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MONDAY. JUNE X 1302.
Xawertheless. nona of the dark horses
are foaling their oats as yet.
The man who writes oateneal ads may
also claim to be a cereal story writer.
Wall, es course. If Mr Hanna s friends
insist, what else can the poor man do?
The lawyers left 17.000.000 of the Fair
■state to be distributed among the heirs.
people have been reckless enough
ia bet a Panama hat on the June primary.
Cuba has a very queer idea of gratitude
when she proposes to give Neely back to
Judging from the present prices, we
should say there is also a canteloupe
Both sides tn the miners’ trouble seem
to be giving Peace-Maker Hanr.a the coal
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rawAiAata Estill might make it more ef
fective by having his picture engraved on
his checks.
That fellow Mac lay even pursues the
memory of Admiral Sampson with his
friendship.
It would be just like President Roose
i velt to hand that Ohio convention a hot
I reprimand
Why hasn’t somebody thought of colo
•1*1 nr the anarchists on the island of
Dick Croker evidently doesn’t care who
• bosses Tammany so long as there is no
J money coming tn.
The man who rocks the boat is already
L beginning to make his disappearance—
| gnd that of others.
I Russel! Sage declares that capital and
- labor are closer now than ever before.
Capital is. at any rate.
It is just like Aunt Hetty Greene to
s carry a pistol, instead of such an effemi
nate weapon as the hatchet.
The extinct volcano Is not so frequent
In its manifestations but it is quite as
I deadly as the fireproof hotel.
In Hayti the rival candidates for the
r preside ruy are stumping the country
t bar«te«i by their respective armies.
Now that three men are to run Tamma
ny that organisation may be alluded to
Wee* ft er as a hydra-headed monster.
The Cubans had beet take a good look
at the Pearl of the Antilles. It will not be
I no very long before it is given a new set-
We are reliably informed that Datto Joe
Mall is willing to use a bolo instead of
I dum-dum bullets in settling with his ene
f mies " •
John W. Gates' remark that an honest
man has no business in Wall street can
only ba accepted as hearsay testimony,
Mhansr all. _____ •
Ira D. Bankey has quit the Methodist
_ ehurcb. to become a Presbyterian. Per-
Bhaps he had been holding out for that
Kk*w creed.
' We are reliably informed that Chairman
Tapp has not yet decided to adopt the
17 year locust that we sent him as a cam
paign button.
In the present peace negotiations the
, British might do well to insist that, as
evidence of good faith, the Boers give up
their last ditch.
Now that Governor Jeff Davis has been
fired from the Baptist church he may cuss
and drink as much as he pleases without
exciting comment.
Candidate Guerry might insist that the
••n tieman who has Challenged him to a
joint debate give bond not to change his
I mind during the debate.
If King Alfonso would abolish bull fight
ing and still give the Spaniards something
to satisfy their thirst for gore, he might
■imply substitute football.
There is another good thing about the
dedication of that Rochambeau monu
ment—it has enabled a lot of people to
team who Rochambeau was.
General Funston is confined to his bed
in Denver with an attack of fever. We
felt almost sure that Funston's enforced
silence would undermine his health
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But. really. If Candidate Guerry is Just
t spoiling for a joint dispute, what's the
g matter with arranging one with the Hon.
Joe Hill Hall on the prohibition ques-
I tlon?
Nevertheless. Alphonso would probably
find that Just as many people would cen
sure him for encouraging horse racing, as
now censure him for permitting bull
, fights
We are rather inclined to the opinion
; that Senator Hoar is biting off more than
» he can chew when he demands independ
ence for the Filipinos. Boers and Irish
| all at one time.
We take It for granted that the esteemed
Macon Telegraph is "sot" in Its opposition
- to its home candidate. It even carries its
resentment to the point of tapping Tapp
I at frequent intervals.
A French court has decided that a man
has no right to make his wife obey his
i orders. Waiving 4he question of right, it
has a! ways appeared to us that there were
* other obstacles in the way.
i. Showers of ashes are reported from
■ • Texas. But this need not necessarily be
L attributed to the recent volcanic out-
I breaks They have recently been burn-
I tag negroes in Texas, you know.
F According to the first secretary of fl
r Dance for Cuba, the main problem of the
| new republic will be to live within its
Income. Evidently free Cuba has her little
troubles, just like the rest of us.
Tt.en. too. Mr Guerry might insist that
his opponent in a joint debate shall not
be allowed to do one of those lightning
mind changing acts at the last moment
•nd take the other side of the question.
SENSE FROM CHICAGO.
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
has never been famous as either a con
spicuously able or eminently practical
statesman, but he seems to be getting
wilder.
This far-reaching statesman wants to
prevent lynchings by national law and
has proposed a line of federal action
which he thinks will lead up to that re
sult.
We are not surprised to find the most
reprsentatlve northern and western news
papers telling Gallinger that he is a tool,
or words to that effect.
The Chicago Times-Herald speaks of
him and his proposition thus:
"Senator Galllnger’s resolution for in
vestigation of the subject of lynching,
sent to the Judiciary committee of the
senate, was of such a manifestly imprac
tical character that there was no need
/or southerners to take alarm. Senator
Hoar, chairman of the committee, ex
plained that he had already reported ad
versely on a similar proposal upon con
stitutional grounds, and its value as cam
paign material Is completely discounted
tn these days by the occurrence of lynch
ings In the north with every circum
stance of cruelty that has characterised
them tn the south.
