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'• ANO&JN- Grima. Georgia. Sept. IH, IBHU. The Henri Watterson club, of L misvilh-. Ky . has endorsed Bryan. A Republican club of forty mem bers in the western part of North Carolina has declared for Bryan. James Creel man telegraphs the New York World that 30,000 lowa Republicans have bolted to Bryan and silver. As some one else has said, the Re publican papers fear Bryan’s speech es so much now that they do not print them. Possibly there can lie purity in politics in Georgia with Sam Jones left out. That is, if there is a possi bility of leaving Sum Jones out of anything. -O' — A great many of the Mexican dol lars circulated in this country by Republicans are counterfeit. This is like a great many other Republican campaign documents. The Detroit News reminds us that it is wicked for the jioor to be prej udiced against the rich, but as for the rich being prejudiced against the poor, you know how it is. The Journal is after the World. The latter paper said that the owners of the Anaconda mine had promised to contribute $300,000 to the Bryhn campaign fund. The Anaconda mine is not a silver mine and is owned by goldbugs. The Si .-.inna.h Press can’t under stand ho* it. is that the Populists are having a campaign without Col encl Tom Barrett on their ticket. But Colonel Tom understands, and he is letting younger and less expe rienced members of the pirty run these days. ——— — ——— The Colorado Populists voted against endorsing Watson, and now Tom has concluded to go out and see what is the matter, instead of going to Nebraska and tackling Bryan. Tom has a hard row to plough in this campaign, sure enough. The Republicans first laughed at Bryan for making so many speeches, but now they say McKinley must take the stump and answer them. Poor Mae can never catch up with all the arguments his opponent has advanced and is ahy about attempt ing it. When you read about those “vis iting delegations” that go to Canton to see McKinley, it is well to know that they go on free railroad tickets and are treated to free dinners, etc. The expenses are all paid out of the general corruption fund raised by Hanna. ———— Two men in St. Augustine have already paired on the silver question. One hud a single standard knife and the other a double standard revolver and both got in their arguments with killing effect, and they have gone whore the news of the returns may be a long time reaching them. There was an incident or two at the Chicago labor day celebration that may have some political signifi cance. Mr. Bryan was invited to make a speech and Mr. McKinley was not. Chairman Jones, of the Democratic national committee, was invited to a seat on the platform and Chairman Hanna was not. And it was intentional. *— - ■ ————— According to Secretary Difenderfer of the national silver committee ap proximately 36 per cent, of the members of the newly-formed silver clubs under the auspices of the par ty’s organization in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and many other Western States, are ex-Republicans. C. H. Pirtle, of the Populist headquarters, adds tiiat there are 1,000 Bryan clubs in the State of Nebraska, having ex- Republicans as presidents. Hon. Hoke Smith, ex-secretary of the interior, has tendered his ser vices to the State campaign commit tee. He will speak at Dalton on the 19th, and will afterwards be heard at Brunswick, Valdosta and Augus ta, delivering four addresses in all in l>ehalf of the regular Democratic ticket. General John B. Gordon will also make a series of sjieeches for the regular nominees, opening at Buena Vista yesterday. HERE IS YOUR BOSS FOR YOU! The great cry of the Populists in (leorgia, loudly echoed by their aHies among the sutlers ami skulkers of the Derinx-ratic- army and campft, is ' against what they are .’’JcasttWo denominate as “boSSism.” Coming and going at the beck of Tom Wat son’s little finger, the Populists cry out against every Democratic leader as a “boss” who ought under no ; circumstances to receive the slightest attention from any good Democrat, and therearesoine in the Democratic ranks who think it brave and patri otic to follow the advice ot their opponents. As if any fight could lx; won by every fellow fighting on his own hook and according to a different plan ! But now comes one who proposes to boss the whole business, includ ing everybody in all parties and every justice of the peabe or Imiliff of any ]»irty in the State. Having sethimielf up as superior to his own church and defied the bossism of a bishop as well as the sanctities of a religion tiiat he professes to preach, it was only a short and natural step for Bam Jones, of Car tersville, to set himself up as the king boss of Georgia politics. For this is the way of all of them —those think themselves Cuesars who never learn, like him, to first be lieu tenants. So Sam has written a letter to Hon. A. 8. Clay, chairman of the Democratic State committee, saying that