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A BRIGHT RELIGION.
REV. DR. TALMAGE TAKES PLEASURE
FOR HIS THEME.
He Ha* No Rympathy With Straitjacket*,
let I’oijitH Out the Da&ger* of I'nre
■trained Atnusemont Recreation That
La-ad* to Sin.
(Copyright, 189 R, hr American Dress Asso
ciation. j
WAfcniXGTON, June 19 From an un
usual standpoint Dr Talnuqre in this dis
course dlsi usfU-s ainn (-nients and applies
tests by which they may lx- known as g<wst
or Ihhl. Thu text is Judges xvi, 25: •Anil
it camo to piss when their hearts wen
merry that, th-y said, Cull for Samson,
that, he may make us sport. And they
called for Samson out of the prison house,
and he made them sport.”
There were 8, WO jcopli- assembled in
the Temple of Dimon They hud come to
make sport of cyeh *s Samson. They wen
all ready for the entertainment. They tie
ban t>> clap and pound, impatient for the
am iiscim-nt to Ingin. and they cried:
* Fetch him out! l etch him out!” Yon
der I see the blind old giant coming, led
by the hand of a child into the very midst
of the temple. At his first appearance
there goes up a shout of laughter and de
rision. The blind old giant pretends he is
tired and wants to rest himself against the
pillars of the house, so ho says to the lad
who leads him, “Bring me v hen-the main
pillars are.” Tho lad does so. Then tjie
strong man puts his hands on one of the
pillars and. with the mightiest push that
mortal ever made, throws himsell forward
until the whole house comes down in
thunderous crash, grinding the audience
like grain's in a wine press. “And no it
came to pass, when their hearts were mer
ry, that they said, Gail for Samson, that
he may make u.- ix-rt. And they milled
for Samson out of the prison hituse, and
he made them split.” In other words,
there are amusements that are destructive
and bring down disaster and death upon
the heads of those who practice them.
While, they laugh and cheer they die. The
3,000 who perished that day in Gaza are
nothing compared with the tens of thou
sands who have been destroyed, body',
mind and soul by I,ad ammcments and
by good amusements carried to excess.
In my sermons you must have noticed
that 1 have no sympathy with I'cciesiastical
straitjackets or with that wholesale de
nunciation of amusement - to which many
arc pledged I Ixilieve the church of God
has made a tremendous mistake in trying
to suppress the sportfulness of youth and
drive out from men their love of amuse
ment. If God ever implanted anything in
uh, he implanted this desire. But instead
of providing for this demand of our nature
the church of God has for the main part
ignored it. As in a riot the mayor plants
a battery at the end of the street and has
it, hied oil, so that everything is out down
that happens to stand in the range, the
good a well as the bad, so there arc men
in the church who plant their batteries of
condemnation and fire away indiscrimi
nately Everything is condemned. They
talk as if they would like to have our youth
dress in blue uniform, like the children of
«n orphan asylum, and man h down the
path of life to the turn- of the dead inarch
In “Saul ” They hate a blue sash, ora rose
bud in the hair, or a tasseled gaiter, and
Lhink a man almost read.', for the lunatic
asylum who utter ; a conundrum.
A <iloi ioi.s W ork.
Young Men’s (’hrist ian associat ions of
tho country are doing a glorious work.
’1 hey have fine reading rooms, and al! the
influences are ol the best kind, and are
now adding gym: a iums amt howling
alleys, w here without any evil surroiiiid
ingH our young men may get physical as
well ns spiritual improvement We are
dwindling away to a naio-w i he: ted.
weak armed, Iceble.l voiced raco when
God calls us to n work in w hich he wants
physical' ns w 11 as spiritual utilities. I
would to God that the linn' might soon
come when m all our colleges and theo
logical seminaries, as at Princeton, a gym
nasium shall be established. Wo spend
Seven years of hard si tidy in preparation
for the ministry and come out with bron
chitis and dyspep- ta and liver complaint,
and then craw l up into the pulpit and the
people sgy, “Doesn’t he look heavenly!’'
lieeauso he looks sickly. D-t the church of
God direct rather than attempt to sup
press the desire Cor amusement. The best,
men that, the world ever know have had
their sports William Wilberforce trundled
hoop with his children, Martin Luther
helped dress the (Tirist inns tree; Ministers
have pitched quoits; philanthropists have
gone a skating; prime ministers have
played ball
Our communities are filled with men
and women who have in their souls un
measured resources for sp.ciiiulness and
frolic. Show me a man who never lights
up with flport fulness and has no sympathy
with the recruit ions of ot hers, and 1 w ill
show you a matt who is a stumbling block
to the kingdom of God. Such mon are
enrieattires of religion. They lead young
people to think that a man is go, d in pro
portion ns he groans and frowns and looks
sallow, and that the height of a man's
Christian stature is in proportion to the
length of hi:; face. I would trade oil 500
such men for one bright fuel'll, radiant
Christian on whoso face are the words,
“Rejoice evermore'" Every morning by
his cheerful face he preaches 50 sermons.