"Moreover, it is clear that if an investi
gation were made it would be futile for
the broad, general purpose of remedying
the evil. The only adequate remedy Im
aginable is a just and enlightened public
sentiment. We have now all the neces
sary machinery of law and government.
This machinery is so perfect, the princi
ples upon which it is established are so
sound that a committee would find that
the limit of governmental resources had
been reached. All that it could do would
be to issue a moral appeal, and such ap
peals are being issued over and over
again by the press and pulpit, by public
bodies and by individual ettisens. The
Impress of a senatorial authority would
not help them in ths least, but that they
will ultimately meet with the desired re
sponse in the conscience, intelligence and
practice of the'people is certain."
The Gallinger resolution will go to the
already Immense overflow of the waste
basket, to which so many frantic states
men are now contributing.
A PROFITABLE CROP.
It is undoubtedly true that there are
many crops now neglected in the south
that may be cultivated very profitably
without neglecting the great staples of
agricultural production in this section.
One of the most promising of these is
sweet potatoes. They grow well on almost
every variety of soil in the south and the
demand for them is practically unlimited.
Industrious and enterprising farmers in
Georgia and other southern states raise
profitable .crops of sweet potatoes every
year on rich land and poor land and many
of these farmers are increasing constantly
their production of this wholesome food
crop.
But the raising of potatoes for shipment
has never been undertaken in the south
very generally or on a large scale.
The supposed difficulties which deter our
farmers from trying to make a money crop
out of sweet potatoes are what they re
gard as the probable cost of saving and
shipping.
According to the New York Commercial
a northern company has arranged to raise
sweet potatoes in the south on a very,
large scale'and to ship them to the great
markets of the country when first gather
ed, a time when the demand for them is
active and prices consequently good.
The Commercial is very much interested
In this enterprise and says of it:
"If this company can provide a plan that
will make the shipment of southern sweet
potatoes in large volume not only practi
cal but profitable, it will prove a boon to
thousands of southern farmers—for the
crop Is easily and cheaply raised and de
serve* better treatment than it has had
in the past. A chief difficulty lies in the
providing of a steady demand at the north
for the tubers. They must be popularised.
The tact is that we don’t know how to
cook sweet potatoes up here. If they
could be had cooked in the style that the
old-time black Dorcases and Chloes did
the thing the New York hotels and res
taurants couldn’t begin to supply the de
mand for the dish."
If the northern company that is going
into the business shall succeed at it it will
not only benefit itself very much, but will
encourage the development of an Industry
that may become immensely important to
the south. It is a fact which will be ad
mitted by all who have tried the sweet
potatoes raised in the north, the west and
the south that those which the south pro
duces are incomparably the best of the
lot when they reach the market in good
condition. With proper care they can be
marketed promptly and delivered in per
fect shape.
The demonstration that this can be done
will solve a very Interesting problem and
give the south another crop that will
bring a very large amount of money to it
every year.
. TAMMANY’S TRIUMVIRATE.
Tammany has nominally abolished the
one-man rule to which it gave absolute
obedience, under John Kelley and Ms suc
cessor. Richard Croker. In its place has
been instituted at least on paper, a sys
tem of government by what Is known as
an advisop- committee of three.
The finance committee has been abolish
ed and it is proclaimed that the newly
chosen triumuvlrate is to have supreme
control of the affairs of the famous hall.
When I<oule Nixon was elected to succeed
Richard Croker he announced that he
would exercise without the interference
of anybody the authority with which he
had been clothed. He made an honest ef
fort to do so. but found it impossible.
Though Croker declared that his official
connection with Tammany had been laid
aside entirely, he continued to assert an
authority which the majority of the Tam
manyites recognised and obeyed as their
supreme law. When Mr. Nixon found
that his wishes and his actual orders were
overruled by a man three thousand miles
away he resigned unconditionally on the
ground that his self-respect would not
permit him to be a figurehead.
Mr. John F. Carroll, who for years had
been one of the most influential Tamma
ny leaders aspired to the presidency of its
organisation and his friends urged him en
thusiastically for the position. But word
came from Croker’s English dairy farm
that Carroll was to be rejected and that
nobody should be put on the vacant
throne.
Croker’s edict was obeyed. Carroll was
defeated and the advisory committee of
three was placed in power.
Os real power the committee really has
little. It is to carry out Croker’s Instruc
tions and its members have been too well
trained to such subordination to Croker’s
will to attempt to assert themselves. They
are fully aware that any effort to do that
would cause their speedy downfall. The
split in Tammany has been widened and
the prospect of welding its factions seems
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 2. 1902.
to be almost hopeless. But the resistance
to Croker’s domination is uncompromis
ing. How long the triumvirate, through
which the absent boss rules will be able
to hold the reins is doubtful.
The spirit of revolt may grow strong
enough to overrun Crokertsm, or failing to
succeed tn their efforts at reform, the
opponents of Croker and his agents may
secede and set up an organisation of their
own.
This is not the first time that Tammany
has tried the plan of rule by more than
one man.
