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THURSDAY. MAT ». Utt.
Hero's another dark plot. The photo
- graphic dry plate trust is forming.
Mftor Rainey observes that the imita
tion Panama hat erase has struck Daw
see.
Speaking about the gubernatorial cam
paign-net the weather—ls it hot enough
for you?
We bate to be a “told-you-ao”—but we
predicted the present eruption of the Hon.
Joe Hail
The “hottest day of the season” is al
ready beginning to fill its usual depart
ment tn the nears papers.
What we'd tike to know is is there any
ether oM thing the matter with that sale
of the Danish West Indies?
The Presbyterian general assembly has
adjourned, leaving us as much tn doubt as
ever as to our pre—destination.
Somehow Texas seems unable to accus
tom beree If to burning o”. as long as it
is just as easy to burn niggers.
Wbat the average small boy would like
to know to. does the young king of Spain
get free tickets to all the bull fights.
There is an ir.C.maticn going the rounds
that Candidate Esti.i is suffering from a
alight attack of check-writers eramp.
When a man asks you how the guber
natorial race is coming out. beware. He
Intends to tell you all about it himself.
The first Cuban revolution has not yet
made Its appearance. But just wait until
they try to choose the national flower.
No wonder the youcg king of Spain
wants to substitute horse racing for bull
fighting-wlth beef at the present price.
Wander what the Republicans are going
to get to take the place of meat in their
••full dinner pal/’ argument this year.
Everybody seems to be trying to do
things to General Miles. He has recently
tneur.-ed B*.'At or Wellington’s endorse
ment.
We Jest felt tn our bones that somebody
Would get himself called a liar If the
guburnatorlal campaign kept up much
lengcr-
Ceal has gone up to $6 a ton in car load
tots. But it takes a rank pessimist to
worry over the matter during weather
Lko tktt- - i
But. when you come to think of it, what
would the senators do for junkets if they
should settle the Philippine and canal
problems
A Kassas CMy man drank a bottle of
laundry bluing the other day with sui
cidal tn tert. He was evidently deter
ntned to dye.
When al! these Georgia editors who are
Bow running for the legislature get here,
we are going to invite them to join our
priMtrg club
Some men arejn politics for what there
is in it. some for the fun they get out of
it. and others just because they like to
differ with you.
These "heavy detonations" we hear in
the neighborhood of Macon is merely the
Hon. Joe Pelee Hall having another rush
of words to the head.
With so many Georgia editors in the leg
islature we certainly ought to be able to
have a law passed requiring sheriffs to
have more county printing.
Uncle Andrew Carnegie has been made
a member of the London Plumbers Guild
Was that talk ot his about wanting to die
poor merely a bluff, after ail?
MACON. Ga.. May 24.-Special.-The
Hon. Joe Re’.ee Hall began spouting boil
ing mud yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Rescue parties are being organised.
It Is understood that when Editor Sto
vall gets to the legislature he is going
to introduce a bill to establish a mint
julep experiment station near Savannah.
Georgia gets $1,739,845 for her rivers and
harbors under the new hill as it passed
the senate. This is enough to make
Messrs. Greene and Gaynor want to come
back.
President Spencer is evidently determin
ed not to let his decision as to a new
union depot for Atlanta bump into the
gwbomatorial situation this late in the
game.
Garman men and women are to be al
lowed to bathe together in future at the
coast resorts of that country. Heretofore
the German ocean has been takyig them
tn broken doses.
And to think that a Chicago man really
wrote 'Cyrano de Bergerac!” But it is
prabobly well that the fact was not made
known before, else it would not have be
. come so popular.
When the up-to-date newspapers get
through with a story there is little left
. for the magazines to.do. either pictorially
or otherwise. TJie Martinique disaster is
another case in point.
arhat makes that tale about Herr Joe
Hall hav#"g been ordered from the floor
ike house for lobbying seem unreason
able to us is that he went—lnstead of
making a point of order.
While Wu Ting Fang is in Milledgeville
we trust he will ask how Baldwin codnty
Is going We believe if any man can
find out it is Wu—provided his interroga
tion point is In good Working order.
An Ohio congressman wants to establish
a national commission to inquire Into the
condition of negroes in the southern
states Naturally these efforts emanate
from people who know nothing at all about
the subject.
Somebody has sent ye paragrapher a
box containing the first seventeen year
locust to make its appearance tn Geor
gia. We have forwarded the same to
Colonel Guerry's campaign headquarters,
as it was evidently so intended. And
Chairman Tapp has our permission to
"use it any way he sees fit. * . *
AN OLD MAN ELOQUENT.
It is a common habit of United States
senators to read their speeches. The great
majority of the arguments made in the
senate are delivered in this way, but Sen
ator Hoar very' rarely uses a manuscript
when he addresses the senate. He Is a
reigarkabiy reaoy and exact speaker.
He never discusses a subject until he has
studied it thoroughly and few men have
a skill and readiness like his in the use
of language.
Even his ex-tempore and incidental
speeches are almost invariably models of
English undefiled, as well as pointed and
cogent reasoning. There was very general
surprise on the floor and in the galleries
when the venerable Massachusetts senator
rose to speak last Thursday with a manu
script tn his hand and adhered closely
to it all the way through.
As the sequel showed. Senator Hoar
had endeavored in the preparation of this
speech to cover the whole Philippine
question and in the two hours and a half
that he occupied he probably came
nearer doing so than any other man could.
