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BIG CROWD HEARS
JOE POTTLE SCORE
HUGim DORSEY
Candidate for Governor Makes
a Powerful Vote-Getting
Speech and Wins Hundreds
of New Supporters Here
Every eeat on the lower floor of the
Grand opera house and every seat in the
balcony was taken, with men standing
ten feet deep behind both rails when
Joseph E. Pottle, of Milledgeville, can
dlddate for governor of Gorgia. ad
dressed the voters of Fulton county
Thursday night.
It was the first Atlanta speech of any
candidate. The tremendous audience is
considered a great tribute to Mr. Pot
tles ability as a speaker and a signifi
cant indication of the manner in which
Atlanta voters regard the issues for
which he stands in the gubernatorial
race.
The capacity of the Grand is 3.000.
Thursday night the lower floor was
filled, the balcony was filled, the boxes
were filled, the topmost gallery was
filled except for the last few rows and
several hundred sat on the stage And
with several hundred standing down
stairs. it is conservative to say that
between 3.500 and 3.000 Atlatnlans heard
him. •
Now and again Mr. Pottle was force 1
to pause while irrepressibles shouted,
••You’ve got 'em. Joe? Pour it into em.
Joe? Tell us some more.”
Once Mr. Pottle stated. “If you don't
like me well enough to vote for me. I
hope you'll like my platform well
enough; and if you don’t like my ul.it
fcrm well enough. I hope you’ll like me
well enough.”
He was Interrupted with a yell "We
like 'em both?” And cheers and hand
clapping began again.
While Mr. Dorsey himself was not
present to answer these charges, a num
ber of Dorsey adherents —chosen, ap
parently. because of their undenied
lung-power—were distributed through
out the audience at well-spaced Inter
vals. and did not fall to make their
presence known.
At every mention of Dorsey's name,
they seized the opportunity to yell
“Hurrah for Hugh?” Mr. Pottles ref
erence to the Dorsey's prosecution of
the Tnnesses brought forth a loud cry
of "He done his duty!” while now and
again the slogan varied to "Hurrah for
Dorsey and Tom Watson!”
Mr. Pottle took these interruptions
goodnaturedly An especially vehement
outburst from the gallery, was follow
ed by a voice from down-stairs. "In
vite somb of that loud-mouthed crowd
down here If they want to talk. Joe.’
Mr. Pottle laughed and replied. "That's
all right, let 'em go their route. They'll
be crying a little Viter.” Laughter and
cheers greeted the remark.
Mr. Pottle s speech follows in part
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fel
low-Citizens:
I do not understand that I owe any
citizen of this state an apology or ex
cuse for my appearance here tonight to
address the people of this city in my
own behalf as a candidate for governor.
Atlanta is the capital of our great state
and I. like every other patriotic Geor
gian. take infinite pride in its progress
and prosperity. The city’s fame is just
ly estended all over the nation, and that
fame is shared by every community of
the state.
When I determined to become a can
didate for governor I resolved that as
far as God would give me strength. I
would meet the people of Georgia face
to face. I believe it is the right of the
people who are asked by a candidate for
their support, to give them as far as
possible opportunity to see him, to hear
him, to criticise him. and reach a conclu
sion upon his merits.
i shall do this to the utmost of my
ability, and with the people's verdict I
shall be content. In my effort to make
good this resolution. I have in the past
ten weeks visited nearly every section
of Georgia: have spoken to and have
been greeted by more than sixty thou
sand of my fellow-citizens —political
friends and political foes alike—and I
pay to them the grateful tribute that
they have, without any exception what
soever, treated me. though a stranger
to many of them, always with uniform
courtesy, uniform kindness and uniform
hospitality.
Upon my announcement. I made an
other resolution which I have kept and
which I shall keep to the end of this
campaign. It was. that under no circum
stances would I conduct a campaign ex
cept on a high, exalted and honorable
plane—a plane becoming a gentleman
and a man—and that I would not. c«ne
what may. utter a single word which
would bring the slightest blush of em
hareesment to the cheek of the most del
icate and refined women in all this state.
While 1 want to be elected governor,
and while I expect to be elected gover
nor. I will not wade through filth to do
so. and if in the exigencies of political
fortune. 1 shall fail. I shall return to
the privacy of my home and to my wife
and children with my self-respect fully
preserved and with no stain of dishonor
on my personal or political character.
