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now he ms votes.
The Outrageous Methods Used to
Be-eleot Atkinson.
I MOST DESPICABLE CIRCULAR.
A. Political Document That Shames South
ern Manhood-A Lying Appeal to
the Prejudices and Pas
sions of Ignorance.
A secret circular,which is being sent
out to the negroes of the state in the
Interest of W. Y. Atkinson, has fallen
into the hands of The Commercial.
It is so remarkable iz shiwacter and
disreputable in tone that its publica
tion will arouse indignation in every
respectable home in Georgia.
It is one of the most vicious and out
rageous appeals that an insatiate crav
ing for official spoils could evolve.
Below is the circular in full:
atkinson’s position.
There can be no doubt that Governor
W. Y. Atkinson is sound when it
comes to the matter of protecting the
lives of citizens accused of crime. He
has stood strong and steadfast in his
determination to let the law take its
course in every instance that has been
called to his attention. He lias taken
every precaution in his power to pre
vent mob violence, and uphold the
law.
In his special message to the legis
lature he says:
“Mob violence dees not aid in sup
pressing lawlessness, but increases it.
One mob begets another mob. We all
know of many wrongs it has done, and
of mistakes it has made in selecting
its victims. How many innocent men
have been sacrificed by this lawless
omrt can never be known, for it denies
irs victims the right to be heard in
their own defense, and then closes
their mouths forever.”
Could any language be braver or
truer than these words of our gover
nor? Speaking further, he says :
“These mobs, by violating the law,
create a spirit of lawlessness and indi
rectly increase the very crime which
they seek to suppress. In several in
stances the parties lynched in this
state have been taken from the hands
of officers and most cruelly,
and inhumanly treated Such con
duct cannot be too severely condemned.
In my opinion it will be wise for the
general assembly to enact a law pro
viding that where a person is taken
from the hands of officers and mal
treated, or murdered, that the gover
nor be authorized to remove from office
the man from whose custody he was
taken; that the administrator or the
family of the deceased shall have the
right, to recover from the county the
HI such in
’sentatives
courts with
adjoining
is commit
ild be em
to remove
overnor is
Republican
its address
the state.
“F*} .wnrris •
Republican
is their in
state. We
ican voters
le election
re pledged
law by em
rejnove ail
sheriffs within whose jurisdiction such
crimes were committed, and making
the county liable in the sum of five
t housand dollars for the benefit of the
legal heirs of the victim.”
Hence we see that. Governor Atkin
son’s attitude on the question is the
same as that of the Republican state
central committee. After offering the
remedy above, Governor Atkinson ,
goes on further to say in his special
message to the legislature:
“If the measures herein suggested
by me do not meet with your approval,
I most earnestly ask that you device
others and enact them into law. 1 a '
every effort you may make to etamp i
out lynching you shall have my hearty 1
eo-operation, and every law which you :
may enact shall be enforced if I atn
given the power to do so.”
Thousands of hearts in the state have
been made to leap with joy at Gover
nor Atkinson’s bold stand in the case
of Adolphus Duncan, a poor colored
boy who was sentenced to be hanged,
but who was set free by the governor,
because it seemed that he was inno
cent. Whenever a lynching has been
planned the governor has called out
the state troops to protect the prisoner,
whether white or black. The name of
Atkinson has been a terror to lynch
ers, and has raised the dignity of the
** state.
Thousands of colored men who did
not vote with him at the last election
will do so in October. He will be
elected, and ought to be, for the man
that is willing and will leave a sick
bed to go Io protect a person from the
mob, is the right kind of a man for
governor,
SCHOOLS.
One of the most important questions
of today is that- of education. It is
important because without it there can
be but littie substantial improvement,
and because with it there comes a
knowledge of our true rights and
duties. No state can prosper as it
should when it offers no opportunity
io its citizens to educate its children.
It is gratifying to see that the state of
Georgia is rapidly pushing its way to
the front, very front rank in this mat
ter of educational opportunities to all
of its children. In every militia dis
. trict there is to be seen the school
house, and schools for both races are
being cared for by the state. From the
common schools in Georgia have como
some of the leading educators and pro.
fessional men of the South. Education
today in Georgia’s common schools is
as free as the air we breath, and the
public school system is excellent.
