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eorgia gubernatorial
lay.
of these was the announee
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson
in opposition to Hon.
D. Candler.
second was the resignation of
Candler from the office of sec¬
of state.
announcement of Judge Atkin
that he will oppose Colonel Cand
is the logical result of the efforts
those opposed to Colonel Candler
a candidate,
soon as Colonel Candler was to¬
of the announcement of Judge
he wrote out his resigna
secretary of state. His resig
is based on the ground that he
believe that a man should
office .while making an active
another.
Bffcet Candler’s resignation is to
March 81.
Atkinson’s announcement was
Saturday morning, anti is as
decided to become a candi
democratic nomination
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views in regard to such
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committee ou
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|Mhe P^nd the bill bill to amend 4id not the get
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r , there can be no favorable
his action means that it will bo
allowed to another committee.
This bill, it will he recalled, wasde
signed to get around the original pack
age decisions by which the present
plan of controlling the liquor traffic in
South Carolina is declared to be be¬
yond the police power of the state.
It is understood that the faih
ure of this bill to become a law
means a straightout fight for prohi¬ dis¬
bition, with the supporters of the
pensary lining up on the prohibition
side. dispensaries
As things stand the
must submit to the competition of A '~ e
original packages tores, and that me
their death, or at least their coiujfcct
by the state at a loss.
.JUDGE ADVOCATE ANGERED.
He Deliver* Some Scorchinff Key arks in
the Carter Trial.
The trial by courtmartia! of Captain
O. M. Carter opened with a rush at
Savannah, Ga., Friday morning.
Judge Advocate Barr made an, jto impas¬
sioned and heated address the
court upon the subject of fusal of
witnesses inspired to by answer the refusal quej^ i. Captain This
was
Jacob Paulsen Thursday to give pri¬
vate information relative to the affairs
of the Propeller Towboat company, of
which he is president. said all the
The judge advocate press
of the country had doubtless published
under startling headlines Thursday af¬
ternoon and Friday, the statement that
witnesses could not be.made to testify
in this case. He declared that this
was a court of justice nnd witnesses
should be compelled to testify; that a
refusal to answer questions on the part
of witnesses would thwart justice;that
the witness had sworn in the presence
of his God to tell the whole truth, and
he should be compel to do so, even
if au appeal to cong was necessary.
WOMEN FIGllT/tffmTABLES.
An Attempt to Arre n Old ILady Re
«nlt» Dls/Vron.ly.
dispatch fro I Vanceburg, Ky.,
Esculap Friday morning,
■l Crop and Thacker at
■vre^t *11 old lady named
' homo with sev
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^pPnne raged of tin- girls tho.v i,
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Hte old lady and an
Pew revolvers and the
it was a fight for life,
ed for a few moments
ke bad cleared away and
las round dead
Id one daughter dead.
Sved are in a danger
US SUCCESSOR
iii#’nt ami Prcaruta
/ H^KVashtogtou culled at at the f-tate I’ri- de
noon
^Bented ^Bho Spanish in writing government the noti
^■gnation Weepted and of Senor that Senor DeLome Du
Buthorized to represent his
■t as charge d’affaires ad in
■fication K was purely formal,
facts of transfer without
If the incident leading np to
Jig assumed his duties, Mr.
'took occasion to pay a call of
j the state department author
ACHER TURNS FORGER.
■orxe.l Checks; I.eft Town mid a
Young Ilrltle.
jajHattauooga '^■Phillips, traveling dispatch says: evangelist, Itev,
a
ij^Hnsed §flf Athens, a highly Tenn., successful short time meet
tSed a ago,
$500 in bogus cheeks in this
Mind skipped the town, deserting
■Life, whom he married in Athens
■ weeks ago.
Bhillips left and morning was captured and in
■be, id Ga., Friday car
back to Chattanooga.
[Mrs. Phillips, who is a member of
well To do Athens family, is heart
roken over the trouble. . ■
L. A. W. OFFICERS ELECTED.
otter Re-ElectedJPxesIclent After > Strong
an4 Determine!* Fight,
A St. Louis dispatch says: Potter
was re-elected president of the L. A.
W. Thursday on tbe first ballot by a
vote of 212 to 107. Potter was op¬
posed by Gideon and the most sensa
tion al tight ever waged in the L. A.
\y. was in progress until the official
count was made. The other officers
elected as follows:
First vice president, Thomas J.
