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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal ■xttre* at Om Atlanta PostoMm a* Mail Matter at tka Beeoed Ctera. * jl ' * The trH-W»*fT JoOTaJ ■ pubMeh ed aa Mondays and Ttraradaya, and mailed In time tot all tha twica • wee* Mar raata mail*. It eontalne the im from all parte at tha ESm mrte a special leased The Journal office It haa at distinguished contributor*. wlO> atraa* Aartctetural. Veterinary. Juvytle. Km* Book and other departn-ent* of Martel value ta tha bam and far**. Agents wanted la every community la the South. ' . Remittance* aiay ba made by peat aMaa maaay War. aapreaa money te am. ruatetared letter te check Persons who eend postage stamp* tn payment ter oubaertpuons are requeot ed te send thoee of the 9-cent deaoml- M<y- Amount* larger tbaa M • order. earr'eV. order, check «r rMtttorvd mall ■abaSfbore who wish their paper* rHina-rd sboeidgtee both the old and thb public.—th* ealy traveling representatives of Th* Journal are C. J. O Farrell. J. A Wynn and Jan Callaway Any other who represents himself aa connected wtth The Journal aa a travoßag agent » • fraud. and wo will ba rwon** 6l * only tor money paid to the above named rtpretantadvea. THURSDAY. MAT 16. IM. kF— " 1 ~ ~ What If It should turn out to be a de coy letter? J Mr. Guerry shows a disposition to bunch his hits. Emperor William is engaged In hammer ing the American nail trust. Another Georgia office holder has re 'glgned—to get a better office. * What Candidate Guerry seems to need is • censor for his official communications. Perhaps Chancellor Hill thought it was Intended for one of those "chain’’ letters. • After all. when writing political letters *ft is best to add as a postscript: "Read and bum. ’ . _ The Hon. Dupont Guerry still refuses to take our advice about applying the soft 'pedat . Still. It is rather unkind to Intimate that Genera! Miles is going abroad for the prea- Ment's health. The gubernatorial campaign seems to be | experiencing some seismic disturbances) ' here of late. It must be admitted that Candidate i Guerry is not committing the sin of si lence. at least. . The Terrell people are now insinuating that Candidate Guerry expects to be elect ed by the aid of a miracle. It begins to look like the gubernatorial Campaign is about to develop a Burchard —ln fact, two or three of them. Already ex-Secretary Long te beginning to talk like a'man who hadn't had a real good say at things in a long time. In the case of the mining troubles, or ganised labor seems willing to meet or ganised avarice more than half way. If this sort of thing keeps up American •oclety may be divided into two classes— these who eat beef and those who can’t. We desire to correct the impression that guests at the Wu Ting Fang "smoker" win be expected to bring their own opium. And there are those who think Mr. Guerry ought to stop long enough to see if there isn’t a Tapp loose on his band wagon. ■■■■ g 1 ~~ The beef trust’s answer to the legal pro ceedings brought against it, when boiled •.down, reads: “What are you going to do ■bout ItP* • Now, if Pension Commissioner Ware makes himself offensively honest, he, too. anay find a good eonsul generalship wait ing for him. Somebody has discovered that tall men Succeed better than short men. It ought to be, at least, easier for them to get the peral tnmors. If the gubernatorial campaign were to . keep up much longer It might be neces sary to graft new cuticle on some of the candidates. > Steel corporation magnates are to have ■ dinner in Pittsburg to cost 8100 a plate They trust have decided to leave beef ©C the program. . - - _* There is at least one good thing about _ the increase in the price of beef: it has exempted the cow from further tubercu- | losis experiments. Descendants of Brigham Young have j decided to hold annual reunions. Full ar . yangements will also doubtless be made for overflow meetings. At last accounts Minister Wu was still having a hard time making himself ap pear unpopular enough over here to please his home government. The Washington correspondents should get together on the value of H. Clay Evans’ new job. Their estimates vary all ’the way from 812.900 to 360.« V. Nevertheless, It mubt be admitted that it took the Methodist bishops much longer to decide to keep the money than it would have taken the balance of us. And then. too. the convicts themselves tnay naturally feel that it te taking an unfair advantage to lease them for >8 per tnonth when they are worth IK. Padereswaki announces that he will re turn to the United States in about four years. All right, we may be able to save tip three bucks tor him by that time. It is aafcl that the new soap trust will establish • plant in Tennessee. If ft is looking for missionary ground It will be located, of course, in East Tennessee. Our prosperity Is working both ways. In the past four months 178.804 Immigrants have arrived in this country. 30,000 more than for the corresponding time last year. It Is reported that the porters of railway ■ sleeping cars will demand an increase in wages We have thought all along that the company ought to help pay the porter. If the Russian government is afraid to . * give the people a constitution, ail that it • need do is to give them a sort of United States supreme court to go along with it. » We tear that the issue in the Tenth dis trict congressional race is rapidly nar rowing down to a question of which of the two aspirants has been the best pop ulist. . After reading the tax returns made by some of the corporation* it seems pretty clear that they are almost human in one ✓super t. at least—that cf aversion to pay ing raxes. When St. Paul said "If eating meat cause my brother to offend I will eat no more flesh while the world standeth.” he must have had the offending beef trust tn mind. It te now stated that some of the wound ed Moros tried to stab the Americans who came to their assitance. why is it that we can't occasionally work up a little sympathy for our own troops in the Phil ippines instead of wasting it all on the •ruacheroua native >1 a THE MARTINIQUE HORROR. i It te hard to find a reliable record of such a sweeping destruction of human life as that which completely destroyed the town of Pierre In the island of Martin-, ique and a large area of surrounding