the coming election must be conducted according to all the rules and regulations laid down by Hon. J. D. Cunningham, chairman of the Populist State committee, and approved by liim, Sam Jones. In vain had Mr. Clay protested that he had gone as far as he could to secure a fair election and non-partisan boards and that thereat must be left to the machinery of the law, and something trusted to the honesty of those w hose honesty had never been seriously impugned. In vain did the records show that no serious charge of fraud had been made against the State Democracy of Georgia for years pist. Sam Jones had once been a Democrat himself and had chewed up ballots, and he never could be made to understand how any man could be better than he. But let that pass ;■ the best is to come. “You say you cannot do anymore than yon have done,” writes Mr. Jones. “There is one thing lam sure you can do. If you cannot control your crowd to the under standing and settlement of a method by which this election can be con ducted fairly, you can resign and let some other fellow try it. I wouldn’t be the chairman of a dog kennel if I couldn’t manage my dogs.” Here yon get the true idea of a party leader as the concept of a mind like Sam Jones. Ho is. the owner of a kennel and all others are his dogs— not even rising to the dignity of “flop-eared hounds, ” which is Mr. Jones’ usual term for mankind, but simply dogs, to be kicked and cuffed and made to do as their master pleases. Mr. Clay recognizes and treats his fellow-Democrats as men of mind and honor, like himself; but if there are too many of them itho do not appreciate this treatment, they can get what they would in such case deserve. For Mr. Jones “holds out the hope, ” as one fawning news piper spaniel expresses it, that if his orders are not obeyed by the present chairman, he will enter the ring next time and then Mr. Clay's “name will be Dennis in Georgia,” in the re fined language of the master of the kennel. Great will be the whining and the barking, the fawning and the jumping about Among the mongrel curs now snapping at the heels of Democracy when Sam Jones takes the whip; but we are inclined to think he will have to adopt different tactics to tame the Democratic tiger which he Iso loudly taunts from the safe top of a tree. Nevertheless, if the Democratic party of Georgia wants a real sure enough boss in place of its present leaders, here is one who has signed in his own handwriting a diploma that he is up in all the degrees and for whom nothing is too small or too big—and who announces thus far in advance his eagerness to take the job. MR. WRIGHT’S REGRETS. We liave over his own signature the following remarkable statement of Seaborn Wright, the gentleman who is running for governor against Mr. Atkinson: “As to the other statement that I am president or director or own stock in any national bank , , n ]y p, say 1 regret it is not >• The objection that' Watson, the Populist^)f or v j w pres ident, as an api>eal to high JrfSrt'l n against Mr. Bewail, the Dem ocratic candidate, is tiiat Mr. Sewall is president of a national bank. For Mr. Wright, the Poptflist candidate for governor in Mr. Watson's own State, to say that he only regrets he is not in Mr. Sewall's position might seem more remarkable in anybody else than a man with Mr. Wright’s record for inconsistency. Y'et this is doubtless the feeling of all the members of that party. They re gret that they are not the very things tiiat they denounce. Their leaders opp>.se the party in power only lie cause they want in themselves. They seek tiiat “Reign of the Demagogue” which has appealed so powerfully to their fancy in the pictures of John Temple Graves, the smallest and yet the rankest of them all. We believe that Mr. Wright al ready regrets entering upon his sin gular campaign for on a plank that no more fitsjfne Populist platform tiiat it does 3®f. Wright’s record. He looks and slieaks like a man who lias no heart or*hop» in his cause. He lias suffered defeat so often and on so many different issues that he can distinguish its premoni tions far in advance. In fact, his actions the past week show’ that he has virtually abandoned the field. Coming in from a tour, he made ex-* aggerated estimates of his strength that showed the hectic fever of des pe rat ion, and was too disheartened to be present at an intended big rally at Locust Grove in our neighboring county of Henry, leaving Azmon Murphey to try the vain task of arousing enthusiasm in an audience of two or three hundred. Friday night next finds the sore champion of Populism and his own issues, not filling an appointment of his own, but drawn irresistibly to listen to the eloquent defense and overwhelming countercharge of his opponent. No erect or defiant atti tude is his, and no words of anaw’er arise to his lips, as he sits in a dark and obscure corner on the outskirts of the great crowd assembled in Macon to applaud the arraignment of his own record. He was spied out