Keenan, Pennsylvania. E. N. Hines,
Second vice president,
Michigan. C. Tattersall, New
Treasurer, James
Jersey- __. .
ALABAMA’S FOAL PRODUCTION.
Nearly SI* Million Tong Mined In H»e
State During 1807.
The state mine inspector of Alabama
has issued his annual report, which
shows that 5,868,271 tons of coal were
mined in Alabama in 1897, an increase
over the preceding year of 122,654
tt>ns,H tbe best record up to that time.
The number of miners was 11,090,
an increase of 2,000 over last year.
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STATESBORO. GA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18,1898.
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RESULT OF THE QUARANTINE CON.
YENTION HELD AT MOBILE.
ANOTHER MEETING WILL BE HELD.
Atlanta, Ga., Selected as the Place—The
Pint Week In April the Time—For¬
eign Nations to Be Represented.
A special from Mobile, Ala., says:
The net result of the three days’ ses¬
sion and extended deliberations of the
quarantine convention in that city is
a square declaration in favor of a na¬
tional and uniform quarantine system
that will make impossible another
such disgraceful exhibition as marked
the last yellow fever epidemic to the
southern states.
Under the steady fire of the friends
of federal control, the opposition
dwindled down until it was not even
able to summon a respectable minority
on the final vote and the majority re¬
port of the committee on resolutions
which favored the passage of the
Spooner bill, and was only a very mod
erate indorsement of a national qnar
antine, was rejected in favor of a more
radical direct expression of opinion
offered as a substitute, and which was
as follows*
“Resolved, That it is the sense of
this convention that congress be re
quested to provide for a department
of public health as soon as possible.
“2. That it is the sense of this con
vention that congress should enact
laws to provide for an efficient mari
time quarantine to be uniform and im¬
partial in its application to the differ¬
ent commercial ports of this country,
so as to give no one or more of them
undue commercial advantage over the
others to be enforced by the several
state and quarantine or health boards,
if they will undertake to do so, leaving
also to the states the power to pre¬
scribe and enforce additional reason¬
able safeguards of the health of their
communities, provided that such state
action shall n^t unreasonably obstruct
commerce, a
“3. That congress should aid the sever¬
al states in establishing and maintain¬
ing uniform, reasonable and efficient
quarantine laws for affecting but not
regulating interstate commerce, leav¬
ing to each state adequate power to
protect, as it shall deem best,the lives
and health of. its people. leave
“4. That congress shall ex¬
clusively to the states the regulation
of their purely internal commerce and
the provision of such quarantine or
sanitary laws and regulations they
deem advisable to that end; that in
is SStfW profession to the fullest
the medical
measure possible, and especially by
way of an advisory council.”
Another very important action was
taken in the adoption of a resolution
calling for a second convention to
gather together the scattered threads
of the one just held and to rules adopt and a
system of state quarantine Atlantic
regulations that all the south
and gulf states could adopt for the
fnture.
Another resolution authorized the
secretary to invite to this snpplemen
tary convention delegates for the Cen
tral and South American states, and
its adoption means that the second
gathering will be of far greater im
portance than the first.
The following were named as a com¬
mittee of arrangements for the next
meeting which will be held in Atlanta,
Ga., during the first week in April,
1898: Hon. Charles A. Collier, of
Georgia; Dr. H. A, Moody, of Alaba¬
ma; Dr. F. G. Renshaw, of Florida;
Dr. H. B. Horlbeck, of South Carolina;
Hon Bat Smith, of Texas; Mr. Felix
Forment, of Louisiana; Hon. J. L.
Ludlow, of North Carolina; Dr. H. H.
Haralson, of Mississippi.
MILL REMAIN AT HAVANA.
Battleship Maine Will Not Return to
American Water* for the Present.
A Washington dispatch says: Oiders
have been sent to Captain Simpson, in
command of the north Atlantic squad
ron, off Key West, to send tbe torpedo
boat Cushing to Havana with stores
for the use of the Maine. She will
leave to a day or two, and will return
as soon as the stores are delivered.
LEGISLATINGFOR INDIANS.
Senate Paase. Bill Carrying •8,000,000
For Their Benefit.
A Washington dispatch says: Con
sideration of the Indian appropriation Friday
bill was resumed by the senate
and after being amended to some ex¬
tent the measure was passed.