country. As the reports of the catastrophe come in more fully, the more horrible it is seen to be. The number of those who perished by fire and flood is now estimated at 10.000. and will probably go gven higher. The destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii which ha* been made the sub ject of so much historical and romantic literature, did not destroy anything like as many lives as this disaster, probably not half as many. The two cities which were overwhelmed by an eruption of Mount Aetna were the resort and fashionable dwelling place of the rich and aristocratic Roman element of their time, but both of them combined never had as large a population as that which has been annihilated in Martinique. For ah instance of such an extensive calamity as that we must look to the great earthquake at Lisbon, some of the floods of the Yalu river In China, and the great tidal leaves in Java. No reach of the imagination can make us comprehend what the swift destruction of forty or fifty thousand human beings means. We have as yet little more than the bare statement of the almost Incomprehensible fact. If a full story of the great tragedy with all of its sickening details shall ever come to us we will understand better its immense import. But we will probably never have any such an account. It seems that there was a complete and almost Instantaneous annihilation of the doomed town and its people. We will probably have to depend upon the imagination to draw the terrible pic ture. Bulwer's thrilling description of the eruption of Aetna, which burled two most magnificent cities of the old world and their voluptuous inhabitants is, perhaps, not more completely a product of fancy than will be the final story of the destruc tion of St. Pierre. METHODISTS AND BAPTISTS. The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, is in session at Dallas, and the Southern Baptist conven tion at Asheville. These are two of the most important re ligious parliaments that meet In this sec tion of the country, and they represent a far greater number of communicants than all the other churches in the south com bined. The Methodtets will be In session three weeks or more, while the Baptists will get through their bus'ness wihin a week or less time. This does not Indicate that the Baptist* have business of less importance than that of the Methodists, or that they have a superior business system. The longer sessions of the Methodist general confer ence are due to the fact that they are held only once in four years, while the Baptist convention* are held every year. Both these bodies have Important and interesting matters to consider in the or dinary course of their business, and each has on hand some questions of special moment. The famous "tear claim” of the Metho dtets ha* already provoked rather sharp discussion, and will probably cause much more. The Southern Methodist Publishing house at Nashville was confiscated by the federal authorities during the war. and some years afterward the church put In a claim for reimbursement. This lay pend ing a long time, and about four years ago an appropriation was made by congress to pay It. When the money was ready to be paid over It was charged that the agents and attorneys of the church had received large commissions out of the money after writing to senators that they were not to be p**.d a cent. On this information the college of bish ops met and unanimously decided that the church should not accept the money on account of the reports referred to. It seems that some new light has been thrown on the subject, and both the bish ops. the clerical and the lay delegates at the conference are divided. Bishop Candler is leading the fight for the acceptance of the appropriation, and the opp-udtlon to that policy Is being vig orously pressed. The Baptist convention is also somewhat stirred up about a dispute affecting some' property of the church in Cuba. The pro ceedings of the conference and the con vention are being watched by a vast num ber of the adherents of the faith and or ganisation which they repreaent. Both the Methodist and Baptist churches in the south are 1n a very flour ishing condition, and are growing rapidly. Their reports this year will make a fine showing, and their great work will be pushed forward with increased seal. SOUTHERN WOMEN WIN. The conflict over the admission of negro delegates to the general conventions of women's clubs has ended In away that means a decisive victory for the southern idea. The delegates from the south were solid and determined in their demand for the color line. A large majority of the north ern and western delegates were in favor of the recognition of social equality. It seemed that this element would carry its point, which would, of course, have re sulted in breaking up the federation. The southern wfimen either outgener aled their opponents, or many of them were not as earnest in contending for the admission of negro women as they pre tended to be. At any rate the federation adopted what is known as the "New York amendment.” which makes no distinction as to race or color, but provides that ap plications for admission are to be referred to the committee on membership appoint ed by the board of director*. A unanimous vote of the committee is required to elect, and in the event of its failure to agree the application must be decided by the full board, the written vote of two-thirds of which shall be necessary to elect. It te believed that the working of this rule will keep the federation a white or ganization and the action of the conven tion was conceded to be a defeat of the attempt to obliterate the color line. The southern delegates were greatly re joiced over the result and very few of their northern and western colleagues seemed to take It much to heart. We may expect to see white-winged Peace perch and remain over the recently much agitated federation. VOTE FOR SENATOR. The Democrats of Georgia should bear in mind the fact that on June sth they are to nominate their candidate for the term in the United States senate which will be gin March 3, 1908, as well as their candi dates for governor and other state house officers. The state Democratic committee Includ ed the nomination for the senate In its call r THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1902. for