While I admit that 1 have been more
or less of a partisan in politics all my
life, this is the first occasion upon which
I have ever opened my mouth in my own
behalf, although I have held the high
offices of solicitor general of the great
Ocmulgee circuit. composed of eight
splendid middle-Georgia counties, for
nearly fourteen years, to which office I
was elected four times without opposi
tion.
One of the candidates opposing me in
this race is Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey, a res
ident of this city. It isn't my fault that
he isn’t here on this rostrum to discuss
together with me and in the presence
and hearing of the people of Atlanta, the
issues involved in this campaign.
I recently extended to him a courteous
invitation to join me in this discussion,
not only here, but in some place in
each of the twelve congressional dis
tricts in the state. His final reply, re
fusing to do so, is based on two so
called reasons:
First: That he does not consider me a
sufficiently formable factor in the race
to justify his descent from the exalted
pedestal of ability, virtue, popularity and
patriotism, which he has arrogantly
built for himself.
Second. That he deems my invitation
to him. alone, a discourtesy to our other
two opponents, whose cause he seems to
think it is his business to champion.
So far as I have seen he has, in no re
ported speech, made any explanation of
the charges which appeal to men of in
telligence, nor any denial of the main al
legation of fact. I think I am justified,
therefore, in making the statement
which I now make—that Mr Dorsey's
excuses for refusing to accept my'court
eous invitation, are absurd and cMldisn
and that bis real excuse is that he knows
full well that the facts of his record
stated by me cannot be denied, and that
the conclusion drawn therefrom cannot
be overtnrown.
It is I who have made the attack on
Mr. Dorsey's record. I assume all re
sponsibility therefor. What Dr. Hard
man and Governor Harris assert about
him. I do not know. His refusal to an
swer the charges, face to face with me.
and in the presence of the people whose
votes he solicits, leaves me free to chal
lenge openly his right and his claim to
the office we both are seeking.
There are three candidates for gover
nor. besides myself. The first is my
honored fried of long standing Gover
nor Harris. I have no assault to make on
i him. I wouldn't say a word of criticism
. against him to be elected to this or any
other office. But the governor is an old
man. If he is re-elected governor, ha
will be. I think, with possibly one ex
ception the oldest man who ever held the
office in this state.
If Governor Harris lacks decision, it
is in his age. If he lacks virility, it is his
age, because he has. as all of us know
we will have when age puts the silver
?n our hair, and the wrinkles in our face,
and the hesitation in our steps, and the
halting in our memory—all weakness
es which accompany old age.
Dr. Hardman is also running for gov
ernor as he has a perfect right to do.
He has been running long enough to
have become an expert in the art of
running. I greatly fear, however, that
in this case the old proverb of "practice
makes perfect" will be reversed, and
that the more he runs the more slowly
he progresses.
The good doctor Insists that he should
be elected governor because he is no
politician, while the rest of us are. In
view of the fact that the doctor claims
credit for a large part of the legisla
tion of the state for the past ten years
or more, during which time he has been
busily engaged in holding a place in the
general assembly or running for one,
except when he was running for gov
ernor. it is with rather poor grace that
he declares that I, at least, am a poli
tician —L who was never, in a life of
nearly half a century, a candidate for
a political office before.
On one of the issues in this campaign,
Dr. Hardman and 1 emphatically differ.
He insists that the governor’s term
should be four years. I insist, on the
contrary, that there is no man in Geor
gia great enough, or good enough, or
wise enough, to hold this exalted office
longer than two years, without return
ing his credentials to the people for
their ratification or disapproval. Its
responsibilities are too great, its pa
tronage is too extensive, its possibilities
of good or evil to the state and its peo
ple are too tremendous to justify en
trusting them to any man longer than
two years.
Dr. Hardman is strong for a four
year term, for Dr. Hardman, but his
enthusiasm on this point sadly disap
pears when it comes to Governor Harris.
I am against the four-year ternr. for
anybody.
The other candidate is Hon. Hugh M.
Dorsey. He was. until a few days ago,
solicitor general of the Atlanta circuit,
and had held that office for nearly
six years. I was. until a few weeks
ago, solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee
circuit, and had held that office for
nearly fourteen years. I resigned my
office when I announced for governor.
