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THURSDAY. MAY 22. 1902.
After all, ft is the carpenter who ele-
Wtes the stage.
John W» Gate- ears an honest man has
no trastneea tn Wall street.
The Panama canal lobby can feel that
**■ i poor earthquake that blows no
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Candidate Terrell eUll maintains the po
sition of a man who has nothing to arbi
trate.
The miners' motto seems to be. "If at
first you don't succeed, strike, strike
again !"
Hon. Henry G. Turner again denies
’ complicity In the Estill gubernatorial
boom.
It will be observed that Candidate Guer
ry hasn’t yet lost the Tapp off his pre-
Up to the hour of going to press Candi
date Estill still had his confidence on
straight.
That St. Pierre story seems to have been
•ne that the correspondents couldn't ex-
I aggerate
We are beginning to fear that Candidate
Guerry may yet run into his pacemaker,
■ Herr Joe.
p . It appears that the other brigands
made more money out of Miss Stone than
Major Pond is making.
David B. Hill should take advantage of
Mr. Bryan's abeence in Cuba to give his
presidential boom a trial trip.
As an illustration of how trusts help to
lower prices, we are constrained to say the
beef trust is a rank failure.
Blondes are said to be coming in fashion
again. This is calculated to give a decid
ed Impetus to the peroxide market.
If the Methodists don't want that mon
ey. they can save themselves a whole lot
es trouble by just handing it over to us.
We had no idea that Pittsburg was go
ing to allow St. Pierre or any other place
to get ahead of it in the explosion line.
It will be generally admitted that rid
ing in the band wagon beats walking—if
you only knew which band wagon to
ride in. ’
Nevertheless Captain Hobson's eye
sight does not seem to be so impaired that
be doesn't know a good thing when he
zee* it.
Somebody mentions Richard Olney as
a possible Democratic Moses. We still
insist that what we really need is a
, Joshua.
Tbtf Republicans show a disposition to
make the territories give a bond not to go
Democratic before admitting them into
the Union.
We sincerely hope Candidate Guerry will
Mot carry his efforts at securing a joint
•abate to the extent of mandamusing his
opponents.
Greene and Gaynor should stop to re
flect that the longer they keep out of jail
the older they'll be when they finish their
sentences.
There are only three candidates in the
race for governor. But there are some
people In Georgia who could just as easily
support four.
And now we propose to make Cuba
adopt an American code of laws. This, of
course, will enable them to take their an
nexation easier, •
We would respectfully suggest to the
Hon. Jim Smith that he ought to first con
sult a clairvoyant before butting into the
gubernatorial game.
King Alfonso's mother should be careful
to see that the young fellow doesn't get
hold of too many mince pies during the
coronation festivities.
We again suggest that the people of
Pittsburg who have not been blown up
during the past few years should form a
Survivors' association.
The Nicaragua Canal bill is likely to lie
over until it can be definitely decided
whether or not Nicaragua is going to be
all there after the next volcano goes off.
We are not entirely clear as to whether
or not the Hon. Tom Watson or the fif
teenth amendment is the paramount issue
in the tenth district congressional race.
A Kentucky preacher recently coughed
up a rusty nail while preaching. A
preacher who can do that oughn't to have
any trouble drawing large congregations.
Count Tolstoi has written a vigorous
letter to the exar demanding a constitu
tion for Russia. Count Tolstoi evidently
does not take his recent deaths seriously.
Senator Hanna asks the miners to name
their very best terms before he takes any
further steps. The pc or man must be
dreaming that he is running another cam
paign.
Only three members of congress object
ed to extending prompt relief to Martin
ique. Thus the average of decency is
shown to be pretty large for a body of
that size
Mark Twain has been elected a mem
ber of young Mr. Rockefeller's Sunday
tehool class. But our unbiased opinion is
that Mark needs a whole missionary all
to himself.
One hundred bulls are to be used In fur
nishing entertainment during King Al
fonso's coronation festivities From the
•pantehtotandpoint this ought to insure a
bully time.
A late bulletin from Macon announces
that the Hon. Joe Hall is again wearing
his "smoke cap." But the neighboring
inhabitants haven’t yet begun to fle.e for
their lives.
When the person tn a St. bouts congre
gation last Sunday who had never told a
lie was asked to arise, nobody got up.
That congregation is to be commended for
its truthfulness.
ATTEMPTING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Some of our northern exchanges have
expressed surprise that the Federation of
Woman's clubs at its recent session in
Loe Angeles adbpted by an overwhelm
ing majority a resolution that can have
no other result than the drawing of a
dear and Indelible color line in that or
ganisation.
There are some leading northern jour
nals. however, that take the sensible view
of this matter.
One of these is the Chicago Tribune,
the leading newspaper of a very large
section, and it says of the recent contest
and its result:
"As was anticipated, the Federation of
Women's Clubs at lam Angeles has set
tled the much vexed color question in a
yes and no way. the noes having it by an
overyhelmlng majority. The discussion
did not materialise, however, in the man
ner that was anticipated. Instead of a
struggle between Massachucetts and Geor
gia. the Htarties directly concerned, the
struggle was between Illinois and Georgia.
