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THE MORNING CALL.
Vol IX. No. 168.
another letter.
COLONEL CANDLER WRITES ON
THREE CORNERED DEBATES.
Makei a Plain,Straivhtforward
Statement to Judge SR. Atkinson,
Replying to Latter's Letter-
Hon. Allen D. Candler has mailed a re
ply to the letter of Hon. Spencer R. Atkin
son, in which the latter invited Colonel
Candler to a series of joint discussions be
tween the three candidates. The letter is
characterised by Colonel Candler’s usual
frankness and boldness, and speaks for it
self, as follows:
Atlanta, Ga., Mac’: IS, 1898.
Hon. Spencer R. AtMfiVon, Railroad Com
missioner, Atlanta, Ga.
My Dear Sir 1 have read in the Macon
Telegraph this morning a letter addressed
to me and purporting to have been writ
ten by you, a copy of which has since-been
received through the mails, in which you
say: "I respectfully requset you, as Ido
by this post Mr. Berner, that you and he
join me in a series of joint discussions
throughout the state,” etc., and in reply I
beg to say that since, as you intimate, the
executive committee has thrown upon the
candidates the responsibility of deciding
what are the best interests of our party
you and I and Mr. Berner should meet this
responsibility and conscientiously and
with an eye single to the best interests of
the party without regard to personal in
terests or preference. This I intend to be
brave enough to do without regard to the
effect my action may have either upon you
or upon me or upon Mr. Berner.
When I consented to become a candi
date for governor, I published a declara
tion of principles upon which I proposed
to go to the people. They are substantial
ly as follows:
I am first of all a democrat and indorse
all the cardinal doctrines of my party as
declared in the national platform. If you
stand with me on this platform we are
agreed and there is nothing for us to dis
cuss. If, however, you do not, I will meet
you and discuss our differences.
lam in favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver without
discrimination against either and without
asking the permission of England or any
other power on earth- If you agree with
me in this there is nothing for us to dis
cuss. If you are opposed to the restora
tion of silver coinage, this makes an issue
and I will engage with you to discuss our
differences.
I am in favor of the most rigid economy
and the lowest possible rate of taxation
compatible] with the honor, dignity and
credit of our state and the obligations she
has assumed to her schools and pension
ers. If you agree with me in this there is
nothing for us to discuss. If you are op
posed to it, I will meet you and discuss the
importance at all times, and especially at
this time, of economy and low tax.
lam in favor of meting out equal and
exact justice in the courts and In the legis
lature, to all classes of persons, white and
black, corporation and individual, without
discrimination against either. If you agree
with me in this, there is nothing for us to
discuss. If you are opposed to it, I will
meet you and discuss it.
I am in favor of clean methods and hon
est politics and fair elections. If you are
in favor of these things, there is nothing
for us to discuss. If you are opposed to
them, I will meet you and discuss them
with you.
I am opposed to what is known as ring
rule, which practically deprives the people
of that fair choice in the selection of pub
lic officers to which they are entitled un
der the law. If you are in favor of ring
rule I will meet you and discuss it with
you.
lam opposed to the use of money to
control elections. If you are also opposed
to its use for this purpose, there is nothing
for us to debate. If you are in favor of it
I will meet you and discuss the question
with you.
If you agree with me, as I presume you
do, on all the foregoing proposition?, there
are no principles in which the people of
this state are interested for us to discuss
and a “series of joint debates throughout
the state” would necessarily be a series of
personal controversies and would at once
degenerate into a series of mud-flinging
contests in which a school boy would be
my equal and a blackguard fny superior.
They would neither demonstrate your fit
ness nor my unfitness fpr the office of gov
ernor, but would, as has been the casein
all such contests in Georgia in the past,
result in schisms and the building up of
factions in our party, damaging to it and
the best interests of the people. Personal
rivalry and personal ambition should
never be allowed to control our action
when great principles and the interests of
the state and the people are at stake.
These are my views honestly entertain
ed and frankly expressed. In them I be
lieve lam right, and “I would rather be
right than to be governor." We should all
"remember that so soon as the democrats
decide which one of us is to lead the fight
against the common enemy, all other dem
ocrats must rally to his support Hence
we should avoid everything calculated to
engender bitterness, as such debates al
ways do, among ourselves, and reserve
our strength for the final contest with the
enemy of democracy.
