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“TELL THE TRUTH.”
T 'editor HFNRV
and publisher.
BRIEF SKETCH OF
COL, J. H. ESTILL
Distinguished ° Georgian ° In
Bace For Governor.
KIS VER / SUCCESSFUL CAREER
Beginning at the Bottom Rung, By
Close Application, Industry, Intelii
gence, Honesty and Frugality, He
Ha* Climbed to the Top.
The career of Colonel John Hoi
brook Estill, of Chatham county, whose
candidacy for the governorship of
Georgia is attracting so much tavora
ble attention in all sections of the
state, is an inspiration to the youth
of the land havijig the courage to “do”
and the stamina to "stick.” it is a
present and potent illustration of the
fact that industry, frugality, intelii
gence and honesty will win if consist
ently adhered to in all the waiks of
lite, and of the old proverb that “What
ever is worth doing is worth doing
well.” It. is one of the cardinal nrincl
pies of Colonel Eetiil’s life to do well
everything that he undertakes; to go
ing and master details; to get a firm
grasp upon the small particulars, and
thus secure a dependable hold upon
the larger matters. No man is more
careful to be- sure of his footing and
none more' confident of his ground
when ho has taken a stand. He does
not jump to a conclusion, but arrives
there hy the conservative pfpeess of
reasoning, after taking into considers
tion ail the points of view. That his
reasoning is in the main always cor
root and Jus judgment sound could
have no better exemplification than In
his own fortunes. Beginning at the
very bottom rung of the ladder after
the war of secession—working as a la
borer iri the printing establishment
which he now owns, and for a labor
er’s wages—he has climbed by his own
efforts to a position of comfort aad im
portance. By zeal, by labor, by untir
ing energy, by the exercise of mother
wit and calm judgment, he has risen
from the position of an employed me
chanic to that of an employer, finan
cier and man of affairs. And notwith
standing his altered position, he en
joys relating anecdotes of his early
struggles as a mechanic more than
telling of his later triumphs. Nor are
the friends of his more strenuous days
forgotten, as a number of them have
reason to know. Once a friend, always
a friend, is his style.
Colonel Estill is in his sixty-second
year, and looks fifteen years younger,
He w*» bora in South Carolina, but is
a Georgian, blood, bone and brain, hav
Ing lived in this state Since his youth
and given the vigor and strength of
his manhood to defending the state in
war and building up her interests in
peace. He takes pride in the fact that
he was a private in the Confederate
army and fought in the ranks with
"the boys in butternut and jeans” un
tii he was so severely wounded in Vir
ginia. where ne went with the Eighth
Georgia regiment, that he had to be
sent home. And while still an invalid
from the wound he volunteered to aid
In the defense of his beloved city of
Savannah against the invading army
under Sherman. His military record,
as honorable as man coaid wish, is em
balmed in the records of the troops
that Georgia sent to uphold the Con
federacy and punctuated with the
scars of bullets upon his b< ly. His
military title, however, is the laurel of
peace, bestowed for both military and
civic services rendered in patriotic
love for the comiftonwealth. It was
fiist conferred oy the lamented Gsn
era! Aitred H. Colquitt when he was
elected governor, in 1878,- and after
wards reconferred by each succeeding
governor up to and including the ad
m r.istration of Hon. W. J. Northen,
which ended in 1884.
Wmle Colonel ustill has never been
a politician in the ordinary meaning
of the word, he has always taken a
deep interest and o'ten a leading part
in tbe political affairs of Georgia and
the south, and his politics has always
been o: the straight Democratic brand
without the slightest qualification. The
pe tv has always known where to find
l; and the leaders have consulted
him with respect to matters of great
Siomeat. Ha has served, among other
SPRING PLACK, MURKAV Ci«LuN FY, GEOIIGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, 1902.
places, as member 'or Georgia on the
Democratic National committee, as
chairman of the executive committee
of the First Georgia congressional dis
trict and as chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee. His
h is ta ’ ents and *? ls » iur * e havo
never been h denied , to the ( party when
wanted. He has never held an impor¬
tant political office, for the reason that
he never sought to do so. Several
desirable presidential appointments
have been within hie grasp if he chose
to take them, but in each instance he
declined to accede to the importuni¬
ties of friends and recommended oth¬
ers for the places. While holding aloof
from office holding under the national
government, he lias accepted positions
of trust in his home county and city.