In 1870. when the organisation was at the
height of its power, its affairs rested in
the hands of four men, namely, Tweed,
Sweeney, Connally and Oakey Hall.
It was under this quartette that the co
lossal frauds were perpetrated which
provoked the storm of wrath that crushed
Tammany, kept It out of power for years
and landed Tweed and some of his fellow
conspirators tn the penitentiary.
John Kelley with his one-man power re
stored Tammany to the control of New
York’s municipal government and gave it
a long lease of invincible authority in
the great city.
Kelley’s success was based mainly in the
general conviction that, dictatorial and
despotic aa he was, he was honest. There
are many honest men of course, but we
doubt if there is one among them who has
John Kelley’s genius for organisation and
control, and we do not expect to see Tam
many regain anything like the power it
once possessed.
GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS.
The growing tendency among the people
of Georgia to seek their summer rest and
recreation in their own state is creditable
to their practical good sense, ft say poll
ing of their patriotism. Whatever sort of
summer outing they may prefer they can
find it within the limits of Georgia. This
Is not only the largest state in area east
of the Mississippi river, but it is une
qualled in delights of climate or variety
of natural attractions.
Extremes of heat, like extremes of cold,
■re unknown in most parts of Georgia.
When the people in other sections of the
United States were suffering last summer
from the heat that kills, the people of
Georgia from the mountains to the sea
board were comfortable.
They do not know what sunstroke is
■except from the distressing reports that
come to them every year from less favored
regions.
Georgia has in her mountains, her coast,
her watering places and her valleys at
tractions that will gratify almost any va
riety of taste.
Summer resorting in Georgia is unequal
led in comfort and pleasure and has the
advantage also of being much less ex
pensive than it is in many other states to
which many Georgians go every summer
only to regret that they had not stayed
at home.
The Georgia resort habit grows upon
everybody who tries It and that is the ex
planation of the remarkable increase in
the number of our people who have laid
aside the habit of going outside their own
state to look for recreation and refresh
ment when they feel the need of them.
They have all about them a climate that
it is hard to match anywhere, within easy
reach, as fine scenery aa one could wish,
as delightful society, as exhilarating sea
bathing, as health-giving waters and aa
beautiful water fails.
If you have been Jn the habit of going
outside of Georgia to have your summer
frolics and reinvigoration lay it aside this
year and you wtll see how mistaken you
have beta.
Our word for it the chances are ten to
one that you will stick to your own state
hereafter.
PRESIDENT PALMA’S MESSAGE.
The reputation for statesmanlike ability
which attended President Palma into the
presidency of Cuba is justified by his first
message to the senate of the new republic.
The document is an interesting review
of the conditions and prospects of Cuba
and contains some strikingly practical
recommendations as to the proper course
of the government.
President Palma lays special stress upon
the necessity for a liberal policy of pub
lic education, especially as’ relates to pri
mary instruction. He could not have
chosen a better cornerstone for the struc
ture of which he is to be the chief archi
tect.
The masses of the Cuban people are
deplorably Ignorant, but it is said that
they have an aptitude for receiving and
retaining instruction.
With a well regulated system of public
schools and skilled teachera rapid progress
should be made toward popular education
in Cuba.
The agricultural development of that
remarkably rich island is one of the
most important subjects discussed in the
message. A far greater diversity of crops
than the soil of Cuba now yields may be
grown profitably by enterprising and In
dustrious cultivation and the yield.of such
staples as sugar and tobacco may be in
creased very largely.
The fertility of the soil of Cuba is hard
ly equalled anywhere and the cost of its
cultivation is small.
President Palma deals with the question
of reciprocity hopefully. He seems to be
convinced that the United States will
adopt a policy more liberal than that
which has so far received the sanction of
congress.
The president expresses his profound
gratitude at the immediate recognition of
the republic of Cuba by a number of
governments and the friendly reception of
the new government into the family of
nations.
Cuba probably has in President Palma a
chief executive who is better qualified to
deal with the difficult and complex prob
lems of this stage of her national exist
ence than any other man who could have
been summoned to the task.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
A man knows he loves by what joys he feels;
a woman by what she suffers.
It is the six-foot man with the square jaw
what is led around by a little bunch of pet
ticoats.
An old wife and a young husband has one
chance in a thousand to be happy, but they
never take it.
It is the easiest thing in the world to make
a woman understand a thing if only you won't
reason with her about it.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Ch lea co News.
A man seldom exhibits his temper until after
he loses it.
The tongue is a pump used to induce a flow
of conversation.
Set your mind on the eggs of pleasure and
you will hatch remorse.
When a man contracts expensive habits his
Income needs expanding.
Many a man's hypocrisy is due to the fact
• hot he has a scolding wife.
It is usually tomorrow that all remarkable
things are expected to happen.
Flatten - consists of having your secret opinion
of yourself expressed in the language of oth
ers.
Many a poor man might acquire wealth by
utilixing the time be wastes In bemoaning his
i poverty.
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CITIZENS OF ABBEVILLE •
EXPLAIN COURTHOUSE MATTER
To the Editor of The Journal:
The undersigned citizen of Abbeville.
Ga.. were very intimately connected with
the contest for the removal of the county
site of Wilcox county from Abbeville to
Rochelle, in the years 1898 and 1899. We
have read the cards of the Hon. J. B.
