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1 THE NEWS* EstiblishedWlK”
jhlY SEAB DOESN’T
■> -RENT HIS WHOLE BLOCK FOR
BAR ROOM PURPOSES.
U is Because the Other Party Did Not
Accede to His Proposition
s * t* Ho So.
The Rome Hustler of Sunday
interesting article about.
k J the life and character of Seab Wright,
rt candidate for governor on a prohibi
tion- dispensary- populist- independ
ent-or-any-other platform:
In view of the fact that Hon. Sea
born Wright, of this city, the popro
hi candidate for governor of Georgia
has found it necessary to publish in
the Atlanta Constitution, the follow
ing card, the Hustler of Rome has
a little timely data to submit to the
careful consideration of the public.
But first, here is candidate Wright’s
card:
“Editor Constitution—Will you
permit me to say through your pa
per to the people of Georgia that the
report now being industrously circu
lated in the State that lam renting
houses in Rome, Atlanta or else
where to liquor dealers or for other
disreputable purposes, either for
myself or any one else, is an infa
mous lie.
“As to the other statement that I
am president or director or own
stock in any national bank I have
only to say I regret it is not true.
Seaborn Wright.”
It will be seen by this remarkable
card that Mr. Wright admits certain
“regrets” in the last paragraph, but
more of this anon.
The- data that the Hustler of
Rome wishes to submit, pertains to
Mr. Wright’s denial of ownership of
any property from which liquor is
soid.
It will be remembered, and it is a
well-known fact in this city, that
Mr. Wright’s staunchest supporters
claim that while he may change base
in politics, tliat he has always been
consistent on the subject of prohibi
tion, and that he has in all these
years led a consistent prohibition
life.
Right here, and right on this line
we quote from his wnderful speech
of acceptance, made before that
wnnderously constructed political
body that, nominated him. Mr.
Wright is alleged to have said in
that speech:
“But, gentlemen, there are duties
which no true man would shirk. I
was a candidate only once in my
life. Twenty years ago, when but
a mere boy, I was a candidate for
the legislature. I was elected as an
independent Democrat. After serv
ing a term I went back to my home,
and when my friends rallied around
me and asked me to run again, I
said to them:
“Never, so help me God, will I be
a candidate for any office until the
chief plank in the platform on which
I run shall be, ‘Down with the liquor
shops.’ (Applause.)
“I am no fanatic on this subject.
I have no personal ill-will against
the men who are in this business. I
am against the system. They are
not responsible. But before the bar
of their conscience and before the
bar of their God, the men who vote
to sustain the infamous traffic will
be held responsible. (Applause.)
Now all this reads very fine and
must have, when delivered m Seab’s
tragically eloquent style completely
swept the delegates from their hope
less political state of feeling.,
But, let’s see how much of the
above is chaff and how much is
grain.
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No. 429. J
Broad Street
PLAN OF THE WRIGHT BUILDING, COR
NER BROAD AND FIFTH AVENUE.
In the first place Hon. Seab
Wright was elected to office the first
and only time he ever stayed in a
feade until the polls closed, as an in
dhpindent candidate to the legisla
tufieland was.’-jf memory serves us
righrt elected by* the saloon influ-
nd negro element.
Buftto move on down over his
checkered and floppy career to dates
more recent and events yet fresh in
the annals of his unwritten autobi
ography Mr. Wright will remember
that he and his brother, W. A.
Wright own the brick buildings Nos.
429 and 431, on Broad street and the
corner, of Fifth avenue and running
through to West F’rst street—facing
the new court house
He wiR remember that Lowry
Bros., druggists, occupied both the
Broad street and corner store rooms,
and that Aiderman Sam Lowry,
head of Lowry Bros., wanted an
open space in the rear of 429 covered
over, and that store connected with
the building occuppied by Liza Tur
ner as a restaurant on Fifth avenue,
thereby giving Mr. Lowryls dry
goods store a Fifth avenue entrance.