I do not doubt that he faithfully and
ably discharged his duties as such an
officer. I claim the same for myself.
My record, will. I believe, compare fa
vorably with his.
I have prosecuted and have been in
strumental in convicting twice as many
criminals as he. I have been officially
instrumental in inflicting the death pen
alty on twice as many murderers as he,
though I admit that my services have
not been quite so spectacular in some
respects as his own.
Our contracts with the state have
closed. The state paid me and paid him.
It owes me nothing.
It owes him nothing. Neither he nor
I have any right to ask the office of
governor of the people solely because we
discharged our duty faithfully.
I have asserted all over Georgia, and
I now assert that for five reasons, sepa
rate and distinct. Mr. Dorsey is dis
qualified to be governor of t”ls great
state.
The Western and Atlantic railroad is
the state’s be-t material asset. Hon.
William A. Wright, the state's beloved,
honored and superbly capable comptrol
ler general—a gallant Confederate sol
dier and probably the best posted citi
zen on railroad values in this state —
tays that the Western and Atlantic rail
road pays a net return to its lessees of
5 per cent on a 120,000.000 valuation.
With such value, the Western and At
lantic railroad should be leased for a
sum of approximately >BOO,OOO per an
num; for twice the amount paid under
the present lease contract.
Both Mr. Dorsey and myself agree
that the Western and Atlantic railroad
should not be sold. I insist that it
should he leased for a reasonably long
term, so that the lessees would have
some motive to develop and build Up
this great property. It is a fact, well
known to most of the citizens of Geor
gia, that one-half of the income from
the lease of the Western and Atlantic
railroa’d furnishes the basis for our
common school system, and that prop
erty itself is the basis of the state’s
splendid credit.
It is fact, also well known to many
citizens, that the Nashville. Chattanoo
ga and St. Louis railroad is the pres
ent lessee of the Western and Atlantic
and that the Louisville and Nashville
controls, if it does not own outright,
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad.
It is a fact also, though uot so well
known, that the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad is and has been engaged
in an effort to obtain a charter which
would authorize it to build another rail
read to run parallel to the Western and
Atlantic, through its* natural territory
in Georgia, and connecting with the
Louisville and Nashville's main system.
There is not a particle of doubt that
if this scheme of the Louisville and
Nashville succeeds, the value of the
Western and Atlantic will be greatly re
’ duced. and in my opinion practically
, destroyed.
This legislation, absolutely necessary
to save the state's property from ruin,
was passed almost unanimously. With
in a few months thereafter a suit was
tnought in the superior court of Fulton
county, in which It was alleged that the
law passed, to protect the state, was
unconstitutional and void.
This suit was filed by the law firm
of Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman,
of which the present candidate was a
member. This petition was refused by
Judge John T. Pendleton, and it is now
pending in the supreme court of the
state.
I do not deny that Mr. Dorsey, as a
lawyer, was within his rights to ac
cept this employment and take as a
fee the money of the Louisvule and
■ Nashville Railroad company for his
services, but the point I am making is
that, the lawyer who, as a lawyer, open
ly insisted that the act of* the legisla
ture referred to was in violation of
the constitution and void, is not the
man to be entrusted with the Interests
of the people of the state as their gov
ernor.
The criticism is, not that Mr. Dorsey
represented the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, but that having done so and
thereby committing himself against the
wisdom, justice and validity of an act
of the legislature, he, as governor, would
emphatically be disqualified to take the
state's side of this issue.
Hugh Dorsey, as a lawyer, says the
act is void. This he has the right to
say. Hugh Dorsey, as governor, should
not be entrusted with its enforcement.
.YPr Dorsey replies by declaring that
neither he nor his firm have represented
the Louisville and Nashville before, but
that his firm has frequently sued it, and
that he has now and then prosecmed it.
I take his statement as true, and sub
mit to the people of Georgia the ques
tion. whether it is not at least 'signifi
cant that this great railroad, notoriously
active in the political affairs o* other
southern states, through which is runs,
should employ th« firm of lawyers to
THE ATLANTA SEMLWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
represent it, which has always been
fighting it in the courts, and over the
head of its own division counsel in At
lanta, able and experienced as they are,
just at that time, when it was generally
understood that one member of that
firm should be a candidate for governor.