1 will go further and say that 1 have no
confidence in a man who makes a religion
of his gloomy looks. That, kind-of a man
always turns out badly. I would not
want him for the treasurer of an orphan
asylum. The orphans would suffer.
Suspicions I’iety.
Among 40 people whom I received into
the church at one communion, there was
only one applicant of whose piety I was
suspicious He had the longest story to
tell, had seen the most visions and gave
an experience so wonderful t hat all the
other applicants were discouraged. 1 was
not surprised the year after to learn that
he had run oil' with the funds of the isipk
with which he was connected Who is this
black angel that yon call religion—wings
black foci black, leathers bliu'k? Our re
ligion is a bright angel—fret. bright, eyes
bright, wings bright, taking her place tn
the soul. She pulls a rop< that reaches to
the skies and sets all the bells of heaven
n-chiming. Then'are some persons who,
when talking to a minist* r. always feel it
politic to look lugubrious Go forth. O
l>eople, to your lawful amusement. God
means you to Im* happy. But when then:
an> so many sources of innocent pleasure
why tamp-r with anything that is danger
ous and polluting? Why stop our oars to
a heaven lull of songsters to listen to the
hiss of a dragon:- Why turn back from the
mountain side all a-bloom w ith wild How
ers and A-dash with the nimble torrents
ami witii blistered feet attempt to climb
the hot sides of Cotopaxi!
Now, all opera houses, theaters, bowling
alleys, skating rinks and all styles of
amusement, good m il I ad. 1 put on trial
today and judge of them by certain car
dinal principles First yon may judge of
any amusement by its healthful result or
by its liancfnl reaction There are people
who seem made up of hart! facts They
are a combination of innltipli. at ion tallies
and statistic If you show them an ex
quisit* picture, th-y will Ix-gm to discuss
the pignu t.ts involved in the coloring If
you show them a lieautiful rose, they will
submit it to a tMitanicid analysis, w hich is
only the p>st mortem examination of a
flower 1 hey never do anything more
than feebly smile. Then- arc no great
tides of feeling surging up from the depth
of their soul in billow after billow of re
vert K-rating laughter. They x-em as if
nature had built them by contract and
made a bungling job out of It. But,
blessed be Gwd, there are people in the
world who have Iwigltf fitees and whose'
life is a song, uu anilicm, i> pu?!in of vic
tory. Even their troubles abe like the
viiu-s that crawl up the side of a gnat
tower on thetopuf which the sunlight sits
and the suit airs of summer hold p'j-petual
carnival They an the jieoph- you like to
have come to your house. They are the
people 1 like to have come to my house.
Now it is these exhilarant and sympathetic
and warm hearted people that an- most
tempted to iiernicious amuwtnents. In
proportion as a ship is swift it wants a
strong helmsman, in proportion as a horse
is gay’ it wants a strong driver, and these
people of exub< rant nature will do well to
look at the naction of ail tucir amuse
jnents. 1* uu uiumxjmeut sends you homo
at night nervous so you cannot sleep, and
i you rise in the morning not because you
are slept out, but l>ecause your duty drags
i you from your slumlters, you have been
when- you ought not to have been. There
are amusements that send union next day
to his work bl<x»d.shot, yawning, stupid,
; imusi'.abxL and they an- wrong kinds of
fiinii.- n.ents Then- an- entertainment
that give a man with thedrudgery
of life, with t<x»ls Ixs-ause they are not
swords, with working aprons because they
an.- not mix--, with cattle because they are
not infuriated bull- of the arena. If any
i amusement sends you home longing for a
life of roinance ami thrilling adventure,
love that takes poison anti shoots itself,
moonlight .idventures and hairbreadth
esx.'qx.'.' yon may depx-nd uixm it that you
an- the sacrificed victim of unsanctified
pl. ,-uiuie. Our recreations are intended to
l>uild us up. ami if they pull us down as
to our moral or as to our physical strength
you may come to the conclusion that they
are obnoxious.
Danger of Vnrextrallied Amusement.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead into expenditure be
yond your means. Money spent in recrea
tion is not thrown away. It is all folly
for us to come from a place of amusement
feeling that v»e have wasted our money
and time. You may by it have made an
investment worth more than the transac
tion that yielded you ?iou or SI,OOO. Bat
how many projierties have been riddled by
■ costly’ amusements? The table has lieen
robbed to pay the club The champagne
has cheated the children’s wardrobe. The
carousing party has burned up the boy’s
primer. The tablecloth of the corner sa
loon is in debt to the wife’s faded dress.
Excursions that in a day make a tour
around a wliole month’s wages, ladies
whose lifetime business it is to “go shop
ping,” have their count* rpart in unedu
cated children, bankruptcies that shock
I the money market and appall the church
and that -end drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpi't of the
mansion ami dashing into the mirror, and
drowning out the carol of music, with the
whooping of bloated sons come home to
break their old mother’s heart. When men
go into amusements that they cannot
afford, they first borrow what they cannot
earn, and then they steal what they can
not borrow. First they go into embarrass
ment and then into theft, and when a
man gets as far on as that he does not stop
I short of the penitentiary. There is not a
prison in the land where then; are not vic
tims of un -aiictiiied amusements. How
often I have had parents come to me and
ask me to go and beg their boy off from
the consequence of crimes that he had com
mitted against his employer—the taking
i of funds out. of the employer’s till, or the
, disarrang* i.ient of the accounts! Why, he
had salary enough to pay all lawful ex
penditure, but not enough salary to meet
his sinful amusements And again and
again I have gone and implored for the
young man—sometimes, alas! the petition
unavailing.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens! Tho young man says:
“Now lam off for a good time. Never
mind economy. I’ll get money somehow.
