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COMPTROLLER WRIGHT
MAKES PUNGENT REMARKS.
Also a Few Broken Obseruations
On The Situation,
Hg CHARGES A ROJVIK EDITOR '
wi th Double-Dealing And Duplicity And De
nounce 9 His Charges as False A nd Shn
darous. Makes a Statement Concerning
His Official Dealings With Tax Collector
Sanfora. A Vigorous Communicati m f om
One cf The Bravest of Veterans And
Ablest And Purest State Officials Georgia
Has Ever Produced.
To the voters and fair-minded citizens of
Floyd county: .
1 have always tried to avoid
acontroversy in the public press,
and deeply deplore the fact that
I am driven into one to prevent
being censured and condemned
without a hearing. In this in
stance I come to reply to an at- ,
tack, made by a man, whom J •
have known since hr was a boy; I
and who, less than a month ago,
came into my office and repeated j
his often made expression of
sincerest respect, confidence and
never faltering friendship to |
myself.
In the Rome Tribune, of May !
21st. inst. there appeared an .
editorial, written, I presume, by >
Mr. W. A. Knowles, the editor, j
in which lie assails my official I
and private character, in terms
which lam not willing to let |
pass unchallenged. That I was a j
Confederate soldier, 1 have al
ways been ready to admit; that |
1 lost a limb on the field of bat
tle, is a well known fact ; but,
that 1 have been chosen comp
troller general purely from sym
pathy] deny. My official record
has been reviewed by the voters
of Georgia every two years since
I came into office, and endorsed
many limes by majorities over
all the other nominees on the
democratic ticket.
1 positively deny any part in
the persecution of any official of
Moyd county, or in any other
county in this state. I know
nothing whatever of the faction
al contest going on in Floyd
county, beyond the statement
that there is such a contest rag
ing between two or more fac
tions, in reference to county
officers and county matters I
have not had anything to do
with such contest, directly or
iudiiectly, and ,he lugging of
lny name and my office into this
wrangling has been done with
out authority, an’d without cause
or justification.
111 the discharge of my duties
Comptroller General, I have
‘ad some correspondence with
'• T 1. Sanford, the tax col-
of Floyd county, in de
ni:il’tling of him a compliance
1111 1118 duties as tax collector,
" l,dw , ll "> law ; but as tl ,e aelec .
“ llle county officials of
h; d “ u '"yisa lo cal matte,-,
Ul I have nothing
iwV'wL l " do ' 1 l '“ v ' ) uever
nor-t 0U all - v incu >nbent,
0 ’ aild 110
i he^er been * uade
° f tl ‘is‘state eollector
the merit ■ r ?. llow nothing of
over the ofli 11118 lleaLed ‘Parrel
have n ot b? 8 ’ aild certainly 1
in a »v m UU ta^en to interfere
ever/ manner or form what-
! o>mj time about the last of
April, Mr. Knowles, of the
Tribune, called at my office in At
lanta. and representing himself
is the friend of Mr. Suiford in
quired about the trouble, which
he said he understood existed bo
ween Mr. Srnford and myself.
That, as a warm personal fried of
both Mr. Sanford and myself, he
! wanted to understand the situation
with a view to an amicable settle
ment, etc. I assured Mr. Knowles
,hat, there was no disposition on
my part to treat .Mr. Sanford
I unfairly or ut justly; that I was
>nly doing in his case, whut I
| I was required by the law ir. all
; such cases, and by my sworn
j duty us C' mptroller General, to
do with every lax collector of the
State. In order to give Mr.
Knowles a complete history of
this matter, Mr. W. 11. Harris
i on, my chief clerk in charge of the
j 'ax matters of this < ffice, read all
>f 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. After they
had been thus read, Mr Knowles
expressed his full and entire ap
proval of my course stating
that he saw no reason why
Mr. Sunford should
complain at 'he treatment he had
received, and that he, 'Knowles,
would advise him to go and per-,
form his duty and stop his ob
stinacy. Mr, Knowles, ex
qressed deep rearer, that Mr. San
fordjshou d have been insulting in
his correspondence to me, and that
he, as Sanfords friend, would ex
plain mat’ers fully and urge Mr.
Sanford to accept the whole cor
respondencein its proper light
Mr. Knowles dare not deny his
statement- Mu h else on this
fine was freely and voluntarily
said by Mr. Knowles, and the last
words he uttered on leaving my
office, were of the meat cordial
and friendly characb r.
As to the merits of my corres
pondence ana my official con
duct towards Mr. Sandford, my
letters, copies of which I under
stand have been published in the
Rome papers, fully ex lain. 1
finally discovered that the whole
trouble arose because Mr. San
ford got the certificates of his de
J posit at Rome and kept them.
lie should have kept one of the
duplicates and forwarded the
other to the state treasurer. If
■ he had done this there would
have been no correspondence
and no execution ; and as soon
. as he did this, the correspon
j deuce ceased, and the execution
was ordered back to this office.
1 My critics seem to fail to see how
1 important it is to have the cer
tificates of deposits promptly
’ forwarded, as these certificates
are the only official evidence
I that the money is in the deposi
tory and therefore in tho treas-
> ury, But my position gives me
- full knowledge of the importance
cf the above ;as by the law these
certificates are 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
I this office, if tax collectors de
layed and refused to forward
certificates of deposits, ajid in
sisted that I should rely on ver
; bal statements or letters that
I they had made such and such
deposits.
I did not know that Mr. San
ford had any opponent when
mv letters were written. 1 deal
I with all tax collectors purely m
lan official way, withou t refer
lence to politics ami without in
quiring whether they are candi
dates for re-election or not, di
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 oi
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 mailers, they were fur
nished, just as tiny are furnish
ed to any other parties mi king
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, Knowles
or Mr. Sanford applied for the
correspondence or any part of
it, it would have been furnished.
Any citizen cf Georgia has the
right to demand and receive a
certified copy of anything in this
office.
I desire to say that I am not
not responsible for the
uses to which any such official
documents may be applied, and
no fair-minded man v ill 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
al 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 genera!
for his watchful lookout for the
dues of the spite, still it does not
stand him in hand to throw stones
an any one. He, himself, has been
once 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,
and only’ escaped by a technical!
' ty.”
I only desire to brand this
statement, every word ot it and
every syl’able of it, asunqnalifi n
ly falsie, and demand that the au
thor of it poiut out and specify
when, where and before what tri
i hunal I was ever charged with
misappropriation of any moneys
of thes>ateand escaped by any
technicality. Until he shill do
this, all mtn who are interested
in good character will esl'niate
him as a slanderer.
Respt ct fully,
Wm ■ A. Wright
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NOTICE OF DIVORCE.
I State of Georgia, Floyd t o :
I W inme Lee- Woodward . Lihol
vs ■ for di-
William E. Woodward / vorce
In Floyd County Superior Court
stale of Georgia. No2l, July
term, 1898.
To \\ illiam Edward Wood
ward :
The defendant is herdbv re
quired, personally or by attor
ney, to be and appear at the
next Superior court, tube held
in and for said county, on the
third Monday in July next, then
and there to answer the plain
tiff's denia- d in an action of Li
bel for Divorce, as in default
thereof, said court will proceed
as to justice sh ill appeitain.
Witness the Hon >rable W M.
Henry, judge of said court, this
14th day of M.trdh, 1898.
\V m. E. Beysiegel,
Clk Superior (lourt.
Floyd Co., Ga.
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