The most important amendment to
the bill was that offered by Mr. Petti¬
grew, of South Dakota, which, if final¬
ly enacted, will restore the free home¬
stead law so far as it relates to Indian
lauds ceded to the United States, for
which lands the settlers have been
obliged to pay the purchase price paid
to the Indians. The bill carries appro¬
priations aggregating $8,000,000.
CURRY AT CONVENTION.
Me Addressee Constitution Mnkere of
.
Uoulalans On KduenMon.
The constitutional convention at
New Orleans listened to addressee by
Hon. J. L. M. Curry, agent of Pea
body fund, and ex-Justice Feuner, of
the supreme court, Monday, on the
subject of education.
It-also adopted a resolution inviting
William Jenmngs Bryan to make an
address before its members.
The suffrage committee decided at
Monday « sessiou that all its hearings
-‘•—■Id be in public.
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PA ^ ES ’
MBS. NOBLES AGAIN SENTENCED.
Dfijr of Bx«cntk>n I# Bot For March Mth
, Next.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles, the old wo¬
man confined in the Bibb county jail
at Macon, Ga., for the murder of her
husband in Twigge county, was taken
to Jeffersonville Saturday afternoon,
and for the fifth time was sentence to
death.
Mrs. Nobles reached Jeffersonville
safely at half-past 4 o’clock in charge
of Sheriff Jones and was taken imme¬
diately to the courthouse, where Judge
Smith was in waiting.
There was a large audience of spec¬
tator a present. Judge Smith sen¬
tenced Mrs. Nobles to hang on March
25th. He asked her if she had any¬
thing to say why sentence of death
should not be passed upon her. She
said nothing and appeared to treat the
matter indifferently.
Judge Smith advised her to prepare
for death and said ministerial offices
would be tendered her.
The old woman’s attorneys have
several legal procedures yet left to
them, so it is said, and if all of them
are exhausted in vain, then, as a last
resort, they will go before the prison
commission for recommendation for
commutation of sentence, and, if nec¬
essary, will appeal to the governor in
her behajfr ^kmbles,, ,, * Noble T ,,
a < ^ lls Mrs. , s accom
P llce >» , th®^murder, was not earned
J 0 Jeffersonville T with her, as he
Laa been respited for thirty days, and
tte ceB8al 7 to xesentence
hi “- He ® altnl J a ' vai tB the fl " al 7 e '
® ult la , ^ 8 - . c f, 8e ‘ He } } f'
heves that he will . share the same fate
as Mrs- Nobles. If she is hanged he
knows that he will also be executed,
If she 18 commuted, he thinks he Will
receive commutation,
WOODFORD HEARD FROM.
lllnlster at Madrid Sends Cipher Digpatch
tn State Department.
A Washington dispatch says; Late
Saturday night the state department
received a telegram from Minister
Woodford.
It relates presumably to the incident
created by the publication of Minister
DeLome’s letter to Senor Canalejas.
The cablegram is in the department
cipher and is between 200 and 300
words long. The dispatch was trans¬
lated at the state de parfcment Sunday, could
but no intimation of its import
bo AssistantiBeretary secured from official sources.
beBBitrnsted of State Day,
who has with the whole
correspondence by the president, re¬
fused to discuss the message. He said
merely that there was no development
in the case which properly could be
made public at this time.
DEAD DOlHES ItECOVERED.
Horror, or the Recent Plttsbur* Hole
all their harrowipg detods.. ,
At 10 o clock Saturday night eignteen
bodies Lad been removed from the
ruins, nearly all of whom were found
ltx Mulbenry alley,
AH of the bodies were more or less
mutilated by the contact with flying
timbers and bricks,
Following is the hst of the dead
taken outdaring the day: William
Edward Finch, fireman; George Ed
ward Newman, Philadelphia, gas m
specter; Will F. Doran, Prof. Janies
Hoxon, David Benton Wookerly, D.
-^- Thirty-five ^ ra y John Gjntine. still
persons are missing,
The impression, i* strong that many
them hare met death under the
wa
ZOLA IS MOBBED.
Qoesllon of the Author’s Safefe Sorlously
Exercising: His Friends.
A Parie special says: Upon arriving
at his residence trial Saturday after the evening adjournment M. Zol<
of the
was mobbed by a crowd, who assailed
him with insulting and abusive epi¬
thets, but the police quickly dispersed
the mob.
