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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
MON DAT. JI'I.T !. 1V*
J. W. JORDAN WRITES
AN OPEN LETTER TO
HON. J. POPE BROWN
Pop® Brqwn, llawklnsvtlle, Go. or to any other charity. It would nelth-
Dear Colonel: Complying with your
request, I called at the newspaper of-
1\rr- and secured a copy of your speech
drinered at Perry. Ga., advocating fair
• freight rates and Hon. Hoke Smith for
governor. I will farther state I have
take® time and pains to read ft care-
fully and thoughtfully the second time.
An«l now I come to the last part of
your request: to criticise It and tell you
»h< !« you are wrong. To make such
crltMsms I am not accustomed to do,
neither Is It alwaya the safe and prop-
or thing to do; but being friends, and
believing that It was genuine friend*
ship that prompted you to request It,
and after reminding you that 1 am no
politician, you having still Insisted on
It. after some deliberation and heslta
tion. I have concluded to do mo.
Tour speech having been delivered
before a public and previously adver
ti.**d meeting, and subsequently pub.
It*hcd In the Atlanta papers, and also
*rnt out In pamphlet form over the
country as a campaign document,
makes It necessary that I give this to
the newspaper for publication which,
If 1 rightly understood you, you ex
pectSd.
I will say In the first place, you were
\ wise In the selection of the place to
make your speech—Perry—near where
you grew up, and before your friends
and the very people who know and love
you best. You were also very happy
In your Introductory remarks. In rend-
• Ing your Introduction I bad almost the
same feef/ngs f would have fiatf If I had
been present. As to these two Items
In your sjieech, you have my approval
and congratulations. In the second
I l i e. you set out to be fair to all the
candidates, but you soon Jumped on
Hr. Unwell, saying, "We are told so
o» I so;" It Is charged that Mr. Ilowell
claimed so and so; It Is charged that
Mr. Howell did, or did not, do certain
[ things. Thus "taking up a reproach
against your neighbor." The records
and facts show these reproaches were
without foundation or proof.
In the third place, you called alien-
tlon to Mr. Howell's barroom stock,
and charged that he Is a stockholder
In the Capital City Club—a seven-day
barroom In the city of Atlanta, that
runs all night long and all day Honday,
**tc. Thus trying to offset Mr. Hmlth's
I'i'dmont bar and Ids temperance
record with the Capital City Club and
Mr. Howell's tem|»ei-ance record. Here
you are wrong; you must know they
are not analogous: one being main
tained not for gain, but purposes of
pleasure and social entertainment and
visited by Its members and their In
vited guests, and entertainments given
Just as they are frequently given In
many homes where wine -and maybe
other Intoxicants—ore served. Tin
other maintained for money—and much
of It blood money at that—and patron
ised largely by bad men, and maybe by
vile women; a saloon where young men
are enticed, their tnanh<M»d, character
and souls are wrecked; a ptacetwhere
things are done day and night, thut
shock humanity. Insults decency, mocks
God and disgusts the Devil. If I wits a
patron of that or any other euloon. If I
habitually or even **lunnlly visit
ed such places, I'mlght regard the Cap.
Ital City Club ns bad, and In the same
light. Hut as I see It. the Piedmont
l»ar, and every saloon, are among the
vilest and most Infernal places In all
tbit commercial world. And 1 want to
say to Mr. Smith and all ether owners
of saloons, If they were to give every
dollar of their earnings to the poor and
►t' k, In books, medicines or In clothing,
er Justify nor expiate their crimes.
"Sot all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altars stain
Can give the guilty conscience peace
or wash away the stain."
Again you say, "It Is also charged
that Mr. Howell's prominence arises
from his connection with The Atlanta
Constitution." "Ills friends claim that
because he succeeded Henry Grady, he
Is equal to Henry Ondy. Hut ft Is also
claimed the Lord made Henry Grady;
that Ilenry Grady made The Constitu
tion. and that {The Constitution made
Clark Howell." This 1 may round witty,
but It Is flippant and Intended to dis
parage Mr. Ilowell. To take It up and
repeat It la wrong. I am sorry you
did It; It was unworthy of you. As
you turned away from the personal
discussion of Mr. Ilowell and quoting
these reproachful things, which you
say are said of him, I don't wonder
that you were dissatisfied with what
you had said and what your hearers
would think of you, and that you at
once said: "Now, you can read The
Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta
Journal and decide for yourself which
Is the worst man: Mr. Ilowell or Mr.