It is as a business man, however,
that Colonel Estil! ranks the very
great majority of his fellows. When
ever and wherever he has served the
public—on political national or state
committee, on school board, on county
hoard, or elsewhere—he has been call
ed upon to deal with the business side
of the matter under consideration,
This is because of tys success in the
management of his private affairs. Be
ginning with the wage of $1 a day in
the press room of The Morning News,
*.e has not only become the proprietor
of that property and made it one of the
most prosperous publishing establish¬
ments in the south, issuing every day
in the year a newspaper that would
be a credit to any city in the United
States, but he has taken rank among
the first as a bank official and financier
whose judgment is always accepted as
safe when there Is doubt among his
conferees. As an editor, he commands
respect for his thoughtfulness and con
servatism, without surrendering con
vletion. As a business man, he corn
mands confidence for his thoroughness
and the nbility to comprehend s large
problem without losing sight of the de
tails, ft has been said—and no doubt
w u h good reason—that his tewspaner
and printing establishment is one of
the most thoroughly systematised busi
nesses in the country. No loose ends
are left hanging anyhere. The whole
concern moves along like a piece of
well oiled machinery. The same ef
fort to effect co-operation, and success
in that effort, characterizes all of his
enterprises. He is at the head of a
building and loan corporation that has
assisted a great number of wage earn
ers to own their homes or lay aside
something for a “rainy day.” He is an
earnest advocate of living within one’s
means, which principle lie applies to
corporations as wCU as to individuals,
He thinks that no obligation should bo
contracted without arrangements being
mane to discharge it; that if a man or
a corporation make a debt the means
of paying it off should be in sight.
Personally Colonel Estill is a teeto
taler. No man has a gr ater abhor
rence of the drink habit than he. At
the same tune he recognizes that ev
ery man who take,; a drink of liquor i 3
not a drunkard, and that every man
who refrains from drinking is not a
saint. He. believes in temperance, but
not in state -prohibition, for the'rea
son that temperance cannot be incul
cated by legislative enactment any
more than morality can be forced by
means of a policeman’s club. He fa
vors local option with respect to the
liquor traffic, because experience has
taught that no community can be su
perior to the majority sentiment there
of, and no community can have even a
decent semblance of prohibition un
less the majority of its people are in
favor of the total suppression of the
liquor traffic. Under the existing local
option law in Georgia, when the ma
jority of a community decides against
the sale of liquor it is within the pow
er of such community to have the traf
fic suppressed. Local option is based
upon the sound Democratic principle
of local self-government, and no eys
tern of government has ever been de¬
vised that is more satisfactory than
that of permitting the people to de
cide for themselves under what code
of morals they shall live. He believes
that it is always sate to trust the ma
jority of a free and enlightened people
to do what is right for their own good,
Colonel Estill is Thirty-second de¬
gree Mason and a past Junior Grand
Warden of the Grand Lodge of Geor
gia. He is also one of the oldest mem
bers of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows in Georgia. In religion he
is an Episcopalian, and is a vestry
man of St. John’s church of Savaa
t|ih, W. TRQX BANKSTON.
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C"l. ii A. j Attest' ii v\as
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111 ^he OtV Monday _
8 am •• wan»on was in the
, it\ < ni d \ thi'UC k
| I. Mies in t oh ii on
busii.iss he fii l > t the week
Jnmi's Ro'etts \\n- smil
i n, ■ n iiit‘iK> lu re M >n>lay
E .1 E ton visited in 'to n
;i dav or two of .his week
J aims Hemphill spent last
MoikI.j.v in ’ he city oil bnsimv-s
, LlilS spent Monday
- times
\ town on busi w «
Unite. H mphiil was han 1
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‘‘•akmg v lt.1 t 11 smatl\ u lriCdG
a 1 this place Monday,
*am 11 Finch-r male u
b.i ne-s iri to Fashion last
Saturday.
Fim !- i i clF vva> circulat
11 ~ a i ny f i mis a hi* | lac
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- Caid Ton, 1 ’e p!c> was in
th- cil v (in i usi! ess 1 i ues
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-inn eh < ks tilA week
M'-- Maddox ;md
c 1 1 i l ’ !!; f l Mr#
Wrinkle all of Atlanta, -are
,1 7 M-Ft!\ . tor
‘-n visit I <J es a
few diQS
Actual Circulation 1200 Copies.
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p ‘>- t > as ei- W R BFck unci
uih , - f Onus w»re in the city
the latter } art ol lost Week on
a sh p;«in:>- exped Ton.
s Florence McGhee
L " r > T \\’th the pop**
‘ i Dali on linn of < av,t ndef
& Me illiains Bros, where
she w 11 be jrlad v o see her
many Munry Iriends.
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White Goods Sale.