Hall and Hon. Dupont Guerry, published
in your Issue' of the 24th Instant, and
know that the statements made by those
gentlemen In reference to that contest are
true. Lons before Mr. Guerry was em
ployed by us. It was well known by us
that Mr. Hall was in favor of the county
site remaining at Abbeville. Mr. Guerry
was employed solely on account of his
ability, and was employed solely to ar
gue the case before the committee of the
legislature, to whom the bill for the re
moval of the county site was referred.
The argument was made in the fall of
1898, and Mr. Guerry's connection with
the case ceased then. We had no further
help from Mr. Guerry during the long
tight that followed. The bill was finally
defeated during the session of 1889. We
have no desire to enter into the guber
natorial controversy, but we think that
the above statement is due to Messrs.
Guerry and Hall from us. Respectfully,
J. D. MAYNARD.
J. L. BANKSTON,
HAL LAWSON.
W. H. WILKINSON,
S. P. LASSETER.
Abbeville, Ga. »,
DR. W. P. BURT REPLIES
TO B. M. BLACKBURN
To the Editor of The Journal:
Mr. B. M. Blackburn has contributed to
the "Joint debate column” several letters
urging the defeat of Hon. Dupont Guer
ry for governor. His alleged arguments
against Mr. Guerry are manifestly unfair,
but fortunately have proved harmless. No
one seems to have seriously considered his
flatulent fulminations. This, in a large
measure may be attributed to the fact
that these periodical ebullitions are trace
able to hallucinations resulting from a
chronic case of cacoethis scribendi. a fact
well known to most of his acquaintances.
But there mr.y be another reason why Mr.
Blackburn has made his pen work over
time in this campaign—why he is so vio
lently opposed to any change In the pres
ent order of things—changes likely to
interfere with prearranged political slates
and the distribution of political patronage.
I think I can prove that Mr. Blackburn
has been a beneficiary in at least one
case of extravagant expenditure of the
public money—eftte of many such expendi
tures which have resulted in greatly In
creased taxation and a treasury deficit.
The legislature of 1898 appointed a joint
committee to draft a general tax law for
the state, and to report the tax law
agreed upon to the fall session of 1899.
Os this committee Hon. E. L. Wight was
chairman. Hon. W. A. Dodson, president
of the senate, and Hon. John D. Little,
speaker of the house, and others were
members. I am not able to say how many
days during the summer of 1899 this com
mittee incubated upon this important
measure, but I do know that when the
legislature met In the fall of 1899 a bill
of expenses was rendered, amounting to
13,195, which developed considerable op
position, but was finally ordered paid. See
special appropriations, warrant No. 1668,
December 14, 1899. Os this amount $2,520
was per diem for members of the com
mittee, $75 to pay a porter to wait on
them, and S6OO to pay the secretary, Mr.
B. M. Blackburn. It seems that this
amount ought to have been sufficient to
pay for drafting a bill that would have
at least engaged the attention of the leg
islature. The $2,520 would, have paid one
member to investigate matters of taxa
tion $4.00 per day for two years. The S6OO
paid Mr. Blackburn was $4.00 Her day for
150 days, or about six months' service.
But what was the result? The legisla
ture failed to enact into law one single
recommendation of this committee. The
only tangible result was the payment of
the bill of expenses. In fact, the bill
drafted was that the legisla
ture even failed to consider it.
It is that Mr. Blackburn would
like to get another soft snap at the pub
lic’s expense, and possibly fears that
should Mr. Guerry be elected governor
such patent leaks in the treasury would
be stopped.
One more thought, Mr. Blackburn in
one of his numerous letters assumes to
dictate to we Confederate veterans how
we should vote in the approaching prima
ry. He says we must vote against that
gallant Confederate veteran and peerless
Georgian, Dupont Guerry, who at the age
of 17 years fought in the trenches around
Atlanta.
I commend to friend Blackburn this ax
iom: "Advice is always a drug in the
market, the supply being greater than
the demand.” Assuming to speak for
these old brother veterans. I will say to
Mr. Blackburn that should we at any
time desire his advice we will not hesi
tate to ask for it, knowing that he is not
only willing but anxious to speak (and
write) both in and out of season.
W. P. BURT.
SAYS McDUFFIE COUNTY
IS SOLID FOR GUERRY
To the Editor of The Journal:
The Hon. Dupont Guerry is ahead for
governor in this neck of the woods. Mc-
Duffie county will give him a good majori
ty on June 5. He will also carry every
county in the tenth congressional district
except Richmond.
We mean business down this way. We
are tired of the domination of the ring and
we intend to stop it, or do our part to
smash It, we care not haw much abuse
and misrepreesntatlon they may heap up- .
on Mr. Guerry.
I have made several speeches for Mr.
Guerry and had three joint debates with
Mr. Terrell's lieutenants, and I find ev
erything all right.
Mr. Terrell spoke here last Saturday to
an audience of not more than 130 people,
some of whom were from Columbia and
Lincoln counties, and there were some
boys among the audience. I counted the
people on one side of the courthouse and
there were 57 people which was fully half
of the audience. Twelve people came af
ter I counted, for I kept my eyes on the
door.
Mr. Terrell was Introduced by my friend.