the general primary. Although there was no opposition to Senator Clay's re election. and it seemed certain that there would be none, he requested that the question of the succession be submitted to the people, and that was very properly done. The county Democratic committees should see to it that the name of A. S. Clay for United States senator shall ap pear on all the official ballots that are pre pared for the forthcoming primary. The assured re-nomlnation of Senator Clay tea well-merited tribute to the fi delity and ability with which he has served the state In his present high office and it will be a pleasure for the Demo crats of Georgia to vote for him en masse. The holding of a senatorial primary In June will serve to fix more firnily the pol icy of popular nominations of United States senators, which in Georgia are equivalent to elections. The Democracy cannot be set too firmly In this habit. It te thoroughly Democratic and in'sures the fairest possible method of choosing senators. Do not fail to see that your ballot at the June primary contains a vote for United States senator. “JOINT DEBATE" CONTRIBUTORS. W’hen The Journal announced it* pur pose to devote four columns of Its space daily to a "joint discussion” of the Issues involved in the present gubernatorial race It meant well. But it had no Idea that every man, woman and child, so to speak, would want to have a "say.” The Jour nal does not object to this desire on their part per se, but after two weeks’ expe rience In conducting a “joint debate” we have been brought face to face with the' problem of how to get ten columns of communications Into four columns of space. The only solution to this problem, as all will agree, te to select the communica tions most worthy of publication and throw out the others. But this The Jour nal, because of its absolutely neutral po sition in this campaign, does not care to undertake, lest It unintentionally do an Injustice to one or the other of the three contestant*. Therefore, after deliberation it has decided that the better and fairer plan would be to first refer ail communi cations addressed to this office to the campaign headquarters of the respective candidates and to publish only *uch com munications as are written by the cam paign managers or which bear* their "O. K.” This, we believe, the public will readily see we are obliged to do in self-defense, and we believe also additional Interest will be added to the "joint debate” by adopting thl* plan. Everyone Is still free to write his views on the present cam paign and to address his communication either to The Journal or to the campaign managers of the respective candidates but should any of these communication* fail to appear in print It will be understood that they found their way to the candi dates* "waste basket” and not to The Journal's. This rule goes Into effect from this day. THE SPANISH CORONATION. The coronation of the youthful king of Spain will occur nearly a month before the crowning of King Edward VII, but we hear very little of the preparations for the beginning of Alfonso’s reiign. The United States will be officially represented at Madrid as well a* at London. The selection of Dr. J. L. M. Curry as special envoy to the Spanish court on thte interacting occasion was especially fortunate. Dr. Curry was minister to Spain when the king who is about to as cend the throne was bcm. Since that time Spain has been swept off the west ern hemisphere and has endured one of the swiftest and mo*t humiliating defeats that a nation ever endured. Besides los ing Cuba and Porto Rico, Spain has been forced to give up the Philippines, which was a very happy riddance for her and the Imposition of a very heavy burden upon our government. Spain stripped of her West Indian pos sessions and relieved of the Philippines, 1s In a more hopeful condition than she was while she held these Islands, though their loss was a severe blow to Spanish pride. Since the war signs and promise* of Spanish recuperation have appeared and some of the best posted observers believe that In the course of a few years Spain will be In a stronger and more healthful condition than she has known In many years. All account* of the young king are fa vorable. His power, It 1* true, 1s small compared to what that of the Spanish crown was a few generations ago, but there tea sentimental attachment to the youth that will probably make possible a gcod degree of progress. Spain te rich In natural resources that would make her rich If she had a thrifty fend vigorous population. There is no pros pect of any notable progress in Spain In the next few years, but a substantial improvement of present conditons may reasonably be expected. There tea very widespread sympathy for the boy who te about to enter upon hte reign just after the deep humilia tion of his country, and he may find a far happier lot than seemed possible to him a short time ago. DUE TO CHANCELLOR HILL. We published with pleasure th* state ment of Chancellor Hill, which appeared in Saturday's Journal, in reference to a letter Intended for Mr. Warner Hill, which was sent by his secretary to the chairman of the Guerry’ campaign committee. In stating the substance of the letter the chancellor's secretary left him under the impression that the writer supposed Walter B. Hill had some connection with the Guerry committee, and that the let ter was written in Mr. Guerry's interest. Mr. Hill did not read the letter and had never seen it when he came to Atlanta last Saturday. He naturally directed hi* secretary to forward it to what he supposed was Its intended destination. Chancellor Hill’s explanation will be ac cepted by everybody. There te not the slightest course for crit icism of him on the ground that he has intermeddled in politics and nobpdy who knows Chancellor Hill will believe that he would do any such thing, while holding the office which he fills with such distin guished ability, to the complete satisfac tion of the people of Georgia and the great benefited the state university. President Roosevelt was elected vice president of the American Tract society the other day. Is this an Indication that the president is going to issue hte repri mands in the shape of tracts in future? It is our very unbiased opinion that the more Farmer Jim Smith see* of the pres