He had spoken on the same subject be
fore, always impressively, often with great
eloquence and power. But never before in
presenting his views on the Philippine
problem had Senator Hoar given such a
superb {lustration of his strength as a
debater and his rare quality as an ora
tor. That effort must be ranked among
the greatest of the many notable speeches
of the old man eloquent of the American
senate. Senator Hoar feels very deeply on
the subject of this address and has con
vinced many of his fellow countrymen
that it is at least a great misfortune to
our country that it has been placed in
its present attitude toward a people
struggling for liberty.
He deplores also the undeniable fact
that principles on which our govern
ment was founded and which it has hith
erto held sacred have been repudiated by
the* advocates of conquest, by some of
them evasively and apologetically and
by others boastlngly and brutally; that
traditions which were formally cherished
by all of our people with pride and affec
tion are now scoffed at by many of them
as unworthy of imitation by a proud and
aggressive world power; that the decla
ration of one of those shotfider-strapped
statesmen who have recently so sorely
afflicted the country that we have out
grown the constitution was received with
applause by an assemblage of American
citizens; that the Declaration of Inde
pendence has fallen into disrepute among
those whose policy flies into its face; that
the Monroe doctrine, which in the recent
past we proclaimed so proudly, has been
thrown to the winds, and that we have
taken our place among the nations that
rule by armed might.
There are many strikin'; passages in
this speech which must ts classed among
the most notable deliverances in' con
gress during this decade.
Referring to the teachings of the fa
thers of the republic and our century of
unsullied history Senator Hoar said
that these are now appealed to in vain
and that their lessons "fall upon the ears
of men dazzled by military glory and deli
rious with the lust of conquest.”
The peroration of this splendid protest
against permanent abandonment of out
old standards of national justice, national
honor and national glory is said to have
thrilled the senate and the crowded gal
leries as have no other words that have
been uttered in that arena of high debate
in years. It is not surprising that a burst
of applause from senators and visitors
attested the effect of this great speech.
a fr7end~of THE SOUTH.
The present generation in the south is
not as fully aware as it should be of the
Immense service which was done to this
section in the time of its sorest need by
the late E. L. Godkin, as editor of the
New York Evening Post and The Nation.
No man did more than he to arouse the
conscience of the north to a sense of the
wrong that was being perpetrated upon
the south by the carpet bag and scala
wag governments.
Mr. Godkin's exposures of the corrup
tion and outrages that were practiced
under the reconstruction regime had a
powerful effect toward the restoration of
honest government in the southern states.
He denounced bayonet rule in the south
with a courage and eloquence which were
unsurpassed by any of the defenders of
constitutional government in those dark
days.
He helped mightily in the promotion of
other great reforms, notably that in the
civil service. He was one of the most
valiant defenders of sound currency when
greenbacktsm first and free silver later
seemed about to sweep the country and
nobody did more than he to beat down
those follies. There was much in his
life for which he should be held in great
and lasting honor, but the south should
hold his memory In especial and undying
gratitude, because when she needed
friends he fought for her with the
strength of a giant and the courage of a
dauntless friend of the south.
LORD PAUNCEFOTE.
The career of the late Lord Pauncefote
bad become illustrious before he came to
the United States as the ambassador of
Great Britain, but in that office his high
est and most lasting fame was won.
About fourteen years ago he succeeded
as ambassador Beckville-West, who, by
his intermeddling with American politics
had aroused no small degree of indigna
tion in this country and contributed no
little to the defeat ot President Cleveland
in 1888.
Lord Pauncetote's record at Washington
was entirely satisfactory to his own gov
ernment and entitled him to the respect
and esteem of the people of the United
States.
in his earlier life he had served in high
diplomatic stations in Asia, Africa and the
islands of the Caribbean sea and wherever
he had been stationed was found faithful
and capable to a very notable degree.
• He possessed natural abilities of an un
usual order and had received the thorough
training which Great Britain always be
stows upon the members of her diplomatic
corps.
His great life-work was done in this
country. He did more than any other
Englishman of his generation to establish
better relations between Great Britain and
and the United States, thereby conferring
great benefits upon both nations and es
tablishing permanent fame for himself If
our government had had at the head of its
State department a man less fully equip
ped than Mr. Hay for its difficult and deli
cate duties, and Great Britain had been
represented here by a statesman of less
tact and liberality than Lord Pauncefote
the two countries would not be on the
terms of mutual confidence and cordiality
which they now enjoy.
These two men accomplished what
seemed the almost impossible task of as
suring the abrogation of the Clayton-Bul
wer treaty which had become unsatisfac
tory to both governments. But, while it
was agreed on both sides that a compact
better suited to modern conditions was
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greatly to be desired, how to reach an
agreement upon the exact scope and form
of a new convention was a question which
taxed the wisdom and Ingenuity of true
statesmanship.
The treaty first agreed upon by Hay and
Pauncefote was rejected by our senate.
The authors of that compact did not des
pair, however, but returned at once to
the great work they had undertaken.
They counselled and labored together in
a spirit of reciprocal forbearance, with a
patriotic determination to protect the
honor and Interests of their own govern
ments, and at the same time an earnest
desire to effect a better understanding
among the two great English-speaking
nations of the world.
They succeeded in framing a treaty to
which no reasonable objection could be
offered either in Washington or London.
This achievement will stand as one of
the noblest triumphs of modern diplo
macy. The honor of it belongs equally to
Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote.
They are equally entitled to the gratitude
of the British and the American public.