Sifting it down, it was between Chicago
and Georgia. Reduced to its last analysis,
it was Jane Addams of Hull House and
Dr. Frances Dickinson, of Chicago,
against the field. They made a good fight,
but when it came to a show of hands the
rout was complete. Even Massachusetts
failed to stand up for its "idea." The
fight was made on the clause of the by
laws which says:
" The president shall refer all applica
tions for membership to a committee ap
pointed by the board of directors for its
action upon the same. The action of the
committee on membership shall be in
writing and a unanimous vote of the com
mittee shall be required to elect. In case
the committee fail to agree the applica
tion shall be referred to the whole board,
the written vote of two-thirds of which
shall be necessary to elect to member
ships.’
"The forlorn hope sought to amend by
making a three-fifths vote of the commit
tee necessary to elect. They fought des
perately. but in vain. So as the matter
stands colored clubs may Apply for ad
mission and they can get in as far as the
committee on membership, but only to
find an impassable barrier. Even if they
could surmount it they would run up
against another in the shape of the writ
ten vote of two-thirds of the directors.
The federation will make no distinction as
to race or colob. It sustains that idea.
Georgia concedes it gracefully because it
Involves no ulterior consequences. The
whole federation recognises its colored
sisters across an impassable gulf, for as
long as section three stands as it is no
membership committee will let the colored
clubs cross the gulf.
"The colored clubs may think the white
clubs 'palter with us in a double sense’
and ’keep the word of promise to our ear
and break it to our hope,’ but, after all,
the action of the federation was wise, pre
suming that Its Intention is to keep itself
ifitact and thus preserve its usefulness
from being impaired. From any other
point of view it is not likely any self
respecting colored organisation desires
admission, and those which are not self
respecting certainly should not be admit
ted. With this question settled, there Is
no longer any disturbing problerfi in the
federation. Its machinery should now run
smoothly. In the meantime, it will be use
less to deny that its members have diplo
matic ability. An organisation that can
vote to admit clubs to its membership
and at the same time make membership
impossible has talents which would shine
in a political convention. They are not,
tn any event, to be criticised for their ac
tion They have followed the example of
the sex which has had far greater expe
rience in deliberative and other organi
sations."
After all, it was not a question of ad
mitting or rejecting the representatives
of negro women’s clubs. The issue really
was the continuance or the destruction
of an organisation that has accomplished
great good already and will do much
more If it shall be kept Intact. The ad
vocates of social equality are at
tempting the impossible in this instance,
as in every other instance in which they
have endeavored to obliterate distinctions
which the great majority of the Caucus
elan race believe are based upon essen
tials of race and characteristics, not upon
accidents of color.
They are making an absolutely hopeless
fight.
The closer home this question is brought
to white men and white women every
where the more evident does it become
that the superior race is pretty much a
unit in a determination to preserve its
domination, both social and political,
whatever theorists may say, or statutes
decree. .
IT IS A HARD WAY.
The fact that the, grip of the law has
reached Greene and'Gaynor In their fan
cied safe Canadian retreat is another il
lustration of the everlasting truth that
the way of the transgressor is hard;
These men, after fleeing the country and
forfeiting their bonds, have exhibited an
insolence and mocked the United States
government in a manner that makes their
arrest especially gratifying.
There is a very general belief that these
men were the arch-conspirators who made
the plot to rob the governmet in which
Oberlin M. Carter engaged and for partici
pation in which he is now serving a penal
sentence.
Their entire conduct and bearing since
their Indictment has been disgusting to the
public. It has created the impression that
they have been trying to bluff and bully
their way out of the toils of the law.
Their capture will have a good moral ef
fect which will be heightened Immensely
if all efforts to secure their release on
technicalities shall be defeated.
District Attorney Erwin has handled the
prosecution of this case with admirable
ability and has pursued these fugitives
from justice with a persistency and skill
that have won for him very high distinc
tion.
He is confident that he has the game se
curely bagged and we have great confi
dence in his judgment on that point.
A PERPLEXING TASK.
The northern division of the Presbyte
rian church in this country has a trouble
on hand that will take up a great part of
its general assembly, now in session in
New York.
For many years past the opinion has
been growing in that branch of the Pres
byterian church that its creed needed lib
eralization in some particulars.
The general church council last year or
dered the appointment of a committee and
instructed it to prepare "a brief state
ment of the reformed faith, expressed, as
far as possible, in untechnical terms.” It
was not intended that the new statement
should be used as "a substitute for or
an alternative of our confession of faith,”
but simply for the purpose of giving "in
formation and a better understanding of
our doctrinal beliefs.”
The idea seems to have been that the
cretd could be stated in away that would
remove the objections of those who con
sider it too narrow, ft is said, however,
that the revision committee has taken
greater latitude than was generally ex
pected and in its statement has treated a
wide range of subjects, including God.
revelation, eternal purpose, the creation,
the sin of the man. the grace of God,
our Lord Jesus Christ, faith and repent
ance, the life, the resurrection, the
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902.
life to come, the church and the sacra
ments.
According to the reports, the proposed
changes in the creed will make it com
paratively mild. It makes a distinct de
claration that the Presbyterian church
does not indorse any fatalistic doctrines
and the article on election is left other
wise untouched.