by a reporter and pointed out to his friends and fellow partisans, but on their approach placed hiUCiand over his face and refused to recognize anyone. He listened to his antago nist’s speech until near its close, when he slunk away to his hotel and left Macon before daylight, having arrived after dark. It was a strange visit for the most prominent figure in his party. If Mr. Wright, confronted by the well-known spectre of defeat, al ready feels regrets that he is not a bank president instead of a dema gogue running for office and pitch ing his campaign upon abuse of his opponent, against whom or whose administration not one word can be honestly said, it should not be sur prising to anyone. For with a tem perament naturally refined and sen sitive, though given to erratic im pulses and inconstant and restless ambitions that have led him into many devious piths, he has not be come so low that he can not feel a sense of shame at his own unworthi ness and the bad company into which he has fallen. It is neither too soon nor too late to drop a tear for poor Scab right now. TOMMIE HAD BETTER COME HOME. While Tom Watson is out West arguing that Sewall is a wart, the editor of his piper gets off this guff in the editorial columns : “And now the news comes tiiat pretty little John West is capturing everything in the Tenth. When we have candidates as good looking as John West and Seab Wright how we would whip the Democrats if the women could vote. But thank goodness they can’t, for some of the rest of us want office.” “Pretty little John West” can not stand much of this kind of support before the sturdy voters of the Tenth district. “If at any time during this cam paign my voice and influence can be of any service to the cause of Dem ocracy and the people, ” wrote Mr. John Temple Graves to Chairman Clay on July 24, 1896, “I shall be glad to answer any call tiiat you may make upon me.” It would seem that Mr. Graves had reached the conclusion tiiat the best service he could render Democracy and the ixiople, would be to oppose them. Maybe he is right, thinks the Macon Telegraph. THE TESTIMONY OF AN OPPONENT. One of the strongest advocates of General Evans' candidacy two years ago, as we well remember, was the Gainesville Eagle. But the editor was conscientious in his judgment then, and being equally conscien tious now he piys just tribute to the admirable administration of the man whom he opposed. His testimony is pointed and just, as follows : “We take pleasure in adding our testimony to the almost universal verdict that W. Y. Atkinson has made a good governor—one of the very beet our State has ever had. No man can say otherwise who has a conscientious regard for the truth. His course has been safe, conserva tive and courageous, and his record is one that will safely withstand the assaults of all his tradueers, who wage a war against him not for the good of the commonwealth, but for the sake of obtaining his place. “Mr. Atkinson was elected to be governor of Georgia, and he has been governor. He has shown that he has a head of his own, and a good head at that; and when he believed a certain policy was good for the people he went ahead on that line without inquiring as to who would be pleased and who would not. He has had the grit and backbone to tackle a number of public questions that former governors were unable to solve. He has stood for the en forcement of the law; he has made commendable efforts to suppress lynching; he has been the friend to education ; he has niade the banks pay interest on the State deposits ; he has taken the convict lease ques tion in hand and shown his ability and determination to enforce the laws in tiiat direction ; he has stood as the unwavering friend of prohi bition ; he represents the element of law and order. He deserves at the hands of the voters of Georgia an overwhelming endorsement, and we believe he will receive that endorse ment at the pollsjnext October.” SOBER JUDGMENT. Sensible and conservative people of all parties, in this period of sen sationalism in politics and religion, will be glad to read the following sound editorial from the Christian Index: “We desire to express our com mendation of the course pursued by Governor Atkinson in the Hanye murder case. Concerning the in trinsic merits of the case wo can only rest on the known character of So licitor Hill and Judge Candler. When such men refuse to recognize pleas for mercy and the injection of new evidence, it is because the case has already been fairly dealt with. Governor Atkinson has all along been painstaking in his efforts to get at the right of the matter. Against efforts based on nothing but sympa thy, he has stood firm and rightly so. To commute a sentence because of the importunity of friendship, is to do injustice to the friendless and laugh at law. Especially to be deplored is the appeal of certain young men on the ground that they had prayed for the commutation and so the governor ought to grant it. This is silly, and dishonoring to prayer. No one can help feeling sympathy in such a case, but the law must stand and justice lie done, despite sympathy. Governor At son has done his duty as an honest man and needed no forgiveness from the condemned man. He has stood for law and order. The sober judg ment of the citizens will commend him for it. ” Steve Clay declines to be bossed even by Sam Jones. Steve may be wrong, but the Democratic party of Georgia doesn’t think so. GEN. JOHNB. GORDON. He Was for Evann Because He Knew Him and is Now for Atkinson For the Same Reason. Buena Vista, Ga., Sept. 10.