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THE ATLANTA UEUKOIAN AND fcEWS.
M'LKDAY, MAY 25, 19(77.
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THE ATLANTA 0E0K0IAN
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:OHN TEMPJ.E GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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The educators came and saw and
conquered public opinion. *
Wo shall havo better Bchools In
Georgia after the "all day speaking"
of Friday.
Hon. Hoke Smith, White House.
Washington, D. C., Is an address
which the future may materialise,
Georgia's only two presidential can
didates have been Wllllnm H. Craw
ford and Thomas E. Watson. It Is
likely that we shall add another with
out a middle name.
The Two "G'a' of Georgia—Gordon
and Grady—are the only cltlsens of
the state who have a statue out of
doors In the capital city.
Robert M. Timmons, who for tho
past year baa been business malinger
of The Thomaavllle TImesEntorprUe,
has left Thomasvtlle for Rome, Ga„
where he will enter the Insurance
Held with the State Mutual Life, of
that city. The business pad editorial
departments of the paper will in fu
ture be under the direct control of J.
D. McCartney, one of the owners of
the paper, who has been editor for the
past Ore years. He will be assisted
by William B. Williams, formerly
of The Waycross Journal aud Savan
nah Morning News.
The child has been exalted above
every other consideration In the coun
oils of today.
To say to the world that wo are
bigger than Memphis, Birmingham
and Nashville Is at last the chief end
of our Greater Atlanta.
We put Houston and Washington
paragrapbers completely out of busi-
nesa when we present our sweet girl
graduato on the commencement stage.
W* can compare tranquilly our
peaches, watermelons, shad and baas
with Texas and the District, but we
take it for granted that simple mod
esty and honesty would suggest to
these p. p.’s that nothing can compare
with the Georgia glrj.
In comparing the sweet girl gradu
ate to the June Klbcrta yesterday the
Intelligent compositor left out the es
sential statement that the “S. G. G.”
was a "peach" all the year round.
The paragrapber and the Kingdom
are at least getting better acquainted
with the possibilities of the future.
The commencement season Is at Ita
beginning and rising to the successive
climaxes of Emory. Mercer and the
University,
The Macon Telegraph offers to sup
port Henry Watterson for president.
This Is foolish but consistent. With
The Telegraph It la anybody. but
Bryan.
Colonel Watteraon hat been saying
something In bit paper about some
body's not having sense enough to
carry something to a bear and the
press Is wondering how the elegant
ladles and gentlemen'of Kentucky like
this elegant atyle of comparison.
The summer solstice Is not the only
condition which will cause the present
day politician to perspire.
GEORGIA’S PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.
We publish upon this page today an editorial—two of them, In fact—
from papers of widely different sections of the country , discussing our
governor-elect for the exalted office of president of the United States.
There can be no sort of doubt that Governor-elect Hoke Smith la
being seriously aud thoughtfully considered by great and influential men
within party lines as an eligible and probable candidate for the chief of
fice of the republic.
* The Georgian maintains that If tho Democracy Is to nominate a can
didate of Its own, the ouly candidate who haa a chance of success will
be a distinct and progressive representative of the New South—large In
reputation, catholic In patriotism, and vital In hit definite and decisive
Democracy.
It la a fact beyond dispute that In the list of Southerners who
might be named to All these requisites, no one looms larger and more
promising than the governor-elect of Georgia.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, has almost passed the years in which ho
might be considered for this lofty station, even If bjs vitality of mind
and body justified the consideration..
Senator Culberson, of Texas, Is the only Southerner who might share
with Governor-elect Hoke Smith a general popularity with the people
of the South and of the country. The senator from Texai. however, la
overshadowed by the Georgian In the fact that our governor-elect stands
as the definite and pre-eminent advocate of that progressive and re
formed Democracy which swept the state of Georgia, and which we be
lieve will sweep the republic when the opportunity Is at hand.
The senator from Texas Is conservative, honest, broad, brave, catholic
and loyal. No man can say aught against him, and no man, In the
South at least, will desire to say anything In derogation of one of the first
and foremost statesmen of the Democratic ranks.
But the record of the Texan lacks the aggressive and definite vigor
which hla great campaign has given to Georgia's coming governor. Cul
berson would not, and he could not, rally the great element of the Ameri
can people who are looking for the qualities and -thfe record which are
embodied In the aggressive and splendid personality of the great reform
governor of Georgia.