What a fine road! What a beautiful day
for a riiic! Crack the whip and over the
turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your
glasses! Drink I Long life, health, plenty
of rides just like this!” Hardworking
men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look
up mid say: “Why, 1 wonder where those
fellows get their money from ! We have
to toil and drudge. They do nothing.”
To these gay men life is a thrill and an
excitement. They stare at other pi'ople
and in turn are stared at. The watch chain
jingle , The cup foams. The cheeks flush.
The eyes Hash Tho midnight hears their
guffaw. They swagger. They jostle decent
men off the sidewalk. They take the name
of God in vain. They parody’ the hymn
they learned at their mother’s knee, and
to all pictures of coming disaster they cry
I out, “ Who cares?” and to the counsel of
some ('hristian friend, “Who are you?”
Passing along the street some night you
hear a shriek in a grogshop, the rattle of
the watchman’s club, the rush of the po
lice.. What is the matter now? Oh, this
reckless young man has been killed in a
grogshop fight! Carry him home to his
father’s house. Parents will come down
and wash his wounds and close Ids eyes in
death They forgive him all he ever did,
though he cannot in his silence ask it.
The prodigal has got home at last. Mother
will go to her little garden and get the
sweetest Howers and twist, them into a
chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward
boy ami push back from the bloated brow
the long locks that were once her pride.
And the air will be rent with the father’s
cry: "Oh, my son, my’ son, my poor son!
Would God I had died for thee, oh, my
son, my son!”
Effect of the Body on the Soul.
You may judge of amusements by their
effect upon physical health. Tho need of
many good people is physical recuperation.
There are Christian men who write hard
things against their immortal souls when
there is nothing t he matter with them but
«n incompetent liver. There are Christian
people who seem to think that it is a good
sign to be poorly, and because Richard
Baxter and Robert Hall wore invalids they
think that by the same sickness they may
pome to the same grandeur of character.
1 vv ant to tell Christian people that God
will hold you responsible for your invalid
ism if it is your owp fault and when
through right exercise and prudpnep you
might be athletic and well. The effect of
Hu body upon the soul you acknowledge.
Put a msn of mild disposition upon the
animal diet of which the Indian partakes,
and in a little while his blood will change
its chemical proportions. It will become
like unto the blood of tho lion or the. tiger
or the bear, while his disposition will
change and Ixx-ome tierce, cruel and unre
lenting. The body’ has a powerful effect
upon the soul. There are people whose
ideas of heaven are all shut out with
clouds of tobacco smoke. There are people
who dare to shatter the physical vase in
which God put the jewel of eternity.
1 here are men with great hearts and in
tellects in boilies worn out by their own
jiegleets. Magnificent machinery’ capable
of propelling a great Etruria across the
Atlantic, yet f.-jstened in a rickety North
river propeller. TJiysipal development
which merely shows itself in g fijbulous
lifting or in perilous ropo walking or In
pugilistje encounter excites only our con
tempt. but we- confess to great admiration
for the man who has g great soul in an
athletic body, every nerve, mjiscle and
l>one of which js consecrated to right uses.
Oh, it seems to me outrageous that men
through neglect should allow their phys
ical health to go down beyond repair,
spending the rest of their life not in some
great enterprise for God and the world,
but in studying what is the best thing to
lake fop dy sjH'psia. A ship which ought
with all sails set and every man at his post
to be carrying a rich, cargo for eternity,
employing all its jnen iii stopping up leak
ages! When you may through some of the
popular and healthful recreations of our
time work off your spleen and your queru
lousness and one-half of your physical and
mtaital liilments, do not turn your back
from such a grand medicament.
Sinful Pleasures.
Again, judge of the places of amusement
by tjw eonq>anionship into which they put
you. If you belong to an organization
where you have to ur-eii iti? with the in
tenqierate, with the unckan, with the
abandoned, however well they may be
dressed, in the name of God quit it. They
will despoil your nature. They will un
dermine your moral character. They will
drop you when you are destroyed. They
will not gbe 1 cent to support your chil
i dren when you arc dead. They w ill wrep
not one tear at your burial. They will
chuekk- over your ikimmition. But the
day comes when the men who have exert
ed evil iniluence upon their fellows will be
brought to judgment. Scene, the Ust
day. Stage the rocking earth. Enter
dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns. No
syrord. No tinsel. No crown. For foot
jight.x fiv kindling llamesof a world. For
orehi''trg. the trumpets that wake the dead.