There is no denying the fact that the
Democratic party in the state has
brought the public school system to its
present high state. It is also true that
the state school commissioners have
traveled all over the state holding in
stitutes and minsling with the people
and teachers, while and colored. The |
result has been seen in the present
efficient public school system. Gov
ernor Atkinson says in his message to
the legislature:
“While heartily favoring continued
Increase in the aid of the state to out t
common schools, I recommend that I
you take such steps as will encourage j
counties and localities to cc-opcratc i
with the stale in seeking to upbuild 1
the common schools. There is no bet
ter work in which you can engage a. :
legislators. If we can receive the 1
Lkearty co-operation of the citizens of '
this stafce,and them, by local :
taxation voluntarily imposed upon
themselves by the people of each locali
ty, to co-operate with the state and
aid us in completing and perfecting
our common school system until the
state is able of itself to run an eight
mouth school, you will accomplish a
great work for the children of Geor
gia.”
Speaking of the colored college at
Savannah,he says: “I had the pleas
ure of attending the commencement
exercises of this institution, and was
highly pleased with the results of the
work of the students. I respectfully
recommend that this school be opened
to both males and fem: .and that
greater facilities be afforded for the
training of teachers. We have as
sumed tlie obligations and properly
assumed it, to educate this class of our
fellow-citizens. I earnestly recom
mend that a large part of the work of
this state institution be devoted to the
training of teachers, who may go out
and take charge of the colored schools,
and that the state make ample provis
ion to enable this institution to afford
the ample facilities to fulfill its mis
sion.
“There is every reason, after seeing
what has been done and what is prom
ised, that the colored voter should see
to it that the party that has done and
promises to do still more, should bo
given an opportunity to do so. Re
member, that the education of your
children is a thing that should be care
fully looked after. Remember, that it
is your duty to your child to vote for
it’s interest. Be manly, and do this.
FREE BALLOT.
The Populists are appealing to the
colored voter and asking his support
on the ground that they favor a free
ballot and a fair count. Os course they
favor this when the ballot is for them.
The truth is, that they are willing that
the colored man’s vote should bo cast
and counted when it is for them, but
how is it when that vote is against
them? How is it when that vote is for
McKinley and Hobart, and not for
Bryan and Watson? The fact is, that
they are for the free ballot and fair
count for their own candidates.
If the Populists want the colored
vote, why do they act so strangely
about it? If they are more favorable
to Republicanism than they are to
Democracy, why did their national
convention, which met at St. Louis,
endorse and nominate William .1.
Bryan, who is a Democrat, and who had
also been nominated by the Democrats,
j ins o id of Mr. McKinley, a Republican,
! whom the Republicans have nominated
for the presidency?
Colored voters, do not be deceived.
The Populists want you to vote for
i them, and that is all. Everything they
have done goes to show it.
Why don’t they be men and come
out. squarely and give you the political
rights they say you are entitled to?
I Governor Atkinson says in his message
to the legislature :
“1 congratulate you upon the pro
gress made in the improvement of our
election laws, ami advise that you con
tinue in ibis work until every imper
fection is corrected.”
Hence, we see that, all things con
. sidered, both parlies claim to be in fa
vor of a free ballot and a fair count.
The Populists, however, claim that
they are more so than Democrats. We
all know that many of these same
Populists were once opposed to the
negroes voting the Republican ticket,
and were ih>o in favor of their voting
for Republicans. 1c is sad to think of
it.
And the Populists are just as much
opposed today to your voting the Re
publican ticket as they were fifteen
years ago. But when it comes to vot
ing for them, they say they are in fa
vor of a free ballot and fair count. Col
ored voters, remember that they want
you on election day, and on no other.
Vote with thus? men who do not try
to deceive you I Vote with those men
who are fighting lynching! Vote
with those men who are in favor of
and helping C.) school your children!
Vote with thoee men who help you in
• your lime <»f need, and are not ashamed
■ of you! Vote for that man that has
stood up at all times to keep negroes
from being lynched like brutes! Vote
1 for VV. Y. Atkinson, and his ticket.