We do not heslfato to voice here the expression of the - belief that
next to Mr. Bryan himself, no figure looms upon the horixon of Democrat
ic possibility so potential and so promising as Hoke Smith of Georgia.
If the public prtnta In their repeated declarations are to be believed
he la at least the next choice of William Jennings Bryan for this exalted
responsibility of leadership.
It comes to us from Northern newspapers that Grover Cleveland,' his
former chief In tho White House, and the cabinet which surrounded him,
are practically solid for the ex-secretary of the interior. Interviews pub
lished In Northern newspapers demonstrate that the factors which have
heretofore controlled the deliberations of the Democratic party share the
opinion that the stalwart and splendid Georgian la tho figure of hope and
promise for tho campaign of 1908.
Whatever else Is truo it may be said without exaggeration that never
In her history since the civil war. or alnce tho time of William J. Craw
ford. has the state of Georgia held a citizen arouud whom revolved such
possibilities of supreme national leadership as tho man whom the peo
ple of Georgia have selected to be their chief executive. lie Is a largo
man, physically, mentally and morally, and In the splendid quality of per
sonal and political courage. He Is a nign of convictions and tho courage
to express them. lie has outgrown narrow partisanship und lifted him
self above unpatriotic sectionalism. Ills public utterances since his elec
tion have commanded the confidence of the country and wherever he has
gone In our own and other countries, he has left behind him a deepening
impression that he Is of supreme executive caliber.
If only tho peoplo of Georgia—that mighty majority of reformers
which swept the governor-elect into power—will stand by him In the com
ing legislature and Bee him safely through with the reform measures
which he pledgoil the people to put upon tho statute books of tho state—
If only tho definite Democrats of Georgia will In public spirit and through
their selected representatives bold up tho hands of this great broad and
practical Georgian through the coming session of the general assembly, it
Is established beyond doubt or question that the Empire State of the
South may present, If she chooses, to tho next national Democratic conven
tion the most popular und tho most promising Democratic candidate for
the presidency of the United States.
himself In any sense of the word to'be blamed for conditions under
which he was nominated. *
What The Georgian criticised and what The Georgian will continue to
* criticise as long aa it maintains Its present conception of loyalty to
principle and to faith. Is the plea which Belmont brought to Washington
from Wall street, and whoso plausible seduction proved sufficient to con-
- solldate the sentiment of Democratic politicians around a man who ‘‘was
not offensive to the trusts," and could therefore be relied upon to divide
if not to monopolize the political contributions of Wall street
It may be possible that Judge Parker .was not responsible for the
plea. It may be true that he was not so acceptable to the trusts as Mr.
Belmont described him to be. It may be true that Mr. Belmont had no
authority to make the statement that he did, and subsequent develop
ments certainly Justify this view.
But the point which riles the Democratic principle Is the fact
that the expressed plea of Parker's lack of antagonism to the trusts and
the probability of his drawing upon their financial support, was the ar
gument so strongly made at Washington which furnished the chief person
al reason for hla prompt acceptance by the political Coterie which organ
ised the movement and controlled the national convention In hla In
terest. 1 •
We do not deny that the shadow of Hearst loomed large on the ap
prehensions of theatre-conservatives of tho Democratic party. The
ultra-conservatives of both parties. Democratic and Republican, have
always hated Hearst because Hearst, like Roosevelt, did things and did
them strongly and fearlessly and effectively, and the two men today In
this republic whom predatory wealth most fears and moat opposes, are
Theodore Roosevelt and William R. Hearst—for tho simple and similar
reason that they are both fearless doers of direct and practical deeds.
The fact that Wall street subsequently failed to support Judge Par-
Iter has nothing whatever to do with the successful plea which his prin
cipal henchman made for his nomination. Wall atreot, which never has
any principle except Its Interests, evidently used Belmont to secure a con
servative nominee In the Democratic party, and with this weapon In Its
hands proceeded to treat with tho Republican party.
That Wall street used Belmont well and successfully Is the basis
of our criticism. Wp have never charged Judgo Parker with being an
emmlssary of Wall street. We have never believed him to be a friend
and defender of the trusts, but we do believe from Information better
perhaps than that which The Post posesses that he wa« nominated by
the controlling coterie because they believed that he was unobjection
able to the trusts and controlled their contributions In the campaign.
