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JUDGE BRANHAM
ft Call For The Beloved
Rome Jurist
STAYED THE ftUDIENCE
This Was to Be Expected in
Rome. His Remarks-
One of the moat graceful com
pliments ev r paid a Roman by a
Rome audience was witnessed on
Saturday when, utter Col. Can
dler had finished a speech of an
hour and a half and the audience
was leaving the court room, r
shout went up for “Bramham,”
“Branham,” “Branham,” the tn
tire audience resumed seats just
quitted.
Judge Branham certainly ap
preciated the compliment, and
while reluctantly he rose, it
wa« not because he regretted hav
ing to respond but because he
doubtless felt that his people, the
people who love him and whotu
he loves were indulgent to him at
too heavy a personal comfort,
However he made them a talks
one that the y cheered frequently.
To accomodate those who did not
hear him and also those who did
ano who would like to have the
same for a scrap-book and also
because the speech makes “power
ful good readi’u” we. publish it
below;
SPEECH FROM JUDGE BRANHAM.
“Mr. Chairman—l am not seek
ing any office and I never expect
to enter a contest, for any office.
As I was coming into the court
room this morning I met a gentle
man from the Fiat Woods who
handed me this little box, saying
‘I want you to give it to Govern or
Gaudier. It contains the left hind
foot of a rabbit which I killed
yesterday in a graveyard at Flat
Woods. ’
I won’t make you a t-peech, but
I will tell you a little thing
that occurred some time ago.
Y< u know there has been a gc cd
deal said about the Meyerhardt
letter. About that time Col.
Candler was writing to me to en
list my support in his candi
dacy for governor. The first letter
1 received from him embarrassed
me a little, because Joe Terrelll,
who is km to Dave Hamilton and
myself had then said he was going
to run.
It is a fact that the uncles of
our grandfathers met way back
yonder in 1836 in the Seminole
war in Florida and that made us
kin. I undertook to evade the
question by making a humonous
reply to Col, Candler. In a Igw
days Mr. Terrell said he would
not run for governor, but w?uld
run for attorney general.
Then I got another letter from
Colonel Candler asking me to sup
port him. In my second letter to
him I was as candid »s he has
been here today, and as he always
is with the people. I told him I
had commit’ed niyslf to Mr Jen
kins, of Eatonton, where 1 as well
as all other good people were born
and raised.
“But in a day or two Jenkins
said be was not going to run.
Then I got imother letter from
Mr. Ca: dler and I took my pen
to reply. I had been using the
typewriter before, and I said to
him: I will do everything I can to
elect you governor, and I am go
ing to keep mv word.
Just about that time this Mey
erhardt letter came out. I knew he
was not talking about me. becanso
he was writing tc me at the same
time enlisting my support and it
didn’t affect me in the least. You
see, If 1 had gone to Judge A'kin
son, a man 1 like very much, or
to Mr, Berner, a very brilliant
man, Mr. Candlei would have
known I made a mere pretext of
that letter for changing front and
I would have lost the respect of
him and eve-y honest man faini -
iur with the correrespondence be
■wern him and myself.
You all know me. John Black
was a member of the state Com
mittee. W hen he died some one
I don't know who. had ms put m
his place. I bad never been in
politics, but I went tc the meet
ing of the state democrat ic execu
tive committee the other day just
to see what they were going to do
and I will tell you "hat they did.
They talked for two hours and
three quarters over the date as to
whether the primary should be in
July or the 6th of June, and as
Candler has said, there were two
factions only—those who favor
him were on one side and those
who favored Judge Atkinson and
Mr. Berner were on the other I
was with those who favored Col
onel Candler. You could not tell
the other side apart. You could
not fell whether tney were twins
or not. They showed no difference
in that committee.
“I had a very hard chair and
it was very warm—they had the
heat on the registers in the Kim
ball—but I stayed there to see
it through. I had no opportuni
ty to speak whatever and never
opened my mouth. But I will
tell you what I thought. The
speeches made on that occasion
were very poor. We have not
got a candidate running against
a candidate of another party, but
are trying to select a standard
bearer.