But Mr. Dorsey, while admitting the
connection of his firm with this litiga
tion, on behalf of the Louisville and
Nashville rai’.road, and while not deny
ing, so far as I have seen, that he re
ceived his part of the fee, insists that he
is not and should not be held responsible
therefor, because, forsooth, he personal
ly had nothing to do with it.
Mr. Dorsey declares, in his published
platform that "he will uphold the policy
of the state as expressed in the act of
the legislature," designed to protect the
state’s property. I have no disposition
to question his sincerity on this point.
1 am willing to admit that he will un
dertake to do so, but the man to be se
lected governor, and whose duty it will
be to "uphold the policy of the state,”
should not be the man who does not be
lieve in the justice and legality of that
policy, but who will uphold it merely as
a matter of official duty. On the con
trary, he ought to be a man who be
lieves strongly in the justice and the
wisdom of the state's course. If you
had a law suit Involving the title of your
land, you would not employ a lawyer to
represent you who has already declared
that your title is bad. If you are
charged with a crime, you will not em
ploy a lawyer to represent you who has
already expressed the opinion that you
are guilty. You would employ a lawyer,
who believes in you and in your cause,
and will wage battle for you, not only
from a sense of duty, but from a sense
of justice and right.
Mr. Dorsey studiously overlooks the
real point, and that is, not that he repre
sented the railroad company as general
counsel, nor that he represented the
Louisville and Nashville in a particular
case, but that, having represented the
Louisville and Nashville against the
state and having asserted that his
client’s cause against the state is just,
he should not be selected as chief de
fender of the state—as the governor—in
that particular matter.
It is not through obtuseness that Mr.
Dorsey overlooks this vital distinction.
He is not obtuse. But the real reason
is that he is unable to discover any oth
er defense whatsoever. The constitution
of this state, set out in section 6531 of
the code, provides that every solicitor
general in Georgia shall represent the
state in the superior court, and in the
supreme court, in all cases arising in
his circuit, in all matters in litigation
in which the state is interested or td
which it is a party. Mr. Dorsey is pre
sumed to have been acquainted with this
provision of the constitution. If he was
ignorant of this fundamental law of the
state he is unfit to be governor of this
state.
If he did know this provision of the
constitution then the conclusion is that,
while he knew it was his duty to repre
sent the state in the litigation i
by the Louisville and Nashville against
the state, he deliberately joined the ene
mies of the state in their assault on the
state's best property.
The state paid him >250 a year to rep
resent it in his circuit. We are therefore
face to face with the fact, unprecedent- ;
ed in Che history of the estate, that a
solicitor general, with the money of the
state, paid to him to represent it, in one |
pocket, and with the money of the Lou- 1
isville and Nashville in the other pocket, I
took the side of the state’s enemies.
I should like to ask him, face to face, I
and in the presence of the people of
Georgia, to explain to them by what
process of reasoning he makes his con
duct square with his plain duty under
the constitution. x
So far, I have neither seen nor heard
of any attempt by him to enlighten the
people over whose destiny he seeks to
preside.
In my opening speech, which I de
livered at Warrenton, on May 31, I em
phatically declared that the prohibition
low of 1915 met my full approval and
that, as governor, I would use the full
power of the executive to accomplish
its rigid enforcement all the time, and
everywhere, and against everybody.
Mr. Dorsey, in his announcement, says,
referring to this law, that “I shall con
sistently oppose any change or modifica
tion of the present law. unless such
change or modification first has been
declared to be the expressed will of the
white voters of Georgia."
I assert that on this question, Mr.
Dorsey is palpably playing both sides.
He knows, and everybody knows, that
under the constitutions of the United
States and of this state, it is an abso
lute impossibility for the question ever
to be submitted to the “white” voters
of the state.
There can be no white primary on
the liquor law, or any other law. The
effort to stand with the prohibitionists
and run with the local optionists is un
worthy of one who aspires to the high
office of governor.
As for myself, I have been a prohibi
tionist all my life. The first vote I
ever cast was for prohibition. I made
speeches for it twenty-five years ago
when it cost something to do so. There
has never been a moment, since that
time when I would not have gladly done
everything in my power to further cur
tail the sale of liquor.