The old confession teaches that "elect
infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated
and saved by Christ through the Spirit,
who worketh when and where and how
He pleaseth.” The new declaration mere
ly states that the church does not hold
that non-elect Infants dying in infancy are
damned.
Among the sections to be taken up for
revision are the one about good works
*done by unregenerate man, the one de
nouncing the pope as anti-Christ and the
one in regard to the taking of an oath.
Two new sections are added—one as to
the work of the Holy Spirit and the other
as to Christian missions. It is feared that
this so-called revision will please neither
party.
It is very generally predicted that the
report of the revision committee will please
neither the extreme liberals or the ex
treme conservatives.
The committee has tried to lay down a
statement upon which all elements could
agree, but as may be readily imagined,
that will be a very hard thing to do.
ELECTION OF SENATORS.
Senator Vest is one of the few Demo
cratic leaders who has spoken out against
the election of United States senators by
popular vote. This reform has been urged
persistently for several years by Demo
cratic legislatures and conventions.
Ths Democratic members of the senate
are almost solidly in favor of the proposed
change, but Senator Vest always -speaks
out his mind and nobody will question the
sincerity of his expressed convictions on
any public question. He thinks that the
senate should be kept a conservative body,
as the framers of the constitution intend
ed that it should be, and he fears that
the attempted Innovation would tend to
make it more subject to waves of populat
passion.
In the opinion of Senator Vest the coun
try has more confidence in a senate elected
by a small number of select representa
tives of the people than it would have in
one chosen by the masses of the people
themselves. He thinks that the proposed
change would destroy the system of
checks and balances which is so useful in
our bi-cameral system of federal legisla
tion.
Senator Vest makes very much the same
argument on this question that Senator
Hoar has presented several times. It is
certainly not the popular view. The pub
lic does not believe that less capable or
less honest senators would be chosen by
popular vote than we get by the present
method of electing them.
It has been demonstrated often that
seats in the senate are bought out and out
from legislatures and there is no reason to
suppose that there would be as much
corruption in popular elections of senators
as there is under the present system. If
the senate would only permit the states to
pass upon the proposition we have no
doubt that the constitution would be
amended so as to provide for the election
of senators by the people.
It will probably be a long time before
two-thirds of the senate will agree to give
the states a chance to institute this re
form.
The house has passed three times a reso
lution to submit an amendment on this
question, but the senate has either Ignored
or rejected every measurp of that kind
that has come before it.
THE GEORGIA PEACH CROP.
Great Injustice has been done the Geor
gia peach interest by the grossly exagger
ated reports that have been sent abroad
concerning the effect of the late cold
snaps on the peach crop of this state.
The idea that the price can be advanced
by the circulation of rumors of this sort
is a great mistake. The northern and
western markets have for years past de
pended upon Georgia for the earliest
peaches of the season. They never receive
from any source better peaches than
Georgia supplies, and few as good.
On the arriva| in Boston, several years
ago, of a large shipment of Georgia
peaches The Herald, of that city, publish
ed an editorial headed "Real Peaches" in
which it said that the people of Boston
always looked to Georgia for the best
peaches they can possibly get.
To create the impression that Georgia
will have few peaches to ship this season
will nave a very bad effect upon the de
mand for that luscious fruit. (
If the people of the north and west are
made to believe that there will be very
few first-class peaches obtainable in Geor
gia this year, the commission merchants
in those sections will arrange to get their
supply of peaches from other sources.
It is true that the peach crop of Georgia
will not be as large as It promised to be
earlier In the season. It was cut off con
siderably by late frosts, but there is the
best authority for saying that there will
be nearly, if not quite, as many Georgia
peaches for shipment this season as there
were last season, and the fruit will be of
quite as good quality. This is the opinion
of Mr. Scott, the ’ state entomologist,
whom we have always found to be very
conservative and reliable in his predic
tions.
He has recently been over the main
peach regions of the state, and his esti
mates, we are convinced, will be very near
ly realized.
Georgia will have peaches to sell right
and left this season, and those who want
the best article of this kind tnat can ever
be had may cheer up.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Widows are a vintage with a sharp flavor.
There are no despotisms out of the realms
of the cooks.
Being silly may not be advisable, but it keeps
worry at a distance.
To get old gracefully is as reasonable as to
stop breathing cheerfully.
When a strong man grows weak it Is a wo
man he seeks for a crutch.
The more you do for a man the madder he
Is with you for not doing more.
People who parade their virtues encourage
others Into parading their vices.
The way to make at least one enemy Is to
do a favor for at least one man.
Even the ice man finds fault in hot weather
berause he has to keep on moving.
Some men are not content with being treated
well; they want to be treated often.
Every time you forget to remember to tell a
woman you love her she forgets you do.
It has been said that no two men ever think
alike—yet a great many widows remarry.
Touth will follow the torch in any one's
hand; age wishes to carry It In its own hand.
Since the day of Mother Eve all the woild
has been searching for a pretty Kiri who did
not know it.
When a couple start on their wedding Jour
nev each Is thinking of what it will cost them,
b\>t his loss he figures In money.
Probably Helen of Troy pretended she
couldn't for the life of her imagine why men
bothered her running after her.
