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W RIGHT
MAKES PUNGENT REMARKS:
UI SB a Few Broken Observations
On The Situation.
HEGHWBR wk editor
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With Double-Dealing And Duplicity And De
ounces His Charges as False And Slan
derous. Makes a Statement Concerning
His Official Dealings With Tax Collector
Sanfora. A Vigorous Communication f om
Qne cf The Bravest of Veterans And
Ablest And Purest State Officials Georgia
Has Ever Produced.
r ,h. voters and fair minded citizens I eV er.
fioyd conn')' ;
Ml i have always tried to avoid
Reontroveisy in the public press,
■ deplore lhe fact that
■ aill driven into one to prevent
[Keing censured and condemned
[Bithout a hearing. In this ic
lß*ance I come to reply to an at .
IBck, made by a man, whom 1
|B lVe known since he was a boy;
M ( | who, less 'han a month ago,
| Baine into my office and repeated
■is often expression of
I Bncerest r.> r ct. confidence and
■■ever faltering friendship to
Bivself.
MA in the H m. me, of May
881..-. up].eared an
i pr. - nine, by
■Bi W A k/ ’' -■ the editor.
t\j.'Hi 1 A- my ollicml
■.■incA lam ant willing to let
t;:.
|Mi he field of bat
■■e. is Il but,
B 1 ihtVc ie. i! (•llO'-en conip-
Mollvr grin ra! par 1\ from >y m
' I ml'minl record
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HMc.utir j,;o oh]/, ma endorsed
v
1 Uiv ~u
K Miuocratic ticket.
MB 1 I".v ,g dm.y miy pni't in
1
rmnty, <>r in other
u| ny | ] <IIOW
MB , ' ol 't<-'t nt b'Joyd
MB ll:i! . v - rtatement
tll O.‘ O '-llell
g lj, ‘
to county
BM 11^I 'couniy matters. I
BB' hj 'l any i | H!l g to do
HF 1 '"' 1 oni'oi. dHmctlv or
SB (,ir " vli .'-“'d .he Inggieg 0 ]
11,1,1 "'y ol’me into' this
H^b ~il1 s ill! j ha- be t .|i done with-
■ witliouteau.se
justification.
fl o' ' h " <il ' t ’ 11;l r b'‘ of mv duties
■ 01,, l’"''<> (hmm-id, I have
■M some correspondence with
■ ’ 1 >:ill '" , d, the tax col-
U 0 )' 1 County, in de-
f 1 ' 1 ’ coinpliaiu c
■ 'paw; bui as lho selec .
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M*," d °- 1 '-'er
"""unbent,
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8in..,,,.,. <-oll,.«,„.
nwrm uothing ()t
EBve out ...-7 ’ Mainly 1
■Mmiv H| '* l t " interfere
S>mi time about the last of
April, Mr. Knowles, of the
Tribune, called al my office in At
lanta. and representing himself
I«8 the friend of Mr. Sanford in
quired about the trouble, which
he said he nnderstDod existed be
I rwetn Mr. Srnford and myselt
That, as a warm personal fried of
both Mr. Sanford and myself, ht
wanted to understand the situation
with a view to an amicable settle
ment, etc. I assured Mr. Knowles
that, there was no disposition on
my part to treat Mr. Sanford
unfairly or unjustly; that I wa
only doing in his esse, what 1
I was required by the law ir. all
such cases, and by my’ sworn
duty us C mptroller General, to
do with every tax collector of il e
State. In order to give Mr.
Knowles a complete history of
this matter, Mr. W. H. Harris
on, my chief clerk in charge of the
tax matters of this office, read all
of the letters written by me to Mr.
Sanford, up to the date of Mr.
Knowles visit, and also Mr. San
ford’s letters to me. Aft°r they
had been thus read, Mr. Knowles
expressed his full and entire a|-
proval of my course stating
that he saw' no reason why
Mr. Sanford should
complain at 'he treatment he had
received, and that he, ,Knowles,
would advise hinrto go and pei«>
form hia duty and stop his ob
stinacy. Mr, Knowles, ex
qrested deep regret that Mr. San
ford,should have been insulting in
his correspondence to me, and that
he, as Sanfords friend,.would J ex
plain matters fully |andturge Mr.