“Help him in his work of getting in-
■ nocent negroas out of that horrible
I place—the Georgia Penitentiary. He
I has done much for tho race; he prom-
I ises to do more. He is a big whole-
I souled man, ami we ought to see that
i he is elected. If you defeat him, (here
are some poor convicts whose hearts
will be saddened. Help him; help
them! It is a duty to yourselves and
to your race. He is in favor of a free
i ballot and a fair count, and has said
i so. Give him your vote; yon could
not do better.
CONVICTS.
All good people in this state will re
joice to know ihat a blow has been
struck at the present system of leasing
convicts to private individuals. This
system has brought more suffering to
the convicts than they ought to en
dure, and has been the cause of the
early death of many, that, hut; for cruel
?»i.d inhumane treatment, would have
been alone. Terrible whipping and ex
posure in the coal mineshave resulted
in deadly consequences to these un
fortunates.
Recently Governor Atkinson sum
moned some of the convict lessees be
fore him, and in the trial that took
place in the capitol, evidence was pro
duced to show that the treatment of
convicts in some of the camps is fear
ful. Some had been whipped until they
were a mass of blood; others were de
nied food and clothing. Governor At
kinson, after bearing the testimony,
placed fines on these lessees, ami when
some of them would not pay
these fines, the governor had their
leases revoked ami the convicts taken
from them. Governor Atkinson, in
this matter, has shown a determina
tion to see that the unfortunate con
victs shall receive human treatment.
He lias given these lessees to under
stand that unless the convicts are
given proper treatment, he will see
that their leases are revoked. In his
special message of November 12, 1895,
Governor Atkinson thus forcibly ex
presses his wrath upon the lease sys
tem barbarities as evidenced by the
report of Hon. R. F. Wright, detailed
to inspect the several camp:
“I herewith send you his report upon
the camp visited. Il reveals such in
human and barbarous conduct upon
the part of some of those engaged in
working this class of convicts, that
comments by me is necessary to induce
yn:: to promptly to savo ou; .<a 6
from longer submitting to this burn
ing shame.”
The order of the governor in the
second trial of the lessees took four
hundred of these unfortunate convicts
from their hard taskmasters and placed
them in camps where they will receive
better treatment.
The great majority of these convicts
are colored. Some of them are women,
while many of them mere children.
The lease does not expire for several
yeti's yet, but God, G -urgia lias
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 18. 1896.
a governor wno Is determined that
while he is in power, it will be his
pleasure and study to see that these
terrible whippings and outrages on
these poor, helpless convicts shall be
stopped. Under the wise direction of
Governor Atkinson and Judge Turner,
the principal keeper of the penitenti
ary, things are looking brighter. The
convict lessees thought, the governor
would not have the grit to revoke their
leases if they failed to pay their fines,
but in this they were mistaken.
Many persons are now confined in
these camps who deserve to have thei?
liberty, and many of them have already
been pardoned by the governor. Tak
ing care to look into each case that has
been brought before him, he has always
granted pardon when he thought the
applicant deserved it and his interest
in each unfortunate’s plight is closely
shown in that during the year ending
October 23,1895, he has granted par
dons to seventy; respite to five (in
cluding the Gus Fumbles’ case); re*
moved disabilities from ten, and com
muted the sentences of eighteen per
sons.
Indeed, what has been done in tho
last two years leads us to believe that
much more will be done in the next
two, if we will rally to bis support and
elect him. When in politics we find
those men who are doing their duty,
those men who are honestly and con
scientiously carrying out the promise:!
they made the people, those men who
are doing right to all citizens,
; Whether white or black, it is cur
duty to see that are kept in office*
Let us see that Bill Atkinson will bo
i successful in his desire to see that
Georgia’s convicts are given better
treatment. The majority of those con
victs are colored, and the love of tho
race should prompt the colored voter
to give his vole for W. Y. Atkinson
and his ticket.
SAM JONES HAS A WORD.
He Writes an Open Letter to
Chairman Clay.
CAR lEHSViLLE.Gn., Sept. Bth, 1596.