During his entire stay in the United
States Lord Pauncefote. in his every rela
alon, conducted himself 4n away that
compelled the respect and admiration ot
our people and his death is sincerely de
plored throughout this country. He was
a statesman and a gentleman who hon
ored his country and his race.
TO A SOUL IN DARKNESS.
Someone has taken the trouble to mail
us the following clipping from the Mad
ison Madisonian:
"And now many of our unwlly exchanges
are commending the Atlanta Journal’s
'fairness and liberality' in opening its
columns to a free discussion of the Issues
of the gubernatorial campaign. Thdse
brothers are unaware that this ‘liberal
ity’ costs about ten cents a line. The
Journal is not in business for its health.”
We are quite sure Editor Bacon has no
desire to do The Journal an injustice, but
it would have been very little trouble for
him to have learned., that The Journal
Invited the respective candidates for gov
ernor, and their friends, to use its col
umns "free of charge,” and that not one
cent has been offered or received by it for
publishing the communications (amount
ing now to more than 100 columns) which
have appeared during the three weeks that
the "joint debate” has been in progress.
The Journal being a paper of almost un
iversal circulation in this state, believes
that its duty is to represent all the people
and to let them be h fiard through its col
umns, regardless of their political affilia
tions. This alone was its purpose in open
ing Its "Joint debate."
Had The Journal been willing to charge
for these communications, even at the
rate of 10 cents per line fixed by the es
teemed Madisonian, Its bill would already
amount to more than $2,000. But inas
much as our rate is 25 cents per line, It
will be seen that herein the Madisonian
again does The Journal an Injustice,
which, we take it, It will be willing to cor
rect with due promptness.
TWO NEW BISHOPS.
The Methodist church of this country
both north and south, has long been fa
mous for the ability and eloquence of its
bishops. *
The Methodist Episcopal Church. South,
at its general conference Thursday added
two notably strong men to its college of
bishops, which already Included some of
the most famous divines In this section.
Out ot a number of admirably qualified
doctors of divinity the conference chffiie
Rev. Elihu Embree Hoss, D. D., L. L. D.,
and Rev. A. Coke Smith, D. D.
The blshops-elect are among the fore
most leaders of Methodism in the south.
Both are men of large learning and ap
proved executive ability; both are preach
ers of rare power; both are personally
very much beloved by the hosts whom
they are to take under their episcopal
care.
Both the new bishops are In the very
prime of life, each being about fifty-two
years of age. They have done heroic* ser
vice for their church and seem to be good
for much more.
Dr. Hoss has distinguished himself
greatly as an editor, as well as a preacher.
For the last twelve years the Christian
Advocate, published at Nashville, one of
the leading Southern Methodist journals,
has been edited by him. At the general
conference four years ago Dr. Hoss re
ceived a majority of the votes cast at an
election for bishops, but two other can
didates received even a few more votes.
A question arose as to whether all
three, or only two, of the candidates were
elected. Dr. Hoss himself rose and said
that there could be no doubt about the
fact that he was not elected, though he
had reeclved a majority vote, as the con
ference had adopted a resolution before
the ballot to elect only two bishops and
the two receiving the highest votes were
the only ones chosen.
This manly action raised Dr. Hoss still
higher in the estimation of the conference
than he stood before ano the overwhelm
ing vote he received Thursday was a very
high tribute to him and one richly de
served.
Bishop-elect Smith Is well known
throughout the south. He is a native of
South Carolina and has filled many of the
most Important pulpits of that and other
states. He is esteemed one of the fore
most preachers of his church.
The Southern Methodists are Increasing
so fast that It becomes necessary to elect
bishops at every general conference, that
Is to say, every four years.
Many members of the conference were
In favor of electing more than two this
year. Bishop Keener Is very old and one
or two. other bishops are In feeble health,
and the church is growing very rapidly.
There Is plenty of hard work before
Bishops-elect Hoss and Smith, but they
are used to the strenuous life and glory
In it.
Few men labor so zealously and persist
ently as the bishops of the Methodist
church. They are among the most de
voted. most influential and most unselfish
men In the country and also among the
most useful.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
* New York Frees.
The curly hair girl catches the man.
The kiss that burns is the caress of a
scorpion.
Widows are the caviar for appetites jaded on
sentiment.
Wine is a contagious He for the lips that
It touches.
The man who cannot be ruled by some
woman cannot rule men.
The man who Is everybody’s fr|end has no
body who Is his friend.
Making love doesn't require much brains, but
it uses up an awful lot of energy.
The thing about which people are most gen
erous In giving Is the cold shoulder.
Lota of people rush to the seaside in summer
who never think of taking a bath at home.
Brunettes can change to blonde, but the red
headed girl has got to stay right where she is.
When it comes to the day of reckoning the
lawyer gets nine points and the poor client gets
one.
By the time strawberries are really delicious
the season is over and there are no straw
berries.
The Journals
POSITION TOWARDS POPULISTS
MISREPRESENTED, SAYS GUERRY
To the Editor of The Journal:
Referring to the reference of the Hon.
J. R. Hogan to the occasion when Gen
eral Weaver was egged or attempted to
be egged in Macon in 1892, and to the er
roneous report of what I had to say In
part on that occasion as quoted alone by
him In his speech when introducing Mr.
Terrell, I beg leave to say now that what
I wrote on yesterday, though substantially
correct, was entirely from memory and
was not as full as It Should have been in
order to do me anything like complete
justice In the premises.
I find today on referring to the Macon
News that whether Intentionally or not,
the Injustice done me Is much greater and
more manifest even than I had supposed.
