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THE STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
ALLEN D. CANDLER,
ot Hall.
For Secretary of State,
PHIL COOK,
of Lee. '
For Comptroller-General,
W. A. WRIGHT,
of Richmond.
For Attorney-General.
[JOSEPH M. TERRELL,
of Merriwether.
For Treasurer.
W. M. SPEER,
of Fulton,
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
O. B. STEPHENS,
of Terrell.
For School (Commissioner,
G. R. GLENN,
of Bibb.
Uncle Sam proposes to fatten
the Cubans for the Spanish
slaughter.
Brave old Fitzhugh Lee. few
men envy the old Confed his
post of danger.
C. A. Ryder names eight of
the lynchers of his redhanded
brother, Dr. Ryder.—Seed
eight.
All the republicans now being
on the pension rolls of course
the pension rolls will cease to
grow. '
'The prohibitionists of Georgia
seem to have learned a lesson in
politics from the last guberna
torial campaign.
Though Sam Jones has with
drawn from the race Spencer R.
Atkinson continues to follow his
advice a id does not resign.
Perhaps if we can get all the
Cubans fattened up nice and
sleek, Spain might be induced
to send her expert butcher, Wey
ler, back to the island.
Descendants of the butchers
who transacted business at the
Alamo some fifty years ago are
now plying the inherited trade
and hereditary inclinations in
Cuba.
Some of the politicians ’are
trying to put this county in the
Atkinson column, but she won’t
go there. Montgomery is one
south Georgia county that will
stick to Candler all the way.—
Vidalia Star.
The Spanish torpedo flotilla,
now headed directly for Way
cross, will reach our shores in
about eight days. In the mean
time let us pray for peace -
Waycross Herald.
Why not send for “Ginneral”
Northern, the hero of your
onliest war.
JOINT DEBATES
If we must have a joint de
bate, if nothing but a joint de
bate will do Messrs. Berner and
Atkinson and their supporters,
then, by all means, let’s have it
—and let it be between the gen
tlemen who are most anxious
for it.
In other words, let Messrs.
Atkinson and Berner arrange to
meet each other on the stump.
The people will give them a re
spectful hearing, and, if their
estimate of Col. Candler’s
‘‘mistake” is correct, they will
profit by it in exact proportion
to the number of joint debates
they indulge in between them
selves.
Now, gentlemen, let us see
just how much in earnest you
were when you raised that cry
of joint debates. If you were
sincere then in saying it is the
only proper way to discuss the
issues of the day, you, certainly,
are still of the same opinion.
And the reasons which you urg
ed for a joint debate witft Can
dler h jld good as between your
selves. If there are issues to be
discussed, there are surely as
many issues between you two as
between you two and Col. Can
dler. If not, then one of you
should retire and let the other
fight it out.
Now, deal frankly with the
people, gentlemen; either ar
range to meet each other on the
stump, or confess that it was
only Candler you were after.
If the joint debate is a good
thing,it is as good a thing for At
kinson and Berner as for Candler
By all means, lets have the joint
debates. Don’t let Col. Candler’s
refusal to swallow your bait stop
you. His absence will hardly
make the discussion less inter
esting. The people are watching
you, gentlemen. You must make
your joint debate bluff good.—
Macon News;
Let the “jingoes” who are
impatient for battles off our
coast possess himself in patience
—when the summer girl arrives
then will the engagements be
come hot and furious.
The reason Col. Candler is op
posed to a joint debate is because
he has to ting by note, and this
spoils the effect in a joint argu
ment. —Waycross Herald.
The above is a fair specimen
of the “arguments” advanced by
the anti-Candlerites against
Georgia’s next governor, Allen
D. Candler.
Douglas Glessner takes issue
with 'The Herald which said
that it would be easier for Mr.
Berner to get a wife than to get
into the gubernatorial chair and
wants to bet that he will get
both. Glessner is kind, lie will
not only place his friend in the
chair but will furnish him v.ith
a helpmeet as well. Douglas
should start a matrimonial and
gubernatorial bureau, satisfac
tion guaranteed in all cases.—
Americus Herald.