Perhaps he will remember that
workmen were called in to figure on
these changes.
But for some reason or other these
changes were not made aed eventu
ally Lowry Bros, moved out. Then
it was that the building on Broad
street was left vacant for some
months. Mr. Wright will remem
ber that during this time he one day
was standing in front of the drug
store and that John Chamlee was
sitting in front of the Central hotel
and near his (Mr. Chamlee’s) Cen
tral saloon. Mr. Wright will doubt
less remember that he called Mr.
Chamlee and that they met in the
middle of Broad street.
Now, Mr. Wright will remember
that Mr. Chamlee at that time was
operating the Fifth avenue saloon
on the corner next to the new court
house, same building belonging to
Seaborn and W. A. Wright, brothers.
Mr. Wright will also remember
that he, then and there, standing in
Broad street on that occasion, made
Mr. Chamlee a proposition, and that
proposition was that he, Seab
Wright, would cover over the said
open space between 429 Broad street
and connect 429 Broad with the side
rear ot Mr. Chamlee’s Fifth avenue
bar, and that if Mr. Chamlee would
move his Central bar across the
street and into No. 429 that he could
“straddle” through the opening
made between the two saloons and
operate both bars under one license
from the city.
Mr. Wright will also remember
that he proposed to use his influence
with the city council (and W. A.
Wright was a member of that body
at the time) to get them to consent
to the license for the two saloons if
Mr. Chamlee would rent No. 429
Broad.
If Mr. Wright fails to remember
the facts as set forth in the above
statement of this particular case the
Hustler of Rome will undertake to
refresh his memory. As to his de
nial of these facts, he will hardly do
so. The Hustler of Rome has known
of this “proposition” for quite a
while, but as we did not care to drag
such affairs into the public prints,
refrained from using it. However,
when Mr. Wright publishes such a
card as the above we feel that the
time lias come for the submission of
evidence and put it in for what it is
worth.
The Hustler of Rome submitted
the above statement of facts to Mr.
Chamlee yesterday. Mr Chamlee
wassuprised, but, in admitting them
to be true stated that he was not in
politics and preferred not to get into
any controversy.
As far as John Chamlee is con
cerned, everybody who knows him
knows that he is a quiet, orderly,
courteous gentleman, whose w’ord is
as good as his bond. His commer
cial rating is gilt-edge and his friends
are numbered from every walk of
life.
' As to the Hustler of Rome—this
paper is prohibitionist from princi
ple but loves fair play.
The Head of Georgia Democracy,
Monroe Advertiser.
Mr. Clay has expressed his opinion
in reference to the demand made by
Mr. Cunningham to allow the Popu
lists to run the polls and he stands
firmly by that opinion, notwith
standing the gratuitous admonition
of Rev. Sam Jones. Mr. Clay has
a head of his own and does his own
thinking and the Decraocracy of
Georgia stands ready to back him
up. _
Another Middle of the Roader.
Rome Hustler.
Hon. Seaborn Wright could plead
guilty to the charges of standing in
the middle of Broad street and plan
ning to secure a bar-room renter for
his vacant house and then make the
point on the Pops tliat he was a
middle-of-the-roader.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it falls
to cure. 25c.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMRRR 18, 1896.
THE POPS NOMINATE
A CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR
FJROM THIS DISTRICT.-
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J. M. McMichael, of Butts, Who Was De
feated for the Legislature Two
Years Ago, ia the Man.
Wednesday a tall, black whiskered
man was pointed out on the streets
to the News and Sun as one who had
predicted that Butts county would
be carried by the Populists this year
and cast its vote for Wright. No
significance was attached to this at
the time, as several Populists have
been seen in this Neighborhood this
fall and they have ceased to be an
object of curiosity.
Later in the day, however, it de
veloped by the testimony of Col. T.