I am glad to say. however, that I am
still of the opinion that It was not Inten
tional on the part of Mr. Hogan, for I
have stroijg reason to suspect that he
was misled himself by a garbled extract
furnished him through the agency of the
Macon Telegraph.
Now In order to show the fair minded
people of Georgia the kind of campaign
tnat Is i>eing waged against me, I wish
to furnish herein some other portions of
the account given by the Macon News of
that unfortunate occasion when General
Weaver and his wife and Mrs. Leese and
our Third Party people were wronged In
the manner already mentioned.
After referring to the throwing of the
eggs, the Macon News reporter says:
"General Weaver and party retired to
their rooms and left the wild crowd to
yell themselves hoarse. About this time,
the Young Men's Democratic club, a
thousand strong, with brass band, arrived
on the scene from the court house, where
they had been In session. * • • • •
"Mrs. Weaver was In her room cleaning
the egg stain from her dress; etc. * ♦ *
"When the crowd was wildest Hon. Du
pont Guerry appeared in the balcony. He
had just left the court house, where he
made a speech. When the crowd saw
him there they yelled, and when he
waved his hands over them like a magi
cian's wand, the crowd became silent.
“The .contrast was so striking. Mr,
Guerry asked the crowd If they would
hear Mrs. Lease. They indicated that
they would. ‘Then,’ said Mr. Guerry, 'all
who will give her a respectful hearing,
hold up your hands.'
“With this remark, up went every hand
In the crowd, and the scene was a mag
nificent one.
" ‘Then,’ said the speaker, ‘lndicate
your willingness by remaining silent for
five minutes.’ The crow.d hushed,” etc.
Now you see, Mr. Editor, according to
this report, > all of which I have quoted
so far as It bears upon the question, I
was acting as a peace-maker and I suc
ceeded In making peace.
I was asking for Justice and for respect
for those people and succeeded in obtain
ing a unanimous assurance that the same
would be granted. It is apparent that
what the 'reporter of the News had me to
say Is not consistent in Its phraseology
with the position I had assumed, but I
know It summed up expressions that were
on the lips of different people whom I my
self heard talk on that occasion, though I
cannot now recall the name of a single
one of them.
Yet these offensive words at this time
are singled out and charged to me and
published all over the state without any
inquiry as to whether I really uttered
them or not, and for the manifest pur
pose of prejudicing me In the eyes of
those of my fellow citizens who were ag
grieved on that occasion.
And the great fact which appears from
the very report Itself that I acted as
peacemaker; that with my own friends
and party associates I took the position
that these people had been wronged, and
then and there insisted that their rights
should be respected, and that their rights
zrowd unanimously yielded to my views,
Is omitted. What Is more, this same re
port, or rather the omitted portion of It,
shows that on this occasion in opposition
to what had been done presumably at
least by my own party associates, I had
openly and publicly as the friend of Jus
tice', acted as the friend of the Third
party people also.
In conclusion, let me state a fact that is
becoming well known- among the people
of this state. The same opponents who
are seeking to prejudice me In the eyes
of our ex-Popullst friends on the ground
that I have abused or mistreated them,
are at the same time In their efforts to
prejudice me in the eyes of Democrats,
denouncing me as a Populist.
But the "high plane campaign” must
move on and this Is now Its only kind of
means of locomotion.
Yours truly,
DUPONT GUERRY.
Macon, Ga.
AFRAID OF THE ISSUES,
SAYS TAPP TO HILL
To the Editor of The Journal:
I hav§ read the recent abusive communi
cations Issued from the Terrell headquar
ters signed by Mr. Warner Hill, as chair
man of the Terrell campaign.
I think that I need only call the atten
tion of the people of Georgia to the fact
of the Inconsistency of- the policy of Mr.
Terrell and his campaign managers. In
the beginning of this campaign they
claimed to be running their campaign on
a “high plane.” The opposition, In their
minds, was not worthy of consideration,
but In this hour when they see they are
going down in defeat, the "high plane
campaign and running on his own "mer
its” has become a campaign of abuse and
criminations. I think I am safe In saying
that the people want to hear from Mr.
Joseph M. Terrell rather than Mr. Warner
Hill. They want to know where Mr. Ter
rell stands on these questions before the
people, and all the abuse of Mr. Hill for
the purpose of side tracking these issues
will not be satisfactory to the people of
Georgia. Is Mr. Terrell in favor of re
quiring the Southern railway to become
Incorporated under the laws of Georgia;
If so why did he not put it In his plat
form? Is Mr. Terrell In favor of requir
ing the Southern and other railroads to
pay their just prorata share of taxes, so
as to lighten the burden on the farmers,
the merchants and the private citizens of
Georgia; If so why did he not make It one
of the planks of his platform? Is Mr. Ter
rell In favor of having a railroad commis
sion In Georgia that will give the farmers,
the merchants and the Industrial systems
of this state equitable and just freight
rates; If so why did he not make It one
of the planks in hie platfdtm? Is Mr. Ter
rell in favor of abolition of barrooms, and
the unholy liquor traffic from the confines
of Georgia; If so why did he not so state
in his platform?
Mr Editor, these are vital issues to the
’ people of Georgia, and the Hon. Dupont
Guerry has expressed himself 80 the pub
lic know where he stands as to these
issues, and no amount of abuse signed by
Mr. Terrell’s campaign managers can
, overshadow, side track, or evade them.