However, I may be wrong and you may
be right. I see that my other opponent,
the Hon. R. L.~ Berner, disagrees with me
and agrees with you upon this question.
I see from the public prints that he has al
ready accepted your challenge for a “se
ries of joint debates throughout the state,”
and I also notice that both of you have ac
cepted the invitation from the democratic
executive committee of Muscogee county
to engage in a joint discussion at Colum*
bus at such as you and be may agree up
on. But entertaining my present views I
prefer to await the results upon the party,
which will necessarily be manifested from
“the series of joint debates throughout the
state" which you and he have already
agreed to engage in, and if later on in the
campaign, after part of the “series ot joint
debates" between you and the Hon. R. L.
Berner have been made, I should be con
vinced that you and he are right and I am
wrong, and it would not interfere too
much with your Official duties, I will,with
pleasure, take up the question of arranging
some joint debates between us.
Very truly yours,
Allen D. Candles.
The State Convention.
Messrs. H H. Bass and Eugene
Ragland arrived yesterday from Amer
icus and are'pleased with the conven
tion which has just closed.
From beginning to end the program
was crowded with good things for
those interested in the welfare of young
men.
Among those who addressed the
convention were such men as Dr. A.
A Marshall, cf Atlanta, Dr. R. R.
White, of Macon, and Dr. A. J. Smith,
ot Savannah. The international and
secretarial forces were ably represented
by Messrs. H. P. Anderson and W. K.
Matthews, while Messrs. Rosiveor, Mc-
Gill, Buell, Luther, Stallings, Stacy,
Young and Waggoner were prominent
among the slate and local forces.
Mr. Stacy reported $6,000 subscribed
toward a building for the Macon young
men,
Aa is always done at these medtinge,
great eqtf juMW «Ma laid ou the neces
sity for Bible study, prayer and per
sonal work.
The 11 associations of Georgia re
port 169 conversions during the past
year, moat of which have united with
the church of their choice.
There are at present 1,450 associa
tions in the world with a membership
of over 300,000, and these employ over
1,200 salaried officers, owning build
ings worth $18,000,000. Several ad
vance steps have been taken during
the year, mention of which may be
made through these columns in the
future.
The representatives from .Griffin
were kindly entertained by Mr. and
Mrs. T. J Pope, who are well known
to our people, and manifested much
concern for their former friends and
city.
Altogether the trip was one of much
pleasure and profit, and no doubt the
interest in behalf of the Griffin young
men will be quickened, us one result
of the convention.
Why Lee Wai Retained.
President McKinley not only trusted
Gen. Lee's wisdom and discretion and
: admired his courage, but foresaw that
if trouble were to arise at Havana the
presence there of a distinguished dem
ocrat and ex Confederate as the chief
’ official representative of a republican
administration would have a most
[ wholesome effect upon public opinion
in the United States. How well the
i foresight of the president has been jus
> tified by events all tbe world knows
f Gen. Lee is now a national hero, and
! he belongs to the north as well as to
the south.—Chicago Times-Herald.
5 SIOO Reward, SIOO.
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1888.
Is a Joint Debate Desirable!
We confess we do not see what the
' people are to gain from a joint, debate
r by the three candidates for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination. In
5 such a debate, they would not slate
. more clearly than they ,have already,
. in the letters they published when
■ they became candidates, their respec
’ tive views on state questions or more
■ fully than they will stale them if each
' conducts his campaign alone and in
bis own way. We do not take tl.it
position because Col. Candler’s repu
tation as an orator is not as great aa
that of either of tbe other candidates,
but simply because we do not believe
s that a joint discussion could be kept
upon arhigh plane. Tbe whole coun
try knows what t(ie joint debate in
Soulb’Carolina degenerated into when
Gov. Tillman and Senator Butler wore
candidates for tbe United Stales Sen
ate. They were so scandalous that
order-loving men kept away from
them. Men attended them armed,and
on many occasions it was by the great
est effort that bloody riots were pre
vented. Tbe debates"becßme contests,
not for the enlightenment of the
voters, but to show which of the con
testants could burl the most abusive
epithets at bis opponent.
