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THE MORNING CALL.
Vol IX- No - 24L
WILL GO TO CHICKAMAUGA
THE FIRST RIGIMEHT WILL
MOVE THIS WEEK
Camp Northen Soon to Be Deserted
Unless Another Regiment is Or
dered Here —Camp Rotes.
At 11 :3 ® °’ cloc,t yesterday morning
a telephone message from the Adju
uol General's office ordered the First
Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, U. 8
Infantry, and the two light batteries
stationed at Camp Northen, to leave
as early as possible for Chickamauga.
| Lieut. Col. Brooks in the absence of
I Col- Lawton, who was in Atlanta, re«
L oeived the message and immediately
| gave it out as a fact that they would
leave their present camping ground.
No time was lost in preparing 'or
their departure for in less than thirty
minutes after the telephone message
was received the commissary and
quartermasters departments were al)
astir with preparations for the proper
necessities for the journey.
About 2 o’clock in the afternoon the
following telegram was received, veri
fying the telephone message:
"Washington, D C., June 14.
"Col. A R. Lawton, Commanding Os
ficer First Regiment Georgia Vol
unteers, U. 8. Infantry:
"By direction of the secretary of war
you will proceed at once with your
regiment to Chickamauga Park, Ga.,
and report teethe commanding gener
al there upon receipt of this, and chief
commissary, as above, to provide the
transportation, rations and coffee
money. Telegraph day nf departure
to commanding general of Camp Geo.
H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Ga.;
also, to bis office, specifying the
amount of tentage and ammunition
taken with you.
"You will at once communicate
with chief quartermaster, Atlanta, Ga ,
for necessary transportation, and wfth
the chief commissary, Atlanta, Ga.,
for t< n days field rations, the “bece*
aary travel rations and coffee money.
The quartermaster general and 'the
commissary general have instructed
the chief quartermaster.
"Acknowledge receipt.
(Signed) “H. U. Corbin,
"Adjutant General.”
Col. Brooks stated to the Call re
porter that the regiment would proba
bly leave this week and if instructed
to break camp before the arrival of
equipments which bad been shipped
to thja point, they would leave as soon
as transportation could.be secured.
Capt. Bradley of Battery A, states
be is hopes of leaving in ten days.
Both Batteries will break camps at
at once. 4
It is not known whether er no they
will leave before the arrival of the
horses and guns are being
shipped from different points.
The departure of theae troops will
leave Camp Northen deserted, but we
are tn hopes the new regiment to bo
formed will be placed upon the state
camp ground as it offers many advan
tages over the other places in the stale
which are under consideration.
No one knows the object of the gov
ernment in carrying these troops to
Chickamauga. Borne seem to think
it is the first step taken to get them to
Manila, while others think it is a
move in favor of the railroads.
Thio was the only thing discussed
throughout the day. Everybody was
wondering what the first order would
be and when it would come. The ma
jority are anxious to be off while oth
ers seem to think it a change for the
worse.
Upon the arrival of Gen. Gordon
yesterday afternoon, he was carried to
the camp ground and arrived just in
time for retreat. After the flag
was lowered the soldiers wore marched
back into their streets and broke ranks.
Immediately, they all rushed back
upon the parade ground and gathered
in a large circle around the general
and field officers, and at command
three cheers for Gen. John B. Gordon
were offered.
The band then played “Dixie” after
whlch'Gen. Gordon with hat in hand
marched to the center of tbe circle
and io the most impressive and beau
tiful language addressed the soldiers
for a few minutes. His speech swelled
tbe hearts of all and at its close cboer
after cheer went up from the multi
tude of people.
For some nights since some one has
been rooking the sentinels stationed
in the rear of the artillery companies
and often the guards have come near
being badly hurt Tbess rascals
would seclude themselves io tbe
woods and could not be seen; Mon
day night Captains Bradly and Wal
ker armed the sentinel** with pistols
and ordered them if rocked to shoot
to kill, fn due time tbe one on doty
just acres the rifle range from Capt.
Walker’s tent beaid a rock wbis by
and thinking he saw his assassins
opened fire upon them and was joined
by tbe other guards in that vicinity.
Several sbots were fired but no
damage was done that could be learned
Yesterday morning Capt. Walker
sent to tbe city and purchased a large
supply of cartridges and last night de
tailed a spec's! guard well tinned with
instructions to surround the woods
from whence tbe rocks came if they
were again attacked
The Chatham artillery has sc other
peculiar mascct. Jim’s death was a
sore grievance and yesterday morning
one of the boys returned from Savan
nah bringing with him a- monkey,
which be gave to the company as a
mascot
AH ANNOUNCEMENT
By William H- Fish to tbe Democratic
Voters of Georgia-
Atlanta, Ga., June 13,1898.
To the Democracy of Georgia:
On Thursday, the 23d day of this month,
you will be called upon to express your
choice for three members of the Supreme
Court, viz.: a Chief Justice, an Associate
Justice for a full term of six years, and an
Associate Justice for an unexpired term of
two years. lam a candidate to succeed
myself gad am offering for the full term.