The latest move of the anti-Zola
agitators is signaling with a whistle,
which quickly brings togeter a mob of
professional rowdies when Zola is
near.
The question of Zola’s personal safe¬
ty is seriously exercising his friends,
who assert that seyeral notorious crim¬
inals have been seen hovering about
the court building throughout the
week. It is suggested that they have
been lavishly bribed to injure Zola
seriously, even if they do not kill him.
SENSATION IN GAFF0RD CASE.
Condemned Man’s Sister Makes Startling
Affidavit.
A sensation was sprung in the cir¬
cuit court at Greenville, Ala., Satur¬
day when Gafford’s attorneys made
motion for a new trial on the grounds
of bias and prejuiqe of the jury and on
new evidence.
The latter is tbe sacrifice of Mrs.
Miller to save her brother. By the
affidavit made she charges Lloyd with
wanting the life of Gafford and ac¬
knowledges that she would have suf¬
fered the killing to prooeed without
warning, because she liked .Lloyd bet¬
ter than her brother John. Betw een
the lines a confession of tottmacy is
apparent, but is not open.
POPULIST CONGRESSMEN
Ho! q » Conference and Approve Addres*
^ fo Be Issued.
A W »shitigton dispatch says; The
pop U ^ members of the senate end
bouse of representatives held a cou
. fereuoe Saturday night fdr the purpose
of t ] ie address which in to
be i s8Ue d to the people of the United
S(ates C!lr |y next week. prepare! \
Tim address, .which was by
Senators Bntler and Alien to col ahora
t ion with others, was approved gln^al and
, igU€(d hy mlt pre »erit, after a
but inform al disf.mwtoft of its
ENSIGN HRECKENRIDGE
Overboard Fwwn the Caghlu*
WOODFORIt ASKED DISAVOWAL
BUT WAS REFUSED.
.
ACTION OF THE SPANISH CABINET.
Sonor Bernabe Succeeds Deiome—That
Better Returned To Canalejas Hr
the State Department.
Advices from Madrid state that at
a meeting of the Spanish cabinet, held
at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon, over
which the quean regent presided, Senor
Gullon, minister of foreign affair», in¬
formed the ministry that United States
Minister Woodford bad just handed
him,a note referring to Senor Dupuy
Detiome’s letter and to the meaning
of several paragraphs in it.
The note from Minister Woodford
demU*d.ed, that Spain should formally
disavow the insults to President Mc¬
Kinley contained in Senor Dupuy
DeLotne’s letter to Senor Canalej'as.
The cabinet council, after a warm
debate, it is reported, decided unani¬
mously to reply to Minister Woodford
that Senor DeLome’s spontaneous res¬
ignation and the terms of the decree
accepting it were considered sufficient
satisfaction.
It is understood that Minister Wood¬
ford received this intimation and dis¬
patched a long cipher telegram to
Washington. , *
At the meeting fhe cabinet selected “
Senor Louis Polo Bernabe aR minister
to the United States to succeed Senor
DeLome and subsequently Senor Gnl
lon, minister of foreigh affairs, sent a
cablegram to Washington so informing
the secretary of state.
Letter Sent Canalejaa.
A Washington special sayss Monday
night the state department received
official notice from Madrid of the se
lection of Senor Louis Polo Bernabe
as United States minister to suooeed
Senor Depuy DeLome.
• Senor Bernabe is a son of Vice
Admiral Polo, who formerly repre¬
sented Spain in this country. Senor
Bernabe is now- engaged in a special
department of the foreign ministry at
Madrid, dealing with commercial mat¬
ters and consulates.
Actuated by a sense of honor and a
strict-idea of justice, the state depart¬
ment has taken steps to place in the
hands of Senor Canalejas, to whom
the letter was addressed, the epistle
written by Senor Dupuy DeLome,
whist led to the resignation of the
Jjrtn ntiafitoU %:: ?? • explained *:• < * * ** ;■>— to. .the
-xiE* following f«
brief state mol) thriven out hy
tire state dO^aktment: i .•
“Itecojtottins that the Jugal ownership of
the PeLome letter is in Mr. Canalojns; and
his agent and attorney, Mr. Carlisle, having
presented proper authority to receive the
same, the letter was delivered to him to
day.”
Mr. Carlisle was fully authorized to
apply for and receive the letter, hav¬
ing the cabled ^authorization from
Sehor Canalejas, In fhe view of the
state department the letter was a
stolon document, and in that* like any
other piece of property, should upon
application, be delivered to Abe right¬
ful owner.