It was a shameless pander to expediency.
The sinners in this treasonable and foolish Iniquity were not Judge
Parker nor tho great mass of the Democratic party, but the conspirators
In folly add In treason against principle were Belmont of the first part,
bis coterie of politicians in the second part, and the time-serving and
truckling mass of political newspapers' throughout the country.
GENERAL JONN B. GORDON;
FIGHTER AND STATESMAN
GORDON AT THE CAPITOL.
When tho Georgian of the future shall visit the capital of his state,
he Is likely to be Impressed by the material objects In view
with tho Idea that John B. Gordon occupied a large if not the largest
place In the public Ufa and popularity of hts times.
Surely tho soldierly Georgian has received In external evidences of
respect a full and generous measure of the regard and admiration of his
fellow citizens.
As one walks down tho stately stops of the capltol, from the hall
of the House of Representatives upon the right hand,' or from the Sen
ate Chamber upon tho left, the two tallest and most stately portraits
which meet the eye upon the walls of the first floor are the two life-size
pictures of John B. Gordon—the largest portraits In Georgia's capltol.
When the aoorglan of the future, or the visitor to our capltol, goes
In a few years to the stately pile In which tho laws are drawn and where
government la administered, he will be Impressed with tho fact that the
very most central and prominent place upon the square of our splendid
capltol—tho corner nearest to the city—is given to John B. Gordon.
And It will be difficult under these material demonstrations to es
cape the Impression that John B. Gordon dominated every other Georgian
of hla time In the magnitude of hts achievements and in tho scope of hfs
popularity.
There will perhaps be found thoso—the enthusiastic admirers of
other great and Illustrious Georgians—who will not a^reo with the pre
eminent measure of distinction given to the soldler-civlllan of the state.
And yet It Is Impossible In the minds and hearts of any people as
gallant and as chivalrous as Georgians to subordinate the soldier and hts
Bword to the statesman with bis tongue and pen. It Is at least truo that
no Georgian who has lived within theso two decades has been better
laved In his life and more supremely honored In his death than the sol
dier who was the right arm of Lee and tho beau sabreur of tho South
ern Confederacy. *
It will not be forgotten that In hit life tlmo John B. Gordon in compe
tition before the legislature defeated for tho United States Senate both
Benjamin II. Illll and Alexander Stephens. It will not be forgotten that
hla funeral In the Stato Capltol was the largest and moat Imposing that
the state has ever known, and whatever tho estimate of the soldierly
Georgian may be in economic statesmanship or In diplomatic politics,
no man can deny that In life and In death he held the heart and admi
ration of the state.
Georgia does honor to herself when she honors In bronxe the memory
of our gallant and chivalrous Gordon today.
And Georgia will always honor herself In the present and In the
future when she commemorates In bronze or In marble the great lives-
and deeds of our citizens for the observation and emulation of her Im
mortal youth. •.
WILL INVESTIGATE
STOCKSJEXT WEEK
Hearing of Water Comrais
sioner’s Case Will Not
Be Delayed.
The Investigation of Water Commis
sioner Thomas F. Stocks' will be held
by the water board Thursday, Friday
or Saturday of next week.
After watting for some time for a
definite answer, W. T. Brown, presl
dent of the Ragland Coal Company, haa
notified Colonel Park Woodward, gen
eral manager of the water works, that
he will be here next week.
President Brown states that he has
been excused as a Juror In Alabama,
and that he can come on any of the
days mentioned, Thursday being pref
erable.
At the last meeting of the board, It
was decided that If President Brown
did not come before the first meeting
of council In June, the entire corre
spondence, relative to the alleged deal
between Commissioner Stocks and the
coal company, would be turned over to
council.
A copy of the resolution to this ef
fect was sent President Brown, in re
ply to which he said he would be here
next week, on the day named by the
board.
Attorney Reuben Arnold has been
engaged to represent Commissioner
Stocks In the investigation. Mr. Ar
nold states the commissioner will make
a complete and satisfactory showing
at the investigation.
U. S. MAY DROP
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you may be offered else
where, but we do agree to
so treat you that you will
respect us forVhat we may
have to refuse to do quite
as much as for what we do.
We pride ourselves on the
reputation we have establish
ed for courtesy and earnest
consideration of our patrons’
best interests—always con
servative, we yet inject a
certain amount of liberality
in our business which iu-
spires a healthy growth.