Hon. J. R. Hogan, an ex-Populist, of Lin
coln, who made an effort to catch the
votes of we old Populists for Terrell, but
he utterly failed, for there are many old
Populists here as well as all over the
state who cannot see how a man who ran
for governor on a state prohibition ticket
can conscientiously vote against Dupont
Guerry In this race. Terrell’s speech
made no votes.
I think that every old populist should
go to the polls and vote for Guerry and
against the ring and corruption In poli
tics. Let's not vote for Terrell, who voted
against the three-mile liquor law that
jnade the country dry and protects the
farmers' wives and children and our
country churches and school houses.
1 know that Guerry is right about lob
byism, for I have seen it going on in and
around the capitol.
Let’s all rally to the support of Guerry
and prohibition • whether we have been
Populists or Democrats, for he represents
everything that is near and dear to our
homes and firesides.
I cannot see how a man who has been a
Populist and reformer can fail to vote
for Guerry. I cannot see how a member
of the church, much less a preacher, can
fait to vote for Guerry. for to vote against
him Is to vote with the tax dodgers and
the liquor dealers, the destroyers of the
peace of our homes.
May God give us strength and coifbage
Open to the Gubernatorial Candidates
and Their Friends For the Discussion of
the Issues Involved in the Present Race.
to rise above political ambition, personal
friendship and selfish motives in this race
for governor!
McDuffie county and the tenth district,
excepting Richmond county, sends greet
ings to the balance of the state and asks
the people of the state to join the home
of Hon. Thomas E. Watson in the elec
tion of ~,upont Guerry for governor.
Yours for Guerry,
MATT W. GROSS.
TELLS WHY HE HAS
CHANGED TO GUERRY
To the Editor of The Journal:
At the beginning of the present cam-,
pa.gn for the governorship of this state,
I was a supporter of Hon. J. M. Terrell,
but as the campaign waxed warm, and
the Issues on which It was pivoted be
came manifest. I changed my allegiance
and support to the Hon. Dupont Guerry,
of Bibb. And this I did with the knowl
edge that I would be accused by the un
thinking with being vacillating and un
fixed in my opinions, for the reason that
I am more concerned to be correct than
to be consistent. As a prohibitionist, I
have long ceased to hope for alleviation
of the curse of alcohollsn\ from one of the
machine politicians of this state, or even
from a man, however pure, who counts
as his friends, advisers, and supporters,
the majority of the class known as the
men "who control," for the simple reason
that we all are largely Influenced by our
environments and associates.
How often have I seen official appoint
ments made for the reason, not that
a certain one is more competent, more
fitted by labors performed, than is an
other, but solely for the reason that so
and so supported the appointing power to
office, and this is the office, and this is the
reward given for such assistance. I do
not condemn this, other things being
equal; it is not wrong under tnese condi
tions, and I only mention it here to pre
pare your readers for this thought: Mr.
Terrell is surrounded by. Is supported by,
is counseled and commended by, three
classes of .people; viz, the corporations
and the men controlled, and the politi
cians and the men by them deceived. I
do not mean to charge that these are the
only votes Mr. Terrell will receive, but
they are the backbone of his supporters,
and without them he would not, and could
not, carry 25 counties In the state. Many
who read this will deny that they belong
to either of the classes named above, and
many who make .such denial, are deceived
even as to themselves. The Influences
of the classes named above are used so
adroitly, their approaches are so Insidious
that many succumb without ever realizing
that the virus of corruption has entered
their person. I now appeal to your read
ers. Mr. Editor, and ask them to intro
spectively examine themselves —ask them
to see on what grounds they base their
support of either of the gentlemen aow
before the people as candidates for the
high office of governor of this great state,
and I confidently expect that, if this be
done, it is only the supporters of Mr.
Guerry who will be able to give "a rea
son for the faith that is in them.”
Much, Mr. Editor, is being said about
local option in this campaign, when in
truth, this doctrine has been repudiated
by its own former friends. Gentlemen
may cry local option, the right of the
people of a county to regulate their own
affairs, but I say that under the decision
of the supreme court in the Camilla case,
that dispensaries can be established by
the legislature in any county in Geor
gia, and this without submitting it to the
people of those counties, whether wet or
dry. Where is the local option in that?
- Ah, you say the people of the county can
decide whether they will have a dispen
sary or not.
I answer that out of the twenty odd
dispensaries in Georgia I know of only
one that was submitted to the people of
the whole county. Where is local option
In these twenty counties? Gone, killed in
the home of its friends—the liquor deal
ers. Then, again, Hon. Seaborn Wright,
of Floyd, told me last fall, that had it
not been for his general dispensary act,
which prevented private or local acts,
there would have been thirty or forty
local dispensary bills enacted by the last
legislature. Where would local option
have taken refuge In those thirty or forty
counties? She could not have been ap
pealed to the people of those counties, for
they, unless they lived in the town in
wnlch It was purposed to establish the
dispensary, would have been dlsfran-1
chised. Voters, this is the question. Lo
cal option is dead, killed by the supreme
court, and buried last year when the gen
eral dispensary bill, which would have
submitted the question to the people of the
various counties, was vetoed. Beguile
yourselves not into the belief that yotir
county is secure from the curse, for in
such fancied security did the brave old
county of Wilkes enjoy repose till the last
legislature imposed on the people of the
county all the evils of the sale of liquor
(through a dispensary), without submit
ting the question to any one living with
out the limits of the city of Washington.