There was no other course loft
open, for in the United Stages as in all
other countries having a code of laws,
a totter becomes the sola property of
the Rfepcm to whom if is addressed from
inumPistely it starts on its way
the serider.
Even the writer cannot obtain pos¬
session of it ^without consent of the
person addressed; the limit of his
powers legally being in certain cases
to stop the delivery of the paper.
GENERAL APPROVAL LACKING.
Ord.-r for » Uniform Strike l>o«s «»bt
Please All Operatives.
From advices received atoBoston,
Mass., Monday nigMh* from various
mill swntere, it seems to be the gen¬
eral opinion in mill circles that the
recommendation of the textile unions
that a general strike be undertaken by
tbe operatives in all New England cot¬
ton mills where a reductio'h of wages
occurred will not be accepted in all
places.
THIS COMBINE FELL THROUGH.
Attempt at Consolidation of Sewer Pipe
, Makers Falls.
A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says:
The sewer pipe combination by which
it 000,Q00]< was planned to organize an $11,
oration ont of the compa
nies dob business in Ohio, West
VirginS* and Pennsylvisia, seems to
have gone the way of nil previous
tempts at similar combination.
The committee appointed to obtain
the signatures to the agreement re¬
port that several large plauts have
failed to join the movement. As a
consequence the formation of the pro¬
posed combination has been declared
off. * x *
STEAMER DULUTH WRECKED.
Struck On Bnr Boring Henvr ©»1« »“<*
Hremlu Asunder. ’
The Lake Michigan and Lake Supe¬
rior Transportation Company’s steamer
City of Duluth, which struck- the bar
outside the harbor piers atSkJ° 8 «pb.
Mich., and went ashore during a gale two
Wednesday night, baa broken in
in the center and the wreck i* pound
grounded only 850 feet from
tb« P»«- > -
;leph
HOUSE WANTS ENLIGHTENMENT.
Regolnttoo Adopted Culling For the l.ate*t
Cuban New*.
A 'Washington dispatch says: Con¬
siderable unnecessary excitement was
caused among the members of the
house Monday by the rumor broadly
circulated before the house convened
that important action relative to Cuba
was to be taken.
It turned out to be simply a resolu¬
tion of inquiry unanimously reported
by the foreign affairs committee last
week calling on the state department
for information as to the condition of
the concentrados in Cuba and the pro¬
gress made in Spain’s effort to indues
the Cubans to accept autonomy. It
was adopted without division.
Mr.Quigg, republican, of New York,
a member of the foreign affairs com¬
mittee, was recognized. He first called
up a resolution reported from the for¬
eign affairs committee calling upon
the secretary of state, if not incom¬
patible with public interest, to trans¬
mit to the house the correspondence
relating to the discrimination of th«
German government against the im¬
portation of Americas beef, fruit or
horses. It was adopted without divi¬
sion.
Mr. Quigg followed this with the
Cuban resolution. It was the resolu¬
tion previously offered by Mr. Will¬
iams, slightly modified.
Mr.Quigg stated that the resolution
would put the house in complete pos¬
session of the facts. There was no
effort on the part of the minority to
contest the ordering of the previous
question, and the resolution was adopt¬
ed without a dissenting voice.
PETTIGREW AGAINST HAWAII.
AM»w. fienuw* Wtads Up HU la.tali
ment Speech,
The senate devoted about four honra
in executive session Monday to the
consideration of the Hawaiian treaty,
The principal speech was made by
Senator Pettigrew, this being the third
iuHtallment of his remarks upon the
subject himself
Senator Pettigrew devoted
largely to the administration of Presi
dent Dole, showing how the govern
ment of Queen Liliuokalani had been
overthrown and to a presentation of
his views of this government’s partio
ipation in the revolution. He con
tended that the downfall of the queen’s
government was due to a conspiracy
on the part of Minister Stevens, rep
resenting the United States and a few
citizens of Honolulu, of whom
dent Dole was one, who were backed
by the marines from a United States
battlflshin Henator*
Proctor, of Vermont, fol
lowed with a brief Bpeech in favor of
annexation. He devoted himself ex
clusively. to the military phase of the
question. He cited the fact that
England has strongly fortified poets
all along our Atlantic sealjoanl. stated that he
“ 'Senator Davis simply when the
canid not at ptcscaii say
HAILEY ANNOUNCES FOR SENATE.