— General John B. Gordon spoke to an enthusiastic audience here to-day. His tribute to the old soldier call ed forth by the presence of so many veterans was touching and tender. His tribute to his distinguished com patriot and fellow soldier, Clement A. Evans, was beautiful and impres sive. He recited the fact that in the last gubernatorial campaign he naturally took the side of his distin guished friend because, he said, he had seen General Evans tried; had seen him face the cannon’s mouth ; had seen him risk his life hundreds of times for his country’s sake. General Gordon said he had had his faith in Governor Atkinson strengthened day by day, as he bad watched the unflinching devotion to duty, justice and right of Georgia’s present chief executive. He had noted the keen acumen, fine judge ment and rare discrimination of the prerent governor. He said he had never doubted in the least in the ca pacity of the man who was destined at that time to administer the affairs of this great commonwealth, and that the opinion and confidence of tiiat grand old party that had saved Georgia and this fair Southland so often from degradation and despair had been ably sustained and honor ably upheld. * General Gordon told of many offi cial acts that have taken place dur ing the present administration— some very recently, some of which, he said, were being twisted and turned for political capital. The general declared that this would redound to the great and j gixxl name which Governor Atkin-| son has made with the people of Georgia. , Never did a public speaker carry with him the sympathy and co-oper ation of an audienee more than when he was reciting these facts. He spike ar some length on the temperance question. He warned the people of the danger of relaxing their grasp on a good thing—local option—and jumping at shadows for political purposes especially. He said our present local option law if properly enforced, would take care of the liquor question better than anything that has ever been offered as a substitute. He cited the experience of Maine and South Carolina and other States. The cause of temperance has my undying devotion, he said, “but we must not be spasmodic or fanatical. We must not try to shove an untri ed reform on the people too rapid ly.” His resume of what the State of Georgia under Democratic rule had done in the matter of education for both races was full and exhaustive, and he admonished the people strongly not to be caught by traps set by other political parties, prom ising to do more for them .in this respect; that a promise to furnish school supplies followed up might lead to paternalism. He concluded by introducing to audienee Hon. W. C. Adamson, con gressional nominee, who delivered a stirring, strong and sensible address to his constituents. REQUEST OF GEN. EVANS That Governor Atklnion Should Run a Second Time. Following is the letter written by General Evans at the time Governor Atkinson had in contemplation a flattering business proposition that would have prevented him from be coming a candidate for governor a second time: Atlanta, March 7,1896. —Governor W. Y. Atkinson, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:—l read in this afternoon’s Journal that you contemplated the possibility of declining the assured nomination and election this year for the office of governor. I beg leave to say most sincerely to you that in my judgment your candidacy is of the highest importance at this juncture, and I hope you may be able to render that service in this present exigency. I am very respectfully, Clement A. Evans. ”■ —-——' The Opinion of Two Newspapers. / Americus Tlmes-Recorder. The Times-Recorder vigorously opposed the nomination of Mr At kinson for governor, our opposition being liased purely upon personal grounds. We had long known the great and good Christian soldier, General Evans, and we desired to do him honor. The people of Georgia in a great majority declared Hon. William Y. Atkinson their choice. The able, fearless and gloriously Democratic administration of Governor Atkin son has proven that the people have chosen wisely. Hon. W. Y. Atkinson has made one of the best governors the State of Georgia ever had. Sparta lahniaelite. In the opinion of the Ishmaelite Georgia has never had a truer, bra ver more patriotic executive than Win. Y. Atkinson. It has never had a more watchful one. It has