If people could be young without being green
and sentimental without being soft th* world
would be at the mercy of youth.
he Journal s
HIGH TRIBUTE TO ESTILL
FROM HOME OF SAVANNAHIAN
SAVANNAH?Ga., May 15, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
Dear Sir—Your columns have been open
for some time to the candidates for gov
ernor and their friends to place before the
public the claims and qualifications of the
gentlemen who are aspirants for this high
office.
From various parts of the state advo
cates of Mr. Terrell and Mr. Guerry have
presented their reasons for supporting their
candidate, and have set forth his fitness
and his superiority over all others. No
one from the county of Chatham has
hitherto availed himself of the use of
your columns to endorse the gentleman
who hails from her borders. It is due to
him that from his own home and commu
nity there should be an appeal to the vot
ers of the state for their suffrages, and
thereby contradict that old adage that a
prophet is not without honor save in his
own country.
John Holbrook Estill, by his own exer
tions, without the advantages of inherit
ed wealth or position, has attained suc
cess in business and a prominent place in
the community in which he has lived from
boyhood. His success is not the result of
lucky speculative investments, but the le
gitimate fruits of untiring energy and in
dustry, and a wise and judicious manage
ment of a particular line of business. His
attainments were not acquired in the
halls of learning, but in the busy marts
of commerce, by attrition with other
minds, and the storing up of experience
gathered in the struggle of life.
Notwithstanding the exacting character
of his business and its demands upon his
time, he has not allowed himself to be
entirely absorbed in the acquisition of
property, but he has devoted much of hie
time and attention to matters of public
Interest. As a county commissioner he has
contributed much to the material inter
ests of Chatham county, to the develop
ment of its agricultural condition and the
building of good roads. He has been a
prominent and valuable member of the
board bf public education of the county,
and is the head of one of the noblest be
nevolent institutions in the state.
As president of the Union society he has
been largely instrumental in perpetuating
and enlarging a charity founded by Whit
field and fostered by Lady Huntingdon, an
institution which has secured to the state
of Georgia many active and industrious
citizens, who, without the care and train
ing bestowed upon them by this society,
would have grown up in poverty and ig
norance.
Mr. Estill, having overcome the obsta
cles that opposed his advancement, and
having acquired a large-and varied ex
perience, very naturally desires to serve
the state in a higher and more exalted
position. He is actuated by a laudable am
bition to round out and complete his ca
reer as governor of the state. His aspira
tion is honorable and commendable, not
begotten by lust for power, nor from a
selfish purpose to promote some scheme
to despoil the state or debauch the people,
or to foster any grasping or unscrupulous
enterprise.
Mr. Estill deplores the feeling of sec
tionalism that has often prevailed in
this state, and the narrow and partisan
exercise of this spirit which has almost
excluded some sections of the state from
participating In the advancement of her
interests, and has restricted not only the
emoluments, but the honors of many im
portant stations to the favored few in the
favored localities, and often to the mem
bers of a self-constituted and shrewdly
organised cabal or ring. , *
He recognizes that there are able and
patriotic men in all parts of the Empire
state, capable of representing her at home
and abroad, not only in the discharge of
duties in the state, but as delegates to the
various assemblages that are convened to
promote commerce, manufacturing, agri
culture,labor,art, science and finance. And
he will make it his special care to select,
when the power to so do devolves on him,
from all sections of the state the men
who shall represent Georgia in these con
ventions.
Mr. Estill is a man of broad and liberal
views. He fully appreciates the advan
tages of combined capital properly direct
ed, but he deprecates thfct unlawful ag
gregation of wealth, which seeks to de
stroy competition and enhance the costs
of the necessities of life to gratify the in
satiate greed of the multi-millionaires.
Worthy enterprises that contribute to
build up the material Interests of the state
and afford increased facilities to the peo
ple he would not have harassed with op
pressive and partisan legislation, but he
would recommend and enforce all laws
wisely enacted to prevent monopoly, and
to require efficient service by corporations
endowed with valuable franchises.
He will strenuously uphold the comp
troller general in his insistence on proper
tax returns by railroads, and other cor
porations, so that they may beat- their
share of the burden of taxation in return
for the privileges and franchises granted
them.
We are sure that the rule of the ring
will be abolished, cleaner political meth
ods will prevail. Fitness, not favoritism,
will be the basis of appointment to office,
and there will be no sinecures. As far as
the executive can control it, there will be
a full day's work for a full day’s pay.
Mr. Estill has not sought to advance his
cause by belittling his opponents He has
not impugned their motives, nor accused
them of unpatriotic or unselfish aims. He
has not sought to magnify simple,
harmless acts into plots to defraud and to
deceive. Neither he nor his supporters
have waged a campaign of abuse, nor re
sorted to silly treiks to mislead or preju
dice the people against his competitors.
The simple courtesy of a railroad con
ductor in affording to a candidate the op
portunity for few’ moments' conference
with a friend or the sending of a tele
gram to save and secure a desired con
nection in travel is not distorted into nor
denounced as the acts of a subservient
employe of a corporation to aid a favored
candidate. We may safely assert that by
no accident would a misdirected letter be
sent to the headquarters of an opponent
to be used to mislead and misconstrue a
simple request. The Dunn letter was bad
ly handled: the recoil was more disas
trous to the manipulator than the con
tents of the letter to its writer. Chauncel
lor Hill will regret that he permitted the
letter to be Tapped.