Ue Will Enter Ran© Against Chilton,
Present Incumbent.
A Washington special says: Con
pressman Joe Bailey, of Texas, for lias the
declared himself a candidate
senate against Senator Chilton. Chil
ton’s term does not expire until 1901,
but Bailey’s early announoement was
forced by conditions in the MtUs-Cnl
berson case, which is now waxuig hot.
Mills is a candidate for re-election
arid is trying to force the tariff to the
front as the main issue of the cam
paign. To do this lie attacks the
position taken by Bailey against free
raw material, and to strengthen him
self, draws Senator Chilton into the
controversy._________^ (ItRTER.
SAY’AXNAII AFTER
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lt is Ch.igM That jrte ,i»efr*«(ied the
City by sharp Vn^iits.
A Savannah special says: The gpv
ernmeut Monday morning continued
to investigate in the trial byoottriwar
tial of Captain 0. M. Carter on the
harge that be entered into ah agree
toent with the Atlantic Contracting
company to defraud the city of SaVim
nah out of a large sum of money by
foTcing the city to sell at a sacrifice ^
large quantity of rock ballast at quar¬
antine. , billa *. J
It was shown by old against
the city that the rock in 1887 brought
$1 per ton. It was .sold for an insig¬
nificant amount to 1896» because Cap¬
tain Carter declared it must be moved
at once.
DAUNTLESS GOES TO SEA.
Revenue ©utters Advised to Intercept Her
If Possible.
The officials of the treasury depart¬
ment at Washington have received in¬
formation through Spanish sources
that the suspected filibuster Dauntless
has succeeded in eluding the vigilance
of the government officials at Savan¬
nah and has passed out to sea.
The Dauntless is said to have a car¬
go of arms, ammunition and other
supplies intended for the Cuban insur¬
gents. The treasury department has
notified the customs officers and reve¬
nue cutters along the coast to be on
the alert and detain the supposed fili¬
buster if possible.
voted for Seller bill
And New tbe New Fork Legislature
Wants Murphy to Resign.
A special from Albany, N. Y., says:
In the state senate Friday the Brush
and Weeks resolution in regard to
United States. Senator Murphy was
made the special order for , Monday
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The Wjjas; . ■ -• ,. , .
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TO CRITICISMS OF HIS LETTER IN
A PUBLIC STATEMENT.
HIS MEANING WAS MISCONSTRUED,
He Declares, and the Construction Placed
Upon and the Base list Hade of the
I,fetter Was Unwarranted:
‘1« '
Hon. Allen D. Candler has address¬
ed a statement to the public replying
to criticisms made on a letter written
by him, and which created such a fu¬
rore among Georgia politicians the
past week. The statement is is fel¬
lows:
To thu Phopub of Ghoboia: On my
return to my office today from the sics
bed of a near relative, where I have
been for two days, I find a personal
letter written by me several day*
boa been printed and paraded to such
a manner as to make it proper for
to take public notice of it. The con*
etruetiom attempted to be put on the
letter and the base use made of it is
both unfair a»S unwarranted.
That I should have intended to
wound the large number of detsO
eris|a who honosSy supported Governor thous¬
Atkinson when I had before mo
ands of letters from them urging me to
become a candidate for governor is
simply absurd and incredible to any
sensible man. Among these letters
was one from Clarke county, i majori
ty of the signer* of which wer, staunch
supporters of Gorarsor Atkinson, and
to W* gratuitously offended them
would have been ungracious not to say
unpardonable folly. attacked
Nor have I at any time
Governor Atkinson or his adminis
tration. I wrote the letter under tSese
circumstanocs. I had letters from au
forent parts of the stole and toforma
tion given me personally m I my thought office
from men whose judgment
was good,, say mg that in certain coun
ties in the state an effort would be
made L, t.-y and get snap judgment
against me-aa they claim had been
done in other campaigns,
I bail been Well posted as to he
various efforts tlfat have been made to
bring out opposition to me by men
who had certain purposes to subserve,
and by others who wanted to put me
to a position to ba under obligations
to t * ,ew i{ 1 W88 elected.