But the supreme fact in this
campaign is that Mr. Dorsey is pitching
his campaign on an appeal to the pas
sions and the prejudices of men.
His published platform on executive
clemency is presumably a deliberate, fix
ed sentiment which he entertains on this
subject. If so, it announces a doctrine
which not only reverses the principles
of all civilized countries on the globe
for hundreds of years, but is so mon
strous as to shock the sensibilities of al
right thinking men.
"The prerogative,” says this platform,
"should never be exercised unless new
and controlling evidence or other matter
unknown to the court and the jury is
disclosed, or there intervenes some ot ver
development of a nature so radical a.
to change materially the basis upo.
which a case was adjudicated."
Os course we all know that a governor
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l’r. Sauer, a well known Specialist who has
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true strength can only come from the food
you eat. But people often fail to get the
strength out of their food because tliey haven't
enough iron in their blood to enable it to
change food into living matter. From their
weakened, nervous condition they know some
thing Is wrong but they can't tell what, so
they generally commence doctoring for stom
ach, liver or kidney trouble or symptoms of
some other aliment caused by the lack of Iron
in tlie blood. This thing may go <m for years
while the patient suffers untold agony. If
yon are not strong or well, you owe it to
yourself to make the following test: See how
long you can work or how far you can walk
without becoming tired. Next take two flve
grain tablets of ordinary mixated Iron three
times t>er day after meals for two weeks. Then
test your strength again anti see for yourself
how much you have gained. 1 have seen doz
ens of nervous, run-down people who were ail
ing all the while, double their strength and
enduinrce awl entirely get rid of all symptoms
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should not arbitrarily, or from an impro
per motive, interfere with the verdict if
a jury. No man claiming to be honest,
much less fit to be governor, will Jo so.
but I apprehend that Mr. Dorsey is not
the only man in Georgia, nor indeed ihe
only candidate for governor, who pos
sesses a monopoly of that official virtue
and Integrity which should be possessed
by the chief executive of this gieat
state.
Mercy may not have a proper place in
the jury box; it may not be right for the
judge to often yield to its pleadings,
but it finds its just place for exercise in
the mind and heart of the man, who
has by law the right and the power to
extend clemency. Clemency is mercy,
and its exercise has been uncontrolled
by statute in all countries and an all
ages. Jesus, the Savior of the world,
made the grant of mercy one of the
most conspicuous of His sublime doc
trines and sent down to all future gen
erations the inspiring sentiment that
’.‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy."
Mr. Dorsey says mercy must oe ex
ercised under such rules of evidence and
that a verdict of guilty, once pronounce 1
and a sentence once imposed, must stand
untouched like the stern rule of the
Medes and the Persians, unless new evi
dence is found which would deman 1 a
different verdict and a different sentence.
Georgia wants a man in the office of
governor, but she wants a man of heart
as well as stern, unbending justice.
Either Mr. Dorsey means to lay down
this awful doctrine, or he means to
assume that he is the only candidate
good enough, wise enough, or great
enough, to be entrusted with this great
prerogative. The last suggestion is as
absurd as the first is monstrous.
Mr. Dorsey's record, undented, and
undeniable, demonstrates that his plat
form does not express his real senti
ments, and that he is playing upon pas
sion; appealing to unreasoning preju
dice.
While he held the office of solicitor
general of the Atlanta circuit, he him
self recommended to the governor of
the prison board a pardon, or commu
tation, or parole, in twenty-four cases,
among which were four cases of bur
glary, four of forgery, two of murder,
and two of assaults on women; and
while he furnished a great variety of
rfeasons for making these requests for
the pardoning power, many of them
unique to a degree, in not a single one
of them did he suggest the discovery of
any new evidence as the reason.
His record is there —a public record,
open to inspection by the people of Geor
gia, and is contained in letters signed by
him. It is shown, beyond a doubt, that
in case after case this solicitor general
urged the governor to do things which
he now asserts, as a candidate for gov
ernor, the governor should not have the
right to do.
Among these letters is one, recom
mending a pardon for Ralph Thomason,
convicted of forgery, on the ground th«t
tne defendant had served a year and that
that was enough.
Another recommended the commuta
tion of the death sentence of Carl Fraser,
who was convicted of rape, on tha
ground that the defendant was only
nineteen years of age and on account of
the “record in the case."
