negative. For Mr..
Tamadge and President Roosevelt
do not speak the same language: there
have been times when they had trouble
speaking each others names.
An increasing margin for Senator
George, however, forecast the return
to the Senate of man who has been
against various Roosevelt policies The
apparent outcome, nevertheless, was q
distinct rebuff to the Chief Executive,
for his candidate, Lawrence Camp,
limped along in third place.
Was Political Unknown.
Mr.. Camp had been strongly ham
dicapped from the beginning It was
his first appearance as a candidate for
q Statewide elective ofiice. He was a
political unknown. He had no State
wide organization. He had to build
from the ground up.
Senator George, on the other hand,
had political ties all over the State,
ties that had been knotted over a
period Of 16 years In the Senate. Mr.
Talmadge, who was commissioner Of
agriculture before he became Cover
nor, also was State figure. His po-
litical alliances had served him well
over the last 10 years.
Through their loud speakers night
after night Georgians were told by
, Mr.. Camps opponents that an effort
had been made to dictate their vote,
that their own integrity as citizens
was on trial--not the integrity of Sen
ator George as their servant There
weer many who 'contended that the
presidential utterance in favor of Mr..
Camp finally became handicap to
him.
Rivers Had Hard Battle.
Gov. E. D. Rivers, Roosevelt sup
porter, did not swing the weight of
his Statewide organization openly to
Mr.. Camp. The Governor had hard
battle Of his own to fight. His sup
porters were divided in their senatorial
sympathies
II Gov. Rivers supported one sena-
torial candidate, his own lines would
crumble. That was the way he and
his advisors figured the situation.
That was what they told President
Roosevelt when he was in Georgia to
urge the election Of MIR. Camp
Much was said in the campaign
about the anti-lynching bill by all
of the candidates But save as a
talking point which was always Ger
tain to bring cheers from the crowd,
1t figured very little e. an issue. All
the voters we're pretty certain that
any one of the candidates would op-
pose an anti-lynching bill If he came
to the Senate.
Farm Vote Figured.
What did figure very strongly was
the farm vote and the reactions that
had spread from the handling Of
cotton and tobacco alIotments.
Many Of those who went from farms
to vote passed through fields Uttered
with fun-grown cotton that was being
destroyed in efforts to comply with
quotas. Some of the farmers had
ploWed under cotton twice to meet
their allotments. And no farmer likes
to destroy crop on which he has
spent fertilizer and weeks of work.
How strong a part this played would
be hard to determine. But Mr.. Tai
madge's strongest vote came from the
farming sections. And it was there
that this feeling lay.