MADDOX-RUCKER
BANKING CO.,
Alabama and Broad Streets, j
OB, WHITE RETURNS
TO FILL HIS PULPIT
Dr. John E. White, pastor of the
Second Baptist church, has returned
from the Baptist convention at Rich
mond and Jamestown, and will nil his
pulpit at both services Sunday. ]j| 3
morning subject will be "The Call of
the Cross," and In the evening he win
nrMoh on “THa Unrlf of A crass " and
LOTTERY CiSES a ZSSSt* a " d
Wilmington, Del., May 25.—The Fed
eral grand jury, summoned to meet
here Monday, has been excused, and It
la supposed the lottery cases have been
settled. Reliable Information Indicates
the Honduras Lottery Company has
agreed to pay a big fine, the govern
ment dropping all cases now pend
ing.
BATTLING” NELSON
WANTS TO FIGHT
San Francisco, Cal., May 25.—Bat
tling Nelson has authorized Nolan to
match him with Britt or anyone elso
for a fight on tho coast before July 4.
It Is expected Summers may be chosen,
Britt having engaged to light Gans at
Colma September 2.
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MUSICIANS OF U. S.
TO FIGHT ALIENS
Cleveland, Ohio, May, 25.—The Amer.
lean Federation of Musicians, with the
American Federation of Labor support-
Ing It, will try to have the alien enn-
tract labor law so amended as to class
musicians with those who labor.
Under the Federal alien contract act
“professionals" are exempt and mu
sicians are held by the government to
be professionals. The result has been
a foreign Influx of musicians to com
pete with native talent.
BRYAN BOOMS HOKE SMITH.
Philadelphia North American.
Hoke Smith, governor-elect of Gear-
gla, Is the choice of William Jennings
Bryan for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
This announcement Mr. Bryan Is
prepared to make when he thinks the
time Is ripe, and In the meantime he
has been talking about Hoke Smith to
his close friends snd advisers ns the
best-equipped and most available man
the Democrats can select.
Mr. Bryan's Indorsement of Mr.
Smith will cause a most profound sen
sation In the Democratic party, and
will certainly result Immediately In
such a boom for the Georgia governor
as will unquestionably place him, next,
to Mr. Bryan himself, aa the most prob-
O 0 I able choice of the Democratic conven-
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GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON.
John B. Gordon, soldier, statesman,
loyal friend of the South and of the
Union after the war. was born In Up
son county. Georgia, July 6, 1332. He
was a graduate of the University of
Georgia, and headed the class of 1852.
He studied and practiced law In At-
luntu with his brother-in-law, the late
Judge Logan E. Bleckley, but he did
not find the dry grind of the law to
his taste. He always loved action, out
where he could mingle with men and
annals of history than his conduct at
Sharpsburg. General Lee sent him to
hold a difficult position, requesting Gor
don to hold It as long as possible.
"General. I pledge you to hold It until
the sun goes down,” was Gordon’s re
ply.
* Gordon Held Position.
It was the sono of merciless fire, but
throughout tho long day Gordon stood
steadfast. Bullets plowed their way four
times through leg, arm and shoulder,
breathe deeply of the pure air. So he' but Gordon, weak from agony and toss
began mining operations with Ills dls- blood, stood and urged his men to
NOT PARKER BUT HIS PLEA.
The Houston Post is much concerned over The Georgian's story of
the way In which Judge Parker's nomination was brought about.
And the Post is disposed to believe that Judge Parker’s nomination
was established at an earlier day than the Belmont conference in Wash
ington, aud was started by the visit of the Esopus statesman to the
South.
The editor of the Pott Is one of the dearest and most delightful of
bourbons. He holds fist to traditions, is honest In his obstinacy, and
loyal In bts creeds. But the editor of tho Pott must know that the little
casual boomlet started for Judge Parker during his winter visit to At
lanta and the South was a mere temporary expression of courtesy inspir
ed by a personally attractive atatesman. and that It bad died upon the
political atmosphere ap to the time when Belmont bolted from his Wall
street conference to the political caucuses at Washington.
The Georgian haa had nothing to say In personal derogation of Judge
Parker. Who be had voted for In previous yean has nothing to do with
this particular discussion. The decree of his loyalty to Democratic
platforms and to Democratic candidacies la not pertinent here nor Is he
tlngulalied father, and up to the war
was actively engaged In It.