Another recommended a pardon for
Milton Thomas, convicted of burglary,
on the ground, that in his opnion, there
had been a miscarriage of justice in the
case.
One recommended a pardon for Will
Green, alias Will O’bhields, who was
■sent to the penitentiary for twenty years
for robbery, holding up a man on the
streets of Atlanta and robbing him, and
in this case Mr. Dorsey gives three rea
sons for the recommendation:
First. That he himself, had some
doubt of the defendant's guilt, growing
out of the evidence.
Second. That O’Shields was a member
of one of the first Cobb coun
ty.
Third. That he, the solicitor general,
went to the University of Georgia with
the convict’s first cousin.
When I am governor, I shall pass on
all applications for clemency on their
merits, and shall pass such orders as
address themselves to my judgment and
my conscience, but one thing is certain,
I will not pardon any man because he
belonged to one of the first families in
Georgia, or because I went to college
with his first cousin.
In the cases of Chris Majors and D. N.
Coker, he wrote direct to the convicts
themselves, suggesting his willingness
to secure them pardons.
About three years ago in Atlanta a ne
gro named Oscar Dewberry stabbed a
wnlte boy in the back and killed him.
Five or six witnesses saw the 1 act and
identified the assassin. He was convict
ed and sentenced to be hanged. The
supreme court affirmed the judgment
Before the day of the execution came
Mr. Dorsey, who prosecuted this assas
sin, went to the governor and asked him
to commute his sentence to life impris
onment on the sole ground that he, Dor
sey, was not satisfied as to his guilt.
The governor very properly turned
down the request and when the assassin
went o nthe gallows he confessed his
crime.
The history of the tragedy in the life
of the Widow Nelms is well known to
the people of this city and this state,
tier two daughters mysteriously disap
peared. Through long months of an
guish the heartbroken mother made ev
ery effort to discover and punish the au
thors of her great sorrow. One Victor
E. Innes and his wife were arrested in
Oregon and brought to Texas where they
were charged with the murder of the
Nelms girls. There they were put on
trial. They could not be convicted be
cause there was no technical proof of
the murder—neither the bodies nor any
portions thereof having been found
The Innes were aquitted. .Mr. Dor
sey, in the meantime, drew several in
dictments against them, charging them
with larceny of money belonging to one
of the girls. He sued out a writ of ex
tradition to bring them back to Georgia
for trial. They resisted this proceeding
and appealed to the supreme court of
the United States. When that was done
ten to fourteen days' time simply by taking
iron in the proper form. And this nfter they
had in some cnees been doctoring for months
without obtaining any benefit. But don’t take
the old forms of reduced iron, iron acetate or
tincture of iron simply to save a few cents.
You must take iron in a form that can be
easily absorbed ami assimilated like nuxated
iron If you want it to do you any good, other
wise it may prove worse than useless. Many
an athlete or prize-fighter Ims won rhe day
simply because he knew the secret of great
strength ami endurance and filled his blood
with iron before he went into the affray, while
many another has gone down to inglorious de
feat simply for the lack of iron.
NOTE—Nuxated Iron recommended above by
I>r. Sauer is not a patent medicine nor secret
remedy, but one which is well l.nown to drug
gists ami whose iron constituents Is widely
prescribed by eminent physicians everywhere.
I alike the older Inorganic iron products, it is
easily assimilated, does not injure the teeth,
make them black, nor upeet the stomach; on
the contrary, it is a most potent remedy, in
nearly all forms of indigestion, as well as for
nervous, run-down conditions. The Manufactur
ers have such great faith in Ntixated Iron
that they offer to forfeit SIOO 00 to any charit
able institution if they cannot take any man or
noman under 60 who lacks iron and increase
their strength 200 per cent or over In four
wec’ts’ time provided they have no acrious or
ganic trouble. T.kj also offer to refund your
money if it does not nt least double your
strength and endurance in ten days’ time. It
is dispensed by all druggists.—(Advt.)
Mr. Dorsey agreed with the Widow
Nelms, already broken-hearted and ex
hausted m finances, to represent the
case for her and for the state in the su
preme court for a sum “sufficient to
pay for his time and actual expenses.”
