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The Marietta Jonrnal
JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1866.
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lo the Voters of the blue Ridge Cireuit:
I have endeavored since my announcement as a candidate for Solicitor General of the Blue Ridge Circuit, to see
every voter in the Circuit, but I have found it an absolute impossibility. I want all the voters of the Circuit that I
have seen, and those that I have not seen, to cast their ballots for me on the 21st of August.
I have said no unkind things about my opponent in any manner, shape or form, and Ido not expect to. Ido not
believe that in politics a man has any right to discuss the private record of any man, but he has the right to discuss his
public record, and no living man can find where I have said anthing against anyone in this race. What I have tried
to do is to run a clean openrace, and asking the people to give me their votes, and promising them a clean square deal,
and that is what I expect to do. lam a young man. llf I win the race, and treat the people right, I can get some
thing else in the world. If 1 don’t, 1 cannot, and 1 feel like the people of the Blue Ridge Circuit are going to say on
election day, “Herbert Clay, we will give you that chance. 1f you make good, we will give you something else. 1f you
don’t, we are through with you.” and 1 am going to do my best to make good.
1 want to thank the people in general for their many courtesies shown me since 1 entered this race. Every one
has been nice to me, and 1 appreciate it, and 1 appreciate my friends, and while reports from the entire Circuit look
like my election, ] want my friends to come out and vote and work for Herbert Clay. Ingratitude has no place in my
heart, and if elected, 1 expect to show my appreciation to the people by giving them an honest, clean administration.
Respectfuily,
IMTferbert Clay.
VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE AT PRIMARY AUGUST 2ist.
Voters Are Rallying to Clay For Solicitor-General=Majority Will Be Sweeping
In Five Counties and Maybe Six.
' ---Alpharetta Free Press.
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From Alpharetta Free Press:
The race for solicitor-general of the Blue Ridge circuit will
come to a close next Wednesday week, August 21.
It has been a race in which the people have taken keen interest.
Their rights are at stake and they are fighting for victory.
We are getting news from every county in the circuit, and we
are frank to say that all indications point to a tremendous land
side for Clay. The great masses are for him. They believe in
his ability, his integrity and his human kindness. ~They have an
idea that he will stand between them and the criminal element,
but that he will not use the courts to mash blood money out of
unfortunate people. They believe that he will not fill the courts
with hundreds of trivial cases and tax the people to pay court ex
penses merely to fill his pockets with cost money.
If you wish to know what the people are saying and thinking
about the solicitor’s race, get your pencil out, ask one hundred
men from any section of the circuit, and see what the result will
be. You will be greatly surprised. And it is getting worse
every day. The people have found out which way the tide is
rolling, and they are letting it roll and shoutingwhile it rolls.
The people are congatulating themselves upon the clear-cut vie
tory which is in sight for them.
It is being freely whispered that some very dirty work will be
engaged in just before the election. We do not believe that such
work will do great harm to Herbert Clay. He has made a race cn
his own merits in behalf of the people. He is a fine young man,
with a great heart and open hand. The mud which a few fellows
have tried to throw on him hasdropped off and stuck to the heels
of his‘opponent and made it impossible for him to get up any
speed in the,race.—Alpharetta Free Press.
COMMENTS FROM OTHER PAPERS IN THE cCIRCUIT.
AND CIOOVURIEBEIR.
MARIETTA, GA,. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1912.
From Marietta Herald: !
It has been a long time since the people of Cobb County have
been as solidly united on any public question as they are on the
candidacy of Herbert Clay for Solicitor General of the Blue Ridge
Circuit.
This is one race in which all former factions seem to be for
gotten. No matter how the voters stand on other races, they
nearly all say when you mention the Solicitor’s race, “‘Oh! that’s
no race. Clay will sweep the County without any trouble.”” The
estimates of conservative men, well acquaited with the general
sentiment, are from 1700 to 2000 majority for Clay in Cobb
County.
A few predicted at the start that Clay would fail because he
was not an ‘‘Experienced Politician’’, but this very fact has caused
the masses to take up bhis fight, and they are most assuredly going
to elect him by an overwhelming majority.——Marietta Herald.
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From The North Georgian:
Herbert Clay appreciates his friend throughout the Circuit.
He is running a clean, square race, and tne people are flocking to
him. It is freely predicted that he will be elected by over four
thousand majority.—The North Georgian.
COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1801.
From The Marietta News:
The News is taking no part in the present campaign for solici
tor-general, but we learn that certain reports are being circulated
relative to Mr. Clay’s private life that are unjust to him and to
his friends. The editor of The News has known Mr. Clay for
years, and has never seen him under the influence of liguor nor
conducting himself in any way improperly. We believe that any
reports that he is indulging in any improper conduct for an up:
right citizen are entirely untrue.—The Marietta News.
From The Cherokee Advance:
Herbert Clay will sweep the Blue Ridge Circuit. Vote for this
able young man and stainless citizen. He is the friend of the
Common People, admired and loved by everybody.
No man so poor as not to be respected by Herbert Clay.
None so rich but that they appreciate Clay’s ability and friend
ship.—The Cherokee Advance.
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