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rnT TT? A trATI A T lT i 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. , The readers of this paper will be pleased J to learn that there is at least one dread • disease that science has been able to cure - in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall’s . Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now l known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a • constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh f Cure is taken internally, acting directly 1 upon the blood and mucous surfaces of , the system, thereby destroying the founda- tion of the disease, and giving'the patient 1 strength by building up the constitution i and assisting nature in doing its work, f The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails - to cure. Send for list of testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., e Toledo, O. , Sold by druggists, 75c. 1 Hall’s Family Pills are the best, s ■ _ 1 CA-STORIA. e limile XTj yr H w 1 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. f ; Registration Notice. » The county registration books are now * open at my office in Hasselkus’ Shoe’Store 3 and all qualified to do so should call and 3 register. * They will close twenty days before each election. T. R, NUTT, T. U. Seed Corn. Genuine Tennessee Seed Com for sale. 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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. ONB ENJOYS Both the method ana results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts ’ gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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