For gallery’, clouds fllied ith angel
sjectators For the clapping
iloods "f the sea. For curtain.- the heavens
rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy,
the doom of the destroyed. For farce, the
; effort to serve the world and Goff at the
same time. For the last scene of the fifth
act, the tramp of nations across the stage,
some to the right, others to the left.
Again, any amusement that gives you a
distaste for domestic life is bad. Hov
many bright domestic circles have be*
broken up by sinful amusements?
father went off, the mother went off, the
child went off. There are all around us
the fragments of blasted households. Oh,
if you have wandered away, 1 would like
to charm you back by the Sound of that
one word, “Home.” Do you not know
that you have but little more time to give
to domestic, welfare? Do you not see,
father, that your children are mxui to go
out into thg world, and all the influence
for gixsl you are to have over them you
must have now? Death will break in on
your conjugal relations, and. alas if you
have to stand over the grave of one who
perished fiom your neglect.
I -aw a wayward husband standing at
the deathl.--d of his Christian wife, and I
saw her point to a ring on her finger and
he.ird her say to her husband, “Do you
see that ring?” He replied, “Yes, I see
it.” “Well,” said she, "do you remember
who put it there?” “Yes,” said he, "1
put it then'.” And all the past seemed to
rush upon him. By the memory of that
day when in the presence of men and
angels you promised to be faithful in joy
and sorrow and hi sickness and in health;
by the memory of those pleasant hours
when you sat together in your new house
talking of a bright future; by the cradle
and the excited hour when one life was
spared and another given; by that sick
bed, when the little one lifted up the
hands and called for help abd you knew
he must die, and he put one arm around
each of your necks and brought you very
near together In that dying kiss; by the
little grave in the cemetery that you never
think of without a rush of tears; by tho
family Bible, where in its stories of heav
enly love is the brief but expressive record
of births and deaths; by the neglects of
the past and by the agonies of the future;
by a judgment day when husbands and
Wives, parents and children, in immortal
groups will stand to be caught up In shin
ing array or to shrink down into darkness
—by all that I beg you to give to home
your best affect ions. I look In your eyes
today, and I a-k you the question that
Gehazi asked of the Shuhammite: “Is it
well with thee? Is it well with thy hus
band? Is it well with thy child?” God
grant that it may be everlastingly well!
Deciding Destiny.
Let me say to all young men your style
of amusement will decide your eternal
destiny. One night 1 saw a young man
at a street corner evidently doubting as to
w hich direction he had better take. He
hail his hat lifted high enough so you
could see he had an intelligent forehead.
He had a stout chest; he hud a robust de
velopment. Splendid young man. Cul
tured young man. Honored young man.
Why dill he stop there while so many w’ere
going up and down? The fact is that ev
ery man has a good angel and a bad angel
contending for the mastery of his spirit
And there was a good angel and a baa an
gel struggling with that young man’s soul
at the corner of the street.
“Come with me,” said the good angel
“I will take you home. I will spread my
wing over your pathway, I will lovingly
escort you all through life, 1 will bless
every cup you drink out 01. every couch
you rest on, every doorway you enter; I
will consecrate your tears when you weep,
your sweat when you toil, and at the last
1 will hand over your grave into the hand
of the bright angel of a Christian resur
rection. In answer to your father’s peti
tion and your mother’s prayer I have been
sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your
guardian spirit. Come with me!” said
the good angel in a voice of unearthly
symphony. It was music like that which
drops from a lute of heaven when a seraph
breathes on it. “No, no,” said the bad
angel, ‘ comewith me! I have something
better to offer. The wines I pour are from
chalices of bewitching carousal, the dance
1 lead is over Hoor tessellated with unre
strained indulgences. There is no God to
frown on the temples of sin where I wor
ship. The skies arc Italian. The paths 1
tread are through meadows daisied and
primrosed. Come with me!”
The young man hesitated at a time when
hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel
smote the gooff angel until it departed,
spreading wings through the starlight up
ward and away until a door Hashed open
In the sky and forever the wings vanish
ed. That was the turning point in that
young man’s history, for, the good angel
flown, he hesitated no longer, but startei?
on a pathway which is beautiful at the
opening, but blasted at the last. The bad
angel, leading the way, opened gate after
gate, and at each gate the road became
rougher and the sky more lurid, and, what
was peculiar, as the gate slammed shut it
came to with a jar that indicated that it
would never open.
Passed each portal, there was a grinding
of locks and a shoving of bolts, and the
scenery on either side the road changed
from gardens to deserts, and the June air
become a cutting December blast, and the
bright wings of tho bad angel turned to
sackcloth and the eyes of light became hol
low with hopeless grief, and the fountains
that at the start hail tossed wine poured
forth bubbling tears and foaming blood,
and on the right side of the road there was
a serpent, and the man said to the bad
angel, “What is that serpent?” And the
answer was, “That is the serpent of sting
ing remorse ” On the left side of the road
there was a lion, and the man asked the
bail angel, “What is that lion?” And the
answer was, “That is the lion of all de
vouring despair. ” A vulture flew through
the sky, and the man asked the bad angel,
“What |s shat vulture?” And the answer
was, "That is the vulture waiting for the
carcasses of the slain ” A.nd then the man
began to try to pull off of him the folds of
something that had wound him round
and round, and lie said to the bad angel,
“What is it that twists me in this awful
convolution?” And the answer was, “ That
is the worm that never dies!” And then
the man said to the bad angel: “What
does all this mean? 1 trusted in what you
said at the corner of the street that night.