Hmlth. Having tome prejudice on that
lino, I confess that 1 am not a com
petent Juror." The pity Is that you
did not do this before you took up
these reproaches; but I reckon It waa
better then than not at all.
Sow. as to your Insinuations that
Mr. Howell Is the candidate of the
railroads, you ask: "Why did they have
their candidate selected before any
other candidate announced?" and pro
ceed to answer yourself: "Because they
have an axe to grind." Now, In regard
to the first complaint or Insinuation,
that Mr. Howell Is the candidate of the
railroads, I must say that you utterly
failed to furnish a scintilla of evidence
to show It, or any proof that they had
their candidate selected before you
were conducting a very active private
canvass. Home of your friends who
felt aggrieved because Mr. Hmlth butted
In and brushed you out of the race,
uftnr you had made successful and
satisfactory Investigation and perfect
ed your plans, and secured your friends
and supporters and had been several
weeks In the race, now begin to under
stand why you should so tumely sub
mit and not show' the slightest morti
fication or embarrassment. In dis
cussing this matter with a mutual
friend of ours, and having expressed
iny disapproval of It and iny displeas
ure at ft, he replied; "Oh, you need not
feel that way; Hmlth and Brown fully
understand each other. Hmlth will
take care of Brown, and he will get
the very best thing Hmlth can give
him/'
I want to say ns to freight rates,
you understand that subject better than
I do: but you don't want fair freight
rates any more than I do, nor uny more
than any other man who loves Ids nen-
ple or his state, no more than we have
reason to think that any other of the
candidates do. Certain It Is that Mr.
Howell has shown In every way that
he Is not one whit less ardent and ear
nestly Interested In this matter than
Mr. Hmlth or yourself. And I nin sure
the people think so and are aa ready
to trust him. 1
As wlmt you say about port rates,
you voted twice on It while you ware
a member of the railroad commission;
once against and once In favor of It.
Perhaps I am not competent to pass
Intelligently and wlaely on the need,
Justice and righteousness of the meas
ure. But will say that as you resigned
your place on the commission, and Also
withdrew from the race for governor In
Mr. Hmlth's favor, he taking up your
slogan. It was well, I reckon, that you
did not embarrass, or put hint to die-
RESISTS PAYMENT OF DUTY
ON BEAUTIFUL NECKLACE
|jit„t photograph <>f Mr,. William It. Ijm’iI,. who la fighting against pa,lag
1100,000 tint, on n pearl nwkliu’* inailn In I'nrla, of which her bnatinm! mail* her
a present. Mr. lawita la president of tho riilmgu, Muck laland and I'arlllc rail-
road.
advantage, but consistently placod him
na he had formerly been—on all other
iiueatlnna—on both aide* of It, by vot
ing for nnd agalnat It. For tho purpose
for tvhlrh your vote* were Intended you
were right.
Your contention for S centa a mile la
good campaign thunder, but 2 am not
aura that If would be either wlae or
Jtiai. It fa certain that the present rail
road commlaalon, or the one from
which you realgneil, are mot to be cen
■ured for being allent nod not moving
In the matter when nobody haa de
manded or even requeated It.
I agree with you and feel qultg. aure,
aa every Southern man doea, that the
ronferrlng of the ballot upon the negro
waa ii moat cowardly crime. Further
than thla, you aay nothing about the
Filthy Advertising
Is rejected by THIS newspaper. Tlint is one
rowon why It has been given In: popular esteem
the title of Home Newspaper
Only
Clean Advertising
appears in THE GEORGIAN. Are you one of
the 23,000 heads of families who indorse this
policy?
disfranchisement of the negro, except
to mention the repeal of the fourteenth
und fifteenth amendments of the con'
atltuttnn: and Inferential)}- In your
compliment to lion. Thomas W. Hard
wick you said not one word about thla
dlarranchlaement scheme, and hobby of
Hoke Minlth'ii. You may feel that to
remain allent la enough, and the prop
er thing to do. Hut let me aay that
since you are Smith's supporter, and
It being understood that he Is running
on your platform. It Is not enough that
you keep silent on thla scheme to dla.