Allowing that it was an accident, the
opportunity was afforded to Chancellor
Hill to repair the accident, when he was
requested to authorize the use of the let
ter. He should have promptly and per
emptorily demanded its return to him.
It is of no special concern to the sup
porters of Mr. Estill whether the deliv
ery of the letter to Mr. Tapp was acci
dental or otherwise. The misuse of this
harmless epistle bv those who so loudly
profess to be conducting a campaign of
reform is what "attracts our special won
der.” The occurrence ought to lead the
Impartial voter to select as his candidate
one whose career has been clean and free
from any unfair advantage. No such acci
dent has marred the course of Mr. Estill’s
canvass.
Mr. Estill has sought the personal ac
quaintance of the voters of the state in
all the walks of life, the farmer, the la
borer. the merchant, and all the avoca
tions of life. He has mingled with the
people that they might know what man
ner of man he is. He has not harangued
them from the platform, elevated above
them, but has met them on the level, nor
has he deluged them with printers' ink.
•The relative merits of the rival candi
dates tray lie compared after this wise:
Mr. Terrell desires the office of governor
as the exalted finale of his political career
in the state, and as an Important, if not
necessary Qpening to a career in national
politics. The governor's office is not the
end of his ambition. He has other aims.
His political horizon has a
uueii co me (iiiDernatoriaf Canoicate6
and Their friends for the Discussion of
the Issues Involved in the Present Race.
and his policy must be framed to ad
vance these higher aspirations. How far
his desire to promote the welfare of the
state may be hampered by his private
ambitions we may not be able to fore
tell, but we know that men and measures
are too often molded and modified to meet
a popular fallacy rather than secure a
public good, and the pressure of political
associations are often more potent than
good intentions. President Roosevelt has
recently expressed admiration for the
brave Confederates and the sublime de
votion of the south to their principles,
however much he may differ from them,
and has manifested a desire to promote
peace and harmony between the sections,
yet this high and honorable purpose was
powerless in the face of the demands of
his party, and considerations of his own
popularity at the north, and he kept a
negro in a high and important office, con
trary to the firm and respectful protest
of a refined and intelligent community.
Mr. Guerry, if we are to accept his
more recent utterances, as indicative of
his platform, will endeavor to revolution
ize the policy of the state In regard to the
sale of intoxicating liquors. Local option,
which has met with so much favor and
has in a marked degree advanced the
cause of temperance in the state, is to be
supplanted by prohibition, and the de
moralizing influences of the "blind tiger"
and secret traffic in intoxicants are to fol
low this drastic experiment in reform.
Mr. Guerry's theories are not in accord
with the escutcheon _j>f Georgia, "wisdom,
justice and moderation.” Extremists are
not the safest guardians of the public wel
fare. They may serve a good purpose as
a counter irritant to keep public senti
ment in a condition of healthy activity,
but they db not advance the great mate
rial interests of a state. They are as
medicine to the body politic, not nutri
ment.
In John Holbrook Estill we have a com
petent, careful, conservative man. All
of his energies will be devoted to the de
velopment of his state. No part of his
administration will be directed to his
own political aggrandizement, or the con
struction of fences to protect his future
political career.
Erratic theories and impracticable de
mands from a lanatlcal governor will not
disturb the harmony that ought to exist
between the two co-ordinate branches of
the government—the legislative and the
executive.
Mr. Estill will fill the measure of his
highest ambition by proving himself to
be an able governor, whose wise policy
and watchful care will enrich the treas
ury with a comfortable balance. Instead
of Increasing the load of indebtedness, and
by maintaining harmonious relations with
all the departments of the government,
secure to the state th® full performance
of official duty with the regularity and
correctness of perfected machinery.
Chatham county presents to the voters
of this state a man who is religious with
out being intolerant; an earnest advocate
of temperance without being a fanatic;
a resident of that section of the state
which should now have the honor of pre
senting a governor to the people. No
more opportune time than at present to
recognize the claims of southern Georgia
to furnish the man, and no more available
candidate to fill the place than John Hol
brook Estill. We ask his election in the
interest of harmony and pure govern
ment. Yours truly,
J. R. SAUSBY.
GUERRY WILLING TO
TACKLE RENDER IN DEBATE
To the Editor of The Journal:
It seems that neither Col. Estill nor Col.
Terrell is going to accept your invitation
to joint discussion or answer my position
and questions as submitted, and yet they
relate to subjects involved in the guber
natorial campaign and of vitaJ interest to
the people of Georgia.
■ Public discussion of any character of
any question seems rather foreign to Col.
Estill’s plan of campaign; but what of Col.
Terrell? Is he still “absent?” And has
he left with his brother, J. R. Terrell, a
power of attorney NOT to represent him,
but only to mlsrepreeent me?
Certainly the campaign committee and
jnanager have shown ample inclination
and ability for misrepresentation in news,
paper contributions and circular literature
for a "high plane” campign.
“A long-felt want” Is foj. some one in
the family or out of it to disclose Col.
