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TILE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
MONDAY. JULY l 19«
J. W. JORDAN WRITES
AN OPEN LETTER TO
HON. J. POPE BROWN
Ron J. I’.ipe Brown, Hawltlosvllle, Go. or to any other charity. It would nelth-
Colonel: Complying with your
request, 1 called at the new*paper of
fice, and ercured a copy of ytiur epeech
delivered at Perry, Oa., advocating fair
freight ratea and Hon. Hoke Smith for
governor. I will further atate I have
taken time and palna to read It care
fully ami thoughtfully the aecond time.
Ami now I come to the laat part of
your request: to criticise It and tell you
n here you are wrong. To make auch
mil, lima I am not accustomed to do,
neiiiier la It alwaya the aafe and prop
er thing to do; but being frlenda, and
believing that It waa genuine frlend-
ehlp that prompted you to requeat It,
and after reminding you that I am no
politician, you having atlll Inalated on
It. after aome deliberation and healta
tlon I hare concluded to do no.
Tour epeech having been delivered
before a public and prevloualy ndver
tired meeting, and subsequently pub'
lirhed In the Atlanta papere, and alao
•ent out In pamphlet form over the
■ Mimry aa a campaign document,
tr.ak.a It neceaaary that I give thla to
t ho newapaper for publication which,
If 1 rightly underatood you, you ex
pected.
1 will aay la the flrat place, you were
«Ire In the selection of the place to
make your apeech—Perry—near where
grew up, and before your frlenda
and the very people who know and love
' i beat. Tou were alao very happy
In .... . -
tog your Introduction I had almoat the
r "no feellnga I would have had If I had
’ < > n prevent. Aa to three two Iteme
In your apeech, you I ■
an I congratulation!. In the aecond
I .ice, you net nut to be fair to all the
>« mildatea, but you noon Jumped on
Mr. Howell, aaylng, “We aro told ao
nod ao;" It la charged that Mr. Howell
claimed ao and ao; It la charged that
Mi Howell did, or did not, do certain
things. Thua “taking up a reproach
iiknlnat your neighbor." The record!
and facta ahow three reproachea were
without foundation or proof.
In the third place, you railed atten-
tbni to Mr. Ilowell'a barroom atork,
n nd charged that he la a atockholder
in tho Capital City Club—a aeven-day
i nr room In the city of Atlanta, that
run* atl night long and all day Sunday,
etc. Thua trying to offset Mr. Smlth’a
Piedmont bar and hla temperance
i. ord with the Capital City Club and
Mr. ilowell’a temi>erance record. Here
mim are wrong; you muat know they
me not analogoua: one being main-
Mined not for gain, but purpoaea of
i 1 ,ensure and aortal entertainment and
i lilted by Ita member! and their In-
Wmm gueata, and entertainment! given
Just aa they are frequently given In
many home, where wine-and maybe
ether Intoxicant!—are enrved. The
oilier maintained for money—ond much
of It blood money at that—and patron-
lied largely by bad men, and maybe by
vile women; a aaloon where young men
are enticed, their manhood, character
mid aoula are wrecked; a place where
ihmgn ate done day and night, that
ehock.humanlty. Ineulta decency, rnocka
God nnd dlagueta the Devil. If t waa a
i a iron of that or any other aaloon. If I
I nidtually or even ocraaelonally vlalt-
< d nich placea, I might regard the Cap
ital City club an bad, and In the aame
light. Hut aa I aee It, the Piedmont
lai. and every aaloon, are among the
mot and moet Infernal placea In all
ibis commercial world. And I want to
to Mr. Smith and all other ownera
of saloons, If they were to give even
■ I'.liar of their aarnlnga to the poor and
m. k. In book!, mndlclnea or In clothing.
er Juatlfy nor expiate their Crimea.
“Not all the blond of beaata
On Jewish altara alaln
Can give the guilty cnmarlence peace
Or wdeh away the stain.”