As almost my entire time has been, and
is now being, devoted to the discharge of
my official duties, I adopt this means of
presenting some of the reasons upon which
I ask your support, and I request each of
you to carefully read this communication
and give it an impartial consideration.
After an honorable contest in which I
did nothing unfair or unbecoming, I was
nominated for the office I hold end subse
quently elected without opposition. Jus
tices Little, Cobb and myself were chosen
on a joint ticket, without distinction as to
the length of our terms; but in drawing
for them, as the law required, the short
term, by mere chance, fell to me. It has
been the unbroken usage of the Democrat
ic party to accord a re-election to every
official, even after serving a foil term, if he
has been faithfol to his trust I have
earnestly endeavored to be faithful to
mine, and therefore feel that I ought not
to be displaced after serving only one third
of a regular term.
I respectfolly submit that the candidacy
of Judge Gober was not begun, and has
not been conducted, in a fair and legiti
mate manner. There are, as stated above,
three district places to be filled. This was
folly understood from the beginning, for
the Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of the State plainly so an
nounced, and at the same time prescribed
the form of ballot to be used. Judge Go
ber well knew this, and yet did not an
nounce for any particular term, but gener
ally for “one of the places.” I charge
that he pursued this course deliberately
and intentionally for the purpose of tak
ing his chances against all three of the
present incumbents now seeking re-elec
tion. Finally, when compelled to une
quivocally declare his position, it appears
that he is running against myself; but be
fore saying so in plain English, he has
carried on an active canvass by which he
sought to gain all the advantages possible
from a general candidacy without appear
ing to oppose any one. The unfairness of
this course is plain, and the various ways
in which it could be worked, and has
been worked, against me are obvious. I
do not believe that such a method of seek,
ing this high office should be encouraged
or endorsed. It is unjust, not only to my
self, but to the people, to whom Judge
Gober owed the duty of saying promptly
and condidly which justice of this court
he desired to supplant, so that they could
understandingly express their choice.
What occurred in some of those conn,
ties which in the recent primary, voted
lor the nomination of Hupreme Court Jus
tices .forcibly Illustrates whafis said above.
Tickets containing the names of the four
candidates, but not specifying the particu
lar term for which any one of them was
running, were prepared by Judge Gober,
or his friends, and used to conceal the fact
that he had at last decided to run against
me, the design, of course, being to procure
votes for himself by telling voters to strike*
any one name they pleased, so long as
they left his on the ticket No candid
unan can or will assert that this was deal
ing fairly, either with me or with the vot
ers, the more especially when this plan
was practiced in counties in which I had
no notice at all that an election as to tbe
Justices would be held on that day.
In Fayette county tickets were used up
on which the following appeared: “For
Chief Justice, Thomas J. Simmons. For
Asmclafe Justice (foil term), GEO. F.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1898.
GOBER. For Associate Justice (unex
plred term, two years), H. T. Lewis, W-
H. Fish.’’ The purpose could have been
nothing else but to mislead voters into
the belief that there was scontest for the
SHORT term between Justice Lewis and
myself, and-thus leave an open field for
Judge Gober for the FULE term; whereas,
the persons who prepared this device
knew perfectly well that there was no op
position between Judge Lewis and myself,
but that I was a candidate to succeed my
self for the FULL term. It would be dif
ficult to conceive anything more palpably
unfair than this. •
I have a letter from a reliable gentleman
in which, speaking with reference to Wil
ier county, he says: "There was no elec
tion held in this county on last Monday,
the 6th instant, for Supreme Court Judges.
The Executive Committee met on Tues
day, the 7th, just to consolidate the vote
cast for Governor and State House officers <
and Congressmen, and, after consolidating
the vote, then selected delegates to attend '
the convention to nominate Supreme
Court Judges, and selected delegates fav- ’
orable to Judge Gober. The people did
not vote on it.” This requires no com- j
meat.
Judge Gober has sent out numerous let
ters and circulars, many of which are full
ofcheap “claptrap” to catch votes. For
instance, in a number of them addressed
to farmers, he poses as an agriculturist;
and to sefine, he sent photographs repre
senting himself superintending the pack
ing of peaches for shipment to market.
Surely such methods are not to be com
mended. Everybody knows that we want
for Judges men who have a knowledge of
the law, and that formers, however honor
able their calling, have not the training
for such offices. This sort of electioneer
ing is a direct reflection upon the intelli
gence of our farmers, but I do not believe
they are so densely ignorant as to approve
of Judge Gober’s absurd suggestion that
they put him on the supreme bench be
cause, forsooth, he is a “farmer.” .