Sanford to accept
respondence in its proper light
Mr. Knowles dare not deny his
statement. Much else on this
fine was freely and volun’anlly
said by Mr. Knowles, and the last
words he uttered on leaving my
office, were of the most cordial
and friendly character.
As to the merits of my corres
pondence ana my official con
duct towards Mr. Sandford, my
letters, copies of which I under
-tand have been published in the
Home papers, fully explain. I
finally discovered that the whole
trouole arose because Mr. San
ford got the certificates of his de
posit at Rome and kept them.
He should have kept one of the
duplicates and forwarded the
!other to the state treasurer. If
,he had done this there would
I have been no correspondence
. and no execution ; and as soon
las he did this, the correspon
dence ceased, and the execution
was ordered back to this office.
My critics seem to fail to sec how
important it is to have the cer
tificates of deposits promptly
forwarded, as these certificates
ire the only official evidence
that the money is in the deposi
tory and therefore in the treas
ury, But my position gives m e
f u 11 k nowledge of the importance
iof the above pis by the law these
I certificates ate the only evidenc
es upon which the comptroller
general is allowed to give re
ceipts to tax collectors, and there
would be endless confusion in
this office, if tax collectors de
layed and refused to forward
certificates of deposits, and in
sisted that I should rely on ver
bal statements or letters that
they had made such ami such
deposits.
I did not know that Mr. .San
ford had any opponent when
mv letters were written. 1 deal
with all tax collectors purely in
an official wry, without refer
ence to politics ami without in
quiring whether they are can di
dates lor re-election or not, or
whether they have opposition.
Certified copies of letters writ
| ten by me to Mr. Sanford, as
well as Mr. Sanford’s letters to
me, were furnished to citizens ol
Floyd county, who asked if any
public official correspondence
could be had by application to
this office. As the law provides
for such certified copies of any
official matters, they were fur
nished, just as they are furnish
ed to any other parties making
a similar request, and just as
they were freely shown to Mr.
Knowles upon application near
,ly a month before copies wen
furnished to other citizens of
/Floyd county. Had Mr. Kno\vles
or Mr. Sanford applied for the
correspondence or any part of
it, it would have been furnished.
Any citizen of Georgia has the
right to demand and receive a
certified copy of anything in this
office.
I desire to say that lam not
not responsible for the
uses to which any such official
documents may be applied, and
no fair-minded man will hold
me a party to any harm which
may come to any one from the
publication of copies of the of
ficial records of this office.
Please pardon a further person-,
a allusion, which should 1 ignore,
I would be less than a man. In
answer to the statement by Mr.
Knowles, that “while we must
commend the comptroller general
for his watchful lookout for the
dues of the state, still it does not
stand him in hand to ihrow stones
an any one. He, himself, has been
nee upon a time astraddle the
ragged edge, with the possibility
of having to disgorge, staring him
in the face, 'he misappropriation
of, not two, but of tens of thou
sands of dollars of public money,
•ndo dy esjaped by a technicali
ty.”
1 only desire to brand this
statement, every word of it ind
every syl'able of it, as unqualified
ly falsie, and demand that the au
thor of it point out and specify
when, where and before what tri
bunal I was ever charged with
misappropriation of any moneys
of thes'ateand escaped by any
technicality. Until he shall do
this, all men who are interested
m good character will estimate
him as a slanderer.
Respectfully,
Wm • A. Wright-
RIDE A
MONARCH
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felfcC' b
wj - //
Sold by
J.SiiniVeal
Kame, Ga.
The Monarch Bicycle is far sti
erior to all others.
Ml HUE OF DIVORCE.
State of Georgia, Floyd t o :
\\ innie LWoodward . Libel
vs for di
William E Woodward / vorce
In Floyd County Superior Court
state ol Georgia. No 21, Jul\
term, 1898.
To William Edward Wood-
| ward :
’ The defendant is hereby re
quired, personally or by attor
ney, to bo and appear at tin
next Superior court, to be held
in ami for said county, on the
third Monday in July next, then
and thereto answer the plain
tiff’s demand in an action of Li
bel for Divorce, as in default
thereof, said court will proceed
as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable W’.M
Henry, judge of said court, this
14th day of Mardh, 1898.
Wm. E. Beysiegel,
Clk Superior Court.