Wouldn’t joint debates between
Messrs. Berner, Atkinson and Candler
very soon become like those of Messrs.
Tillman and Butler? How long after
their first meeting would it be before
they would be indulging in personali
ties? What, in fact, have they to dis
cuss, except their public and private
records. They don’t differ on national
questions, and it is doubtful if they
would take issue with one another on
any matter presented in their respec
tive letters in which they announced
themselves as candidates Then, what
is left them to talk about, except per
sonalities? And what have Democrats
to gain by having their public men
endeavor to belittle each other before
a crowd?
If the candidates stood for. different
political principles there would be
toma reason a joint debate, but a
joint debate between men of the same
party, whose views on national and
state questions are practically' the
same, simply means an exhibition of
their oratorical qualifications, or their
ability to abuse one another. And it
doesn’t follow that the best talker
would make the best Governor. —Sa-
vannah News.
• Advertised Letters.
List of letters remaining in the Griffin,
Ga., postoffice, week ending Mar. 19,1898.
Persons calling will pleae say “advertised"
and give date. One cent must be paid on
each advertised letter.
MALE LIST.
C. D. Anderson, J. A. Acop, Clairy
Bribes, F. D. Barnes, J. A. Buckman, G.
A. Hammel, Milton B. Fowler, Hady
Harper, John H. Helms, N. W. Harris,
Will McCaty, Joe Mellion, Frank Ordly,
Henry Parry, M. J, Stamet, Bether Starks,
John Stone, Alonzo Wilson.
* FEMALE LIST.
Mrs. Fannie Aken, Miss Annie Doster,
Miss Mollie Hayyard, Mrs. L. E. Harper,
Mrs. Lizzie Hawkins, Miss Jeny Jones,
Miss Times Palen, Mrs. Elvira Robson,
Miss Cakty L. Smith, Mrs. Mollie Steps,
care A. B. Prothrow. Mrs. S. B. Wagner.
David J. Bailey, Jr., P. M.
CASTORIA
I For Infunts and Children.
Th* he-
, A CARD.
There being some misapprehension on
the part of some of my friends as to the
course I will pursue as to appointment of
a deputy sheriff in case I should be elected
at the approaching election, I take this
1 method of stating I will have no deputy
‘ sheriff, but will give the office my entire
3 time and rely upon the efficient aid of the
j bailiffs for the proper discharge of all tbe
i duties incumbent on the office.
* M. P. PATRICK.
j Griffin, Ga., March 19,1898.
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; Registration Notice.
» The county registration books are now
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3 and all qualified to do so should call and
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* They will close twenty days before each
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Aa Arab Proverb With a Point.
Who can affirm that the mule en
tered a jug?
This proyerb is frequently quoted to
allow that, though one may conscien
tiously believe iu a thing which may
seem extravagant in itself, it is better
not to repeat it from fear of being dis
believed. It arisen from tbe following
Arabic legend : An Arab who-denied
the existence of genii bought a mule
and look it home, s When performing
his eyeping ablutions he saw the mule
enter a jug, and this so scared him
that ho ran shouting to the neighbors
and tedd them what he bad seen ; they,
thinking him mad, endeavored to ap*
pease him, but all in vain ; he vocifer
ated more and more, so that (he au
thorites sent him to tbe madhouM.
Whew the doctor came to flee him he
repeated the account of what he had
seen, whereupon tbe doctor ordered
him to be detained. He continued,
upon each visit of the doctor, to repeat
his statement until his friends suc
ceeded in persuading him that, if be
wished to regain his freedom, he must
recant; this he did, and the doctor set'
him at liberty, to tbe great joy of hie
family and friends. On making his
ablutipri8 z as before he again saw the
mule this time peeping out of the jug,
but this occasion be con leu tad
himself with remarking to the mule:
“Ob,' yes, I see yon well enough, but
who would believe me? And I have
had enough of the madhouse.” Need*
less to say that the genii, to avenge
themselves for his disbelief in them,
had transformed one of themselves in
to a mule and as such entered the jug.
—Cairo (Egypt) Sprinx.
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