Mr. Dorsey rendered this service, but
when the fee was paid the small matter
of “time and expenses” was enlarged
into >I,OOO, SSOO in cash and a mort
gage on the widow's property for SSOO.
And this is the statement of Marshall
Nelms, the brother of the dead girls,
who was employed in the office of Mr.
Dorsey.
I deny that Mr. Dorsey had a legal
right to accept a cent from the an
guished widow. I know of no solicitor
general in the history of the state who
ever accepted a fee under similar cir
cumstances. But whether he had the
legal right or not, it was a cold, mer
cenary, calculating soul which could
have gotten its consent to enlarge a few
dollars "time and expenses” into a fee
of SI,OOO. And it is an admitted fact
that, as the net result of his accept
ance of this fee from the widow Nelms,
the man whom he believed and whom
the widow Nelms believed and the peo
ple in Atlanta generally believe, was
the author of the death or disappear
ance of the girls is punished by a short
term in the penitentiary, whereas he
might have been given fifty years.
Seven indictments, procured by Mr.
Dorsey against Innes, after Dorsey had
accepted the fee of SI,OOO, were quashed
or thrown out by’ the court when the
attorneys for the defendant filed a plea
of abatement setting out the fact that
Mr. Dorsey had accepted a fee. This
resulted in Innes being tried on only one
indictment. The records of Fulton
superior court establish this truth be
yond a doubt.
For these reasons I arraign Mr. Dor
sey at the bar of public opinion of this
state.
Assuming superior virtue, he allies
himself with the would-be despoiler of
the state’s greatest property when it
was his sworn duty as solicitor general
to stand for and by tne state.
Assuming to be the great and only
defender of southern womanhood, he ac
cepts from a gray-haired, stricken
widow, the little mite remaining to her.
I stand unalterably, for the full and
complete development of our school sys
tem, from the common schools up. No
dollar spent in this great cause is mis
spent. The common school system, its
extension and its enlargement, is the
supreme interest of the state. I favor
its development to the full limit of the
treasury within the constitution and the
law.
I favor the enforcement of all the
law, all the time and everywhere. I
deny the right of. any man or set of
men to select for themselves what laws
they will obey and what laws they will
disobey, or the times, places or circum
stances under which they will obey the
law.
I insist on punishing every man who
violates the law, the punishment to be
measured by tne gravity of the crime,
but I insist that the punishment shall
be inflicted within the law, and under
the law, and by the machinery of the
law.
I favor liberal pensions to the vet
erans of the Confederacy. They are
passing rapidly away and those that
are left should be put upon the roll as
soon as possible, not as compensation,
but as a permanent record testimonial
of the infinite gratitude and affection
of Georgia, to be handed down to our
children and our children’s children.
These are the propositions upon which
I ask the people of Georgia to elect me
governor. If I am elected, the supreme
impulses which shall control me will be
the impulse to be of service to the people
of my state and the impulse to render
justice to every citizen within its bor
ders.
Three Die in Explosion
WILMINGTON. Del., Aug. 11. —An ex
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a rehydrating press at the DuPont Pow
der company’s plant at Carney's Point,
N. J., today, killed three workmen and
injured two others. The press, which
contained forty pounds of gun cotton,
was blown to pieces and flying bits of
steel werp scattered in all directions.
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LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION
H NATIONS IN SCOPE
Entire Cattle Exhibit at Kan
sas City to Be Transferred
to Fair
With the entire cattle exhibit of the
Royal Live Stock show transferred from
Kansas City to Atlanta, at the close of
the western fair, October 7, the live
stock exposition of the first annual fair
of the Southeastern Fair association Oc
tober 14-21, becomes national in its
scope.
Arrangements have been made by R. M.
Striplin, manager of the fair, to bring
the entire exhibit to Atlanta. Eighty
cars, making up four special trains, will
be required to move the stock from Kan
sas City. The exhibit will be accom
panied by others and attendants who
will come to Atlanta for a week. It
will be the first time the cattle breed
ers of the south have had an opportunitv
of seeing the prize winning stock of the
west assembled in a southern city.
Interst in cattle breeding will be stim
ulated through the appearance of this
display of western stock. The southern
breeders are now calling on the Atlanta
dealers, making inquiry about bloodeJ
stock and arranging to exhibit at the
southeastern fair. The announcement
that SIO,OOO in premiums will be givea
has stimulated the Interest throughout
the country. This is one-sixth of the to
tal amount of premiums.