Railroad Commissioner Spen
cer R. Atkinson, candidate, the
champion joint debater, in the
great arguments he advances
from the stump says “There are
no common people in Georgia.
Candler says the common people
are for him. If there are any
common people in this audience
stand up. (None stood—-must
have been vacant seats in the
little court room where the vast
multitude had crowded.) Mv
friends I am glad to see that
none of you are for Candler.”
Loud applause—by the Capitol
City Club of Atlanta when the!
pape»- containing the report!
reached its “scrappy” halls.
AST- PAT ICK’S DAY FABLE.
Once upon a time, says Har
ner’s Bazaar, a very truthful
man and a prudent chap were
walking along the street, and as
they walked tiny fell to discuss
sing Truth.
Said the very truthful man :
“The truth should be told at all
times. ”
“I differ with you,” said the
prudent chap. “When an issue
is raised the truth should be
told, of course, but there are
times when an issue should not
be raised.”
Said the very truthful man:
“You are wrong. I am surprised
that a man of your apparent
intelligence should make such a
statement.”
It being the seventeenth of
March, the very truthful man
and the prudent chap soon met
a number of patriotic Irishmen
who were parading in honor of
St. Patrick.
Stepping into the street, the
very truthful man stopped the
leader of the parade—a man
with a large green sash.
“Sir,” said the very truthful
man, “why do you, an Irishman,
parade in honor of St. Patrick?
St. Patrick, sir, was a Scotch
man.”
Thereupon the man with the
large green sash smote the very
truthful man between the eyes
with his fist, knocked him down
and discolored both his optics.
In short, the man with the green
sash did not do a thing to him.
Moral: If you must tell the
truth about St. Patrick op the
17th of March be sure and tell a
Scotchman.
American harvesting machin
ery is being sold largely in Rus
sia.
On April 13th wi l be the an
niversary of Thomas Jefferson’s
birth.
There is a growing demand
for a speech from Bob Berner
on the money question. —Augus-
ta Chronicle.
Spanish bonds continue to
decline, but the real work in the
present labor is to strike Cuba’s
bonds off entirely.
No, Jane, dear, the “Scrapital
City Club’s” kid glove kandi
date will not resign. He remem
bers Sam Jones’ advice.
And now it i$ alleged that
Markus A. Hanna had laid a
submarine mine under the war
cloud but could not Strike the
current.
Allen D. Candler, the old com
moner of Georgia, steps down
and out of his office as Secretary
of State today and sets Railroad
Commissioner Spencer Atkinson
a good example. Col. Candler
will now op n his campaign in
earnest and will do so, so effec
tively that he will carry 100
counties in the primaries.
Col. Sam Whitmire, of wood
en-leg chicken fame, is in Bruns
wick on business. Sam is a
member of the special staff of
the great New York Sunday
Journal. Floyd county is proud
of her country boy’s contribu
tion to yellow journalism. The
wooden-legged chicken story
was his starter.
“The common people are for
Candler.” Railroad Commission
er Atkinson answers that state
ment by saying there are no
common people in the state of
Georgia. This manner of force
ful argument was acquired by
the exponent of the “Scrapital
City Club” when he was holding
down a seat in the supreme
court.
A RYRB’S EYE VIEW.
The Columbus Herald is in
clined to be jocular when it says
that the frankness and the fair
ness of the Atlanta Journal
during the present state cam
paign is to be commended. If
it would include the Macon Tel
egraph and the Rome Tribune
under the same head it would
be positively humorous. —Amer
icus Herald.
Editor Eldridge takes this
sensible view of one feature of
the warfare being waged on Col.
Candler:
“The anti-Candler papers
say that Mr. Candler’s speech
in Rome was listened to with
“respectful attention.” The fair
and impartial sheets say that he
received a genuine ovation.
Which will we believe? Past
events show that the anti-Can
d’er oi gans pervert facts to serve
their own selfish ends, hence the
public can be allowed to be the
judg.3.”