W. Flynt"that this black whiskered
gentleman from Butts was the main
stay of a convention that met Wed
nesday and put in nomination Hon.
J. M. McMichael, of Butts, as a can
didate for the State senate from this
district to oppose Hon. Alex At
kinson. Mr. McMichael is an excel
lent gentleman who resides near
Jackson, and we put the prefix
“Hon. ” to his name because he had
the honor two years ago of being
beaten for the legislature by Hon. T.
J. Dempsey. After the drubbing that
he will get from Mr. Atkinson he
will be entitled to the prefix of
Right Honorable.
There was something rarer than a
Georgia Populist in town yesterday,
and that was a real, live Hannacrat—
a supporter of Palmer and Buckner.
He was young but full grown, and
had voted for Cleveland in 1888
when he was only 18 years old. He
insisted that there was not the
shadow of a showing for Bryan’s
election. He had been all over the
State and mingled with “business
men, ’ ’ merchants, bankers, lawyers
and doctors, and found them all for
gold. Bryan is losing ground every
day. There is nothing in his
speeches, which sound like an empty
wagon running down the road.
: Possibly free silver was right, he
concluded, but it was not right to
go against the moneyed classes, who
would eat us up if Bryan is elected.
Oh, he was the hot stuff, this young
goldbug—almost as great as Alex
Hull, of Atlanta.
The following handbills are print
ed and ready for circulation by the
Republicans of this county:
“A grand rally—The 6th congres
sional district committee will meet
at Griffin, Ga., September 21st, at
10 o’clock, and every man in this
county is requested to be present, as
a big gun will be fired from the
mouth of Col. H. L. Johnson, and
everybody should be in reach of its
echo. ’ ’
Congressman Bartlett will speak
at Locust Grove on the 25th instant
and at Forsyth on the 23d. Jones
county will turn out to hear him tog
night at Haddock station. Mr. Bart
lett does not believe that he will lose
a county in the district. He feels
confident of carrying even Pike, the
home county of Mr. jMurphey. Par
ties from Jones say he will win in
that county by 4t)o majority.
There can be no dodging in the ap
proaching elections. A man is either
an organized Democrat or he must
be a disorganized one. If he fails to
support the organized Democracy
this year, and two years from now
is not allowed to participate in our
Democratic primaries, he will have
no one to blame but himself. If
you are a Democrat, you must be
one, and prove that you are by sup
porting the nominees of your party.
There is some talk that the sup
porters of Wright in this county will
try to get the registrars to change
thie ruling of the board in the elec
tion last year and declare that voters
who were not qualified at the time
of registering can not qualify after
ward. The law is very plain on the
subject that a voter may qualify up
to the time of making up the final
lists, and it is hardly probable that
Spalding’s registrarswill override it
for the benefit of a few malcontents
who want to reduce the Democratic
majority.
Following is the registration in
this county when the books closed
at 6 o’clock last night:
White. Col. Total.
Africa 179 26 2Q5
Akins 126 43 169
Cabins 126 77 203
Griffin 550 152 702
Line Creek... 59 3 62
Mt. Zion 72 49 121
Orrs 89 48 137
Union 142 27 169
Totals 1343 425 1768
Those members of the Democratic
club whose business it has been to
I keep up. with the registration ha A
done good work to bring it up to
these figures, which make a very
good showing fop this county. They
figure that nt the lowest estimates
Spalding should give over 500 ma
jority for the Democratic ticket.
The oard of registrars, composed
of C. A. Cooper: M. O. Bowdoin and
S. M. Wayman, will meet at 8 o’clock
this morning to organize and get
ready for work. Hereafter they
will meet at 9 p ■clock. Their work
will be comparatively light because
of the registration had last year,
which will serve for a- basis.
—
Ventures.
VauAhn, G vtSept. 16.—Dr. J. L.
Gable, of Brooks Station, was here
Monday. t J
Miss Pearl Kendall is visiting Mrs.