I trusted it all, and why have you thus
deceived me?” Then the last deception
fell off the charmer, and it said: “I was
sent forth from the pit to destroy your
soul. 1 watched my chance for many a
long year. When you lie.-itatcd that night
on the street, I gained my triumph. Now
you are here. Ha, ha! You are here!
Come, now, let us All these two chalices of
fire tuui drink together to darkness and
vvix' and death Hail, hail!” <) young
man wi!J the good angel sent forth by
Christ or the bad angel sent forth by sin
get tho victory over your soul? Their
wings are interlocked this moment above
you, contending tor your destiny, as above
the Apennines eagle and condor fight piid
sky. This hour may decide your destiny.
God help you 1 To hesitate is so die!
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MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 20 1898,
JUDGE GEORGE F. GOBER
Addresses the People of Georgia in Answer
. to Judge W. H. fish.
To the Democratic Voters of Georgia—
There appeared recently in the Journal
and Constitution a communication signed
by W. H. Fish, which is a most remark
able production. Two years ago, by reason
of the adoption of a constitutional amend
ment. there were three new places to be
filled in the supreme court, the length of
the terms of which were respectively two,
four and six years. I was a candidate
before the Democratic convention for one
of these places. On the first ballot I lacked
but few votes of the nomination. I had
possibly the strongest individual following
of any man before the convention. Judge
Fish was nominated and in the disposition
of these places he received the term of
two years. His term of office expires with
this year. He ran before that convention
with the distinct understanding that one
of these places was for two years, and
under the law he received this term. The
clerks of the superior court, the sheriffs,
the tax collectors, the tax receivers, the
coroners, the memwrs of the house, the
members of the senate, the governor, as
w’ell as the statehouse officers, each have
a term of two years. When this term ex
pires the office Is vacant. The man who
accepts the office accepts it upon the dis
tinct understanding as to the length of
his term and the duties that devolve upon
him under it. I say’ this much for the
reason that Judge Fish has endeavored to
create a sympathy for himself by reason
of the fact that he got the two-year term.
I went before that convention with possi
bly three times as many votes as he had.
So far as my being the popular choice
for one of these places over him before
that convention, no man cognizant of the
facts can have any doubt in reference to
it. However, there was a combination. My’
friends stood by me for twm days and a
night, and at the end of df, by reason of
this combination, I w’as defeated. I ac
cepted it w’lth good grace; it w’as one of
the incidents of politics.
Many friends throughout the state, recol
lecting the unfair treatment that I was
accorded during the progress of that con
vention, have insisted that I stand again
for this plaee. I am now a candidate for
associate justice to fill the place which
will lie made vacant by the expiration of
the term of office of Hon. W. H. Fish.
At the outset I referred to the ,pubica
tion of this distinguished gentleman,
wherein he made some references to my
self. He begins by saying my candidacy
has not been fair; that I have not an
nounced against whom I was running. So
far as this is concerned I have his letter
of some time ago directed to a gentleman
in Georgia in which he states distinctly’
that he will be opposed by me. Previous
to this time I had given no utterance in
reference to it; I preferred to let the peo
ple of Georgia say whether or not I should
have a plaee in that court. I did not wish
to undertake at the outset the defeat of
any candidate. It was my desire to secure
the suffrages of my fellow citizens for a
place on the supreme bench and it was not
my desire to defeat any particular candi
date.
So far as Judge Fish is concerned, he has
been writing letters for some three or four
months. He has understood all the while
that I expected to oppose him, and more
than this, I have had from people who
were working in his interest different pro
positions pledging me support provided I
would make the race either against Judge
Simmons or Judge Lewis. Judge Fish has
understood all the while the exact situa
tion. and he has not been surprised by
the fact that my candidacy has been de
fected against him. Judge Fish could have
known any day in the world as to whether
or not I would oppose him. He could have
applied to me and found out, and this he
never did.
Now, he makes complaint again in ref
erence to certain tickets. The first tickets
that I ever heard of that were printed in
the way of which he complains were tick
ets sent out by his friends from (Atlanta
to Habersham county. Those tickets were
printed with my name opposing Judge
Lewis. This needs no comment, as it was
known I was not opposing Judge Lewis.
Again, in the county of Fayette, of
which he complains, I knew nothing of any
primary there until two days before it
came off. I never stopped in that county
in my life, and have not been thre during
the progress of this campaign. But my
friends tell me they found the county
flooded with tickets that emanated from
Atlanta printing my name in opposition
to Judge Lewis, when I was opposing
Judge Fish.
Now, I did not print any tickets there;
I knew nothing of it, and it is a rash and
unfounded statement to charge me with
having anything to do with the form of
tickets used.