franchise the negro by passing a state
law to tlx an educational quailllratfon
for alt voters, white or black. You
can't afTord to do lesa than repudiate
thla dishonest scheme to put on the
statute book ofOeor '
Induce the registrar
violate Ilia solemn oath, perjure him
self. violate the law and his consclance,
and defraud it legally qualllled voter
out of his ballot, be he white or black,
no matter whether born In Georgia or
In Muaaarhuaetts. The thing Is
monstrous, and you should at ones
publicly announce your disapproval of
It. It may be that you regard thla aa
a political hobby, that the people do no
take It seriously, that It Is only In'
tended to appeal to unthinking people
and such things being common In poll'
tics. It Is all right. Hut not so, "with
whst measure you meet It shall he
measured to you ugsln;” this Is the
Inexorable law of Ood. You drop out
a hint In your conclusion which sound*
prophetic. Surely you have not seen a
vlaton. You aay: "t would not be eur
prised to see new alignments and the
wiping out of old political line*/' *
have seen the same thing hinted by
others, and even strange language like
thla, fur Instance, from others calling
themselves Southern Democrats; "I
feel sure that the next ten years will
Indicate to yon many men who have
the courage to dare the prejudices of
faction In the Interest of rtal policy
and principal, and that these men may
‘te among the stro
-eaafiil public men
ariea In Southern life." In my opinion,
such prophecies can never nnd imm
inent In mongrel politics, or leaders of
mongrel factions. I cannot, for my life,
see how any Southern man and Demo-
•rat who remembers the days or re-
onstrutlon, who understands condi
tions In Georgia or anywhere In th*
South, can have so little faith In our
people or the Democratic party, which
delivered mis and brought ua through
such difficulties and to be masters of
the situation, und to hold such high
rank among the states of this Union
can believe that our safety and solidity
will ever suffer from disappointed and
soured polltlcans and demagogues,
who cannot enmamnd th* respect, con*
rtdence and support of thoae who went
away from the party and blindly fol
lowed men, who proved to be false,
and failures as leaders. Only such men
as are embittered by their own folly
and mistakes and dteappolnmenta and
vanity would attempt such thing* All
others see and appreciate th* fact that
our safety Is In a solid South. Thera
are plenty” if safe, solid and tana men
to make andjxeep It solid.
Tour friend,
J. W. JORDAN.
No. 427 Piedmont Ave„ Atlanta. Qa.
PETRIFIED COUPLE
FOUND BV POSTMASTER
Special to The Georgian.
ChaUanooyn, Tenn., July I.—Post
master Raulston has received a letter
from A. n. Bolts, of Nik Valley, Tenn.
In which that gentleman aays he haa
found a petrified man and woman. He
does not describe his great find, but
ask* that the story be published.
Qrae* Church Opened.
The opening services of th* new
Grace Methodist church ware held
Sunday morning. Rev. James E.
Dickey preached to a targe congrega
tion. The night, services were of a
union nature, other denominations be
ing represented to congratulate the
member* of Grace church on getting
into their new home
IS
AND THEN BURKED
CROWD OF 400 LYNCH BLACK
FOR ATTAOK ON OIRL
Prisoner Admiti the Crime When
Identified by Hit Young
Victim.
Bj Prirtli IsHird Wlr#.
Chickasaw, j. T., July 2.—Charged
with haring: attacked a lS-year-oId
girl, daughter of Ira Robertson, Will
Davit, a negro, waa captured by farm-
era and hanged. The lynchen then
burned the body.
By the time the negro waa overtaken
near Bradley Saturday night fully 400
men had Joined In the chaae. and aoon
after the rapture the march to Womack
h«-X;ir, Ii wn« nearlv 3 «/< l'*fk Hundey
morning when the Robertson home was
reached and the negro was brought be
fore the assaulted girl.
"Thot'x the one," said she at once,
un<l 'It* mgr■■) replied: "Yes. lady. I'm
the one. Gontlemen, I admit the crime."
The mob then proceeded with their
victim past the spot where he had
committed the crime and t6 a tree near
the road, 'where a rope was thrown over
a limb about eighteen feet high and
the other end knotted about the man's
neck.