If Mr. Terrell Is not bl’nd, and his hands
have not been paralyzed, why does he not
express himself in the columns of your
paper so the people can hear from him
rather than Mr. HUI. he deaf? The
people of Georgia have been
questions to him as to these issues, and
surely if he can hear he should answer
these questions. Is he dumb? Surely If he
can speak, as he has been consuming a
greate deal of time traveling over the
state, he should express himself on these
issues, so the people could understand his
attitude relative to them.
I charge here and now. Mr. Editor, that
the Hon. Jos. M. Terrell, when in the
senate In 1891, voted against the three mile
law In Georgia, thus going on record in
favor of turning over our country schools
Open to toe Gubernatorial 1 Candidates
and Their Friends For toe Discussion of
the Issues Involved in the* Present Race.
and churches to the unholy liquor traffic. |
but be it said to the honor of the senate |
of Georgia, that there was only eight In |
that body who agreed with Mr. Terrell and
31 that disagreed with him and the bill
became a law. And I challenge Mr. Ter
rell to deny his vote on that bill.
It has been asked of Mr. Terrell if he
did not.advise, and If his influence was not
used to defeat the Howard bill In the last
legislature to tax franchises of railroads
In Georgia. The question has been asked
Mr. Terrell, while attorney general, and
when he was the legal adviser of the state.
If he did not receive private fees from
lessees of the convicts in Georgia. The
question has been asked him If he did not
ride on free passes while attorney gen
eral, and why it was that he did not re
quire the Southern railway to become In
corporated under the laws of Georgia as
provided in section 1849 of the code. Why
does he not answer these questions for
himself? Why does he thus shield behind
the Hon. Warner Hill, wno seems to be
the spokesman for the “political machine”
In the Kimball House. If Mr. Terrel) Is
running on his own "merits,” and Is a
man of the magnificent ability—that Mr.
HUI would have the people of Georgia
believe—surely he can take care of him
self and answer these questions satis
factorily to the people of this state. The
poople, Mr. Editor, understand the rela
tive position of Mr. Terrell and Mr. Guer
ry on these Issues, and on the sth of June
they are going to write the verdict.
We wish now to request Mr. Guerry's
friends to see that the official ballot Is
printed and reaches every precinct in
Georgia, and that his friends go to the
polls early and stay late and see that the
vote is cast and Is counted, and on the
morning of the 6th there wl|l be rejoicing
throughout this great common wealt for
Dupont Guerry will have broken "ring
rule” In this state as Alex Stephens did
twenty years ago.
SIDNEY C. TAPP,
Chairman.
Atlanta, Ga., May 24, 1902.
B. M. BLACKBURN WRITES ON
“BAND WAGON” BRIGADE
To the Editor of The Journal:
If the Intense humor of this campaign
Is overlooked, the people will lose much
that Is inspiratlng.
One thing that Impresses the observer,
even to the point of convulsive laughter,
is the sad dissolution of that band wagon
brigade.
What could have been the trouble with
the band wagon anyway? Did the wheels
refuse to revolve on account of the class
of mules that were to pull it, or did the
mules kick on account of the character
of the load that was to fill it? That is a
new question for debate.
There was a broken spoke somewhere.
Maybe the two Sams could not agree.
One thing is certain, Sam Small is a bad
fellow to pick out to follow, whereas
Sam Jones always wants to lead. Sam
Small has deflected. He Is for Terrell. I
always admired the sense of this Sam.
It would appear to the casual onlooker,
that the Guerry bandwagon was built
by a new hand, of rotten material. It
takes no expert to detect that It was not
turned out by a Barnesville factory.
Lets see. This wagon was to start
promptly on May Bd. It was to take in
all Georgia. The people had been noti
fied to assemble at central points, in
great numbers. The basket dinner was
in evidence. Good women of the country
districts, unlike political ministers, were,
without regard to partisan display, in
terested only in preparing for a hospita
ble time. They had "put the big pot into
the little one,” and Joy unconflned was
in store for all yearning stomachs. Every
yellow-legged chicken in Georgia was
using his legs to escape, whereas the in
nocent lamb was bleating piteously for
one more chance in life.
Cremation flapped its smoky wings over
the state. Even the beef trust had to
take a day off to wink the other eye.
Sam Jones had laid that the wagon, *t
do move, and like his sable brother in
old Virginia, who always contended that
the sun, he do move, his followers be
lieved that the vehicle was going to roll,
even if mud was half leg deep in Georgia.
But it didn’t. Why? Did you have the
thing greased, gentlemen? Did your
team buck, or was your driver no good?
One thing certain. Your load vanished
like mist before the sunlight of sincerity.
Sam Small was for Terrell and local
option. Seab Wright had a crow to pick
with Sam Jones and Guerry, for Jumping
his dispensary bill, after they had en
dorsed It. Seab believes in standing by
his guns. Joe Hill Hall was against
Jones on the liquor question. Sam Jones
was mad with Guerry and Hall, because
they wanted to take from him his free
passes. -v
All the cats, dogs, monkeys and parrots
In the world would not have had so h—l
of a time between appointments, as was
promised by this incongruous aggregation.
Joe Terrell, Guerry and Estill would
have been a triad of cheek-turners, by the
side of this wagon of worthies.
My! Wouldn’t the country districts
have had fun? Grass would have grown
in Georgia, during that brief Interval, for
Cuffy would have been In his glory.
But the wagon. It didn’t move. Seab
Wright and Sam SmaH never had any*
idea of joining. They had too much
sense.
I always liked Wright and Small, They
are geniuses right, whether they are for
or against you.