C. O. Bradbury, at Griffin.
Miss Jennie Bledsoe, of Zetella,
was the guest of Miss Willie Vaughn
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. G. H. Steele and Mrs. F. J.
Freeman spent Monday in Griffin,
the guests of their sister, Mrs. C. O.
Bradbury.
Mrs. J. L. Gable and Master Fabe,
of Brooks Station, spent Sunday
with J. W. Vaughn’s family.
John Galhouse. of near Griffin,
was here Sunday.
Ad McLeroy, of Jackson, spent
Saturday night with E. T. Kendall’s
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Clare Deane and
children, of Griffin, visited Mrs. J.
L. Vaughn Sunday.
Mrs. E. W. Hammond, of Griffin,
was the guest of Mrs. B. J. Reeves
Sunday.
Quite a number of our young peo
ple took in the annual singing at
Providence church Sunday.
The Misses Smith, of Sunny Side,
visited Miss Lemma Head Sunday.
I. H. and E. T. Kendall attended
the quarterly meeting at Hollonville
Saturday and Sunday.
Will Dorsey, of Sunny Side, visit
ed friends here last Sunday.
Mrs. J. L. Vaughn and children
spent Monday at Brooks Station, the
guests of Dr. J. L. Gable’s family.
Mrs. N. E. Kendall and Misses
Lora May and Mattie Lou Steele are
spending • KKu.y.in Griffin.
Miss Mollie Patton is visiting
friends at Griffin this week.
Rev. E. W. Hammond closed a
several days meeting here Sunday
and much good was done. Five
were baptized who joined last meet
ing and one more was added Sunday.
Takthe Griffin News and Sun
if you want all the news.
Calling Off Watson.
Savannah Press.
All is not lovely with the Populists
if we are to judge from the temper
of Marion Butler, chairman of the
national committee. Marion Butler
wants Tom Watson to come back
from the West. The honorable
Thomas seems to have been kicking
up too much dust out there and
leading Populists fear that he will
injure the party. Mr. Watson’s
references to Arthur Sewall are held
to be in bad taste. His references
to Mr. Bryan are doing the silver
candidate no good. Marion Butler
evidently fears that Watson is
speaking for Watson and not for the
party. Mr. Butler is not a great
admirer of Mr. B”tler. Probably
he fears the ascendancy of the young
Georgian. But the Hon. Thomas E.
is a hard man to handle. It is easier
to put him up than to pull him
down. It is easier to send him out
than to call him off.
In the light of Marion Butler’s dis
gust, the send off which the People's
Party Paper gave to Mr. Watson
when he left Atlanta for the West
sounds pathetic. Here is wfliat the
editor said:
“Let not Tom Watson comeback
to us with his heart crushed and
bleeding, realizing that he has toiled
and suffered for an unworthy love.”
A Wife Heater.
We are informed that Wednesday
afternoon, H. C. Marvel, who is
employedin the office of the Os
born & Wolcott Mfg. Co., had
an altercation with his wife over
a dose of medicine, that he pur- i
posed giving her, and which
she declined to take, and
proceeded to administer punishment
in the shape of blows, and tearing :
her clothes half off, etc. He also
kicked her down the back steps, i
dragged her back by the hair of her
and afterwards choked her. Her
cries for help were heard for some j
distance and neighbors iuterferjd
as soon as possible and put a stop to
the affair. The police were notified
and a case will be made to-day.
What makes the matter more out
rageous is the delicate condition of
Mrs. Marvel. All parties are white.
Highest of all in Leavening Power,—Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
GREAT INCOHONEE
SPEAKS WORDS OFWISDOM TO
THE WHITE MAN.
J udge Daniel Says Bryan Worild Sweep the
Went To-Day, Including Mc-
Kinley’s State.
Jk 16 “I tell you, gen
to tiemen, Bryan
! i. would sweep the
fry country if the elec
lagalltgpJ* tion were held to
morrow.” Such were
th® words of the Great
Inpohonee of the Red
Men Monday, and
f they are words of
observation and]
sooth.