ent gubernatorial race, the more he con gratulates hlm*elf that he held his cotton until it was too late to enter. It is getting so in Georgia here of late that the man who pulls a free pass on th* conductor Is suspected of being a legis lator. We are Hable to resent this yet. The EWs “DON’T STAB ME IN THE BACK, MEET ME FACE TO FACE.” MACON, Ga., May 9, 1902. Hon. J. M. Terrell, Candidate, and lion. Warner Hill, Campaign Manager, At lanta, Ga. Gentlemen—Notwithstanding your decli nation to meet me az.d my friend Ross, chairman, face to face and before the peo ple of Georgia in public discussion, you have both since then engaged in contro versies with me, one of you by attacking me personally and misrepresenting me po litically on the stump, and the other In the same way In the newspapers and In circu lars distributed over the state. In doing this you have reopened the question of joint debate, and inasmuch as you have done, so in a joint and prac tically the same attack, I now regard you. in effect, as one and the same individual, waging a long-distance warfare upon me, and I therefore have the honor to submit to both of you the following proposition. It 1s my purpose to address an audience of Georgians in Atlanta In a few days, and I now challenge both of you to a joint discussion on that occasion, giving you as much time as I shall take so that we will have, say two hours to the side. I would open in a speech of an hour and close In one of the same length, and you could divide the intervening two hours between you as you might desire. We will select three managers and judges as follows: You one and I one and the two another, and these three gentle men would have charge of the occasion, arranging for admission to the audito rium, etc., and presiding over the debate. I will act without arms but with a bond to keep the peace, and let you gentlemen act with arm* and without a bond, if you desire. » Let me hear from you at once, as time 1s short and I am making other engage ment*. If you both together have not the moral and mental manhood to acecpt this chal lenge, go ahead with your campaign of personalities and misrepresentations, one of you at the time enjoying the safety and applause that belong to the stump for one only, as he stabs me in the back; and the other utilizing in security and no toriety, the help of a campaign commit tee and the unlimited flow of printers' ink, to badger me and reverse my well known and life long political positions, while I am busy night and day going over the state making a pqbiic campaign on public issues; but in doing so, pray, gentlemen, for decency’* sake, do not call me "cow ard” any more. Yours truly, DUPONT GUERRY CHAIRMAN TAPP EXPLAINS LETTER CONTROVERSY To the Editor of The Journal: Owing to the misconstruction of the af fairs as to the Dunn letter, I think that I should give the pybljc a few lines a* to the situation. I would have done so be fore this writing had it not been for a pressure of business at these headquart ers. I wish to state as a matter of preface that no man who knows the Hon. Walter B. Hill should question hte acts in thte matter. I have the most profound respect for that learned and honorable gentleman, and his explanation te perfectly satisfac tory to me so far as. I am concerned, but that the public may more fully understand the matter, I give the history of the trans action, and, therefore, publish the Dunn letter together with two letters received from Mr. Hill as.to It. University of Georgia, Office of the ChkjiceHqr, ATHENS, Ga.. April 28, 1902. Mr. Sidney C. Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir: 4 herewith enclose you a let ter received today from Mr. M. W. Dunn, of Cobbham. The letter was addressed to me at Atlanta, but was forwarded by the postal authorities to Athens. Yours very truly. (Signed) WALTER B. HILL, B. Office of M. W. Dunn. • Dealer in General Merchandise. Shipping Point Thomason, Ga. COBBHAM, Ga.. April 24. 1902. Dear Sir: I would like very much to visit headquarters, and if you can get a re duction of railroad fare on the Georgia railroad I will come at once. McDuffie is conceded to Guerry, but with a little JUDICIOUS work I think we Can change the status of ahairs. Very truly yours, (Signed) M. W. DUNN. On receipt of these communications I wrote Chancellor HUI requesting hte per mission to use the Dunn’ letter, and on May 2d I revived the following answer: University of Georgia, Office of the Chancellor, ATHENS, Ga„ May 2, 1902. Mr. S. C. Tapp, Chairman. Atlanta. Ga. Dear Sir: Yours of the 29th received. I have no right to say anything as to the use of the letter from McDuffie county, which I enclosed you. It was evidently addressed In error and I merely forward ed It. I suggest that before using it you obtain the consent of the Writer. Yours very truly, (Signed) WALTER B. HILL. Os course. I construed Cnancellor Hill’s answer to my communication to mean that he severed all further connection with the Dunn letter, and left me to communi cate with Mr. Dunn, if I wish ed any further instructions. I did not care to secure Mr. Dunn’s consent, for I thought I had caught him In an attempt, at least, to commit acts In thte campaign that the public would not approve, and that should be exposed. It 1s possible that I misconstrued Chan cellor Hill's last communication, and it is further very probable that his stenogra pher forwarded me the original letter without the chancellor knowing fully the contents thereof, and if these facts be correct then certainly Mr. Hill’s expia tion te full and complete, and at the same time gave me the perfect right to expose the conduct of Mr. Dunn. However, the correspondence between Chancellor Hill and myself are not the issues in this mat ter, which are to be tried at the bar of public opinion before the people of Geor gia as to Mr. Dunn’# acts. In other words, a county that was conceded to Mr. Guerry was to be changed to Mr. Terrell, pro vided proper railroad transportation should be secured for Mr. Dunn to visit Mr. Terrell's headquarters “at once,” and thereby prepared to return home and do a little "judicious Work” so as to "change the status of affairs.” Thte matter shows beyond question the political atmosphere as to a certain polit ical element now in Georgia, and I wish to say to the parties who are