He n. A. S.Clay, Chairman of tho State Demo
cratic Executive Committee, Atlanta,Ga. :
Dear Su—l have before me the correspon •
deuce between yourself and Mr. J. D. Cunning
num. chnirn-an of the People’s Party execu
tive commttee. I ba’e i ad the same with
interest,as tho correspondence has to do with
ilio most, important question before the peo
ple of this state; for 1 am dealing candidly
with you when I say that the issues between
the Populist and Democratic parties of this
state a d nation are so nearb wiped out by
the similarity of tho platform? of tho two
parties, that really wo only have left in
Georgia today the two wings of the Populist
; arty instead of candidates with platfoims
. differing as Populists and Democrats once
I •Hffcr-d. In this ccrresp ndenco you give Mr.
1 Cunningham notice, in your short letter of
September 3d, that tho corresj ondonco between
| you and him is at an end. You havo ridded
, your.-olf of Mr. Cunningham so far as ho is
concerned,but. there are trainloads of fellows
! in Georgia like myself who think honestly
; that you dodge tho issue and bog the questio :
I in your correspondence with Mr. Cunning
ham. I nm not writing this aiticle to you to
' invujn your motives or to make issue with
: you on any j oint in either of your letters to
I Mr. Cunningham. You agree tn everything.
lour opinions are all right Your views are
all right as to an honest election: but you
kick clear out of tlie traces when Mr. Cun
ningham brings you to tho point as to th •
methods by which an honest ballot can h«*
had, Mid it. is on this point that I would
bring you 1o the tawline, ns we boys used to
say. It avails but little ioi you to ray that
} v< 11 need no instruction i i morn is or honoatn,
or that. you have gene to the limit of your
authority as chairman of tli<* democratic ex
ecutive committee, or to talk to us about
what you are willing to do. In this day of
rings and rascality in politics tho time lies
corn* when a fine ballot and a fair count is
the only hope of th s country and tho only
bulwark that lies between us and revolution.
Dishonesty in Politics,
Men who are huno-t and upright in their
business relations, men who would disdain a
dishonest act in private life, are up to tho
tricks of trade in politics. There ire many of
us in this state who bMievo that tho Demo
cratic party of Georgia is no hotter in life or
at heart than the Democratic party of Ala
bama or Louisiana; and the angels have not
known in 1(1 years who was elected in those
•-totes to any office. I doubt if there is an
angel in heaven who knows just bow tho elec
tion wont in Georgia two years ago. Yen
Democrats admitted that your majority was
cut down from 80,000 to 20,000—a I ig a mis
sion on your part. Tho time is past fo< dally
ing with this question. If yon would l>
fairly treated at the hands of the people you
must tote fairly with tho people. The worst
outlawed thing in the United States today is
a prize fight, and yet as low down as it is they
demand fair i lay in the ring, and if one slug
ger hits tho other Loluw the belt, tin ■ is
called,the lick declared a foul,and the other
fellow gets the victory and the cai-b.
Nogroes will sit down peaceably and shoot
craos all day until they find that one of their
crowd has run a loaded dice on thorn. Then
the devil’s to pay. If fair dealing is de
manded in a low down negro game of craps oi
h prize light, when it comes to the ballot
box, the most sacred thing a freeman has to
j do with, thou wo must have a f»eo bi. Lot and
a fair count. Foul- and frauds must not en
ter there. I know it has been the cry of
Donmcratio politicians that u f:co ballot
snd a fair count means negro domination.
We never had negro domination in the
outh but once and that but lor a short
'imp. When tiro federal bayonets were be- i
hind tlie negro and tiro scalawags were in '
front of him ho reigned supreme for a few
- Port we-'-ks; but so soon as tire federal hayo- !
nets were removed from Behind him i e drop
ped to his level and has remained thorn ever
since. You know ano I know that tho feda- '
ar! bayonets wili not be behind him again, '
and that negro dominntiun in tho sou! h can 1
nevei bo until in character, history, science, 1
art,]iterature,wealth,and manhood tiie negro ;
ha 1 to at heme above us.