Before life waa extinct the body was
lowered to the ground and logs and
brush were heaped upon It and the
mass Ignited. For a moment the body
writhed, a few groans were heard and
the flames completed the work. Two
hours later the charred body wax bur
led under the cam** tree und»r the ril-
rcotli.n 'A h deputy marshal from Bur
eau, who had been thwarted In his ef
fort to take the negro from the mob.
Malaria Makes Pate Sickly Children.
The Old Standard, Grove's Tasteless
Chill Tonic, drives out malaria and
builds up the system. Hold by all
dealers for 27 years. Price CO cents.
JUDGE RUSSELL HEARD
AT CHESTER, GEORGIA
Special to The Georgian.
Cheater, Go., July i.—Hon. Richard
B. Russell, candidate for governor of
Oeorgla, addressed a targe crowd of
voters from Laurens, Dodge and Pu
laski counties at this place Friday.
The speaker was Introduced by Dr.
George W. Bordeaux, In a short but
Impressive manner.
For two hours Judge Russell held tils
Immense audience spellbound while he
exposed the evils that are being Im
posed upon the common people of
Georgia. H* discussed all of the Im
portent Issues of the day In such man-
ner as to be thoroughly understood.
Judge Russell attacked <h* disfran
chisement question with a ftw brltf
remarks and left that mattar for Hoke
Hmlth to settle.
He also favors nlns months free
school fadlltlss, which will glva th*
mntry people th* advantage of edu-
Ltlonsl facilities equal with tha cities.
After a hearty handshaking and
grsetlng with hit many supporters,
Judge Russell left for Dexter to apeak
at night.
CLOTHES
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One of our new customers, an At*
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day*
"Nobody asks me now where I get my
clothes. They always say, ‘Who made that
suit?’ ”
"Exclusive, personally selected fabrics, a
few garments from each piece, with none
of the ear-marks of the ordinary clothing,
store.
Ready-made
*12.50 to 130.00.
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Correct Clothes for Mt»
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"In the Land of the Shy”
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Situated in a Private Park of 160 Acres, Blltmore, Near Ashe
ville, N. C„ 2,500 Feet Above the Sea Level.
■^HklUST THE PLACE TO SPEND THE IUMMKltlMh—
Kp-i gnlr-Ml ns the leading hotel la the mountains of Western
North Carolina. No sccnerr in the world will compare with the view
from this hotel. Mount Mitchell and Pi«xah (a full view. Adjoins
snd overlooks the Illltmore estate. Cool, Invigorating climate, mag*
nlflcently furnished, cuisine unsurpassed. Pure water. All vegetables
rommodated trader any circumstances. Coach Is opera..-. .--
Mtaint. running every bslf hoar between trolley from Asheville nnd
the hotel. Open all the year. Write or wire for booklet and rates.
AT THE THEATERS
Vaudeville at th* Casino.
HI. Chlmmle! Der* goes Silver*,”
It th* cry that Issue* from the throata
of New York's newaboya whan "Sllv-
era" Oakley, th* famoua clown of the
big Hippodrome, walks along the
•treet. Oakley la not only the great-
eat clown In th* world today, but,
more than thla, he Is th* Idol of th*
small boy In the metropolis, and If he
walks down Broadway n* Is apt to be
iwed by a half laughing, half aw*-
struck crowd of boys. Thera la
doubt that h* Is ona of th* funniest
men of the present time, either on th*
•tage or In the sawdust arena. A
clown on the stag* Is a decided nov
elty, and the Ingenious "Silvers" has
arranged a tort of vaudeville potpourt
of his funniest atunta, which he pre
sented to laughing thousand! at th*
Hippodrome for Ih* whole season Just
past, and at th* cloa* of hla engage
ment there Max Hoffman secured hla
services for th* summer with hit
vaudeville and musical comedy com
pany, after which the popular clown
will go (o the New York Hippodrome
for next season. Max Hoffman's own
company, with "Silver*" Oakley and
many other attractive feature*, will
be the ottering at th* Casino Monday
night and all the week.
In addition to "Silver*" Oakley,
there will be auch favorilea as Ger
trude Hoffmsn and her si* seminary
S irls; th* mualcal novelty, "In th*
wlm," presented by twelve seminary
boys and girls; tht Otto brothers,
Tony Hart, th# twin elstera Dolly, and
Max Hoffman's lattat success, a mual
cal satire entitled ''Everybody Work*
but Father.'"