conducting thte kind of a political crusade that what ever evidence comes witbin my possession that the public shall have the benefit of It. and that there are not "political rings’’ and "machinery” enough in Georgia to prevent my giving the public the benefit of the facts. And on the sth day of June we are going to ask the people of Geor gia to pass thete sentence of condemnation upon a campaign conducted in such a manner by electing DuPont Guerry gov ernor of Georgia. I wish to further state that I assume the entire responsibility for the publica tion of this letter, without the advise or consent of any living man and if these fellows secure free transportation to the headquarters in the Kimball house to be prepared to return the counties that are conceded to'Mr. Guerry and do a little "judicious work,” "so as to change the status of affairs.” do not wish to be ex posed. they must keep the evidence out of these headquarters, for we shall give It to the public and on the sth day of June we expect for the good people of a great sovereign state to condemn thte rep rehensible political method of conduct ing campaigns. Very truly yours, SIDNEY C. TAPP, Chairman. May 13, 1902. • - * _ ’ — ■ Open to the (jubernatoriaf Candidates and Their Friends For the Discussion of the Issues Involved in the Present Race. HON. ROLAND ELLIS OFFERS TO COMPARE “JAGS” MACON, Ga.. May 10, 1902. To the Editor of The Journal: I notice in your Wednesday issue a card from Colonel J. P. Ross in which he mentions my name as one of the sign ers of an invitation to a meeting of the Knights of Fidelity. While I never signed or authorized my signature to such invi tation, and never saw one of them until after ttys smoker had been held, I have never said anything about it because the gentleman who did It was a friend and took thte liberty on account of the fact that I had been for some time the legal adviser of this lodge in Macon, and had been attending to the legal business of many of Its members. But I was present at this meeting referred to, which was a public one. upon a verbal Invitation of the secretary, apd know the facts in reference to that very ordinary and harmless gath ering. Knowing these facts I know that the only political matter referred to upon that occasion was the subject set forth In the following blank petition, sent all over the union by the national council of thte order. “To the Hon. , Member of Congress. We, the undersigned voters of the congressional district, of the state of , respectfully request you to cast your vote for the passage of H. R. 178-179, known as the Joy Bills for the reduction of tax on whisky from H ID to 70 cents per gallon, believing that by doing so you will be serving the Interests of a majority of your constituents.” As one present I know that the place of assembly is as respectable a lodge room as there is in the state of Georgia; the meeting place of seven different reputa ble orders, and that neither the Interests of gubernatorial or any other candidates were either considered or discussed. With this knowledge, when inquiry was made of me as to the facts as set out in th<- circular referred to by Colonel Ross, and thte circular, charging that thte meeting was held in Mr. Terrell’s interest and In opposition to Mr. Guerry, was exhibited to me I at once, as did others, pronounce the contents absolutely false. I now here repeat the statement. Instead of being the signer of an invitation to a meeting fn opposition to Mr. Guerry’s campaign In Bibb county, carrying out a promise I made to Hon. Joseph H. Hall, when Mr. Guerry first announced, I personally saw a large number of the members of thte very lodge, whom I knew were opposed to Mr. Guerry's views on certain subjects, and suggested that they should not, as a matter of courtesy In the county of bls home, oppose the candidate living here. To thte suggestion most of them assented, and I reported thte fact back to Mr. Hall, who has Informed me that Mr. Guerry understood that I had given that advice. I made thte statement when-1 was shown thte anonymous circular, not in the inter est of either Messrs. Guerry, Terrell or Estill, but In the interests of truth, and In justice to myself as the maker of the statement to Mr. Hall, and in justice to those present at this meeting who were exercising their constitutional right un der a free government to assemble and attend to their own business. How many of those present denied the contents of thte circular to Mr. Hill and others I do not know; hut as one who did, and does now, assert that its contents are false and misleading. I desire to add that those who know both Colonel Ros* and myself will bear out the statement that If a comparison of the effect* of re freshments on the memory and locomo tion of both Colonel Ros* and myself be made I will not suffer by th* contrast. ROLAND ELLIS. P. S.—Since writing the above, Hon. Joseph H. Hall, Mr. Guerry's law part ner, ha* stopped me on the street and stated that as he had been charged with the authorship of thte anonymous circular he wished to emphatically repudiate the authorship and all knowledge of the same, further stating that he denounced it personally. R- E. EVANS AND TURNER DENOUNCE INSINUATION To the Editor of The Journal: In your Issue of Friday, In an open letter addressed by Mr. DuPont Guerry, candidate for governor, to Messrs. Terrell and Estill, hte competitors for that high office, he makes charges or insinuation* Involving corruption In connection with the present convict lease and saying: "Should I become governor I will urge the general assembly to promptly and thoroughly Investigate thte entire subject with a view to ascertaining why such con victs were leased for such grossly inade quate consideration, and to discovering The Georgia Editors Have / Another Day of Joint Debate Darien Gazette: Colonel Estill continues to hustle for vote* —and he is getting ’em, too. The fifth of June will tell the tale. Vienna News: Joseph M. Terrell, candidate for governor, has been gaining votes in Dooly county considerably for the past few days. Eatonton Messenger: What has beepme of the high plane campaign that Mr. Terrell and his active friends were said to be conducting? Dublin Courier: If Hon. J. H. Estill has grown as fast In north Georgia during the past two weeks as he has In