You know me well enough to know that I '
am nu sore-headed politician. You know me <
'.veil enough to know that lam hunting far l-o •
office in the gift of tho people of Georgia, <
now or hereafter. You know that the people
of Georgia cannot now, or in any future < ay,
give mo a post of honor higher tljn the one I
row I ave ns a plain minister of the gospel, ■
You know they can give m- a place no more <
prominent than the one i have, or wl.ero tlie i
-alary could be JHig-. ented. But lam canaid 1
when I say to you that I voice the sentiment t
of every honest man in Georgia when I say r
that candidates and.platforms dwiu.de intq '
insignificance before tire question at issue i
between you and Chairman Cunningham. t
About thn Bloody Tenth.
When Mr. Cunningham, as chairman of the 1
Populist purtv, a;kod at your hands that 1
you pledge the chairman of tne Democratic '
executive committee of every county in this s
state upon his l.onor to ext-rt his utmost in- I
fluence that both parties shall bo represented (
on tho board of electors and clerks at both '
State and national elections, and so on,you '
seem to ily the track and say it is a reflection 1
on tho Domocnitic party. The Democratic
party in tote in Georgia cannot be trusted as , '
to eveyrtl'ing. There are good men in the ’ i
Democratic party in Georgia, but they are not ■
a>l p oi men by a jug full. You rcmirmboi r
t e Tenth district.l reckon, in Black and Wat- i
son’s day. It makis nu* laugh today to think i
of d. ar, good Brother Black when they got.
him < u tl o Democratic train in t o Tenth
district; and when it started off whizzing' <
around tho curves,tho dear, good brother .-at
in the rear < *aeh nnd held his s- at ar a hold ‘
.'.is breath. He was afraid even t > go into the j 1
aisle of tho ct or go on tho platform. Uio ! i
thi ig was running too fast, for him; and you 1 (
remember that as so- nas tho train f lopped he »
got off and gave them to understand: “;.o;j (
that is the fastest riding 1 ever old in my ,
life.” Ho has got s i now he won’t go to tho ■ j
der ot to see th" trains |nu.
Tho Democrat hu" ■>'tuna’ely l ave always!
uad iu tho south **** of tho I
with them, tho wire-puller or ward !
hoe.or. Maybe you follows at tho top don’t
know what’s going on at tho bottom. May bo
you are powerless to regulate the bottom;
but,my dear Steve, we mu-t have an honest
election in Georgia this time. As I have
said before, you and Mr Cunningham agree
in opnißns,views and not ions about an honest
elect ion,but you romin 1 me of the preachers
in some of the cities I have visited. They
would hold a preachers’ meeting and agree
that the devil was in town ari l agico that,
ho ought to bo inn cut, l-.ut wlion they como
to dis -ussiug the rm tl.od by which it was
done the whole thing broke up in a row. I
believe yon are honest when yon saj you want
a fair election ; but.mv dear Stove, you wili
j havo to lino your cro.vd up, corral thorn and
put halters on them and tio some of them
to a stob in order to havo it.
Chawed up a few Enlfota.
I am candid when I ssy to you that I never
have dabbled in the politics of this state
since I was converted to God 24 years ago. 1
hml chewed up a few ballots after midnight
before that dato. I hare never meddled
with the politics of this state, and jou
know it. lam r.ot championing the of
' Scab Wright and the Pops, nor shall I can
vass or take the stump in this cunvass. lam
no Pop.nor tne son of a Pop. nor the daddy of
a Pop. I didn’t attend the big Pop meeting
in 203 yards of rnv homo the other day. I
sat down and watched the procession go and
come,but I didn't go to it. lam riot near as
much of a Pop as you pre, and tho gang vou
are going with is, because in my honest
judgment tho only difference b-*two?n the
present «o-called Democrats of Georgia and
Populists is that one is hrgh-cock-a-lorum
and the other is inw-ccck-a-liiram. But Steve,
wo must have a fair election. There is a wliol
train load of us fellows w; o want, you to <.'<>
your best, and we won’t believe you have
done your best till you I ave beth parties,rep
resented by the chairman of each county exe
cutive comn.irte?, sign a pledge that his
county shall havo nach party represeuiod on
tho of election manager? and clerks.