Local option is dead. I repeat, and its
place is taken by a dispensary, at the be
hest of the .legislature In twenty counties
already, and I have it from Hon. Seaborn
Wright that it would have taken it in
thirty or forty other counties, if it had
not been for his general measure on that
subject. There are counties in Georgia
that on the sth of June will be carried
by Mr. Terrell, and in repayment they
will receive a dispensary, nolens, volens.
from the legislature. I say they will re
ceive a dispensary if Mr. Terrell is elec
ted. for the legislature never fails to pass
one. and Mr. Terrell would not veto one.
but. if Mr7Guerry Is elected, how different
will be the result. In that brave, manly
way of his. he has taken the people into
his confidence, and has assured them that
he will veto any dispensary measure for
a drv county. Voters, this issue is be
fore you. Prohibitionists, if you live la a
dry county, it is by Guerry’s veto that
you can be secure from the dangers and
debauchery of a dispensary; if you live
in a wet county it is through Guerry-and
the forces he is so gallantly leading that
you hope for rescue from the forces of
Ignorance and vice, for there is hardly a
single county In Georgia that would not
go for prohibition if the negro vote was
eliminated. Then Guerry is the hope of
prohibitionists, and those who love purity
and civic virtue.
Is his record clean? How pitiful is the
effort of Mr. Hill to besmirch the charac
ter of this great man. by attempting to
prove that Mr. Guerry's law partner wag
in the hall of the legislature when he. Mr.
Hill, was making a speech, and because
Mr. Hall was conversing with some one,
Mr. Hill became annoyed, and finally
called upon the speaker to enforce the
rules of the house. Truly this Is remark
able evidence on which to convict Mr.
Hall of the crime of lobbying, much less
his law partner over one hundred miles
from the scene, who had no knowledge of
anything that occurred. No, Mr. Hill,
your cause and your candidate must be
weak, when this is the best argument, and
it comes to ug, not direct, "but by proxy.
Is Mr. Guerry right about the railroads
not paying their just share of the taxes?
Only a week ago I noticed that the Louis
ville and Nashville returned their line to
this state at SIO,OOO per mile, when Just
over the line—an imaginary. Infinitesimal
line—they returned It at SIB,OOO, In Ala
bama? Is he right on the tax question?
Let this simple statement, eloquent in Its
convincing and thundering truth, make
answer.
Speak up. Mr. Terrell, and tell us what
you are for anyway. Put old Wilkes down
as four for Guerry.
Very truy yours.
JAMES M. PITNER.
I Washington Ga.
LOCAL OPTION IS A
DELUSION AND A SNARE
To the Editor of The Journal:
As you have so nobly opened your col
umns for the discussion of the issues of
the gubernatorial campaign, and as Estill
and Terrell have declared for local option
and opposed to state prohibition, and as
Terrell and his campaign managers in
addition to advocating local option in the
papers are now sending out circulars in
which they are setting forth sophistical
arguments in favor of local option, and as
these fallacious arguments are so adroitly
preesnted as to deceive well-meaning peo
ple and as they are urged in the interest
of the liquor traffic and Terrell’s candi
dacy and against Guerry and prohibition,
and as prohibition is the most important
issue before the people.
For months Terrell has been trying to
drive it into the ears of the people of
Georgia that 117 counties are “dry” by the
general local option law for which he vot
ed in the legislature of 1885. Whereas,
we have only 107 dry counties. Twenty of
these counties are dry by special act of
the legislature. Eleven are dry by high
license; nine are dry because the ordinary
will not grant license; three are dry by
the three mile law, making 41, and leav
ing 66 instead of 117 dry by vote of the
people. And my understanding is a num
ber of these voted liquor out before the
general local option law was enacted.
So we see Terrell missed it by at least 51
counties. And as he knows so little about
prohibition in Georgia as to make such
a mistake, it is to be supposed there are
other things about prohibition in the state
he wants to govern that he don’t know.
It is possible if not probable that if the
general local option law had never been
we would have more dry counties by spe
cial act and otherwise than we have un
der the provisions of that law. For at
the time of its enactment about 50 coun
tie were dry and others were following
in rapid succession. And It would have
been better form of prohibition in that
it would not be liable to have to fight
the battle over every two sr four years,
nor so exposed to the dispensary folly.
Then the liquor men and politicians would
not have hah the opportunity to deceive
people and misrepresent and scandalize
the Democratic party by posing as pro
hibitionists under the guise of local op
tion and declaring that the Democratic
party has declared in favor of local op
tion.
It is known that but for the local op
tion policy Mississippi would have had
prohibition years ago. And it is possible,
if not probable, that but for the deceitful
sophisms the general local option law
puts in the mouths of the liquor men and
politicians we would have prohibition in
Georgia now. Certain it is that local op
tion is totally wrong in principle. It ia
now known that alcohol, that ingredient
tn beer, whisky and other intoxicating li
quors. sought after when such liquors are
drunk, is the most fearful poison known
for while it Injures and destroys the body
as readily and completely as any other
poison known, it also poisons the soul and
the mind. It is nothing but a poison—no
more a food that chloroform, and has but
one medical property, a heart-stimulant.