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*
A few days ago I quoted a
quote from Bob Taylor, the fol
lowing ;
“I think it comes in poor taste
for Sam Jones to talk in this
way. Had it not been for the
pardoning power, Sam Jones
would have been in hell long
ago.”
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Niw comes Sam, who says:
***
“There’s no hair nor blood
around that I know of. Bob has
been guyed and jabbed at by
the press until he’s like some
children I know of; he’ll cry if
you crook your finger at him—
he’ll bawl. His liver is out of
fix, and his lights, too, I think.
When a governor’ pardons 398
criminals in a little over twelve
months’ time, it is about time
to disband courts and turn the
moo loose. If Bob had as much
head as lie’s got heart, he’d
make a heap better governor
than he is making. He is right
when he says I might have been
in hell if it had not been for
God’s pardoning power. But
God’s pardoned convicts turn
out better than Bob’s In other
words, the Lord knows who to
pardon, and Bob don’t. I love
Bob Taylor as a man, but don’t
admire him much as an execu
tive officer. Personally, we are
good friends ; officially, we are
unthick.”
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Here is a croak from the Au
gusta Herald, one of the “frog”
journals alluded to by Col. Can
dler in his Rome speech :
“There seems to be something
of a difference in regard to the
size of the audience that greeted
Col. Candler in Rome. 'Fhe Con
stitution says from 5.000 to 7,-
500. The Rome Tribune says
700 and a great many ladies.
Both agreed that the speaking
took place in the court house,
the seating capacity of which is
about 350.”
* *
Now the facts. The people of
Rome know that there were
over seven hundren people in
the audience who heard Col.
Candler. They know that there
were less than 25 ladies pres
ent. As to the statement that
the Constitution placed the
the number at from 5,000 to 7,-
500, the Herald is again wrong.
The typographical error did not
appear in the Constitution, but
in the Journal, an Atkinson pa
per, but was an error easily ac
counted for and so evident that
the paper making it was not ex
pected to notice it with a correc
tion.
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>
But the Herald, as a “Sunday
bull-fighter” and discoverer of
ago.”
the Tom Hight letter, isgrasp-|
ing at straws —when it is not
straining at gnats and swallow
ing camels. The anti-Candlerites
are indeed desperate.
It is Railroad Commissioner
Spencer R. Atkinson, candidate,
yet.
Painting the white squadron
black and sending negro regi
ments to the front gives an omi
nous hue to the American war
cloud that hangs over Spain,
Col. Candler’s remarks about
the “frog” dailies and the
“weakly” ‘“pap suckers” has
raised a howl in every guilty
camp. This shows that Railroad
Commissioner Spencer Atkin
son’s “venerable friend from
Hall” knows how to hit the
mark when he fires at a hostile
foe.
Didn’t Bob Berner wire an ac
ceptance to Spencer Atkinson’s
challenge to joint debate in Co
lumbus? That is our recollection.
Then why don’t they have the
spate? They” are both “just dy
ing” to have a “scrap” of this
nature—at least one is led to be
lieve so by what these great
champions are saying for publi
cation.
Judge Atkinson’s reply to Col.
Candler’s declination to have
joint debates on the ground that
they would stir up strife, is a
vindication of Col. Candler’s
judgment. Judge Atkinson’s
“peppery” personal flings at
Candler show that there is no
issue to discuss but personal re
cords, and that a joint debate, as
Atkinson’s letter indicates,
would degenerate into mud
slinging, enmity and strife. No
joint debates are wanted by the
people.— Marietta Journal.
Is the Macon Telegraph, the
leading exponent of Republican
ism in Georgia, trying to force
Governor W. Y. Atkinson to take
the stump for his political twin
brother and legatee Spencer R.
Atkinson? Or >s the “old siw er”
posted and just paving the way
for a few pre arranged speeches
from Governor W. Y. Atkinso..?
It matters not to Col. Candlers
friends which horn of the diilema
they elect to hang from, for a
speech or two from that s urco
Wont help the auti-Candler peo
ple much.
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