Again you aay, “It la alao charged
that Mr. Howell'! prominence arleea
from hla connection with The Atlanta
Conatltutlon." “Hla frlenda claim that
because he aucceeded Henry Grady, he
la equal to Henry Grady. Hut It la alao
claimed the Lord made Henry Orady;
that Henry Grady made The Conalltu-
tlon, and that The Conatltutlon made
Clark Howell." Thla may aound witty,
but It la flippant and Intended to dla-
parage Mr. Howell. To take It up and
repent It la wrong. I am aorry you
did It; It waa unworthy of you. Aa
you turned away from the peraonal
dlacuaalon of Mr. Howell and quoting
theee reproachful thlnge, which you
nay are aald of him, I don’t wonder
/hat you were dleeatlefled with what
you had aald and what your hearera
would think of you, and that you at
once aald: “Now, you can read The
Atlanta Conatltutlon and The Atlanta
Journal and decide for yourself which
la the worat man: Mr. Howell or Mr.
Smith. Having aome prejudice on that
line, I confer! that I am not a com
petent Juror.” The pity la that you
did not do thla before you took up
theae reproachea: but I reckon It waa
better then than not at all.
Now. ae to your Inalnuatlone that
Mr. Howell la the candidate of the
railroad!, you agk: "Why did they have
their candldnte aelected before any
other candidate announced?" and pro
ceed to anawer youraelf: "Becauae they
have an axe to grind.” Now, In regard
to the flrat complaint or Inalnuatlon,
that Mr. Howell la the candidate of the
rallroada, I muat aay that you utterly
failed to furalah a eclntllla of evidence
to ahow It, or any proof that they hod
their candidate aelected before you
were conducting a very active private
ranvaee. Homo of your frlenda who
felt aggrieved becauae Mr. Smith butted
In and hruahed you out of the race
after you had made aucceaaful ant
BAtlafactory Inveatlgatlon and perfect
ed your plana, and aecured your frlenda
and aupportera and hod been eeveral
weeka In the race, now begin to under-
atand why you ahould an tamely sub-
mil anil not ahow the allghteat morti
fication nr embarraaaihent. In die-
uaalng thla matter with a mutual
friend of mire, nnd having expreaeed
my dtaapprovat of It and nty dlapleaa-
ure at It. he replied: “Oh. you need not
feel that way; Smith and Brown fully
underatand each other. Smith will
take care of Brown, nnd he will get
the very beat thing Smith can give
him."
I want to aay aa to freight ratea,
you underatand that aubject better than
I do; but you don't want fair freight
ratea any more than I do, nor any mure
than any other man who lovea hla oeo-
pie or hla atate, no more than we have
reaaon to think that any other of the
candidate! do. Ortatn It la that Mr.
Howell haa ahown In every way that
lie la not one whit lean ardent and ear-
neetly Intereated In thla matter than
Mr. Smith or youraelf. And t am eure
the people think ao and are aa ready
to truet him.
Aa what you aay about port ratea,
you voted twice on It while you were
a member of the railroad commiaalon;
once agalnat and once In favor of It.
Perhapa I am not competent to paea
RESISTS PAYMENT- OF DUTY
ON BEAUTIFUL NECKLACE
merro c
TOM
t. Mr. Let-da la prealdent of the Chicago, ltork lalasd and l'aclflc rail-
your place on the commiaalon, nnd alao
withdrew from the race for governor In
Mr. Smlth’a favor, he taking up your
alogan, It waa well, 1 reckon, that you
did not embarraaa, or put him to dla-
advantage, but conelatently placed him
aa he had formerly been—on all other
queetlona—on both aldea of It, by vot
ing for aid agalnat It. For the purpoee
for which your vetea were Intended you
were right.
Tour contention for S centa a mile la
good campaign thunder, but I am not
euro that It would be either wlae or
Juat. it la certain that the prevent rail
road commiaalon, or the one from
which you realgned, are not to be cen-
aured for being allrnt and not moving
In the matter when nobody haa de
manded or even requeated It.