But suppose the thing had moved off,
without Wright and S.’xjall? Did you ever
consider how it would a.ave been decora
ted? Would the tails of the mules have
been sheared, or left shaggy? Joe Hill
Hall would hAve filled the body of that
wagon'with froth, if they had refused to
hang out red ribbons. Guerry would
have wept twice, thrice, all the time, If
blue ribbons had been relegated. Where
as Sam Jones would have Insisted on ad
vertising reduced rates on all the rail
roads of Georgia, or broken his gallus In
the effort.
By the way. wouldn’t Sam be a peach as
a Lydia Pinkham advertiser? Whether
writing on religion, politics or lynching,
he never forgets, after engaging the at
tention of the reader, to make some nice
reference to the railroads and the trusts.
Why didn’t the band wagon move?
What has become of the horns? Were
they fog horns, and were they enveloped
In the fog? Did the kettle drum burst, or
did the bass drum lose the step? What Is
the matter with the old thlqg?
Respectfully,
BENJAMIN- M. BLACKBURN.
SAYS TERRELL IS CONSISTENT
WHILE GUERRY IS FANATICAL
To the Editor of The Journal:
When we view a master painting It Is
the contrast of objects and colors that
catches the attention and charms the
mind; and so in the present gubernatorial
campaign. It Is the contrast between con
servatism and fanaticism that enlists pub
lic attention and like the "invisible
sculptors,” brings In to bold relief the
wisdom emanating from the admirable
policy of that magnanimous leader, Hon.
J. M. Terrell, and the vain folly of his
Macon opponent, as displayed In the lat
ter’s public tirades. It is evident to the
masses of Georgia’s citizens that it is a
case of "sour grapes” with the Macon
man. Judging from Candidate Guerry’s
malicious attacks on Mr. Terrell’s char
acter it would seem that even a "saint"
can sin; and on the fifth, proximo, the
citizens of old Georgia will send him to
the ranks of private life over the “rapid
transit” line of ballots. A man who is so
bitter In his denunciation of everything
and everybody is certainly not free from
bias to say the least.
ARNOLD B. HALL.
Pendergrass, Ga.
GUERRY’S AND TERRELL’S
RECORDS AS PROHIBITIONISTS
FORSYTH, Ga.. May 23, 1902.
To the Editor of TheMoumal:
So much has been written in behalf of
the several candidates for governor that I
had determined to remain silent, but the
dlftcu&sion has reached that point where 1
am compelled In simple Justice to give ex
pression to my views.
In no spirit of animosity to any one is
this written. It will be remembered that
at the beginning of the campaign ana
several times since Mr. Guerry addressed
polite notes to Mr. Terrell asking him to
meet him and Jointly discuss the issues
of the campaign before the people, so they
might make a fair and impartial verdict.
As I remember, a similar proposition was
submitted to Mr. Hill. Each of these chal
lenges was promptly declined for the sa
of harmony only, and because thej «eem
ed to fear public discussion would lead to
personalities, which they were apparently
anxious to avoid. Yet we have never
known a more personal campaign. Mr.
Terrell, in his speeches asserts that Mr.
Guerry is a hypocrite a .
seeking to traduce him, while his friend
are none the less severe in their Renunci
ation of Mr. Guerry. If by
debate Mr. Terrell and his friends ha\e
avoided what they regard as personalities,
then God spare the day when
tles shall enter Georgia P° ut, s?rJ f
true that Mr. Guerry Is the whited sepul
cher they charge him with being 91m P’>
canvassing the state to strike down the
character of good men-wou d It not be
more manly for Mr. Terre I to meet him
face to face and expose him? The peo
ple are not fools, and Oiey mean to be
Just. So If Mr. Guerry Is a slanderer and
a hypocrite, Mr. Terrell ought to meet
him face to face and establish the fact.
What are jome of the chargee ma de
against Mr. Terrell that are slanders? One
Is that he is backed by and In sympathy
with the whisky men of Georgia-. Is it not
true tht this class Is supporUng him a
- to a man, even though Mr. Estill
has said he wr.s opposed to state Proba
tion? Does not Mr. Terrell believe In the
doctrine that "to the victor belongs the
spoils?” Is he not preaching that the
greatest sin. politically. 1b beatitude s and
that he will stand by those who will stand
by him, and in Advance extendingj to l b™
the entre of the executive mansion ana
office? Now. if he is sincere, he will^ be
forced to recognize the of those
supporting him. and If he Is not in sym
pathy with tne whisky men, it Is a little
strange that they should be so much In
sympathy with him and giving him an al
most unanimous support.
Now, what else has been done bx Mr.
Guerry to misrepresent Mj- Terre 11 b *
prohibition record? It is alleged that while
in the senate In 1891 Mr. Terrell voted
against what is known as the/bree-mlle
limit law, which was a bill to P roh,b b
the sale of whisky in the country w*thin
three miles of a church or Bcb ool. Did he
not offer various amendments to this bill
seeking to nullfy It as alleged, and when
they were rejected by the senate, did he
not vote against the bn l ?n its merits.