south Georgia his nomination as governor is sure. Quitman Free Press: The card writing form of a "jlnt sputement” ought to be more satis factory to a candidate than a mouth to mouth conflict. It reaches a larger audience. Milledgeville News: Sam Jones says he is not a Democrat. Then it seems to us that it is none of his business whether the Populists vote in the Democratic primary or not. Athens Banner: It is generally conceded that Mr Guerry will get a majority of the Populist vote- of the state. The Populists do not usually vote for a man who ha* fought them hard in the past. Pine Mountain Era: The vote in Meriwether county in 1900 was: Democratic, 785; Republi can 234: People's, 31; Prohibition, 17. In Harris —Democratic, 536; Republican, 422; People's, 47; Prohibition, 5. Buchanan Messenger: The good people of Georgia should give Mr. Guerry their support, for he is the only gubernatorial candidate who has had the courage to come out openly for ! prohibition in many years. Valdosta Times: Warner HUI and Dupont | Guerry are both Methodists, while Sydney Tapp J and Colonel Terrell are members of the same Baptist church in Atlanta. But these brethren are not dwelling together in unity. Carrollton Advocate: Carroll's level and cool headed citizens will n*er permit the impres sion to go abroad that their county is opposed to law and order and on June sth Joe Terrell will be indorsed. See if he don’t. Americus Herald: At Forsyth, Colonel Jo* TerreU opened his barrel of vltrol and poured it on to Guerry. On several occasion* Guerry has fired some powerful hot shot into Terrell. If what Terrell says is true the people of Geor gia should not vote for either one of them. Savannah Press: Terrell's friends are delight ed that he has “come back” at Mr. Guerry, while Mr. Guerry's supporters say that Mr. Terrell’s speech will do him no good and that Mr Guerry is better satisfied since he is be ginning to get Mr. Terrell “out of his hole.” Fort Valley Leader: Everybody understands why Joe Terrell is for prohibition; it has be come popular. Will the honest prohibitionist of Georgia, at Mr. Terrell's request, please tell him whether he or Dupont Guerry “has been truer to the cause of prohibition and tem perance.” Meriwether Vindicator: Did Mr. Guerry favor the railroad commission? Was he not opposed to the famous Olive railroad bill or the Berner railroad bill? How did he stand on the long and short haul bills? With the railroads. Ain't he a pretty fellow to talk about other folks being in favor of the railroads? FnXgerald Enterprise: Some of the papers op posed to Mr. Guerry are extremely wroth at Rev. Sam Jones for advocating his candidacy. WeTTre indifferent as to Mr. Jones’ support of Candidate Guerry, but in politics or out of it, we believe Sam Jones to be one of the smart est and one of the purest men in the south. McDuffie Journal: No preacher, however gifted and prominent, can enter the political arena and participate in political discussions, with the attendant personalities, invective* and GUERRY NOT CANDDATE OF PROHIBITION ELEMENT To the Editor of The Journal: The campaign now being made by Hon. Dupont Guerry 1s one that challenges crit icism from several points of view. In the first place, be is the self-proposed prohibition candidate for nomination as our Democratic governor for the ensuing term. He practically announced himself In that role in the speech he made May 5, 1900, at x-orsyth, Ga. Then, on June 3, 1901. he wrote a letter to The Sentinel, the prohibition paper published at Athens. Ga., In response to The Sentinel's appeal to the avowed and proposed candidates for the governor in 1902 to tell how they stood on the state prohibition question. In that letter he' said: “I do regard myself a proposed candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.” I do not question for an Instant Ms. Guerry’s right to propose himself as a for the nomination. Certainly. I have not been able to find who else “pro posed” him as such. The national Prohibi tion party 1s represented in Georgia, and it did not meet and propose him. The Georgia Prohibition association is an or ganization of long existence In the state, perhaps all of its members being Demo crats, and its purpose being to secure the adoptiqn and enforcement of local option under the general option law of the state, and yet it meet and propose him. The inter-denominational temperance com mittee was formed from representatives of the various church organizations of the state to advance prohibition legislation, and It did not meet and propose him. None of those organizations have assumed part In thte campaign, and there 1s no evidence existing that authorizes the belief that they feel bound to work for his nomina tion. Mr. Guerry raised the Issue of prohibi tion himself, and only when he knew, and no one else knew, that he was "a proposed candidate” for the governorship. He thought It a strong card to play to win the votes of those who are favorable to state prohibition. He refused to give the property holder* of the state the right to decide the liquor question locally In 1881. That was before the white primary system was devised and before so many negroes had disfran chised themselves under the tax clause of the constitution. The Hawes bill provided the safest way then for the white people to determine the liquor question, and had it been adopted, we would doubtless not have today the conditions which Mr. Guer ry says make prohibition necessary and himself necessary as governor of Geor gia. By hte own confession he helped to defeat what at the time was the best pro hibition measure ever offered in the Geor gia legislature. It seems very plain to many genuine prohibitionist* that Mr. Guerry ha* simply made this Issue the convenient one on which to ride himself into the gubernatorial race. He know* he cannot produce state pro hibition, nor as governor do more in its behalf than can Hon. Joe Terrell, and that the latter has said he will do when the opportunity is offered to him. There te. then, no paramount reason why a prohi bitionist should vote for Mr. Guerry oh that issue. Very respectfully, 54ARK J. M’CORD. whether any such officers have been gullty of negligence or corruption as such, and with a >view should any fraud be estab lished In the making or procurement of such lease, to