1 agree with you nnd (eel quite aura,
aa every Southern man docs, that the
conferring of the ballot upon the negro
waa n moat cowardly crime. Further
then thla. you any nothing about the
Filthy Advertising
Is rejected by THIS newspaper. That Is ono
reason why It has been given In:,popular esteem
the title of Home Newspaper
Only
Clean Advertising
appears In THE GEORGIAN. Are you one of
the 23,000 heads of families who indorse this
policy?
disfranchisement of the negro, except
to mention the repeal of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendmrnta of the con-
atltutlnn; and Inferential!)' In your
compliment to Hon, Thomas \V. Hard
wick you aald not one word about thla
dlafranchlaement acheme anil hobby of
Hoko Smith'!. Tou may feel that to
remain atlent la enough, and the prop
er thing to do. But let ine any that
alnce you are Smltli’a aupporter, and
It being undefatood that he la running
on your platform. It la not enough that
you keep allent on thla achetne to dla-
franchlae the negro by paaalng it atate
law to fix an educational qualification
for ull voters, white or black. Tou
can't afford to do leaa than repudiate
thla dlahoneat acheme to put on the
atatute book of Georgia a law that will
Induce the reglatrar In our electlona to
violate hla eolemn oath, nerjur
aelf, violate the law und hla ronaclence,
and defraud a legally qualified voter
out of hla ballot, be lie white or black,
no matter whether born In Georgia or
In Maaeachuaette. The thing la too
monatroua, and you ahould at once
publicly announce your dleapproval of
It. It may be that you regard thla ae
a political hobby, that the people do not
take It aerlouely, that It la only In
tended to appeal to unthinking people,
and auch thlnga being common In poli
tic!. It la ull right. But not ao, "with
what maaaure you meet It ahall '
meaaured to you again;” thla la the
Inexorable law of God. Tou drop out
a hint In your conclualon which aounda
prophetic. Surely you have not aeen a
vlalon. Tou aay: ”1 would not be eur-
prtaed to aee new allgnmenta and the
wiping out of old political llnee.” I
have Been the aame thing hinted by
othera, and even atrange language like
thla, for Inatance, from othera calling
themaelvea Southern Democrata: "I
feel aure that the next ten yeara will
Indicate to you many men who have
the courage to dare the prejudice! of
faction In the Interrat of real policy
and principal, and that theae men may
be among the atrongeat and moat auc-
ceaaful public men of the next two dec-
adea In Southern life." In my opinion,
auch propltrclea can never find fulfil
ment In mongrel politic!, or leaden of
mongrel factlona. I cannot, for my life,
are how any Southern man und Demo
crat who remembera the daya or re-
conatrutlon, who underatand! condl-
tlnna In Georgia or anywhere In the
South, can have ao little faith In our
people or the Democratic party, which
delivered ua and brought ua through
auch dtffleultlea and to be maatera of
the situation, and to hold auch high
rank among the atatea of thla Union
can believe that our aafety and aoltdlty
will ever Buffer from dlaappolnted and
aound polltlcana and demagogue!,
who cannot comamnd the reaped, con
fidence and aupport of thoae who went
away from the party and blindly fol
lowed men, who proved to be false,
and falluree aa leaders. Only auch men
aa are embittered by their own folly
and mlatakee and dlaappolnmenta and
vanity would attempt auch thlnga. All
othera aee and appreciate the fact that
our aafety la In a aolld South. There
are plenty of aafe, aolld and vane men
to make and/teep It aolld.
Tour friend, •
J. W. JORDAN.
No. C* Piedmont Ave.\Atlanta, Ua.
PETRIFIED COUPLE
FOUND BY POSTMASTER
Special to The Georgian.
I'hattanoofo, Tenn., July 8.—Poet-
maater Raulatnn haa received a letter
from A. B. Boite, of Elk Valley, Tenn..