Examine senate Journal of 1891. pages 71
to 78, and tell us If this Is not true, or
whether H. H. Cabaniss and ilHam Har
is of Worth, who were then the secretary
and assistant secretary of the senate, fal
sified the record in order that this vile
slanderer. Dupont Guerry. might eleven
years after have a falsehood to circulate
against Mr. Terrell. Une'law says the
Journal shall be conclusive as to what is
done in the house or senate. Accepting it
as such, then in 1891. while in the senate,
Mr. Terrell was throwing his vote and in
fluence toward protecting the liquor inter
ests, even at the expense of our churches
and schools, the two most powerful fac
tors for good in our civilization, and this
notwithstanding the oft repeated declara
tion of Mr. Terrell and his friends that
he has always voted and worked for pro
hibition. t ,
Now, what are the arguments adduced
to show Mr. Guerry to be a hypocrite?
One is that up to 1896 he was a local op
tionlst. Granted. But prohibition is a
matter of growth, and there are today
thousands favoring it who a few years ago
opposed it in any form. Grgat anxiety
seems to prevail in certain quarters for
fear if state prohibition is ever enacted
there will beoome a reverse of sentiment
that will in a few years give us bar rooms
in the counties now dry. I must confess
to a feeling of amusement at these appre
hensions. Who are the men apparently
so solicitous for prohibition? First, the
liquor dealers. Second, the politicians
seeking to perpetuate ring rule. Third,
those advocating dispensaries or opposing
prohibition in any form. It is alleged Mr.
Guerry has recently changed from local
option to state prohibition to catch the
prohibition vote. This charge can only bs
made through ignorance or a desire to
misrepresent. In 1898, Hon. J. T. Cattle
berry and I had the honor to represent
Monroe county In the legislature. At that
time I Introduced what was known as a
general state •prohibition bill. Mr. Guer
ry was no candidate, nor had he so far
as I know ever thought of becoming one.
Being recognized as one who had given
the subject great study, and one In whom
every one had confidence, he was by the
unanimous action of the legislature In
vited to address them on the question of
prohibition. He came to Atlanta at his
own expense and did so. In that speech
he took Issue squarely in favor of state
prohibition, announcing, however, that he
had but recently become a convert to It—
that he had become a convert because af
ter mature study he was satisfied that In
the city counties by appeals to the ignor
ant and purchasable vote, whisky could
always be retained in those counties under
local option, and that the total abolition
ot the bar room in Georgia could never
be accomplished except through state pro
hibition. The members of the general as
sembly who at that time heard his maten
less oratory and logic will, I am sure,
agree with me that to him Is due much of
the credit for the passage of that bill by
the house. When the bill reached the sen
ate it met fierce opposition froz? Mr. Ter
rell’s brother, who now vouches for Mr.
Terrell’s consistency as a prohibitionist.
At that time the life of the bar rooms in
Georgia was trembling in the balance.
"Where was Roderick then?
One blast of his bugle horn were worth a
thousand men.”
Yet, no word in behalf of the bill was
ever uttered by the great disciple of pro
hibition. It was generally- understood he
was against state prohibition. This he
now declares to be true. He says he can
I not favor state prohibition because he
believes It would be unwise and eventually
bring whisky back in the dry counties, and
the principle lies too near his hears to take
any such chance—still If elected governor,
he will approve a bill of this character. If
his convictions are honest, his logic is
poor. As a consistent prohibitionist the
only manly thing left for him to do would
be to veto such a measure.
Another evidence of Mr. Guerry's hnri.i
cerlty Is, that in 1896 he spoke and wrote
against the disruption of the Democratic
party for the sake of prohibition alone.
As repeatedly declared by him, he then
believed local option the best way to settle
this question. He stood then, and now
stands, for the preservation of his party,
and believes this and all other questions
should be settled Inside the Democratic
party. Those letters -were written and
uttered trying to elect a ticket on which
Mr. Terrell was then running for attorney
general, with fierce opposition. Written
and uttered, if you please, in behalf of
Mr. Terrell’s candidacy, and decency, to
say nothing of gratitude, demands that he
and his friends should accent them in the
spirit In which they were offered.
B. S. WILLINGHAM.
The franchise valuation of the L. and N.
railroad has been doubled by the Kentucky
assessment board, being now $12,913,451.
This is calculated to draw forth a war
whoop from Datto Joe -Hall.
Joint Dobote
SAYS GUERRY IS CANDIDATE
OF PROHIBITION ASSOCIATION
To the Editor of The Journal:
In The Journal of the 17th Mr. McCord
writes another card in which he says that
“I admit that he quoted Mr. Guerry cor
rectly when he said he was a ‘proposed’
candidate." Now this Is an error, as I
made no such admission. Mr. McCord
said he was a self-proposed pronibiu~»
candidate. The contention I made waz
that he was not self ’proposed candidate.”
There you see that Mr. McCord is in error
in his quotation.
The trouble about Mr. McCord is that
he is not sufficiently posted to give the
facts. Now to show right here (and also
further on) that this is true he says: “A
great many persons also wrote to Hon.
Henry G. Turner, Hon. Pope Brown, Hon.
Fleming G. du Bignon, and Hon. James
M. Smith and proposed to them that each
should become a candidate for governor,
but none of those gentlemen considered
himself sufficiently ‘proposed’ to respond
to the call of the ‘Sentinel’ and answer
its demand to tell how they stood on. the
state prohibition question.” When neither
one of the distinguished gentlemen were
written to at all. as they had all declined
to run before our letters asking the three
candidates the question as to their stand
ing on state prohfbition. He further
says: “Col. P. confirms my statement that
the Georgia Prohibition association did
not ‘propose’ or Indorse Mr. Guerry’s can
didacy.” I wish to say Mr. McCord is in
error again, and again misleading. I did
not say so. What I did say was that the
Georgia Prohibition association did not
meet and propose to nominate him, and
then stated that "this association has
never been In the habit of meeting by del
egates and making nominations of offi
cers. The association prefers to work in
side the democratic lines and there re
dress Its grievances.” So that Mr. Mc-
Cord was not absolutely correct and wax
misleading In the above quotation. Mr.