“I will say trying to select
one of our three boys. Now, you
know a wise fattier will stop a
quarrel in his own family as
quickly as possible. Stop the
quarrel in the family at once.
My idea was we ought to stop
this fuss in the family as quick
ly as possible, and for that rea
son I favored an early date for
the primary.
“Now I don’t think it is ad
visable for us to have joint de
bates between ourselves, I don’t
think it advisable for three dem
ocrats to dispute questions which
are personal be ween them
selves. After we have nominat
ed acannidate and there is an
opponent in the field, then is
the time for some speaking. I
can only say in conclusion that
I not only hope Col. Candler
will be elected governor, but I
am perfectly satisfied he will
be.”
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MR. fIiEX WHITE
The Eloquent Planter Os
Vans Valley.
JVIftDE ft BIG HIT
|n His Introduction Os Col. Ca
ndler, On Saturday.
Mr. Alex White, the big planter
of Vans Vai'ey made the hit of
bis life in his speech introducing
Col. Candler to the big audience
at the (hurt house, Saturday.
Mr. White has the happy fac
ulty of forcefully saving things
and while he would promptly and
emphatically enter a disclaimer
were be charged with being an or
ator, at the same time it is a well
established fact that twhen rises to
talk every body listens and hi
frequent intervals ev»-ry bod)
cheers heartily the sentiment In
utters and the style of his de
livery.
He was in hise'ement on Satur
day when he rose to introduce ton
irb'iidly audience Georgia’s next
Governor, tl at brave old Com
missioner, Allen D. Candler—
And Alex Whhe measured uj
fully to the occasion. His
speech, which was delivered ex
temporaneous, appears below. It
was most enthusiastically re
ceived.
But here is the speech :
“Fellow Citizens—As a tiller ot
i,hn soil, a- a plain country farmer
I make no mistake when I indorse
to you this mm as the next gov
ernor of Georgia—.me who sym
pathizes with you one woo fuels
for you, an dknows that you bear
the burdens of his country .Some
times it iswell —and it is such
times as these—to look for and t<>
find a man who is willing to serve
his country simply for his country
good. We people of the country
were tired long ago with colonels
who never heard a gun fire, with
officers who never smelled powder
and lawyers and professional pol
iticians who monopolize our offi
ces. And today we indorse a man
who has always served his country
for his ct untry’e good.
Sometimes in the history of the
world, it seems that in the trans
migration of souls the pint that
permeated Washington and Jef
ferson and the true men of the
past, springs up a gain, and we
find a man who comes to the
front, who comes loyally, who
comes true to every instinct that
makes a true man and a good man
and is willing to serve us without
looking forward to another place
or another office—as a simple
countryman. I have no hesitancy
in introducing to you and indors
ing to you this mini for this place
and entertaining these sentiments,
I shall not make a long talk. It
is not necessary. I shall simply
sum up what you all want in one
single sentence and indorse, be
lieving every word of it, I will say
that I will introduce to you God’s
noblest work as the next Governor
of Georgia—an h<>nest mau —the
Hon. Allen D. Candler, the “one
eyed plowboy if pigeon roost,”
Os th : s gem. which the Atlanta
Constitution’s reporlei; took and
published vertatim, that paper
adds the following comment:
“No mere earnest words were
ever spoken than those with which
Chairman White introduced Col
onel Candler, and when the latter
bowed his response there was an
outbreak of applause that lasted
for several minutes. When it
ended the colonel gracefully ex
pressed his appreciation of the
kind references made to him as
well as for the hearty reception
that had been given him ever
since he left bis train.”
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OF DISMISSION.
GEORGIA FLOYD COUNTY
Whereas Thomas Hclsenback
execu’or of John Holsenback, de
ceased, represents to the court in
his petition duly filed that he has
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to show cause if any they can why
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ion the first Monday in April 1898.
This Jan. 3rd 1898.
John P. Davis, Ordinary.
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