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THE ATLANTA UEUKOIAN AND fcEWS. M'LKDAY, MAY 25, 19(77. r THE ATLANTA 0E0K0IAN (AND' NEWS) :OHN TEMPJ.E GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Banday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 2S West Alabama fit., Atlanta. Oa. Subscription Rates; On* Trar I4.M W« Months f.l* Three Months 1 » By Carrier, Per Week 19 Telephones connecting all depart* merits. Long distance terminals. resentatlves for all tarrltorj out Georgia. Chicago office Tribune Building New York office Potter Building If yon have anr trouble getting THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS telephone the circulation department and hava It la desirable that all commnolca* Ilona Intended for publication In TUB GEORGIAN ANI) NEWS be limited to •00 worda In length. It la Imperative that tber be algned. aa an evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscripts will not he returned unless stamps ara seat for the purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NBWfi »rlnta no nnclenn or objectionable ad* Neither does It print trhlakr ver'.Ialng, Neither ar anr liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: The Georgian icd Newt stands for Atlnuta'a owning .Is own gas and electric light plants, •a It now owne Its water works. Other an aa low aa W the cllv. This The Georgian and News believes that If street rail* wars can l>e operated successfully bv European cities, as they are, there fa no good reason wbr ther can uot be ao Operated bore But we do not bell eve this <*an be done now, aud It mar be home rears licfore we are rcadr fur ao M* r undertaking. Persons leaving the city can have The Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to Tho Georgian office. Changes of address will be made as often as desired. 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 We do not guarantee to do everything for ybu that 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. 0000000000000000 0OO0OOOOO0 0 0 0 CARNEGIE TO PENSION 0 ALL INDIGENT 8COTS. 0 O London, May 25.—Andrew Car- 0 0 negle has announced his latest 0 0 philanthropic plan by providing O 0 for repatriation and pensioning O 0 of nil aged and poor Scots now 0 0 living In Great Britain. 0 0 The applicants must be 60 years 0 0 old and Indigent. Satisfactory ap- 0 0 pllcants will be returned to their O 0 former homes in Scotland and 0 0 pensioned at fifteen shillings a 0 0 week. 0 1 candidates. 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- 00000000000000000000000000 I tlon. 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. KODAKS If you haven t one, you are milling the greatest enjoyment of all the seasdns. 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