If tho Pops act tho dog you . an catch them
by that rule,and if tho Democrats act ibo dog
tho Popi can catch them. From the record of
the parties in tho Tinth district I tn ink both
parties will bear watching. What do you
think?
Only About Fair Elections.
I em not taikina on the merits of the two
parties or tho two candidates. 1 am talking
, about a fair cl< ctiou. Governor Atkinson has
I mr.de u splendid goiernor. 1 am Lis iritnd in
i ivory sense. Scab Wright would make a goo«i
| governor. He is a clever fellow, and no more
of a Pop than Atkinson is, to take tho plate
forms of the two parties into consideration.
It is not a question cf fitness or unfitness,
goodness or badness, planks nor jlatformof
either party. 1 tell you, Steve, we want an
honest election—u free ballot, and a faircount
from Cumbeiland Island to the north edge of
Dade,from the Savannah river to the Alabama
lino—a freo ballot and u fair count now aud
for. ver in Georgia.
Don’t you tell me that my insinuations in
this letter about tho Democrat! • party are
unworthy of reply. Remember, I ha Vo been a
Demo. rat. In sections you are all right. You
don’t have to do uy thing wrong. I believe a
majority of the Democrats want to do the
clean thing,and they will do it unless it is
tr.inendousiy necessary that they do the
dirty thing. You say vou can not de any
more than you have done. Thvie is one
tlii; gI am sure you can do. If yon ran not
cor.tiol youi ciowd to th > understanding nnd
sr-ttlement of a method by which this election
can bo conducted fairly vou can te.sign and
let some other fellow try it, I wouldn’t ho
tbo chairman of a d< g kennel if I couldn't
manage my dogs.
lie Wants a Pledge.
I believe,Mr. Clay, that you can enter into
an agreement with the chairman of the Popu
list party and havo the managers of tho elec
tion of this state pledge themselves to soo to
it that tho other parties are represented in
managers and clerks in this election. You
say you have no authority to for?? them to do
it. You can sign an agreement with Mr. Cu
nningham tiiat you will do your best to line
up youi crowd and ..uu iia.l butier doit. L
don’t know whether you are familiar with th.*
rules of apostolic svcccssioj or not, as taught
by the Episcopal t hurch.but if you fellows at
the head of the Demoexatic party don’t come
to time on this election then I want to say to
you as one citiz, n <:f this state that I shall
be on hand,Providence permitting, in any fu
ture election m this state to take the stump
and 1 shall take pleasure in reproducing this
conespondonci and bringing the charges on
youbojs from the wir. grass regions of tho
south tn tho mountains of northeast Georgia,
where the whir gdoudle mournoth. If you do
not do ycur best—and I don’t believe you have
done your b st-to have n fair election in tills
state on Oct.6th,or resign your position, then
I am candid when Isay your name is Dennis in
Georgia. Yon ar > tho h-. ud of tho whole busi
ness < f the Democratic psity in this state. I
ke< p telling yo.i that, if any living mao can
lino them up and ring them up you are the
fellow. M ike them como to time. Steve, a::<f
let's havo a fair election. You will do honor
to yourself and honor to your state,and if the
Democrats as you cull them roll up a majori
ty of 100.000 it is all right with mo.
Don’t Forget tlie issue.
You cap not answer this lettei by saying vou
havo do’.o so and so, unless you have settled
i." a method by which you wili make your
gang como to time. And don’t forgot tho is
sue between yourself and your humble ser
vant, that ail this don't amount tn anything
unless you shall settle upon a m dlmd by
which an honest ejection in Georgia can he
hold, 'jor.r sending out requests and instiuc
tions,and so on,to your crowd won’t do.btovA.
Borno people think already they see a negro in
the wood pi]p. Your grand old party is lining
up tl.u negroes so your papers say; ami to bo ,
candid with you I fear that it is down in tho ,
black belt of iho s'.ato that, the big majority !
is coming from and I fear thcio is where die ’
trouble is going to be with a freo ballot and ,
a lair count. That is whore Alabama got her
big Democratic majority, if you reinembftr.