The performance will he a delight
ful Intermingling of mualcal comedy
and vaudeville and mualcal numbars,
In which a big chorus of pretty girl*
will furnish th* light and color for ths
background. ... . .
The aal* of saata will be found at
the Grend box office as usnat.
Aches
_ one-kind are the heritage of atari,
.very on*, from the tafaat with the colic,
th. middle aged a*4 th. dlstreeateg
miserable htadaebta. le th* agsd with
net-toot. muscular sad rheoautlc pains.
Dr. Miles’
Anti-Pain Pills
N.v.r fall to car. all cases of pels.
Wes us. th.y trtat the pal* soarta-th.
nerves, fly snothlag th* Irritate* nerve.,
they lessee th* ttaeiea, ImlM up news
strength, set the blued rounds* through
the reins, and thus alley all pain.
"I here used Dr. Miles' Asti Pala Pills
for rheomeUe petes, ktadsehr end ».*•
rstgta. ssd I knew there Is nothing bet
ter. I have used them fee years, and
they alwuys work Hku magic.''
MU a. F. LALUBMRKT, Louisville. O.
The (rat parks** will beuegt. If not.
tbe druggist win retsr* year money.
X deuce, X rent*. Never sold la bulk.
ROUND TRIP
Summer and Convention Rates.
Round trip Summer Excursions from all points
East to Pacific Coast and Northwest from June 1
to Sept. 15, with special stop-over privileges, good
returning to Oct. 31,1906.
N. E. A. Meeting at Los Angeles, July 9-13.
Elks Meeting at Denver, Colo,, July 16-21.
Summer rates to Colorado, June 1 to Sept. 30.
Hotel Men’s Convention, Portland, Ore., Juno
25-29.
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Through Pullman Tourist cars from Washing
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Write me for literature and information.
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124 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.
R. 0. BEAN, T. P. A.
G. W. ELY, T. P. A.
ELECTBICITK TO HEAT
WATER AT_BILTMORE
COILS TO BE SUBMERGED IN A
TANK HOLDING 8,000
GALLONS.
Special la The Georgian. •
Asheville, N. C. July 1.—An advance
step In the application of electricity
will be Introduced at Blltmore house,
th* country home of Mr. George W.
Vanderbilt. All the great supply of
water In the chateau will he heated by
electricity, and electric motors will
also be used to operate th* Ice and re
frigerator plant of th* house.
The heating of water on a large
scale by electricity Is novel. The
house Is equipped with an enormous
steel tank, holding 8,000 gallons, which
must he heated dally to furnish hot
water for the laundry, kitchen, bath
room and great swimming pool. Tht
necessary equipment for th* work I*
now being metalled under the super
vision of c. E. Waddell, the electrical
engineer of the Blltmore estate.
It Is understood that ths electricity
will be applied directly to the lank, the
cotta being submerged In the water.
BAILEOAD EXTENSION
WILL NOT BE BUILT
gperlal to The Georgia u.
ItawklaavlU*. Ua.. July 1—The proposed
extension of tbe ImMla aad Houlbweeteea
railroad from Kastman to Itawkleurille aad
no to Vordele will aot be made. Pretateet
«.vt..; w . , .rtt.o'srA TSi-fca «
ready operate* u tin* to lUwhluoelUe. Th*
prire pa HI for tkr I>oMln and Moathweateni
Is maos taking all of It* ataek.
LUMBER PLANT
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
8CHOOL8 AND COLLEGES.
LUCY .COBB INSTITUTE,
Athens, Ga.
1906 1907
The FORTY-EIGHTH session of tha
Lucy Cobb Institute, an Institution for
the education of young women of
Georgia, will reopen on WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 12. For catalogue and
room reservations apply to
MRS. M. A. LIPSCOMB,
Principal.
the ALABAMA BREN AU
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jronut liulW*. Tborouffh n>«ra» In lite
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orator/. Orchratm of 16 fnatniurnta.
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maxnlA«*rnt deration. Ideal winter cli
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Now berry. 6. C, July 2.—'tfha lum
ber plant of Meaara. H. O. Workman
and Palmar Lewla, located near Silver
otreet. waa destroyed by fire at an
early hour Friday moraln*. The origin
of the lire la unknown.
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