Terrell’s position on the great questions
involved, and which I have submitted to
him for answer in your columns and from
time to time otherwise.
If Col. Terrell is still "absent,” and his
brother, Mr. J. R. Terrell, has power to
so act, and in the colonel’s name, why
not have the disclosure in this form rather
than not have it at all? The original
questions will be found in the Journal of
May Ist.
Should Mr. J. R. Terrell see fit to so act.
I ask that he also answer the following
questions since raised:
1. Did not Col. J. M. Terrell, while at
torney general, and while as such the le
gal adviser and representative of the state,
as to the leases and sub-leases of convict
labor, take fees as a lawyer from the
lessee as such and for services rendered
him as such, concerning the lease whereby
that lessee secured convict labor at or
about fifty cents in the dollar of its since
proven value?
2. Did not Col. Terrell, as senator, in
1891, vote against that great measure of
state prohibition known as our three-mile
liquor law, enacted to protect our country
churches and schools from the curses of
the liquor traffic?
Should Mr. Warner Hill continue to be
absent so as not to be able to accept my
challenge to Col. Terrell and him to joint
debate in Atlanta, I would accept Mr. J.
R. Terrell as his substitute although,
perhaps, a heavier weight champion.
The public will, of course, understand
I am offering these inducements in order
to meet my distinguished opponent him
self. and that we may meet as friends, I
now freely, fully and forever forgive him
for all the personal attacks he has made
on me, and publicly and unconditionally
retract all personal attacks, if any, I may
have made on him. Yours truly.
DU PONT GUERRY.
SAYS HIS OPPONENTS ARE
MISREPRESENTING HIM
ADRIAN. Ga., May 17, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
I beg leave to say to the people of Geor
gia through the columns of your great
and widely circulated paper, that there are
now being circulated through newspapers,
campaign literature, and individuals trav
eling all over the state (w’ho seem to be
employed for the purpose), misrepresenta
tions of my positions and political record,
in many instances absolutely reversing the
same, and also personal charges, not only
absolutely untrue, but without the shadow
of foundation.
It is impossible for me to deny, much
less discuss, all or any comparatively con
siderable number of them, and I find that
when I do deny and make plain the truth,
the misrepresentations are published in
the papers and in literature and otherwise
all over the state, not only without my de
nials, but with the assumption and some
times with the statement that I have not
denied.
This is the only answer being made to
my positions and candidacy, but the same
will doubtless continue and grow worse,
and I therefore beg leave to put the peo
ple of Georgia who love fairness on notice
as to what is going on and what to expect,
asking all other papers to publish, not so
lost to justice and honor, as to be parties
to the gross wrongs of which I complain.
Those so engaged and the traveling
slanderers of me personally, I defy to do
their worst. Yours truly,
v DI’PONT GUERRY.
MR. GUERRY MAKES
TART REPLY TO HILL
To the Editor of The Journal:
While Mr. Warner Hill declines my
challenge to him for joint debate, and
thus refuses to meet me face to face be
fore the people of Georgia to make his
untrue and absurd charges on the subject
of lobbyism, I see that he continues to
badger me in his safe retreat, as appears
in his letter published in The Constitution
of yesterday, and 1 beg leave now,
through your courtesy, to briefly reply to
that communication.
Mr. Hill notes the fact that he had
made this charge before and I had not
answered it. The truth is that in his
former communication he most viciously
and falsely accused my friend and partner,
Mr. Hall, of this crime, and sought to
involve me in it indirectly; and Mr. Hall
has since then most emphatically denied
and refuted the charge and insinuation as
to both of us. «
It must be obvious that thia attack of
Mr. Hill is not only personal, but that it
proceeds from personal animosity, though
the public may not be advised as to the
history out of which this animosity has
grown. At this particular time there were
some controversies between Mr. Sparks
and Mr. Hill, in which the latter must
have felt humiliated, and he seems now
to remember his grievances against Mr.
Hall and myself, although my connection
with the entire matter was absolutely
nominal.
But let us look at this reiterated charge
of lobbyism against myself, and let us
look at the evidence quoted in Mr. Hill's
letter upon which the charge is based. It
consists of statements from a petition
filed by Gustin, Guerry & Hall for fees
for services rendered the Georgia South
ern and W. B. Sparks as receiver thereof,
in relation to the closing of a public alley
in the city of Macon for the benefit of the
company.
The particular portion of the petition re
lied on by Mr. Hill is in the following
words: u
"Petitioners show that these properties
could not have been used for the purposes
mentioned without securing In some way
the right to close and appropriate said
alley; that they found great difficulty In
procuring the passage of said bill; that the
same was practically defeated several
times, but petitioners succeeded by per
sisting in their efforts to explain the ne
cessity and show the justice of said bill;
your petitioners using no other services
in said matter except argument* and facts
intended to reach the reason of the legis
lature."
Thereupon Mr. Hill has this to say:
"It la true that byway of apology and
explanation he (Guerry) says in conclu
sion that he used po services other than
appeals to reason and to bring about the
change of mind in the general assembly,
and out of the dust of defeat to snatch
the flower of victory, but the public will
place its own estimate upon the value of
this exculpatory apology made in advance
of any suggestion that unseemly means
had been used to accomplish this end.