That is whore Louisiana rolled them up moun
tain hii-h. If Louisiana and Alabama Demo
crats are any worse than Georgia Detnoc.ats
‘l ey just had to bo. Youknow' there isa heap in
having to do a thing Steve. I keep on tell.ng
ion yon must not get. away from ti e issue.
}ou must agree upon a method by which tins
election can be held fairly. You havo got to
do this,Steve,or do worse. You say you can't
make jou ciowd do anything,you havo not got
the authority. You seem to have no ninro
authority and inlluenco with your ciowd than
Cunningham has with you. It seems that
Cunningham lia*< not been able to make you
do anything yet, but he has done you I'he
you have done your crowd—ho has recommend* ■
ed some things.
Don’t Get Maa, Steve.
D. n’t gat mad, Steve, but lot’s havo a
fair election one time and when it is over
let s know it is fair. I know yon will fool
good then. Wo don’t have to have any other
sort of elections in G orgia. If tho party you
havo the honor to be the head of in this
state keeps broadening its platform it will
loon take in all the other parties, and really
we will then only have one party in Georgia
and there will bo no necessity for unything
going wrong.
But will you,or will you not, join thocb.air- '
mou of the Pc.pulist and Republican c-sccu- i
tjvo committees in a supreme effort to havo
tou managers in tach countv pledge them
selves over their own signatures to give each '
paity !•<•[:-osont .t ion as manager and civil: at
ovary v fling precinct in Georgia? Not wi'cth- ;
?r you cau get them to do it, but will you |
honestly ondo..vor,counsel and advise them
to do such a tliing?
You know all I want is a fair election. You
*ay you want it. Now pitch in mid lit’s have
it.
Your - truh,
SAM P. JONES.
To Grant Autonomy to Crete.
London, Aug. 27. The Ohroniclo
says: “It is leurnod that Russia, Franco ,
and Great Britain agreed a month ago I
that no Cretan reforms could be effect- '
ivu unless carried on under the normal
control ot’ foreign consuls. The present
scheme, according to tho advices from
Comtantiiiople, indicates that the sultan
grunts virtual autonomy to Crete, simi- (
iur to that granted to Lebanon, the con
sul of the great powers forming an ad- <
visoiy council.
Jonnie Don’t Get Your Gun
The following is a copy of an act
passed by the last General Assemb'y of
this State in reference to the shooting
of game :
“That from and after tlie 'passage of
this act it shall be unlawful for any
person to shoot, trap, kill ensnare, net
or destroy, in any m inner, wild turkey,
pheasant, snipe, partridge, or any in
sectivorous or singing bird, except En
glish sparrows, ciows, larks, rice birds,
wheat birds and doves in any county in
State between the fi st day of April
and the first, day of November of any
year : and as to doves, it shall be un
lawful for any person to trap, kill, en
snare or destroy any dove in this State
between the first day of April and the
15th day of July in any year, audit
shall be unlawful for any person to
sell or offer for sale any wild deer, wild
turkey pheasant, snipe, partridge or
other game birds, billed, destroyed,
caught or ensnared in this State within
the dates aforesaid in violation of the
provisions of this act.
“Be it further enacted, That all laws
and parts of law in conflict with this
act be, and the same are hereby re
pealed. Approved December 2, 1895.
No Anti-Railroad Laws Are
Likely.
Tl;c Southern Railway seems to have
taken pretty good care of itself in the
legislature, as several attorneys are
nominated
There lias been a good deal of talk
about war on railroads in the legisla
ture. In this connection some com
meet has been elicited by the fact that
a number of the local attorneys of the
Southern and Central railways or their
branches have been nominated for the
legislature. Among these are Judge
J. S. Boynton, who is attorney for the
Central of Georgia railway at Griffin,
Mr. R. W. Freeman, attorney for the
Central at Newnan, Mr. F. M. Johnson,
attorney for the Southern at Gaines
ville. Mr. J. D. Little, a son of the
Central railroad’s attorney at Colum- I
bus, Mr. T. M. Swift, attorney for |
the Southern at Elberton, Col. A. J. '
McCurry, nominee forSenator.attorney '
for the Southern at Elberton, Bowder
I’hinizy, a son of President Charesl ,
Phinizy of the Georgia railroad, Mr.