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Om Em In., d r\ In.ugh' ui ,|a tinij Isr delivery was delayed in transport
ion ■ >-n y re ,i In d lis tod.iy We know it ii late to advertise ati Embroidery
sine mi i ts ei.iiei sell them or keep them. We n. ver ke“p anytliing. so we re
t o r* tl.o il at uev. r Hils. We mil simply sell much' cheaper than otli
e ;• mn h cli .u.i-r tioiii we Ihon-lit of selluta Uiem. We wili sell the lG%c
»" -"h <1 a i ' for yard, mol 12H • and I5e qual ty or SJ^C yard, and'tho
llle 111 ) Ii r 7' 2 c var.i, and tin Tbgi-ami SJ-je quality for 5e yard, and so or.
r , i tl i , i i I .hi in m Inn we think it ttiiviaable, ratiier than carry such
a I i^e t ek. inn "•tieeasion mil make tlioie who have Ijou ght some bn v more,
a d O •• I II I IIV. it. o slit « i ! e < gratuiate tl emselves that iliey Iiave
. t • E y I . i . -Da to i m I .Wiiiili tl I dpunty is invited to Visit this great
jilt i, ■ i e s le n
E.ii ITMDEh'I 8 A D WHITE GOODS.
r . i e iit- an. • ater. niiHe-s we will sell 10 ygrds Fruit-of the Loom
W in «-t. ti. f r TO ’ .i 10 v i- fi gif de.i .*si sift or 10. yards
■ • es 71a ■ S 1 au-if-i- 50 • nr loy ud- Amoskeiife^lkhu'ltlcturiHg Ooi’k7>^e
A.m < i 1! I ii 1/i Ml - it ■ t 50 , .; Id v.ti is Ct’t’p -ieli 10-4 Sbeetingf bleached or brown
f 2 Ac a y rd.
I ' . H d u • ii-• winin' baigtins and no customer can get more
il ilf y S a: I. r - g in >li<-.(More will lie marked down for a
in r It I H MID • i • ’ h ' - "''ll be on Corsets, Bed Table Damask, Bean*
j I it 7J # ('> * m 1 ai>I• L n t.-. $i oil quality, fur Mils'ifmbroidery Sale, fj9e per
V r : ■>' > - i u’a - r, ! i >'. Ii.!-. .Law us, I’. K’s., Marseilles Quilts, Towels, Ho
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lie - ■ I Mo •!: i-• i I.Milxlit* benni iful stork Prints qjid evorjth-ng
« b -I- ■» f v-.i.iys; and ladies, li'stdn. We have just n ceived
i 1 • ; .1 . *t - 1 *.m Bros , Hiigl.ind, newest design, the
•H EX HUY I’ATI'EllX OF SEM . I POKuEI.AIN.”
t ; ri.it is I.- tting l v“iy tiiiM. Every la-iy,that. Sa|‘seen it has
ee . Y n me aware *i at J. boson Buis;; England, are best
r I S' r««f* • I — • >f cr* laii Cio- kery. Tin y are to Porceiain what HaviUnd ia
n Y««• i «i i w ii(. ' on li.nl a com pb te iiii her set of thisdoeantifni sent mi
I mid peices ion w Ti finn such peictes as you need in
■ y - !:.. I* a ... Il n-i-.|ii If. aid is by far She most preferable for
, Mini ,!i..in.v> i Br s., Einjiiind, is i.y far tlie best make We tako
id • i t 1 <t Hi!-! »e len the most up-to-date line uJK3 lass ware and Lamps
hi t- on, Anyihiiig most you want in Glassware ar.d vye have twenty styles of
fjitii- b from 15c to $1.50. of ,
Y ii are r quested to see the elegant line
BOV’S CLOTHING
e eili-miny, and-I-m't forget that if yon need Embroiler'y nstr, or will need It
I ii wi r-na or summer it will pay you big to see oura. .
F«i. firs -cl iss merchandise and lowest prices, come to US,
Gavender & McW illiams
"■3 * WHOLESALE DALTON, AND RETAIL, ^J'PHONLjj.
UNDER HOTEL DALTON, GA.
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ONE ESTABLISHED IN1879.-'96
DOLLAR Per Annm.
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Tom Wfight was in at end*
since upon.' Justice court last
Monday. _ ; -
Jnstice' f onrt,.convened here
l ist Monday and disposed of
several case•’.
John Black, of Da'ton was
in the city on business last
Monday. - > r -
James R. Whitecotton was
circulating among friends a’
this place the irst of the week.
Bead the new advertise¬
ment of Cavender and Mc
Wi Hams Bro*, in 'his issue of
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JtMPLBc'UTE.
W L Iskfthower and Me.
ci Ev,Si; ^th.. d. & a. it.
R.'. vi-ited their families at his
place hist Sunday.
W • hope those subscribers
who are in urreirs on jsuhscrip
ubn %ill call in to see us next
fck uml settle up all their
back accounts,
We are Indebted to Charlie
B. Miiddox for a nice new
“coppv h jard, ” Charlie is one
of the m<>*t popular men at
work on the W. & A. rail road
and is rapidly forging to the
front.