MANY CATTLEMEN COMING.
A great many western cattlemen are
coming to Atlanta for the fair. Letters
announcing this are being received daily
They have heard of the growth of the in
dustry in the southeast, especially Geor
gia, and are coming to see what is being
done; to exchange ideas with the south
ern breeders and see the displays from
the southern farms.
The farmers are beginning to realize
they cannot depend upon one crop. They
are taking up cattle raising more gener
ally than at any timj They are prepar
ing now to demonstrate their success at
the fair. •
There will be two competitions in the
cattle department, the open cla-ss and
that restricted to cattle owned south of
the Tennessee-Kentucky state line an.l
east of the Mississippi river. The herd
of W. J. Davis & Co., of Jackson, Mi s.,
wil; be shown in the open class, now
ever. By providing a restricted class,
the management of the fair has given
the farmers of the south, who are not
experienced in cattl-y raising like
of the west, a chance to compete among
themselves. And, by arranging the open
class, oportunity is given for anyone to
compete for some of the prizes. Tne
royal live stock show exhibit is expect
ed to compete in the open class.
OTHER AWARDS LISTED.
There will be twenty-three showings
in these classes. In the open classes,
ten cash prizes, ranging from SIOO to $lO
will be offered, except for champions. In
the restricted classes five prizes, ranging
from $8 to $2 will offered, the cham
pions excepted. There will be one cham
pionship prize in each contest.
The American Het eford Breeders’ as
sociation and the American Shorthorn
Breeders' association are backing these
exhibits. The former has put up $3,000
of the $5,000 in prize money. The latter
has put up one-third of the $1,500 of
cash prizes. The Central of Georgia
railway has offered S3OO for the best in
dividual shorthorns. This was done for
the purpose of bringing out exhibits of
good shorthorn cattle which will illus
trate the advantage of crossing native
stock with registered shorthorn bulls.
At the fair a yea" ago there was but
one breed of cattle shown. This year
there will be nine. The cow content,
dairy products contest and the swine
show will be interesting kindred exhibi
tions to the cattle department.
JIM SNELL SAYS HIS
LITTLE GIRL IS NOW
J PICTUREDF HEALTH
Suffered Day and Night for
Eight Years Gains Ten
Pounds After Taking Tanlac
and Looks and Acts Like
a Different Child
"My little daughter, Jean, has gained
ten pounds on Tanlac and now she's the
very picture of health,” said Jim Snell,
well-known poultry and truck farmer
of Raleigh, Tenn., in talking to Dr. E. T.
Warnock, of the Warnock Drug Co., at
Memphis, and Dr. E. B. Elder, the Tan
lac representative, a few days ago.
"When Jean was only seven years
old.” continued Mr. Snell, “she was
taken with something like nervous
stomach trouble and there wasn't a day
or night she didn’t suffer until we got
Tanlac for her. and she's now fifteen
years old. Her stomach was in such a
bad condition she had to live on toast
and eggs and milk and she couldn’t eat
any kind of meats or vegetables. She
complained of pains in her stomach dll
the time and would spit up half-digested
food. She was nervous and would toss
and roll all night, for she couldn’t sleep
well at all. She was bilious and her
complexion was bad and she looked, pale
and sickly all the time. We gave her
most. every kind of medicine we could
think of, but nothing helped her.
“After hearing of some of the good
work Tanlac was doing we got some of
it for Jean, and it has done wonders for
her. She actually looks and acts like a
different child and she's taken only two
bottles of the medicine. She commenced
picking up as soon as she started taking
Tanlac, and she has gained ten pounds.
She never has indigestion now, and eats
just anything she wants—even such
things as beans and other vegetables
and meats of all kinds. Why, she ate
corn for dinner yesterday and it was
the first time in eight years she dared
taste corn, and she eats boiled bacon
that’s cooked with the vegetables. She's
not nervous or bilious now and she
sleeps like a baby, and we never hear
anything out of her from the time she
gses to bed until she gets up in the
morning. She don’t have that pained
look on her face, her skin has cleared
up and her cheeks look fresh and rosy.
You can just look at her and tell she's
enjoying good health.”
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