\V. AV. Gordon, Jr., of Savannah, whose
father has been long identified with
the Central, and Mr. John M. Slaton,
attorney for the receiver of the Rich
mond and Danville railroad.—Atlanta
Journal.
West Atlanta Falls Into Line!
On last Monday evening, Sept. 7.
1896, at the West Atlanta Mission, on
Chestnut street, there was organized a
working club known as the West At
lanta Republican and Social Club. The
following officers were elected : E M.
Martin, presicent ; J. 11. Jackson, vice
president; R. B. Brown, secretary, R.
IL Helman, assist it . ecrevary ; T. C.
Bell, treasurer. The executive board
consists of the following persons: I.
If. Jackson, Rob’t Lenard, R. B. Wyche,
1. R. Radford and K. B. Ilrown. The
finance committee is represented by
following gentlemen : R. A. Holman,
chairman ; A. Jones, T. C. Bell. J. Wal
ker and I. IL Jacksom The club will
hole! its meetings weekly on Monday
nights. Tne public is cordially in
vited to all of our public meetings.
E. M. Martin, President,
R. B. Brown, Secretary.
App'ication for Charter.
G E<> RGI —FULT< IN CoCNTY.
To tho Superior Court of said County :
1.3 he petition of W. C Brooks, P. j
F. Smith and J. P. Jones, shows that j
they have associated themselves under '
the name of
“MUTUALGUARANTEE AND LOAN !
COMPANY”
with the object of pecuniary gain for j
themselves, their associates, successors
and by and under that name
ibey desire to be incorporated tor the
period of twenty years, with the priv
ilege of renewal at tlie expiration of
that time, and as a corporation to carry
on the particular business of dealing in
stocks, bonds,, notes and securities of
every, description with the right to
negotiate loans and charge commission
therefv r and to lend money upon col
| laterals, mortgage or other securities
, us they may desire
: 2. In the conduct of their business,
they desire the privilege of issuing in
i vestment bonds or certificates, to be
paid for by the investor in monthly or
weekly investments, or otherwise, on a !
plan which shall be fully set forth in or ;
on said certificates or bonds.
8. The amount of Capital to be em- i
ployed by them is One Thousand Dol
ars, of which ten per cent has actually I
i een pakl in and which Capital they
de>.re the privilege oi increasing to i
One Hundred Thousand Dollars, when '
and as the needs of the business may !
demand such increase.
4. The principal place of doing busi- !
ness will be in the City of Atlanta, but '
they ( ! v-ire the privi ege of estab ishing
, aueu ies or places of business else where
i within and without this sai l state.
5. Wherefore they pray that they,
tlu?ir associates and asign&may be incor
porated as afore.-aid with all the rights,
power* and privileges, to purchase, im
prove, lien, bell or dispose of or use in
any way they may see fit property of
every description, execute notes, bonds
or other obligations, and to secure the
same by mortgage deed or trust, or
i other form of security including the
right of guaranteeing the payment of
obligati- ib of other persons natural or
; artificial, to puis ie the plai s and oper
! ations of other n itional or other build- I
i g and lean A.-sociations should the
direeiurs see tit. to adopt such plans or |
• pe■ a-’.ions in whole or in pa< t and all
ti e rights, power* and privileges set
forth and such others as are specified
in Section 1679 of the (. ode of Georgia
1892 a> are not contrary to the laws of
this Mate or the Unit-a States.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
Virgil Jones,
Petit loners’ Attorney.
Filed in Office, this, the 7th day of
September, 1896 G. 11. Tanner,
Clerk.
STATE of GEORG IA-Count v of Fulton
I, G. H. Tanner, Clerk of the Superior
Couit of Said County, do hereby certi y
that the foregoing is a true copy, from
the files of said Couft, of the applica
tion for Charter of the
“MUTUAL GUARANTEEAND LOAN
COMPANY.”
Witness my hand and Seal of laid
Court, this, the 10th day of September,
3506- G, H. Tanner,
Clerk Superior Court, Fulton County,
Georgia
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