‘He speaks of ‘Walker county. I do not
know anything about Walker county. I
have not been in it since this campaign
started. This county was for Judge Fish
before, and is now for me. seems to
be the only trouble about it-
Judge Fish says further: ‘‘Judge Gober
has sent out numerous letters and circu
lars, many of which are full of cheap
clap-trap to catch votes. For instance, in
a number of them addressed to farmers,
he poses an an agriculturist, and to some
he sent photographs representing himself
superintending the packing of peaches for
shipment to market. Surely such meth
ods are not to be commended. Everybody
knows that we want for judges men who
have a knowledge of the law, and that
farmers, however honorable their calling,
have not the training for such offices This
sort of electioneering is a direct reflection
upon the intelligence of our farmers, but
I do not believe they are so densely ig
norant as to approve of Judge ‘Gober’s ab
surd suggestion that they put him on the
supreme bench, because, forsooth, he is a
farmer.”
I wish to say in reference to this that
Judge Fish cannot find in all the letters
that I have sent out this year any statement
over my signature, or any reference to
agriculture, or as to whether I am a farm
er or as to whether I am not a farmer. As
to whether I have sent out clap-trap or
not, of course, that depends on the point
of view from which one sees it. He may
think it is clap-trap. He is entitled to his
opinion on it. As to the photographs of a
fruit-picking scene, I wish to say there
was a photpgraph made of a fruit-picking
scene in my orchard last summer. As I
remember, there were fifteen of them
made. I gave one apiece to two colored
men who woik for me in Cobb county. A
number of the others were given to friends
there, and I would say some six or eight
were sent to special friends of mine, and
the sending of these photographs had no
connection in the world with this contest
in which I'am engaged. I leave to a fair
and impartial public the question as to
who it is that has sought the benefit by
clap-trap in the face of these facts. As
is well known by my friends in the stafe,
I have a peach orchard in Cobb county.
The fact that pictures were made of me
in connection with the packing of fruit
last summer and given to personal friends
of mine at the time, when I was a candi
date for no office, and when the circum
stances could have no bearing upon any
political issue, would nrjf hqvp beep re
ferred to by a man who is seeking office
upon a high and just plane. It is a pal
pable effort to prejudice the lawyers and
judges of the state against me by insin
uating that I was posing as a fruit grower
and a farmer. I believe that the fair and
Intelligent sentiment of the state will re
sent any such cheap methods.
I challenge the honorable gentleman
further to find one single letter or request
to anyone in this great state wherein over
my signature I have asked any one to sup
port me on the ground that I was a farm
er. When a man goes before the public
with the avowed purpose of prejudicing
another in public estimation, he must re
member that he is dealing with an impar
tial jury; that whilst he would prejudice
his antagonist, he must remember that ha
himself is upon trial —his methods, his
fairness, or want of fairness —in fact, every
circumstance surrounding the matter will
be considered in weighing his work and
in appreciating It. Jt is a great mistake
to think that the public can toe gulled by
reckless statements unsupported toy facts.
Since I have been upon the bench I have
endeavored to enforce the law in a busi
ness-like way. I have endeavored to Jo it
with due regard to expense and results.
Now this distinguished gentleman has
some reference to myself as a reformer. I
have never posed as a reformer. I called,
attention through the governor to the de-'
sects in the laws of our state in reference
to needing fast bills of exception in crim
inal cases. The governor recommended
this in his message and the till was pass
ed in the legislature through the efforts of
Hon. William H. Fleming, of Augusta.
hether I am a reformer or not. I wish to
say that this is one of the most important
pieces of legislation enacted in Georgia in
a long while in the expediting of criminal
cases, and has saved the different counties
more money in the administration of the
criminal law than any other single meas
ure. Previously a criminal case could be
delayed six months before it was heard in
the supreme court. iNow, under this law,
it goes there in thirty days. Again, I
wrote and presented to the legislature the
bill for hearing criminal eases where the
evidence was vulgar or obscene in camera
—that is, by excluding the public. There
are various other matters which have had
iny> attention. I have insisted further
that our laws should be so changed and
we should have such rules that people who
commit heinous crimes could with some
degree of certainty be punished and their
cases disposed of.
I claim nothing on this account. It was
my duty to consider these matters, and I
did it, but I submit as to whether or not
on this account I am to be sneered at as a
reformer by an associate justice of the su
preme court, and as to whether I am to
be placed in the false attitude of attacking
the supreme court. This distingished gen
tleman, when he made this statement in
reference to it, either knew or assumed to
know, and in either event, with due regard
for the facts about it, he could not have
made any such statement as- that I had'
attacked the supreme court .or any mem
mer of it. The work of the supreme court
is the public property of the state of Geor
gia. When it is finished it is not the work
of any judge, and does not 'belong to him.
The people of Georgia, the tikpayers of
Georgia, have a right to consider it, and
they have a right to have whatever laws
are necessary in order to improve it; they
have a right to have new rules in order
to make sure our proceedure and to ex
pedite results.
Now, in fairness in the face of these
facts .with not a single particle of evidence
to sustain the statement, I call upon this
distinguished gentleman to let his rn
hood assert itself and to retract the state
ment if he cannot support it by facts. This
distinguished gentleman states that I be
gan and perpetuated my career as an office
holder by combinations. It is not strange
that one who has most unexpectedely ob
tained a high office himself by such meth
ods, should charge them upon another.