I Ale np m v mind when I first
considered the. question of my caudi
dacy to make no promtoes, throughout but to the in¬
quire of democrats
state yhat..they I would thought oTtl iat
fow»i run on as a oa
an^ what the people might expeot ___ of
if. »
On thmpebUon»
•
ssaZ
M8i Evans, and even men who had
opposed me when I was the democratic
nominee for congress from that dis¬
trict. To suppose that I would he
indiscreet enough to intentionally say
anything publicly or privately^ to
attack those men who, had ao honored
me ’ n0 ln(ul would intimate who has
eve n been icqna j u t e d with my life,
Ju private letters that I wrote to in
form tlle f par ti e s to whom they deemed were
written 0 certain facts, I
jt proper f or them to know and to in
form t}iem tllat I wonld not tolerate
in thjs anything of the kind
q{ w hicL my correspondents had
8 - ivcn m6 no ti c # • * * the lan
g0 nBet j ^ offense f, oen purposely per
vertef j to gj T0 where none was
intended.
was
old sores. I want the party harmoiu
united, and this cafi only bo
fehed through fair and honest
methods. I do not want the office of
governor by any other means, nor do t
wish it for any other purposes than to
serve the people honestly and faitb
fully. I will certainly not attempt to
interfere with a free expression of the
people’s choice, nor will I, if elected,
seek to dictifte to them who my suc
cessor shall be.
Auuen D. Candles.
Savannah Port Society.
The annual meeting of theSavannah
Port Society, celebrating its fifty-fifth
anniversary, was held Sunday night at
the Independent Presbyterian church
in the presence of a vast congregation.
OBSERVED LINCOLN DAT.
Repuhltean Club »t New Tor* Celebrates
With » Banquet.
Tlse New York republican club
served Lincoln’s birthday as it has for
twelve Tears at- a banquet at of the
co’s. Nearly 300 members
and guests were present and fifty Ig
dies dined in the ‘•'Empire room”
■BHBHHHI low. “Abraham
Th toast* were:
coin, by Hon. Albert J,
Indianapolis; “Tbe Republican P« »
by’ Congressman Charles A. Bon
: “The Mission of America,” by B
D. Estabroq, of Chicago, at'
“Navy,” by Assistant Secretary t
OFF FOR CUBAN 811
f »
iytor. »
nir <■
<J»
The annual reps*
diapensi ry shows w t
the purchases «« 1
sales, 953,595; the*™
574.96; the net pftt|P>
* * *
Governor Atkinwh »
ward Candler, of $100 who for tS||ni W§ «
on
ber county. 25th ,*A killed rewards J.GSgjj
been offered for JcjJMP*
December 24, 1896,
Thomas in Coweta com
• « ^
Dr. T. E. Rodgers,w
ty, who was convicted]
ing in the United Sfit
Junta before Judge m
has been releas
him was fixed
given. Dr. Rt
man in his ee
conrtetton ere*
A western col
tion in Ware o
two to five thou
ously situated
Real estate men
asstts® < during the
ing several
All of the Atl
the peace law havejtecidfl wlitro n>|
to deposit $2 wlfCl }i
law is embraced
December 17, 18S
been enforced ther
justice* of claim, ih<
sums guard money, an
against this
lure.
* «
In a letter writ
Commissioner G.
ton B. Evan,
uoiuiced that
date for the o
missioner. ’J
has been pr
connection witty
school corntnissio]
intimated in seven
that he would b<
office.
.
'
Pulaski s irfisi
Hawkiasvil m
to a year, there ba
term last year on act
house being under , ■
consequence of this
tween sessions of A
lengthy sides the docket civil ,ha«|
casea
dock et' seven ty-four Thin
me mor cates.
rder and two fori
r - *
Six mfies / ,
iiiiiy of a
» 8
Bouth Carolina
home a week a$
exists, as it is pri
the most reliatdi
precaution will b
t-pread. The tiff
and see that ev
done to that end,
The
Macon 1
oided to
“ 0l
viously pro
carnival an ft
it is safe to
gest thing i'"’ :
time is to Si
From this
partments hftvi
charge wjl! '
: *
The tvadii
comes i<p
Atlanta Mi
of the mo
ever fougl
are represented v
is ao <Jf»ubt that
lion is granted a,
tog the ordinati
taken to the sujir
possible that if
loses it will take
States snpreme $:
tablish a precet
suits the eonir
with ail over to
Probably no
of Georgia Cv m
decided step
gress than the
lanta the paste
making a move
urers to opinip% locat|
imous
adopted by tl
one. 1 ni
-
tnams mv j
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cidM ..m
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