"Hie conduct must have at least looked
to him as being suspiciously reprehensi
ble; otherwise he had not deemed it nec
essary to explain in advance.”
What a strange argument this is for a
Christian gentleman to make! These
things wifi ch he cites are from a petition
addressed to the court and made a part
of the record thereof. In this question of
fees hundreds of creditors were interested
and the conscience of the chancellor was
Involved. If any lobbyism had been resort
ed to, it is plain law that the compensa
tion for services so rendered could not
have been recovered, and the court in
awarding fees for such services would
have violated both lew and decency.
In such a case any creditor or any attor
ney of a creditor interested could have
prevented a recovery of these fees or any
part thereof. If my firm had been guilty
of lobbyism and had been seeking to re
cover on account of such services, the
firm would have said nothing
upon that subject or raised by any sug
gestion whatever any question upon that
subject. The crime would have been se
creted instead of published; and yet we
saw fit in our petition to stale what was
the truth, that in presenting and urging
this matter upon the general assembly we
did so within the clear limits of our pro
fessional privileges, not only to show our
right of recovery, but to show that in go
ing before the legislature we had not done
as others were doing to some extent even
in those days.
Personally, I did not act in this matter,
but Mr. Hill and the public, as far as they
may see fit, may hold me responsible for
my share or for all of it.
Let me say right here and now, that
while I have been before the legislature
on several occasions I have never in a
single instance been guilty of a solitary
word or a single act of lobbyism, and that
any accusation or insinuation contrary
to this assertion is a groundless fabrica
tion; and I now challenge Mr. Warner
Hill and the rest of mankind to name
such a word or such an act on my part.
I do not wish to go any further than Is
clearly justified in what I have to say
in reply to Mr. Hill, but as Mr. Hill Is a
lawyer as well as a man of some infor
mation and intelligence. I know that he
knows that this charge of lobbyism
against me is utterly false. He Is under
taking to mislead the people of Georgia
upon this subject. In other words, in
stead of showing that <ny charges of
lobbyism in which both money and liquor
are corruptly empibyed, are untrue, he is
seeking to divert attention from these
charges by preferring charges of lobby
ism against «ne, when he knows that
these charges are false.
Now, what I have been describing as
lobbyism is such lobbyism as is in plain
violation of the law on that subject as
above indicated, which lobbyism neither
Mr. Hill nor any other decent man in
Georgia who is at all Informed, denies
to exist and to have existed for some
years.
When I first made this charge publicly
I wrote the Atlanta Daily News on the
28th day of August, last, and made this
explatation:
“Let me say further on the subject of
lobbyism, that I do not mean to Include
In this charge the many professional
gentlemen or other gentlemen who appear
openly before committees in behalf of
themselves or others during the sessions
of the legislature, but I do mean to in
clude those who during the sessions
thereof, personally solicit by private in
terview or letter or message or other
means and appliances not addressed sole
ly to the judgment, to favor or oppose or
to vote for of against any bill, resolution,
report or claim, pending or to be intro
duced in either branch of the legislature,
of a member of the general assembly of
this state, and who misrepresents the na
ture of their interests In the matter to
such member, and wtio are employed for
a consideration by any person or corpo
ration interested in the passage of such
bill, resolution, report or claim, for the
purpose of securing the passage or de
feat thereof. And I mean to Include, as
included in the above, the notorious is
suing and distribution of week end free
railroad passes to the members of the
general assembly in the capitol during the
pendency of measures in which those who
Issue and distribute the passes are in
terested.”
Here I ‘have described lobbyism, both
legal and moral, and I challenge Mr. Hill
to specify the occasion, the facts and cir
cumstances. if he can do so, on which I
have been guilty.
He continues to complain that I do not
name those who are guilty, and I have
told him where to find them. namely,
within his own political ranks. If either
one of these men was a candidate for
governor and I should see fit to make the
charge against him. I would specify aq I
Joint Debate
now require Mr. Hill to do in my case,
for then that man as such candidate
would be on trial before the publie and
would be entitled to such specifications..
I do not name any of these men; I do
not put any of them on trial, and so far
as I know, none of them are demanding
specifications. If they will make the. de
mand I will comply with the same. I am
denouncing the evil of lobbyism and am
seeking to destroy It as far as possible
in Georgia. That those guilty of lobby
ism are thus indirectly attacked is an un
avoidable result. Those w’ho are thus
guilty are Indefensible; those who are not
guilty need no defense. The cause of
which class is it that Mn Hill 18 so feel
ingly defending?
Going back' to the petition from which
Mr. Hill quotes. I will simply say in con
clusion, that none of the numerous par
ties to the cause denied the allegations
as to the nature of our services before
the legislature, and that the court affirm
ed the truth thereof by awarding us feefl
as prayed. Yours truly,
DUPONT GUERRH
Macon, Ga., May 19, 1902. <
MR. GUERRY EXPLAINS RECORD
ON LOCAL OPTION QUESTION
STILLMOReTga.. May 1«. 1902.
To The Editor of The Journal:
On reading the article of W. W. Poole,
life long prohibitionist, of Cochran, it oc
curs to me that there may be others ig
norant of my record on local option while
senator in 1881, and of my position on
free passes, notwithstanding what has
been written.