Judge R. T. Daniel returned Mon
day morning from hfs trip to
Minneapolis, where he was elected
to the above exalted office by the
Grand Council. This body is com
posed of about a hundred and fifty
representatives from the different
States, who were well qualified to
sjierik, as observant citizens, of the
political phases of their different
localities. Judge Daniel, who has
always been much interested in pol
itics, like all true Georgians, con
versed with many of the delegates
on the subject, and became intimate,
with a member who went to partic
ular pains to get the political news
from all of them.
“They were almost unanimously
of the opinion,” said the judge,
“that Bryan already has the election
sure if he can hold it. Massachu
setts will hardly be carried by him,
one delegate from that State assured
me; but the work that is being done
■ in tnaiSta i eisshowp by the fact that
in ond ward in Boston wheh: there
was onlj’ 63 iiemocratfc votes cast
in the last election, there is a f|»yan
club of 250 members. New York is
in doubt, with a large silver senti
ment in the country, but the city
vote will lie largely the other way.
Bnt ?. 1 eheve that Bryan will carry
Ohio, I am assured that be will car
ry I’ (liana by a large majority and
Illi: ois is likewise regarded as cer
tain. .Minnesota will go for Bryan
if the country can overcome the gold
majority in the cities. All the cit
ies will go for gold, but theiN/untry
is almost solid for silver, as I found
oy conversing with different peiqile
on the trains.”
He visited the headtjnarters of the
Natiinal Silver and par
ties in Chifagoand f’>und everything
regiirded there as favorable to a
I sweeping victory. The only dread
was that the gold men might luuy
up the election with large sums of
money at the last hour, (ffiicago
he found a vast hive of fKdities, with
meetings and disrmssions every
street corner. BourkeCbeluran |
for the gold side Saturday aft. -m«>n i
and the auditorium was jacked to I
hear his oratory. It is generally [
believed, however, that Cockran gets
! $1,500 a sjs-iuh. so it has little efiksct
upon his audiences.
Judge Daniel goes to Dallas, Ttrx- r
as, next week, as one of t
Georgia's three rejwesentatrres ’
to the Sovereign Grand Ixxlge [
of Odd Fellows, and will have i
further opportunity to find our. f
what the “middle of the roatlers” a re
doing. He rey>orts Popoltet fusion '
as complete in the West and nobody i
paying any attention to Tom Wat- f
son’s course or fate.
'
Internal HomMlty.
“I hate, ” said Mr. Tolliver, as be
vainly tried to get his straw hat
over his head, “to g»< miser- I
able hats wet. They shrink no. ”
Mrs. Tolliver looked up from the
breakfast table.
■ -There was no ram last night,” I
she freezingly remarked.
Then Mr. Tolliver hastily perched
his hat on the top (A his achi ig
i head and hurried from, the house. |
The Home of the Great laeohmaee.
Monroe Advertiser,
i Judge R. T. Daniel. o< Griffin, was
> elected great incohonee at the eon- '
vention of Red Men held at Indian
apolis recently. This makes the
genial Judge one of the most protni- !
nent secret order men in the United t
States. The of the
great council which have heretofore i
always been in the north will be to- !
rated at Griffin, the home as the
great incohonee.
THE SUN, Established 1877.
SPENCER MAKES A REPLY.
The nf WriUtt ut
OfHin fsetler t« Mt.
Atlant*, Sept 15.—Freddent Sarmxei
Hpenor of the Southern Railway com
pany ha* written an open letter, taking
Vice Prerideut St John of the Meaboonl
to task. Mr. Spencer** letter ia nt<
addre* ed to Mr. St. John, tmt to Coi
onol L X. Traininoil, chairman of the
Georgia railroad contmwri'ni, La«t July
Colonel Trammell a«ldre»*ed letter* to
Sir. St. John and to CommDHdmser H.
