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IWLERMAKES REPLY
| AND POURS HOT SHOT
I „ ft Gampof an Alreadyßadly
| Disconcerted Opponent,
LsH WD ATKINSON RUN-INS MATES
I Georgia’s Next Governor Dac'ined a Joint
II Debate arm mow Declines Further Cor-
I 1 responcknce With His Opponent,
Ill'he blatant auti-Caudler organs,
■lcluding the “frog Journals”
Kat Col. Candler so pleasantly
K'nd effectual y lambasted with
Ridicule, in his Rome speech, have
Rymn startled again and. with
Rnr on en I and c>IJ type a-pi,
■h>y stand paralyz d over the last
■onb thrown into the camp of
■ i; of their leaders—the one who
d- an unresignable life while
■rediting the present campaign.
MB C Candlsr has written anoth
■r 'ter —and, though the man
■ow/nifl it was addressed has giv
■n it out they are not quick to
■niblidi it.
■H I L-mdigir-r-Jund traducers of
■rave old Alien I). Candler are
■mlmg out by great big degrees
■bat they have “woke up the
■ r ng pa--.-hgor." Tlmy undertook
■o guy him by calling him a let
■er-wnter" and already he has
them such hot stuff that
■heir type has melted and before
■is truthful sentences their bat
■eries are well nigh silenced.
■ainly explains its self. Here it
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Bl Atlanta. April 1,189 S—Hon.
|Rb;'o e r Atkin-on Railroad Com
■nissmi-r. At anta, (la —My I) ar
■■h-dtfe. I read on last Friday even
■tnK "ii the Atlanta Journal, a
uiiuirjc:itii>n addressed to me
■ote, your signature, andon the
■l(b)hd.,y foil ) W i n g i received a.
■copy - L | )P BaniP through the mail
■^ rc "recelp’ 1 have been so
busi
tbit 1 could not s >oner reply.
V regret Wreinely, my dear judge.
■ tllal vou should have lost your
■^ eui i'-i iii the campaign. Beside
■hid infirmity,y ollr letter lacks that
■ u 'ty which rhetoricians insist is
■« 0 Psseutal to good c , mposition.
M t starts out as a lecture and ends
M ln a bill of indictment. Like
■Kost lectures, too, you draw large-
■ y |JI| \"Ui imagination, and ns is
■ a,H in most indictments many
■ ii Ls are alb-gs d which are never
I ' ei ' As to the “rudenss and
■ .f which you Cmn _
I public WP " let a discriminating
Im. upon comparison of
I for '' t ' r witil your; uncalled
-I 10r reply.
■ apprehension that a “senes
,l "'"" shont l! ”
I Regenerate into a
I abund p<rßonal controversies, is
proVEby
l»eemlv UUpr(>V( 'ked and un
|yoUr^a?pX'M?l \ thSCOnneCtiOn
I to y ° U ,nte ”ded
■ sary. j . e ’ Waß wholly unneces-
■ ' ( f' , Comnion w ‘th the
I qu,tp wdl tl (, " orßia> understood
■ tl lat 11 Was for this
■ out. r. i y° u wp re brought
m force a war ol
THE ROME HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL
, words and a mud fighting coi>te°l
on the stump, you now seek to
r inaugurate it through the news
i papers. Assuming from the
3 long 1. and tone of your communi
) cation that it covers all the
charges and insinuation which a
t fertile imagination can suggest or
. a bitter enemy inv°nt. I shall after
w brief notice of them, decline to
engage in any further correspond
ence with you through the public
prints. lam induced to this
conclusion for the same reas< n
that constrained me to decline a
mud slinging contest on the
[stump.
. charge that I| “permit”
mv’friends, constituting a bare
maioiity of the executive com
J J I
mit®e, to name a date for holding
a primary election which left no
adiquate time for the canvass of
the state,” etc. It is the superior
\tho “permits, iot the interior.
l'he state democratic executive
committee is superior to both you,
Mr Berner and myself, and I
would feel it an unwarranted im
pertinence to picsume to dictate
to th m and I did not attempt to
do so, but did address a letter to
the chairman assuring him in a
respectful way that I desired no
departure from established prece
dent so that no just cause of com
plaint on the part of any one
might exist. It any one has
! cause of complaint at the inade
i quacy of the time it is I, and
not your running mate, Mr. Ber
ner. for both of you are and have
been engaged in an active canvass
of the state for three weeks while
[ I. confined by my official duties.
, cannot begin a canvass for some
i days yet.
WANT HONEST METHODS IN POLITICS
I am in no way for responsible
s the action of the committee in
? this or anything else. They did
- not consult me and I did not ad
s vise them, but as a loyal demo-
; | crat I bow submissively to their
r will without complaint, and you
I and Mr Berner ought to do so too
- And whyshould you and Mr. Ber
? ner complain? Isn't this an ad-
• mission on the part of Mr. Berner
• and youiself that, the people of the
state are now for me and that his
9 undyour only[hope of success lies
“ io the use of those political meth
-1 ods so well known to “die men
3 who control?
f I nave issued no “secret circu
" lars” to the former supporters of
1 General Evans or anybody else,
i out when I discovered that your
■ friends, as you are now doing im
3 peached my loyalty to General
! Evans whom they reviled in 1894
9 but whom you now court I wrote
• private letters to some of bis
friends to meet this
ROME GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING. APRIL-4. 1898.
fake charge put in cir
culation to drive them from uiy
support One of your supporters
by questionable means got one of
these letters and in violation of
every principle of honorable
journalism published it. Which
js the greater crime for me to
write a letter denouncing dirty
politics or for your friends to
publish private leisonal Utters
without authority? As to whether
or not I “led the light for Gen
eral Evans four years ago” I have
only to say that when I discovered
that republican negroes where tc
be voted in a democratic primary
for General Evan’s opponent, I
protested against thus debauching
our primary, and when my pro
test was of no avail? I took the
field for Ev ns and my county
was carried for him notwithstand
ing the voting of negroes and the
pledge made of 500 majority for
his opponent —and this is my only
crime .If I had not done this,
neither you nor your running
mate, Mr. Berner, would now bo
a candidate.
some challenges to the opposi
tion.