McCord Is again misleading when he says
that Mr. Guerry is not the candidate of
the Georgia Prohibition association, and
that he has the authority of Its “president
that he is not.”
Mr. Guerry Is the candidate of the mem
bers of the Georgia Prohibition associa
tion, although tnere was no meeting by
delegates to nominate him, and they will
support him In the democratic primary
just as Mr. Terrell and Mr. Estill are can
didates of the democratic party and will
be supported at its coming primary.
Mr. Guerry is accepted as the candidate
of prohibition Democrats all over the
etate.
I want Mr. McCord to know that Mr.
Guerry has not been nominated by the
prohibitionists, nor will he be. He Is not
seeking a nomination except at the bands
of the Democratic party, and from that
party he cannot be ruled out. Again, Mr.
McCord does not seem to make any dis
tinction .between the executive committee
of the Georgia Prohibition association and
the association Itself. The officers and
members of the executive cofnmittee con
sists of only 18 or 20 members, and the as
sociation consists of between 100.000 and
200,000. This, no doubt, will be news to
Mr. McCord. The Democratic party also
consists of probably a like number, but
some are prohibitionists and some are
anti-prohibition Democrats, and it has an
executive commltee, but it generally seta
the day to nominate all Democrats for
statehouse offices, and the prohibition
Democrats will also nominate on that
day. There are other candidates also run
ning for the same nomination on that day,
but only one of these Democratic candi
dates says he wjll help to nominate sena
tors and representatives who are favor
able to the abolition of bar rooms—only
one says he Ist in favor of state prohibi
tion, at least 4o the abolition of bar
rooms by direct legislation; only one who
says "I am a prohibitionist and not a dis
pensaryist,” only one who says "I believe
prohibition is right and the dispensary is
wrong.”
Mr. McCord says: "Now. why all this
row about prohibition." I would like to
know if Mr. McCord is not helping to
make it. Mr. McCord further says: "The
attempt has been made to show that Mr.
Terrell is not a prohibitionist.” Will Mr.
Terrell say he is in "favor of state prohi
bition at least to the extent of the aboli
tion of barrooms in the state?” Mr. Mc-
Cord says further: "We are all prohibi
tionists.”
My! my! who pray are we. I want to
be delivered from all such prohibition. He
says further: “No man with a heart in
him could be anything else but a prohibi
tionist.” That is as true as gospel. He
also says: "That man could not really love
his neighbors as himself and vote the antl
prohibitionist ticket,” to which I say,
amen.
That last sentence sounds like a preach
er’s writing.
If Mr. McCord Is on Mr. Terrell’s side
of the liquor question and Mr. Terrell is
on the liquor dealers’ side, then I say,
good Lord deliver the prohibitionists from
such prohibition.
Mr. Terrell has already confessed that
he will not assist in electing members of
the senate and house who are favorable to
prohibition, and also has said that he is
opposed to state prohibition. Therefore
Mr. McCord and the liquor dealers and
their associates are supporting him, many
others really not knowing his real atti
tude on the question are doing the same.
Again deliver me from such prohibition.
Now to show further what I have al
ready said is true about his not being post
ed, Mr. McCord says: "How has it (pro
hibition) been obtained in the 117 counties
that are now dry? By radical views and
radical measures such as Mr. Guerry
would adopt? No. But by each county
working out Its own salvation and by a
vote of the people getting what they
wanted." Now this is one of Mr. Terrell’s
mistakes and I suppose Mr. McCord takes
It for that it is true. Again in
error and misleading. In the first
place there are not 117 counties absolutely
dry. In the second place the counties
that are dry are not all dry by the gener
al local option law. as Mr. Terrell claims,
nor "by each county working out Its own
salvation and by vote of the people get
ting what they wanted,” as Mr. McCord
claims, but for the information of Mr.
McCord and others Interested, I will give
the manner In which liquor has been put
out and voted out of 109 counties as it now
stands: 20 counties are dry by direct ac
tion of the legislature; 9 by the refusal of
the ordinary to grant license (praise to
tne ordinaries); 11 by high license; 3 by
the three mile law (45 special local option
laws Were passed, and liquor was voted
out of); 35 of these counties by that meth
od, and only 31 are now dry by the gener
al local option law. And there are wet
counties and dispensaries amounting to
28. making In all 137 counties, and 109 coun
ties are dry by one of these methods. And
not over 100 counties have adopted its
(the general local option law) provisions”
at Mr. Terrell has said In his letter of
March 29th. and in another communica
tion Mr. Terrell "Its operation in
this state (the local option law) has dem
onstrated the wisdom of its enactment;
under its- provisions 117 counties are now
dry.”
I do not say all these figures are ab
solutely correct—the numbers, 35 and 31
may each vary a little, but they are ap
proximately correct. All this simply »
shows that Mr. Terrell has not taken
enough interest In prohibition to know
that about three-fourths of the counties
In '-the state that are now dry obtained
prohibition otherwise than by the general
loeal option law. So that Mr. McCord, as
well as Mr. Terrell, gives this law about
three times as much credit as it is en
titled to. I say this not only to show that
Mr. McCord is wrong, but because it is the
truth. This law (the general local option)
has not been effective for about or
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