Hence, its manufacture and sale for bev
erage purposes is a sin and crime. It is
only stating a fact to assert that the
beverage liquor traffic is as clearly a
sin and a crime as stealing and murder.
And as it is the first duty of the state to
protect the people and all the people, and
especially the weak, it is the duty of the
state to suppress the beverage liquor
traffic.
License laws are themselves lawless
contrary to law. The supreme court of
the United States says: “There is no in
herent right in a citizen to sell intoxi
cating liquors by retail; it is not a privi
lege of a citizen of a state, or of. a citizen
of the United States. No legislation can
bargain away the public health or the
public morals. The people themselves
cannot do It, much less their servants.
Government is organized with a view to
their preservation, and cannot divest it
self of the power to provide for them.”
What would Terrell and his friends
think of a proposition to submit to the
principles of local option the crimes of
murder and highway robbery? Absurd,
you say, and so it is. but not more absurd
than the proposition to so submit the
erftne of liquor selling. And it is a fact
that every argument presented in favor
of local option for the drunkard-making,
home-wrecking, health and life and sotll
destroying liquor business is farfetched,
strained. Illogical, absurd.
It is a well known and significant fact
that Georgia's liquor lords, the brewers,
distillers and wholesale and retail liquor
men, are clamorous for local option. And
these men and their followers are to a
man supporting Terrell. And for these
reasons no prohibitionist can vote for
Terrell without stultifying himself.
A great general said: "Find out what
your enemv wants and take care that he
shall not get it." Our liquor lords and
their henchmen want local option because
they know they can keep black heels and
white necks in the liquor cursed cities of
Georgia and continue to coin millions out
of the weak and helpless.
And they understand Joseph M. Terrell
perfectly, and they want him for govern
or. and they want him bad. Report has it
that they are putting much money into
the camoaign to secure Terrell's election.
In these last days of the campaign,
when Terrell begins to hear mutterings
from the people about the haughty oppres
sions of these liquor lords and favored
mlghtv corporations he gets mad and de
nounces as malicious liars those who say
he is the candidate of the liquor gang and
the corporation. Now. it is a very se
rious matter to misrepreesnt a man; but
how are we to understand the fact that
Terrell contends for local option,
very thing that the liquor crowds con
tend for. and the other fact that the liquor
lords are doing all they can to elect Ter
rell? We have been told that in Savannah
and Macon, the homes of the other two
candidates, the liquor men are supporting
Terrell to a man. Does anybody know of
an anti-prohlbitlonlst yt Georgia who is
not supporting Terrell?
And the very fact that anti-prohibition
ists everywhere in Georgia are doing all
they can to defeat Guerry points it to be
the clear duty of every prohibitionist to
vote for him. A. J. Hl GHES.
Watkinsville, Ga., May 20, 1902.
UNFORTUNATE THAT
PROHIBITION 18 MADE ISSUE
To the Editor of The Journal: .
For more than a third of a cantufy 1
have been engaged in preaching the gos
pel, and have never failed to denounce sin
in all its forms, and commend virtue. In
all these years, while I have always felt
a deep Interest In the affairs of our state,
I have never before this attempted to
say one word through the press on polit
ical matters. •
I now feel constrained to beg the priv
ilege through your esteemed paper of say
ing a few things on the subject of state
prohibition as employed in the present
contest for thfc governor's office.
The question upon which the struggle to
enter this high office is not confined to
prohibition alone upon its merits, but to
many other devices that appear to me to
be unworthv and should be condemned.
If a cause is righteous It should seek for
support on Its excellency and should be
addressed to the judgment of the voters
and not sought to succeed by personal
abuse and malevolent rumors.
All right-thinking people should not only
be opposed to the making and selling of
ardent spirits as a beverage, but to the
use of it as such. No one can deny that
there is as much evil in the use as in the
making and selling of intoxicants. The
law should be as severe on the one as the
other. The tendency to this evil must be
dealt with as the tendency to all other
evil. When men quit buying men will
quit making and selling. Our law allows
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the manufacture and sale of firearms and
other Implements with which death may
be produced and hold the buyer responsi
ble for the use he makes of them. We
must deal with men as God deals with
them, as reasonable beings. If we are go
ing to have state prohibition, prohibit the
improper use of whisky and make all re
sponsible for the evil growing out of it
whether it be the seller or the drinker.
For the last seventeen years the cause
of temperance has been making progress
step by step through local option, not as
fast as many have desired, but when we
look back through these years in which
this work has been gaining ground, and
see our state dotted with barrooms at al
most every crossroads, and view it as It
is now with 117 counties freed from these
sinks of sin, we have cause to rejoice and
be inspired with the hope that the day
is not far distant when our entire state
shall be freed from this evil.
There are three men seeking the office of
governor. One a state prohibitionist; ona
a local optionist, and one that is neither.