In which that gentlempn aaya he haa
found a petrified man and woman. He
doea not deaertbe hla great find, but
aaka that the atory be published.
Grace Church Opened.
The opening aervtcea of the new
Grace Method tat church were held.
Sunday morning. Rev. Jamoa E.
Dickey preached to a large congrega
tion. The night aervlcea were of a
union nature, other denomlnatlone be
ing repreaented to congratulate the
member! of Grace church on getting
Into their new home
NEGRO IS HANGED
T
CROWD OF 400 LYNCH BLACK
FOR ATTACK ON OIRL
Prisoner Admits the Crime When
Identified by His Young
Victim.
By Private Leased Wire.
Chickasaw, I. T., July 2.—Charged
with having attacked a 16-year-old
girl, daughter of Ira Robertson, Will
Davis, a negro, was captured by farm
ers and hanged. The lynchers then
burned the body.
By the time the negro was overtaken
near Bradley Saturday night fully 400
men had Joined In the chase, and soon
after the capture the march to Womack
began. It was nearly 3 o'clock SundAy
morning when the Robertson home was
reached and the negro was brought be
fore the assaulted girl.
"That's the one.” said |M at OBW,
and the negro replied: "Yes. lady. I'm
the one. Gentlemen, I admit the crime."
Tii»- n.olj tl.**n proceeded vlth their
victim past the spot where he had
committed the crime and to a tree near
the road, where a rope was thrown over
II limit iihout eighteen feet high and
the other end knotted about the man's
neck.
Before life waa extinct the body was
lowered to the ground and logs and
brush were heaped upon It and the
mass Ignited. For a moment the body
writhed, a few groans were heard and
the flames completed the work. Two
hours later the charred body was bur
led under the same tree under the di
rection of a deputy marshal from Pur
cell, who had been thwarted In his ef
fort to take the negro from the mob.
Melsris Makes Pate Sickly Children.
Thi* uu\ Standard, Grove** Tasteless
Chill Tonic, drives out malaria and
builds up the system. 8old by all
dealer* for 27 years. Price 60 cents.
JUDGE RUSSELL HEARD
AT CHESTER, GEORGIA
Special to The Georgian.
Cheater, Go., July 2.—Hon. Richard
B. Russell, candidate for governor of
Georgia, addreeeed a large crowd of
votera from Laurene, Dodge and Pu
laakl countlea at thla place Friday.
Tha speaker waa Introduced by Dr.
Oeorge W. Bordeaux, In a short but
Impressive manner.
For two houre Judge Rueeell held hie
Immenee audience spellbound while he
exposed the evils that are being Un
paged upon the common people of
ileorgla. He dlscusted all of tne Im
portant Iseuea of tha day In-auch man
ner ae to be thoroughly understood.
Judge Russell attacked the dlsfran
chlsement duration with a few brief
remarks and left that matter for Hoke
Smith to settle.
He alto favora nine months free
school facilities, which wilt give the
itry people the advantage of edu-
inat facilities equal with tha cltlee.
'ter a hearty handshaking and
greeting with hie many aupportera,
Judge Russell left fer Dexter to apeak
at night.
AT THE THEATERS
CLOTHES
SATISFACTION.
One of our new customers, an At
lanta Bnuker, said to us the other
day i
“Nobody asks me now where I get my
lothes. They always say, ‘Who made that
suitf’ M
Exclusive, personally selected fabrics, a
few garments from each piece, with none
of the ear-marks of the ordinary clothing
store.
Ready-made
$12.50 to $30.00.
ESSIG BROS.,
CorrtclClothtsforMt«
“Correct Clothes for Men.
26 Whitehall St.
HOTELS AND SUMMER RE8QRT8.HOTEL8 AND 8UMMER RESORT8.