Floyd Co., Ga.
ROME BUSINESS COLLEGE
Rome, Ga., will receive young
men and ladies now at the actual
cost to the College for carrying
them through a thorough commer
cial course, and furnish board,
books and commercial blanks and
accept, an easy time note for tuition
payable after a position is secured
The College procured
92 POSITIONS THE PAST YEAR, i
It supplies schools and colleges !
with competent teachers of Pen
manship and principals of commer
cial departments; sends first les
sons in Shorthand fully explained
for io cents in stamps; is strongly
endorsed by hundreds of business
and professional men who employ
its graduates at Stenography o’
Bookkeeping. Address all letten
to the Principal, 11. S. Shockley.
Rome, Ga.
RHEUMATISM CURED IN A
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system is remarkable and myste
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and tlie disease immediately dis
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benefi s. 75 cepts. Sold by Curry-
Arrington Co. Rome, Ga. *
ATTORNEYS.
J.
Law Office, 210 Kist First Street,
. LOME, GA.
CHAS, W. UNDERWOOD,
Attornej at Law, Rome, Ga.
Corfiorat 1 >n Law Only.
ME EUBANKS,
Attorney ar law. Office -King Building,
R .me, . a.
W H. BIN IST IS,
Attorney at Law Will Practice in al! emits
Office, Masonic Temple, Koine, Ga,
"W J NEEL
Attorney at law. Will practice in all court-,
Special attention given to commercial law
and the exauiicalion < t land tines.
office iu K.i:g uulldliig, Rome. Ga.
WALTER HARRIS
Attorney at law and J. P. Office over F. J.
Kane & Oo.’s,
LIPSCOMB Ck WILLINGHAM
C jnxmercial Lawyers.
Gffice in Armstrong hotel building. !i rue, Gi
J. SARPT O .IWFORD
Attornej- at law, Rome, Ga. Collections a
specialty.
Masonic Temple Rome, Go.
DENTISTS.
J. A. WILLS, D.D. 5.,
Office 210 1 2 Broad. * Over Cantrell & Owens.
J. L PENNINGTON. D D S.,M D.
'■'ENTIST:
Office. 305 1-2 Broad street. Over Hanks Fur
uiture Co,
PHYSICIANS.
C HAMILTON, IkE ID-
Physician and Surgeon Office, Medical
Building Roma, Ga. O ce ’phone No. 62.
1 1
Iu F> IHz-YTZCLIOISr O. M. ID..
Physician and Surgeon, office in Medical
building. Residence, No. 401 West First st.
Office ’phone No. 62.
LU.MPKI 4 & PRINUTP
ATTO INEYSAT LA W,
Rome, : : : : Georgia.
General practice throughout North Georgia.
Correspondences.dlclle I. Special atlexition
to mercantile collections.
STENOGRAPHER.
GEORGE WRIGHT.
Stenographer and| Typewriter.
Office. U, Armstrong Buil Un ;. T 4. N e3
To Muical Fosple of Rome;
It is with pride that we announce the opening
of a new and complete stock of
IHIK, BBS,
AND
Small Musical Instruments
in the new Moseley building, 327 Broad street,
where we would be pleased to have you call ami
examine our goods.
The stock consists of some of the best m ikes
of pianos and organs on the market today. We
keep a full line of everything pertaining to a first
class music store—Something Rome has needed for
a long time. Give us a call and you will find a
music store that Romans may be proud of
We are determined to close out our stock o
- BICYCLES-
I
>t the earliest possible date.
iL IE. WiRhXES
327 Broad Street'.
S. P. Davis, Manager.
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We keep on hand at al J imes a full stock of
Sheet Music;
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x of the very
F.J-KANE& CO
248 Broad Street.
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Sale of.. Summer Goods
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Lawns, Organdies, Piques, Percales,
Gingham and Madras.
Ready-Made Skirts and Waists
•> 1 J*,' JF-
We intend to close out our shoe
stock, so take advantage of cost
prices on shoesof the best makes.
Special prices on everything at
248 Broad Street-
TONSDRIAL PARLORS-
LEWIS BARRETT, Artist;
Only skilled men employed. Parlors recently renovated Mos
courteous attention 'tAd satisfactory service* g iar » i.e»l, at No
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