But the truth is—and I need not call the
attention of the public to it —■! have been
elected judge of my circuit for three con
secutive terms iwithout opposition, and
without the necessity of resorting to any
such methods were I disposed to employ
them. These facts should have been known
to this distinguished gentleman, and no
doubt were known to him. and yet he has
seen fit, in the interest of his own candi
dacy, to seek to mislead the public about
them.
He has a good deal to say about keeping
judicial elections out of politics. From
what the says we are to imagine that he is
very much afraid of politics.
I call to witness the people of this state
state that there has been no election lately
for any office where any candidate has
pitched his claims for any office upon a
lower plane than has this distinguished
gentleman by this letter of his. There is
not a man in Georgia that has heard me
say one harsh word against him during the
progress of this campaign.
To shci-v the desperate conditions of the
fortunes of this distinguished gentleman
who, angered by opposition, talks of the
high office he holds and depre g tes the
slush and slime of politics; in the next
breath he removes in public what he calls
the judicial ermine and descends into the
arena and challenges me to a mud-sling
ing contest. This would be a fine specta
cle for the people of Georgia—an associate
justice of the supreme court and a judge
of the superior court each charged with a
certain part of the administration of the
laws, and the associate justice making
charges he cannot substantiate, and the
circuit judge—no, this circuit judge will
have no part in it. If it takes mud-sling
ing to get a place in that court, I will
never get there. >1 decline the contest. If
success is to be achieved by getting down
to such work I do not want to succeed.
There are those who have thought that a
knowledge of the laiw and experience in
its administration were qualities that were
to be considered, but according to the
ideas if this distinguished gentleman all
that is necessary is to he able to sling
mud. He winds up his fulmination with the
assertion that he has duly considered and
weighed his work. So much the- worse for
him. Let him reconsider this assertion and
answer me:
First. Speaking of clap-trap, is it not
true that certain friends of yours in the
city of Savannah, are now claiming down
there that you have certain affiliations
with the Catholic church when in fact you
do not have? Every man has a right to his
church relations and I do not question that
right, but we are speaking of clap-trap.
Second. Is it true that I have perpet
uated myself in office by combination when
I have been elected three times without
opposition, and if so, what combination
have I ever made to perpetuate myself in
office, as you charge?
Third. What evidence have you that I
have sent photographs to farmers, as you
charge, for the purpose you charge?
Fourth. Is it true, or not true, that I
have attacked the members of the supreme
court, and if so, let us have the evidence.
Courts that hear charges and determine
issues must render their findings. A man
that is not guilty is entitled to a verdict
from whatever tribunal-tries him. There
must be a result. Now, how about it? •
Now, knowing that your charges were
not true how many newspapers have you
paid to publish your letter? Is it not true
that you have had it published all over
the state. GEORGE F. GGB.ER,
P. S.— I notice a paid advertisement in
tho Atlanta Journal signed by T. M.
Brumby. Mr. Brumby carried a concealed
pistol to the polls when he was a candi
date for mayor. He pulled his pistol to
shoot his opponent and was prevented by
the sheriff. He came into court and filed
two pleas of guilty and I had no alterna
tives but to assess his penalties. He had
his letter written and paid for its inser
tion. I can have no discussion with him.
*G F G
CASTORIA.
Bears the Kind You Haw Always Bought
8 "“‘“
I was seriously afflicted with a cough for
several years and last fall had a more
severe cough than ever before. I have
used many remedies without receiving
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edy by 4 friend, whq, knowing me to be a
poor widow, gave it to me. I tried it with
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tle relieved me very much and the second
bottle has absolutely cured me. I have not
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spectfully, Mrs. Mary A. Beard, Claremore,
Ark. Sold by H. J. Lamar & Sons, drug
gists.
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The best salve In the world for cuts,
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guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 26 cents per box.
For sals by H. J. Lamar A Boas' drug
stare.
Hotel Cumberland, opens
for the summer June 14th.
Reduced terms offered parties
of five or more.
Lee T. Shackelford,
Proprietor.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IX THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, •
was the originator of “CASTORIA/ the same that
has borne and docs now bear , on. everu
the sac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original "CASTORIA'’ which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought the
and has the signature of r wrap-
per. No one has authority from me io use my name except
The Contain Company, of which Chas. H. Iletchcr is President.
March 24,1898. *
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind Yon Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
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F ; A Guttenbe n?er
If l Pianos, organs and musical
Bk ~ instruments.
Celebrated Sohmer <fc Co.'s Piano
■"'4l?. Matchless Ivers A Pond Piano.
The Wonder Crown, with orchestral at
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- The Reliable Bush « Gersts Piano.
OWS •••' 'Estey Organ.
ffiGlll! Burdett Or-an.
Ip-iL-j ' -4,Waterloo Organ.
Number of second-hand pianos and or
gans at a bargain.
L A? 1
in tne Hands of R Boy
A good Ice Cream Freezer will do as well
as a poor one operated by more skillful hands. The Ohio
Freezeris a money and time saver. Its first cost is not great,
it uses little ice and freezes in less time than any other.