When Messrs. Terrell and his manager,
Mr. Warner Hill, made their reckless at
tack on my record as above stated I im
mediately replied in The Journal showing
by citations and references to senate jour
nal that instead of opposing and defeat
ing local option on that occasion I con
tended for it and did my best to engraft
on the pending bill the very principle of
local option which became the law four
years after that In 1885, and which is now
our local option law, and byway of proof
I quoted in full the substitute I offered
for the purpose.
I also showed that the bill Messrs. Ter
rell and Hill said I defeated was really
amended and passed so far as the senate (
was concerned and that I voted for it ■with
the other prohibitionists, and that it would
not have passed except for my vote, as it
received only 23 votes in all, just enough
to pass it. '
These portions of the senate journal
Messrs. Terrell and Hill omitted.
Since my card these gentlemen have
not insisted on their unjust charge, but
have apparently acquiesced in the truth
and correctness of my position.
If Mr. Poole will examine the senate
journal possibly he will be content also.
A« to my position on free railroad passes,
Mr. Poole misunderstands it or is trying
to make others misunderstand it.
My position is that the companies should
not issue passes to officials whose duties
require them to pass on the rights and in
terests of such companies.
So far as issuing them to employes are
concerned I regret that the companies are
not more liberal and just, for free trans
portation I regard as a part of a railroad
employe’s pay. If Mr. Poole will inform
himself correctly and get to be a real as
well as a life-long prohibitionist, so-called,
he will join those who are now battling
for prohibition, and remain no longer in
the ranks of those who are doing all in
their power to perpetuate llquorism and
its curies tn Georgia. Yours truly.
. DUPONT GI'ERRT. "
NOT “JOE” JOHNSON
CRITICISING TERRELL
To the Editor of The Journal:
I have noticed in your joint debate col
umn quite recently two communications
signed by J. H. Johnston, of North At
lanta. tn Which he makes attacks upon
the Hon. J. M. Terrell, candidate for gov
ernor. A number of my acquaintances
and friends in the city have spoken to me
on the subject of said articles, attributing
their authorship to me, notwithstanding
the fact that Mr. Johnston spells his
name with a “t”. while my name is plain
old Johnson, without the "L” Our ini
tials being the same, and I also reside in
North Atlanta and being an old citizen
of Atlanta, the mistake is quite natural I
do not relish sailing under false colors, or
remaining longer under a mistaken iden
tity. x
I therefore ask that you publish this tn
your joint debate column in justice te
myself as well as to my old friend “Joe”
Terrell, that my friends may know that
what little influence I may have, if any, /
is not being exerted against him in hla
race for governor, as so many appear to
think. ,
I have not the pleasure of an acquaint
ance with Mr. J. H. Johnston, the author >
of the articles referred to, neither do I
question his right to “pitch into” Mr.
Terrell, in his advocacy of the candidacy
of Mr. Guerry. But I don't want anybody
to think I am doing it. I don't know Mr.
Guerry except by reputation. My knowl
edge of Mr. Estill is on the same line, but
I do know Mr. Terrell well, because I
lived in the same house with him and his
estimable wife for several years. The
way to know people Is to live with them.
I take the greatest pleasure In saying that
I never knew a cleaner, purer or a more
honorable man socially, politically or re
ligiously than the Hon. Joseph M. Ter
rell, and I am bold to express the opinion
that If he is elected governor on the sth
of June, which I confidently predict, the
executive chsir will be as ably and satis
factorily filled by him as by any of his
predecessors.
As to his good wife, there’s no woman
in Georgia that would more fittingly grace
the executive mansion than she. There
won’t be any ’hyfalootln” airs put on
either in doing the honors on state
sions. Mr. Terrell’s administration win
be thoroughly democratic at the man
sion as well as at the capitol.
This is what I think of Mr. and Mrs.
Terrell) because I know them. Respect
fully, JOSEPH H. JOHNSON.
North Atlanta.
MASSENGALE’S WARM
CRITICISM OF TAPP
To the Editor of The Journal:
There are two things In the case of Hon.
Dupont Guerry's candidacy that ought to
strongly operate against him with good
men and conservative patriots. I beg leave
to call attention to them, as follows:
First. Enough has been disclosed con
cerning Mr. Guerry to show that he is a
man who is easily and strongly swayed by
his own personal and financial interests.
For instance, so long as he was a railroad
attorney he found no fault with their “im
munity from just taxation” and yet the
railroads were getting more of it then
than they are now. When did this new
zeal strike him so hard?
So long as he was a railroad attorney
he saw no evil in the free pass businesa
He used them himself, of course, and has
not claimed that he ever protested against
their Issuance bj- the companies he rep
resented to state house officials, judges
and legislators. If free passes are corrupt
ing cardboards now why were they not
equally so then and why did not his vir
tuous soul rebel against them in that day?
So long as he was a railroad attorney
he raised no howl about lobbyism. If he
did not actually lobby himself, he allowed
his partner, Joe Hall, to attend to that
job and joined in a petition to the superior
court asking big fees for the lojt>by ser
vice done on the legislature. Why didn’t
Mr. Guerry stop Joe Hall from lobbying
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