have tije same declared void and the moneys wrongfully received by such lessee recovered and the offending officials appropriately punished.” This commission has had Its transac tions examined into and passed upon by every legislature since It was constituted, and shall not wait for either of the gen tlemen named above, or whosoever may be the next executive of Georgia to urge the investigation of every official act of each member of the commission, but will of Its own motion request the legislature to give this department a further thor ough and searching investigation. In or der that the base insinuation contained in thte letter may be refuted. All facts connected with the lease of convict labor In 1898, with the names of each bidder and amount offered, and the bias accepted were reported to the gen eral assembly of 1898, and widely publish ed, and any rumor or insinuation that there was negligence or corruption con nected therewith, or any fraud In the making or procurement of any lease, so far as either of the present commissioners are concerned. 1s maliciously false and de serves thte denunciation. Mr. Eason was not then a member of this commission, but the otter two sign ers were. JOSEPH 8. TURNER. CLEMENT A. EVANS, TOM EASON. coarse and ribbald bantering* without receiving at least a portion of the smut aAd slime of the conflict. And for this the church, of which he is an exponent, must suffer. Early County New*: If the people of South Georgia do not line up and vote solidly for Mr. J. H. Estill for governor, they should step whining about North Georgia getting all the political plums. We do not blame North Geor gia for reaching out after the plums, but we do blame South Georgia for not getting her share, and then after the election is over call ing North Georgia selfish an*other hard names. Winder Democrat: It haa been reported in the news from Winder tn various papers that there was a Guerry club at this place with more than members. On last Saturday ev ening an effort was made to have a meeting and organize the club, but there were not enough present to complete an organization, and the meeting broke up and went out of busi ness. Griffin Mr. Guerry’s latest point of at tack is the Georgia prison commission, citing the well-known fact that the present lease of the convicts was made- for just one-half what their labor was worth, as i* conclusively proven by the additional fact that the state gets 98 apiece and one lessee subleases them for just twice that sum, whereby the state loses hun dreds of thousands of dollars annually. Columbus Ledger: The letter that went to Walter B. Hill instead of Warner Hill is mak ing a stir in politics ju*t at present, but with a little reflection, no sensible man will blame Mr Terrell or his campaign managers for a matter over which they had no control, and for ! which they were in nowise responsible. iNo J candidate should be held responsible for a let -1 ter some of his fool friends might write. Be • sides, there are often put-up jobs In such mat ters. Tatnall Journal: As Is seen by reports from every section of the state, the sentiment favor ing Colonel J. H. Estill for governor is being swelled day by day, until now his prospects for the governorship are extremely flattering. This does hot come as idle flattery, but comes from people who appreciate real worth and merit, who w ill back their views by ballots cast in favor of the South Georgia gentleman, who is asking no more than his dues, the governorship of the Empire State of the South. Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Captain Wiley Wil liams' race for state prison commissioner seems to have thrown consternation into the camps of the Eason men In Telfair county, since they have kidnaped a newspaper and suppressed it because of its advocacy of the captain's cause. Telfair is the home coun ty of Mr. Eason, but Captain Williams’ friends there confidently claim that he will carry that county without difficulty. Captain Williams is making a telling campaign. Georgia Cracker: Candidates Terrel! and Guerry and their lieutenants are engaged in a tierce war of words, making charges and coun ter charges world without end. Candidate Es till, In the meentt’re, is going quietly among the people, meeting them face to face and tell ing them how he stands upon every question in which they are interested. Indications are growing that he will be the next governor of Georgia, as the people want a fair, honest, con servative business man and Christian gentle man as their chief executive. Ellijay Courier: Mr. Dupont Guerry is the prohibition and anti-railroad candidate for governor of Georgia. Hon. Joseph M. Terrell seems to have turned the tables on Mr. Guerry by proving by the records of the legislature that he voted against the temperance bills. Mr. Guerry was also a railroad lawyer. He comes from Bibb, a whisky county, and hl* law partner, a whisky man, represents that county. They do hot even run dry candidates there* We have aa aye on your record, Mr. Quarry, Joint Debate THE JOURNAL DOES NOT “SMOTHER” NEWS To the Editor of The Journal: The Journal’s joint debate is an enjoya ble feature, and I wish to express my ap preciation of your notable fairness and lib erality toward all the gubernatorial can-, I didates, but at the same time I regret thst few of the other papers have shown an equal spirit of fair dealing, and it is this attitude of the press against whipb I would warn the people. I think the policy declared by the big dailies—the one of not championing the cause of any individual candidate—a most commendable one if it were carried out in good faith. It were far more honorable to fight a man openly, however, in the editorial columns than to adopt the un derhanded and much more effective meth od of smothering him in the news col umns. Thte process of smothering Mr. Guerry was exposed by a clipping from ’ the Cobh County Vindicator, which ap peared in The Journal a few days since. It tells that Mr. TerreU and Mr. Guerry both visited Calhoun, and how the local paper in writing up the occasions gave Mr. Guerry six lines and a column or •more to Mr. Terrell, and then shows that this is the cour*/ that has been pursued by the dallies of the state. Now I maintain with the above men tioned paper that the dally press has not dealt fairly with Guerry; that while de claring themselves to be entirely non-' partisan, they have really fought him in a very telling and not very praiseworthy manner. Now, as cannot be denied, ths thing that has gained Terrell more sup port than anything else.