never had one readier to spend and be spent in the public service. It isn’t in the rattling, visionary, erratic Wright, who makes it a rule to be wrong in everything but in name, to make anything like so fair a record under the same conditions. Atkin son will succeed himself. The Hope of the Country. Findlay (O.) Courier. The Republicans expect to carry the coming election through the use of an enormous campaign fund. They no longer make a concealment of this fact. On the part of the Re publicans this is to be the most cor rupt and corrupting campaign ever known in this country. This cor ruption fund will tie used in every State, county and election precinct in the country. It is being used to day even in this county. Let the voter ask himself why tire monied men and wealthy corporations of the country are contributing these im - mense sums of money to control the election. Do you suppose it is in the interest of the farmers and laboor ers? Ls it not more probably in their own interest? The only hope of the country Ls in the conscienci ous honesty of the voter. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ( Lucas County ( Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. 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Major John Byrne, president of the Democratic Honest Money League, has in his own words, “sounded the alarm in abundant time to warn the friends of honest money of the danger of losing Now York in the coming elation.” Ho has traveled all through the States, and found on all sides indi cations that Bryan and Sewall will sweep everything before them, “un less contributions to the anti silver campaign fund are instantly forth coming.” What Major Byrne said was put in the form of a circular, which was sent to all Republican and gold standard newspapers of this city. It is said that a leading Republi can newspaper was so impressed with the immediate necessity of se curing subscriptions to stem 4 the ene my’s tide, that the circular was to have been minted in last Wednes day's issue. When the major's words, however, were seen in type, the confession of weakness appeared so appalling, that it was decided to bo the wiser course not. to publish a report that would surely throw Re publicans into dismay, and display the weakness of their cause. The first, reading of the disagreea ble message affected the other Re publican and half-hearted Demo cratic newspipers in much the same manner, and the document has never, heretofore, appeared in print. “rotten on silver. Major Byrne reported that the central. Western and Northern sec tions of New York State “are rotten on silver, and unless something is done to reclaim these sections we will lose the State. Bryan had wild ly enthusiastic meetings and has left an ugly trial behind him. ” Continuing, he says: “I am thoroughly alarmed, be cause if the estimates on the other critical States are as erroneous as the estimate on New York, there is no hoi>e for the country. To-day an election would give this State to Bryan with 100,000 majority. “The truth is, the campaign is going by default. There is too much confidence and not enough work. It is based on a fancied security as to this State by estimates made in past campaigns. “This year all past bearinirs are valueless. Republicans and Demo crats alike are pledged to silver. Unless an active educational cam ]Miign is prosecuted day and night, from now until election day, New York will be lost. “My estimate is made frotn the inside of a middle section said to tie a fair average, where I was told by a man that agreed with me but said that ho could not take part with us and con tinue to live in the community. Part of the plan of the enemy is to lull the friends of honest money into security until too late to save the State. It is this that is now succeeding.” — o A Hannacratic Convention. The Hannacrats of Georgia will put out a presidential electoral ticket on September 23d. A State convention of the gold men will be culled for that date. The convention will meet in Atlanta and name an electoral ticket pledged to vote for the nominees of the Indianapolis convention —Pal- mer and Buckner. ' The official call for the con ven tion has not been issued, but Capt. T. P. 801 l is authority for the state ment that the call is to be made find he says that the convention will as semble at the State capitol on the date stated. The gold men will probably take no jMirt in the State campaign. That is, it is understood that no nomina tions for State offices will be made, the coming convention simply be ing for,the purfx>se of naming elect ors to vote for Palmer and Buckner. This Was Written Before Arkansas Voted. St. Paul Globe. The increase of the majority in Vermont above the normal shows what is to lie expected in every jsirt of the United States when the peo pie Crime to pass upon the cause of Populism. That result is going to be a good deal of a surprise party. 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