But the Judge, in some of his circulars—
and in at least one newspaper article sign
ed by himself—is doing something even
less worthy of public approbation. He is
attacking the efficiency and insinuating
against the uprightness of the members of
the present bench. Four of them (Jus
tices Lumpkin, Little, Cobb and myself)
hold their present commissions directly
from the people under a unanimous elec
tion. The chief justice has been repMtad
ly elected by the legislature without oppo
sition ; and Justice Lewis is now holding
under an executive appointment. Ido
not believe that the people will receive pa
tiently or view favorably attacks of this
kind upon their highest court; and, in my
judgment, they will hesitate to place on
thia bench a man whose ambition is so in
ordinate that he does not scruple to charge
that this court is perverting the law and
that he should be pat upon the supreme
bench in the role of a “reformer.” This
method of campaigning ought, in my
opinion, to be rebuked at the polls.
In a published communication Judge
Gober states, in effect, that he cares very
little personally for a seat upon the su
preme bench, and that his candidacy arose
from the fact that he was put forward by
those to whom it seemed that reforms in
the administration of the law were need
ed. This statementaccords but ill with
the feet that he has sent out by the thou
sands circulars seeking support, and is not
consistent with his otherwise industrious
candidacy, nor with the fact that he is re
sorting to the above and other like means
for the purpose of securing a nomination.
The call of Cincinnatus from the plow did
not evoke from him such remarkable evi
dence of the fact that it had been heard,
nor such an unseemly exhibition of per
sonal eagerness to respond to it.
The Judge has been making a button
hole canvass of the state, going about from
one place to another and making personal
appeals for support This is not only un
fair to an opponent who is remaining at
his post of duty, but is not, I submit, be
coming in a race for this exalted office. In
placing the election of Judges with the
people, it was never contemplated that this
sort of tactics would prevail or be counte
nanced. If it should be rewarded with
success, I predict that the time is not dis
tant when the judiciary will be dragged
into the mire of general politics—an evil
which every good citizen will deplore.
In some of his circulars Judge Gober
states that he was defeated in the conven
tion which nominated me by a “combina
tion.” In making this charge, he must
have been oblivious of the means he em
ployed priorto the meeting of that con
vention, and during its session, in advanc
ing his own candidacy before it; and he
must have entirely forgotten how he'ba.
gan and ha* perpetuated his career as an
office-holder. There are in Georgia scores
of men whose memory in this respect will
be found more accurate. .
In conclusion, I beg to say that though
I have used some very plain language,
every word I have said has been carefully
weighed and is the truth. And while I
regret the necessity which has been forced
upon me of publishing this communica
tion, I cannot in justice to myself remain
silent and allow the means which have
been and are now being employed to de.
feat me, to pass unnoticed and unanswer
ed. This is the only way in which I can
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get before those who are to pass upon my
stewardship the facts upon which their
judgment should be based. 1 am simply
seeking at the hands of my countrymen a
fair showing, of which I feel extraordinary
and unwarranted efforts have been made
to deprive me, and to which the humblest
citiaen is entitled.
Your obedient servant,
, William H. Fisa.
THE RELIEF’ASSOCIATION,
Officers Elected and Committees Ap
pointed Yesterday.
A meeting was held in the Y. M. C.
A. parlor* yesterday morning at 10
o’clock for the purpose of organizing a
relief association to care for the sick at
Cstnp Northen.
Tbe following officers were unaniw
mously elected :
Mrs. M J Daniel—President.
Mrs. deForrest Allgood—Vice Pres
ident.
Miss Janie Brawner—Secretary and
Treasurer.
Fifty members were enrolled and
the following committees appointed
for hospital work:
Wednesday, June 15—Mrs. A. J. Burr,
Mr*. Douglas Boyd, Mrs. E. R. Richards,
Mrs. J. W. McWilliams.
Thursday, June 16—Mrs. J. D. Rivers,
Mlss'lSara Malone, Mrs. Clark Brooks,
Mrs. Loyd Cleveland.
Friday, June 17--Mrs. R. F, Strickland,
Miss Hattie Head, Miss Mattie Brewer,
Mrs. W. E. H. Searcy, Jr , Mrs. Thomas
Nall.
Saturday, June 18—Mrs. E. 0. Smith.
Mrs. J. H. Drewry, Mrs. J. M. Thoma*,
Mrs. John Hunton.
Sunday, June 19—Mrs. M. J. Danieljr.,
Miss Roeelyn Reid, Mrs. J. M. Brawner,
Mrs. J. J. Mangham.
Monday, June 20.—Mrs. T. J. Collier,
Mis. T. R. Mills, Mrs. J. D. Pritchard,
Mrs. J. W.-Mangham*
Tuesday, June 21—Mrs. J. A. Stewart,
Mrs. H. C. Burr, Mrs. T. J. White, Mrs.
Walter Ellis, Mrs. R. H. Drake.
Wednesday, June 22—Mrs. W. W.
Woodruff, Miss Nell Collier, Mrs. E. R.
Anthony, Mrs. M. D. Mitchell.
Thursday, June 23—Mrs. deForrest All
good, Mrs, R. H. Taylor.
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