In 1653 he married the daughter of
Congressman Hugh A. Haralson, and
there began that perfect companionship
und deep devotion, which was broken
only by the Orlm Reaper. The call to
arms came, and Gordon heard It, re
sponding with all the passion and ar
dor of his loyal heart.
He recruited and commanded a com-
any of mountaineers, called "Raccoon
Roughs." great strong, brave fellows,
who Idolised their handsome young
captalm So eager was Gordon and his
men for active service that they trav
eled ull the way to Montgomery |o the
seat of action, and were at once at
tached to the Sixth Alabama. After a
brief campaign in that section, they
were sent to Virginia, the great thea
ter of war.
“The Raccoon Roughs.”
There Oordon and his men found
fighting In plenty and plunged’huh the
thick of It with eagerness. A writer
says that the chance of Gordon's pro
motion then was about one In a thou
sand.
Hundreds of West Pointers stood
waiting for promotion, and others with
political "pulls" were Insisting on ap
pointments. But Gordon steadily rose
by sheer merit of military genius and
bravery In every action.
It Is a fact not generally known that
Mrs. Gordon followed him throughout
the entire war, remaining In camp with
him, cheering, counseling, comforting,
and when he was wounded almost unto
death at Sharpsburg, nursing him to
life and health again. Often she rushed
Into the line of battle to cheer and urge
the men to renewed effort, and it Is said
that she more than once turned the tide
of battle by her presence.
hold. Then a mlnle ball struck him In
the foce and he fell senseless. But
when the sun sank behind me horizon
his men still held the position.
At tho close of tile war General Gor
don returned to Atlanta, and took up
the threads of his civil life bravely. He
was a delegate at large to the national
Democratic convention In 1868; was
elected governor, but counted out. In
1873 he was elected to the United States
senate, and wan re-elected In 1879. He
resigned In 1880 to build the Georgia
Pacific railroad. In 1886 he was elected
governor, serving two terms. He was
returned to the senate In 1890, and aft
er serving one term, retired to prlvute
life.
He was commander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans for sev
eral years, and was always a foremost
figure In all that glorified or honored
the rank and fllo of men who fought for
the Southern cause.
Died in 1904.
On January 11, 1904, Georgia and
the country were thrilled with sorrow
at the news of his death at Boynton,
Fla., where he had gone to regain
health. His funeral was a great dem5
onstratlon of the grief and affection of
the people he loved so deeply.
He has left to posterity the record of
a great and useful life and an unblem
ished Christian character. Hla "Reml-
nlscences of the Civil War" Is a very
comprehensive study, and a valuable
addition to the literature of that pe
riod.
EXPLOSION HURTS
TWO IN TUNNEL
usuie u> nw presence. i -- . ,,
Gordon rose from captain to major, -' ev * * or k. May — J -—Four persons
to lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigadier | were Injured, two fatally, by an explo-
general, major general and lieutenant I tlon In the new Pennsylvania tunnel
general. Tbere la nothing finer In the this afternoon.
A DEDICATION POEM
By Charles W. Hubner.
(Read upon the occailon of the unvellln'g of the monument to General
John B. Oordon, May 25. 1907.)
Soldier and statesman! Unto thee, ,
For sake of Love and Memory,
This monument we dedicate,
With martial pomp and solemn state.
Inspired by Art’s creative thought,
Well has the sculptor’s genius wrought
The stately form, the speaking face,
Of one who wears Fame’s fadeless bays.
Thou wast our Bayard, our Navarre,
On famous fields of fateful war;
No truer sword than thine flashed free
In the forefront of victory 1 -
Nor did on fairer fields of peace,
Thy lustrous powers their mastery cease,
Undimmed they shone, and calmly great,
Oft in high council halls of State.
Thy tongue, thy pen, thy printed word,
Shared in the glory of thy sword,
Thus rounding to a perfect whole,
The story of a noble soul. *
Type of the Southland’s chivalry!
As ages nass the world will see,
Portrayed in ever-during bronze,
Here one of Fame’s immortal sons.
One who, with sword, and tongue, and pen,
Wrought into life great deeds, and then,
1 “By all his country’s wishes blest,”
Gave God his soul, and sank to rest.
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