As to the use of money, I chal
lenge you to show a single instance
in which I havjt? ever usad a dollar
to buy votes or to buy liquor to
influence voters I have no objec
tion to the national banking sys
tem but lam uncompromisingly
hostile to th? monopolistic fea
ture of the national bank law
which taxes out ofexistance
all other banks of issuel believe
we ought to have competi
tion is banking as in trans
portation and in manufac'tiring.
I have sent out no “letter for
the purpose of securing the sup
port of railroad officials,” and
I defy you to produce such a
letter. I have sent out no letter
to anybody' in which I “make
s ricture upon Mr Berner and
yourself-” Personally I challenge
you to make good the charge.
Your and Mr. Berner’s constant
reference to my having as mem
bers of my “central campaign
committee the general counsel of
two of the leading railway systems
in Georgia” is too transparently
demogogical for serous thought
and I shall dismiss it with a
question: Did not both of you
seek the active suppoit of these
gentlemen? Your assertion that I
have “evinced no interest in the
questii nos public transportion”
is in strange contrast with the
truth when the public records
show thut I was one of a commit
tee of the Georgia senate which
drafted and reported the present
railroad commission law of Geor
gia under which you hold an office,
the salary of which you are using
as a campaign fund while you run
for another office Not only this,
but I was the prima mover in 1876
for a constitutional convention
which made a railroad commission
law possible and gave you your
present job from which it seems
nothing can shake you except a
bigger one,
You have Said that I have been
in public life thirty years and yet
after you have scanned my record
with a microscope you find but
one vote of mine in all that time
that you can condemn, a vote
about some usury law. Even ad
mitting that you are right, but I
do not admit it. isn's it a p etty
good record if a public man has
made but one mistake in thirty
years? But you verify the old
maxim that “there are none so
blind as those who will not see.”
I was a member of the state
legislature and of the congress of
the United States fifteen years,
not thirty years. As vou very well
know, at the time when I cast the
vote which you parade as being in
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Streets will I
Blossom as the Rose.
Tuesday and Wednesday, sth and 6th
Easter Opening
LANHAM & SONS!
REWARD!
As a reward for all who
are so kindly waiting for
our opening before buying
their
SPRING MILLINERY.
We are going to show the
most beautiful Millinery,
at the most reasonable
pi ices ever named on such
fine goods. Our display is
to be the most
Up-to«=Date
in Style, Coloring, Mate
rial,Workmanship and all
that goes to make up the
very best in Millinery, It
has long been the custom
with milliners to name
high prices on their goods
on opening days such high
prices that has become a
by-word,
“Opening Prices.”
We are going to change all
(his. Going to make prices
such low prices as a reward
to those who are waiting,
that they will gladly buy
the goods and feel that we
Have kept our promise to
make it pay them to wait.
Two Street Cars Chartered
Remember the two days, and that we will have two
Street Cars for the exclusive use of our customers, and
they will be free to all the ladies who desire to attend
the opening. LANHAM & SONS.
Miss Emmerson,
Our Milliner, is an artist
in her line, having worked
right up to the time she
came to our house in the
largest Millinery stores in
New York city. Stat is,
therefore, well posted on
All that is New in Millinery,
and if you want the best
and most Stylish Millinery
to be had in any city in
the land, then come have
her make your hats.
Pine Sailors.
The very latest style, all
new and the $1.25 and
the 1.50 kind for these
two days at 98C
All pattern hats marked
down to reward prices.
Twenty Fine Parasols,
worth up to $6.00 each,
Reward price j y
Childrens’ Parasols, Re
ward price . . 4QC
Child’s all Silk Parasols,
the SI.OO kind, Reward
price ....
Ladies Kid Gloves, the kind
that sells for 75 cents
down to . . . C
IO CENTS PER WEEK!
SI.OO Kid Gloves, reward
price .... £ 9c
1.25 Kid Gloves, Reward
P rice • • 98c
$2,00 Kid Gloves, Reward
price .... I 3QC
Beautiful all Silk Taffeta,
Sash Ribbon, in all the
new colors, 6*4, inches
wide, worth up to SI.OO
yard, reward price
Another lot of Embroid
ery, just opened for this
sale at reward prices.
Fruit of Loom Bleached
Cotton, Reward 5 1 /iC
Muslin underwear marked
d own to reward prices.
Good Sea Island, yard wide
Reward price
All the White Goods at
reward prices.
Bookfold, India Linen, the
5c kind, Reward price
: ■ • •3 l
Choice of any Percale in
the house, sea island and
all the newest styles at
Reward prices
Remember this is no fake
“going out of business” or
cost sale, but remarkably
low prices for these c pen
ing days as a reward for
those who are waiting.