The question that must be decided by
every one who votes is: For which of
these shall I cast my ballot? All should .
seek for the best reason and not be in
fluenced outside of reason. As for myself
I have tried to weigh this question in the
fear of God, and have made up my mind. ■
I have never voted for anything against
temperance, but have always, when I
have had the chance to do so, voted for
temperance and principles and men that
would be most conducive to that end. I
am afraid to vote for state prohibition in
this contest for the governor’s seat. I can
see no good that would acrue to the cause
of temperance in the election of its candi
date. He would If elected only have the
power to approve or disapprove any law
that might be passed by the'law-making
power. The cause of temperance might
be set back many years. The whole ques
tion might be thrown back to where it
started 17 years ago. and the battle fought
over again, and if we should not have
barrooms in every town and all over the
country we would have dispensaries which
would now be upon us if it had not been
for the good sense and backbone of our
present governor. I do not Intend to re
flect upon any one. Many good men were
ready to approve the effort to have such
a law passed because it was introduced by
an avowed prohibitionist without giving it
consideration.
The gentleman who is a local optionist
asking to be elected to this high office I
have known from his youth. I knew his
father and bis maternal grandfather, two
men of sterling worth, reliable and trust
worthy in every relation of life
It was my privilege to serve a church,
as pastor, for nine years in six miles of
Greenville, Ga.. and while Mr. Terrell was
not a member of that church he was a
regular attendant, going six miles to do
so. It is a real pleasure to me to be able
to say that his conduct was exemplary at
all times. His whole life has been spent
for the right and no man could be found
In whose hands, not only the cause of
temperance, but the interest of all the
people Os every class would be more safe
ly guarded.
I am sorry that this question has been
Injected into this campaign—it is exceed
ingly unfortunate. An effort is being made ;
to make this a church matter. It is to be
regretted that the Methodists and Baptists
are appealed to as such to go to the polls
and vote for prohibition. Church and
state must be te*pt apart. Intemperance is
not the only evil to put down or the only
thing to be guarded by a governor.
I shall vote for Joje Terrell.
E. M. HOOTEN.
Fairburn, Ga.
PAULDING COUNTY CITIZEN
’ DECLARES FOR TERRELL
OVAL, Ga.. May 1», 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
As no one has written from our county
(Paulding), to the. joint debate, I will en
deavor to let the people know romethlng
about how we stand regarding the cam
paign for governor. I do not believe in
personalities, but I do think that the
Hon. J. M. Terrell has the right to defend
his highly honored name. It will be hon
ored on June sth with a hearty support
by the thinking people of this part <of
the state. There are plenty cX men in tnis
section who can’t be blown about by every
little puff of'political wind.
It seems passing strange that we have
always elected such ignorant men to the
general assembly that they could not at
tend to any ot the Important issue* of the
state. I don’t think we will need any
more if the Hon. Dupont Guerry Is elected,
as he Is able to run the whole business.
But I am glad to know there are plenty
of patrloi.c men left yet who think that
the people ought to have a voice In the
affairs of the state. As to prohibition,
Mr. Guerry nor any of his friends have
showed any great thing he has accom
plished in that direction. And if they
want the voters of Georgia to believe he
is such a great prohibitionist they had
bei-c* hunt another record. I know some
of the strongest prohibitionists in this part
of the state who will support Mr. Terrell
because they would rather risk the affairs
of prohibition in h.s hands than Mr. Guer
ry's. They beiieve he will do every
thing in his power to advance the cause
of prohibition in the future, as in the
past, as his record shows. I ask every
fair-minded voter of Georgia, can any
man do more than that?
Now. this way of preaching one thing
and doing another and fooling the people
thereby. Is a thing of the past.
Mr. Terrell is the man because he be
lieves that the people should have a
voice in what they want, which is their
constitutional right.
Now, Mr. Guerry, show us your ability
by some of your work in the past.
I never saw such a splutter over any
thing as there is over Mr. Terrell's For
syth speech. Somebody got hit sure. I
think he had a perfect right to say it
after what Mr. Guerry and others had
said of him. But they can’t turn the
thinking people of Georgia that way. and
I‘hope the friends of Mr. Terrell will not
Interfere with Uncle Sam Jones, as every
thing he says wins vot?s for Mr. Terrell,
whom we are fully confident will be the
next governor of Georfgla.
According to Mr. Guerry’s statement,
there is one of the worst looking scare
crows in the state capitol that has ever
been heard of. It’s head is made of anti
prohibitionists, it’s body is the rai’road
lobbyists, the arrris free passes and feet
tax-dodgers and extra fees.
It seems that none of the general as-’
semblies nor governors have had the
courage to approach this fiery-eyed
monster and tear it down.
But Mr. Guerry says he is the man to
down with it. (But who believes he will?)
If such a thing really is there, I do not
believe he would go near it unless It was
to affiliate with it as he has done in the
past. Mr. Terrell is the man, I repeat, for
governor and let’s see to it. fellow citi
zens. that he is elected on June Sth.
Very respectfully,
O. H. CRAINE.
TERRELL ADMIRER DISCUSSES
GUERRY AS A LOBBYIST
To the Editor of The Journal:
Taking advantage of your kind offer, I
desire to say a few words in behalf of
Mr. Terrell. Mr. Guerry started his cam
paign off on lobbyism as one of his chief
planks, and it is very clear to my mind
if there ever has been any lobbying done
in Georgia It has been done by Mr. Guer
ry or his law partner (by whose actlone
he is responsible) for he admits over hie
own signature that the court awarded
“us fees." How could Mr. Guerry suc
ceed in passing a bill that he “found
great difficulty in procuring the passage
of said bill” without lobbying. Mr.
Guerry, in his letter of the flat, says he
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