8. Baine* ot the Houther* States Freight
aes. ciation, notifying them that if
through rates were cut by the road*,
local rate* wonld be reduced by tfaa
conimtMion. In reply, Mr. St. John
wrote a lengthy letter to Chairman
Trammell, Mating that the rate was »
tlefenmve measure undertaken by the
Utritlxnita to protect its interests.
Mr. Hpencer was in Europe at that
time. It wa* stated at the time tliat fas
would bare something to way after to
returned. This letter tc Colonel Tram
m hlm the fird official statement from
tiic Hodthem, It takes up the question
of the Southern** interest in the Ora
tral railway of Georgia awl oilier roads
it: the sourh and ways that Lie South
erri'st contr of variora projwtrtiew is
strictly within the law. Aw to the Cen
tral. Mr. Sie ncr-r states that the South
ern haw already “a contingent beneficial
inter--st in either that wtoek its pro
ceed*,” Mr, Spencer talt'“» op the earn,
ingw of hi* road and of theSeauoard; he
d-m,.. mat the boutheiii » defeating
r-om ,-ruion at any p ant or lias raised
rate* anywhere.
HorO>, K ret: ref mH.
t iJ'j’.r 4;>kk. ?>ei»t. 15, Champ tout
Jrsfc- Kilrain wa«s k» <«ke<i by Frank
P. Slavin at rne -100. The Eal
timoTe heavyweight wa*little more than
a pare-hing lane ■’< ttie Aa-tiafiaa, and
it t «wk Mitt i/ttt two awi a Quarter min
ute* it, pot the tot'Chamiwm K»i
ratn h very fat, awl it was evidenb
when fee apjieami io the ring that' ise
was in nocf-nditjon tows'* t ffcarin, who
' waw trairr'-'i to rhe hour. Ki rain’a
weight was anw<asnc«S aw 250 temnds.
Imt fee toaued at least 15 poauus heavier.
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»tAf« Is What We Stake ft “
Life in is what ffeu husi
nctw man make* it. The Iramnem
man whomtw down anti Ix-moatti*
the bard tim««ha# no fife in his lius
ine*4. This Irasine*- man who fe*
alive and who is rb/ing a live bom
newt fe» telling the jieojje all abtrak
it and what he lias tliat they want.
It do~fn't i*»y tn *it st IB and cry
“Bwffinese « dull awl there’* a lack
of confidetM:*',” Tin- five teiGjiews
man show# that he has eonfidence
tn himwelf awl his bamnrm. and
doesn’t wait for Mane other man to
start the r*,nfid<>we bwnnesw. Thaw
he mtqnmt frini'hiiiee m the con
sumer. An irridr-nee of the Imsinewi
man'weoriridefa-*- L* ween in the jpl
vertisrngwJMma*'/the newspapers,
A lack of c*/Dfi''l«diee has it>s greatewst
effect upon the maw*. An evi
rlrmrsr of mtM lie shown
them also. It ssneedl***- almost, to
add that the bwdnwt man can find
ar» better medsnsri for showing few
! conffife-tice to the imames than
1 through the eohonna of the News. t
A Fortsuiw Waltfaig.
R, A. Gordon, «A this (dace, lias
■ r»*orvol a litter from Stowe &
' Htr>we, ErKfals'iig, making
I inqnhieK into Im relatioisdrip with
t r>,-rtatn of the SwAtadh Govdcns, aay
i mg that an immeiwe fortsme is
i awaiting dnstribniion among the
heirs and that tiwjiartieular branch.
will get abont half a rafllk® dollars.
Mr. Gordon'* grs..odfa;ther cmuoe
I directly to the UiKtea fitates from
* Scotland and was a member of the
| Heado® Lian,” famoro in and
1 story; and it s» probable that there
set ssmnethimg more than a mevehojes
of the fortune coming this war.
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