UP IN THE OZONE
“In the Land of the Shy ”
KENILWORTH INN
Situated in a Private Park of 160 Acres. Biltmore, Near Ashe
ville, N. C., 2,500 Feet Above the Sea Level.
—WJUST THE PLACE TO SPEND THE jUMMWiii '
Kecognlred at the lending hotel la tho mountains of Western
North Carolina. No scenery In tho werhl trill rompsro with the view
from thle hotel. Mount Mitchell and Plagnb In full view. Adjoins
and overlooks the Biltmore estate. Cool, Invigorating climate, mag
nificently famished, cuisine unsurpassed. Tore water. All vegetables
from our private garden gathered fresh every morning. Orchestra,
golf, pool, bUItarde, tennis, Ilverr, beautiful rides nnd drives.
Coach meets nil trains at liflti
%
evert morning.
Tui rides and dnrt_
fit more station. Consumptives not ac*
hotel. Open all
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Vaudavills at tha Casino.
HI, Chlmmls! Dere goes IJHvera,"
la the cry that Issues from the throats
of New Tork'e newsboys when “Sllv
ere" Oakley, the famous clown of the
btg Hippodrome, walks along the
street. Oakley le not only the great
est clown In tha world today, but,
more than thle, he le the Idol of the
email boy In the metropolis, and l r "
walks down Broadway he Is apt t<
followed by a half laughing, halt awe
struck crowd of boys There Is no
doubt that he Is one of the funniest
men of the present time, either on the
stage or In tha sawdust arena. A
clown on the stage la a decided nov
elty, and the Ingenious "Silvers" hoe
arranged a sort of vaudeville potpourl
of hla funniest stunts, which he pre
sented to laughing thousand* at the
Hippodrome for the whole season Just
poet, and at the dose of hla engage-
mant there Max llofTman secured his
services for the summer with his
vaudeville and mualcal comedy com
pany, after which the popular clown
will go to tho Now York Hippodrome
for next season. Max Hoffman's own
company, with "Bllvera" oaklsy and
many other attractive features, will
be the offering at the Casino Monday
night and all the week.
In addition to "Bllvera" Oakley,
there will be such favorites ae Ger
trude Hoffman and her six seminary
girls; tha mualcal novelty, "In the
Bwlm," presented by twelve seminary
boys and girls; the Otto brothers.
Tony Hart, tha twin atatPra Dolly, and
Max Hoffman's latest success, a musi
cal tat I re entitled "Everybody Works
but Father.'”
The performance wtU be a delight
ful Intermingling of musical comedy
and vaudeville and musical number*.
In which a big choru* of- pretty girls
will furnleh the light and color for the
background.
The eale of seal* will be found at
the Grand box office aa usual.
Aches
ef some kind are the heritage of aearly
every one. frees the lafant with the colic,
Ike middle aged aad the distressing
miserable headaches, to the aged with
aenrous, maacalar aad rheumatic pains.
Dr. Miles’
Anti-Pain Pills
Never fall to rare all rates of pals,
b.cases they treat the pala son rev the
serves. By eoothlac the Irritated nerves,
they lessee the leetloo. bslld ep nerve
strength, set the bleed reenleg tbroegh
the vrtne, ted thus alley ell pels.
"I have seed Dr. Milre' Astl l'sln Pills
for rheaaMlIe polar, hssdach* tod an-
ralgts. aad I haw then Is aethlag bet
ter. I have ased them foe year*, tad
they always work like magic.”
Mil!. F. LAt.I.EMKNT, Lealerlll#, O.
The trvt package will beo.it. If not,
the druggist will retire year money.
* doses, S cents. Never s-lJ la bulk.
ROUND TRIP
Summer and Convention Rates.
Round trip Summer Excursions from all points
East to Paoifio Coast and Northwest from June 1
to Sept. 15, with special stop-over privileges, good
returning to Oct. 31,1906.
N. E. A. Meeting at Los Angeles, Julj' 9-13.
Elks Meeting at Denver, Colo., July 16-21.