Strong and durable. With and without wheel. From 2to
20 quart.
And while on this cold subject let us remind onr cus
tomers that we have Ice Picks, Ice Shavers, North Star
Refrigerators and many other ice goods at moderate prices.
Don’t Lay It to the Water.
Pure water is necessary to health, but clean premises is equally im
portant. DISINFECTANT LIME is the only thing that guarantees a per
fect sanitary condition. Keep the yards well sprinkled. It ’will neutral
ize the poisonous gases and prevent sickness—will save you many a dol
lar in doctor’s bills. Be advised in time. We have reduced the price
to 50 cents per barrel delivered . One barrel may’ prove the salvation of
of your family. Use it now. Don’t wait.
TC. BURKE, MACON, GEORGIA
Ride Easily. •
The ease and comfort with which an
f A, eye-glass ” rides a nose" depends more on
pjljffSifyk the manner of adjusting then the kind of
wfC frame. “Hold Fast,” Kant Kum Off,”
“Never Slip” are only relative ’errns. They
ALL slip unless properly adjusted. There
rd J i3 a knack in bening and adjusting frames
At a nose that is only mastered by one
0,1 practical experience in their construc
% J ’ Jjg * 1 lion and a thorough knowledge of facial
J contour. We study these things as well
, * as study to please. It pays us to please you.
E. FRI'EDiM-AN, the. Optocal Specialist,
Office 314 Second street.
The only safe, sure and
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mREkIv L Ikl 111 VOMW £1 E S 0 ever offered to Ladies,
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Ask for DJI. MOTT 3 PEIIBfYKOYAL FILX.B and take no other.
Send for circular. 1’ rice §I.OO per box, w boxes for $5.00. i
DR. AIO'A'I”N CJHK VOCAL.
For sale bv H I T.A MAR Sr SONS Wholesale Aver>‘«
No Book to carry around. Ng
T.ckets to get lost. In using
Trading Stamps simply have your
book at home and ask for Stamps
When you buy for cash. Every
member of the family can get
them. We give you orders on
merchants or elegant Premiums
valued ai $5.00 to $9.00 each.
Philadelphia Trading Stamp Co.,
Office Goodwyn’s Drug Store,
Macon, Ga.
A. B. HINKLE,
Physician and Surgeon. Office 370 Second Street. Office phone 917, two calls; resi
dence phone 917 four calls. •.
Doe« general practice. I tender my ser vices to the people of Macon and vicinity.
Diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and lungs a specialty. Office consultation and
treatment for the poor free from 8 to 9 a. m. Visits in city for cash—day ,1. night
12. Medical services free to families of all who are in the army from Macon. Eye
glasses and spectacles fitted accurately and furnished. Prices very reasonable. Office
hours 8 to 10 a. m.; 12 tor 1 p. m., and 6 to 6. p. m. Monday, Friday and Saturday
nights 8 to 9:30.
STURTEVANT HOUSE,
• Broadway nn<l 2f»rli St., Now York,
American <£■ European plan. Wil
liam F. Bang, proprietor. Broad
| way cable cars passing the doot
transfer to all parts of the city.
Saratoga Springs
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and cottages.
H. A. & W. F. BAOTG, Proprietors,
New York Office, Sturtevant House.
I For Business Men
In the heart of the wholesale dis 8,
trket. * i
For Shoppers
3 minutes walk to Wanamalters; 8,
8 minutes walk to Siegel-Coopers S
Big Store. Easy of access to the , ►
I great Dry Goods Stores.
For Sightseers
One block from cars, giving F
easy transportation to all points _
I Hole! Altai,
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S Broadway.
> ROOMS, |1 UP. RESTAURANT, S
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DiiHFli
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Water Filter.
The best one on the mar
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water clear as crystal.
Capacity 15 gallons per
hour. You can’t afford to be
without one as the price is
within the reach of all —only
$5.00. Call at our store and
see one do the work,
i GARDEN The Man niture
Fruit Growers’
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ARMOUR & CO., Prop’rs.
Are now prepared to furnish refrigera
tion to all fruit growers in the territory
for handling the peach crop. The com
pany is prepared to make contracts with
the growers, and having ample cars and
ice supply is prepared to handle all busi
ness with promptnes and dispatch. For
information as to rates and schedlues ap
ply to any of the following district agents:
H J. Hark, Fort Valley, Ga.
T. E. King, Marshallville, Ga.
Inman H. Payne, Jr., Americus, Ga.
P. B. Griffith, Eatonton, Ga.
W. S. Deldrlck, Elberta, Ga.
Or to office Fruit Growers’ Express, Ma
con, Ga.
I. M. FLEMING,
General Southeastern Agent.
In order to reduce our stock of specta
cles and Eyeglasses, we will, for a short
time, sell all $2.50 Spectacles and Eye
glasses for $1; all $3.50 Spectacles and
Eyeglasses for $1.75. We guarantee them
to be the best quality, and if not satisfac
tory will return t he money.
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Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
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HfIRAIS, THOmflS & GLRWSON,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
Macon, Ga.
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