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eighth year smoke xtra good and rebel yell cigars 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 * 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 (Contimied on last page- ) jj® U dlbcntbc I b* 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.