Summer rates to Colorado, June 1 to Sept. 30.
Hotel Men’s Convention, Portland, Ore., June
25-29.
Use the splendid through service of theSOUTH-
ERN PACIFIC from New Orleans; UNION PA
CIFIC from Kansas City to Chicago.
Through Pullman Tourist cars from Washing
ton, Atlanta, Montgomery, etc., and from St.Louis
and Chicago to California.
Write me for literature and information.
J. F. VAN RENSSELAER, General Agent.
124 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Qa.
R. O. BEAN, T. P. A. •
G. W. ELY, T. P. A.
ELECTRICITY TD HEAT
WATER ATJILTMORE
COILS TO BE SUBMERGED IN A
TANK HOLDING 8,000
GALLON8.
Specie! I» The (Iranian.
Asheville. N. C, July 2.—An advance
step In the application of electricity
will be Introduced at Biltmore house,
the country home of Mr. George W.
Vanderbilt. All the great supply of
water In the chateau will be heated by
electricity, and electric motors will
also be used to operate the Ice and ra-
frtgeratnr plant of the house.
The heating of water on a large
scale by electricity Is noveL The
house le equipped with an enormous
•tael tank, holding 2.000 gallons, which
must be heated dally to furnleh hot
water for the laundry, kitchen, bath
room and great swimming pool. The
necessary equipment for the work Is
now being Installed under the super
vision of C. EL WaddelL the electrical
engineer of the Biltmore estate.
It la underatood that the electricity
will be applied directly to the tank, the
colls being submerged In the water.
8CHOOL8 AND C0LLE0E8.
LUCY COBB INSTITUTE.
Athens, Ga.
1906 1907
The FORTY-EIGHTH session of the
Lucy Cobb Institute, an Institution for
the education of young women of
Georgia, will reopen on WEDNE8DAY,
SEPTEMBER 12. For catalogue and
room reservations apply to
MRS. M. A. LIPSCOMB,
Principal.
the ALABAMA BREN All
■ ErPAfLA. AI.All AM A. ■■
A high grade College-Conaerratory for
young laiilM. Tboroogh <*our»e In lite
rary, eprrisl advantages In mtfe. nrt,
oratory, nrrhratrn of 15 Inutrumcnta.
Beautiful near building* located upon a
tiUKTritWnt rt»Tat|on. Ideal winter ru
inate, aptendld health record. AU. Rre-
nae rhautau«iua taken plare of u*ual
t'otnraenreiuent. Specially low prices.
Write for lllnatrated catalogue.
end Palmer Lewis, located near Silver
atreet, wee deairoyed by Are et an
early hour Friday morning. The origin
of tke Are le unknown.
EAn,ROj wa^T 8 BE built:REDUCED R. R. RATES
.Praia. The .i=T FOR FOURTH OF JULY.
HawklnartUe. tie., July 1—The proponed i The W. A A. R. R. end N. C. A- St.
exteaaloa of the Dntdtn and Southwestern ! L. Railway will sell cheap round trip
railroad from Kastman to IlawhlaarlUe an I ticketa to all points south of the Ohio
wr to Curtate will wl.lv toad*. Prraldrat and p 0 tomae and east of tha Mlasls-
tVrtahtsrille eadTSuSu* raid, whfet X Ov*r, . including St. Louie,
ready operates a line to llawfctasTfUe. The Evansville and Cincinnati* at one and
IwNIt’ and lWhw.st.-ro ont , t hlrd fares; tickets to be raid en
" ***** UW *« •" •* "• ■“*- July 2d. 3d and 4th, good to return
until July 8th. 1906.
For further Information and tick*
ett apply to any agent of the W. A
A. R. R.
CHA8. E. HARMAN,
General Pass. Agent
LUMBER PLANT
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Spertil to The C rargtan.
Newberry. 8 O. July 2.—The lum
ber plant of llessrs. H. O. Workman