-is ths impresston that became general some months ago that his election was certain, and th* papers have given Terrell the best support he could desire by keeping up this im pression with their smothering process. Whenever Guerry makes a speech or hi* friends any demonstration some obscura corner is allotted to It, while Terrell’s do ings and sayings are chronicled 1n bold headlines. This is only one of the few unjust methods that have been practiced by some hypocritical papers, but I am glad that there is sti» enough of the old Anglo-Saxon spirit left among us to de mand fair play, for. as the Vindicator says, public' sentiment has caused them to mend their course somewhat recently. The above course has deceived many who would support Guerry, for, as they do not like to cast their ballots In vain, they will cast them elsewhere, as this clipping from a South Georgia paper shows: “We call attention to "the fact that some men are about to be deceived by the saying, ‘Guerry cannot be elected, therefore let us vote for Estill.’ This is neither patriotic nor politic; it is decep tive. For a Guerry man to vote for Estill is virtually to vote for Terrell.” So. Mr. Editor. I would admonish th* people not to be deceived by these meth ods, for no man has a cinch on the gov ernorship. but Guerry's chances are great- ’ er than any other, for It is a fact, admit ted by those opposed to him, that he 1* making rapid strides forward each day. Does anybody know what Terrell stand* for? True, he say* he is a rock-ribbed Democrat, but how can a man’s position on the Kansas City platform affect th* local problems confronting us in Georgia? True, he says he favors—not very em phatic-certain things, and will not op- • pose others if the people wish them. In other words, his position is a negative one. On the other hand, everybody know* where Dupont Guerry stands. Some insinuation* have been made about Guerry’s motives. I recently had an ex ample of his incorruptible purity brought to my notice. A friend of mine in a ces*._ tafrucounty tendered Mm about a hundred votes from a body of men that were some what doubtful because of the time th* men were resident in the county. And though men of known integrity had ac cepted them before him, and though they might possibly determine that county, h* refused them. May the day soon com* when the people of Georgia will put in of fice such noble characters as this instead of pot politicians. Yours respectfully, J J. F. CARSWELL, j Hephzibah, Ga. RENDER TERRELL REVIEWS GUERRY’S RAILROAD RECORD To the Editor of i’he Journal: In the present political campaign Mr, Guerry seems disposed to arrogate to hia»»> self, amongst other things, the attributell of "Tribune of the People,” and to appro priate to himself the entire field of pa triotism and devetion to the Interest ** the state. Amongst others things, he asserts that if he shall be elected to-the office of gov ernor he will see to it that taxation win be laid with an equal hand upon the poor and rich alike, upon the natural person M well as the corporation, and especially tw i This is a proper and commendable spirit in which to approach this great question, and the friends of Mr. TerreU, who throughout his whole life ha* been devoted to that greatest of all Democratic prin ciples, “Equal rights to all aiM privileges to none," hall with pleasure tM* j evidence of a change of heart upon part of Mr. Guerry. It was not always thus. There were other time* in hl* career when, if we treat what he said a* an in dex to what he thought, he did not look with unmlxed favor upon tlie effort* of the state of Georgia to compel th* rail road corporations to*pay their just propor tion of taxes. It will be remembered that once upon * time that distinguished and strenuotto gentleman was of the general counsel for the Georgia Southern and Florida Ra ‘*' road company, and also of Mr. W. "■&- Sparks, who in the case of McTye, et al, against the Macon Construction company, was appointed receiver of the above men tioned railroad company. In the year 1890 an act was passed by the general assem bly which made the properties of the rail road companies In this state liable to tax ation by municipal -corporation*. Th* Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad company refused to pay taxes to the mu nicipal corporations levied in accordance with this act upon its unlocated person*! property, and as appears from the recurs in Bibb superior court the cities of ta, Macon, Cordele, Vienna, Tifton atei Adel, all lying along the line of its road, brought suit to compel the receiver to pa? these taxes. This officer by and through his counsel, Messrs. Gustin, Guerry * Hall, attacked the act as unconstitUttoß*A alleging that the legislature had no pW' er to rrtake the railroad company paY taxes to municipal corporations upojt** rolling stock and other unlocated personal ty. Strangely enough, when the lignt of hte recent utterances, »» great apostle of tax reform, now posing the solitary patriot in Georgia, spoke of the unregenerate sons of the state w ho composed the general assembly in the year 1890, and who had the hardinood to at-1 tempt to place upon the railroad compa- ( nies thte just and equitable charge, in ■ these words: “That the attempt of the legislature to authorize the said town* to so tax the said railroad company is not a just exercise of the taxing power upon the part of anybody, but is a use of , er by it for the confiscation of the property < of this corporation for the use of «aid . towns.” How would the name of the distinguish ed gentleman now under discussion Ip o * signed to that statement at the present time, and yet the name of his law flrm was signed to the paper in which the above mentioned charge was made as the paid counsel of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad company. This cause was decided by the superior court in favor of the cities named, and the receiver was required to pay the taxes in the aggregate sum of 83.973.41, with interest Not content, however, with this decteton. Continued on Page Five.