The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-03-22
An INCONSISTENT CONTEMPORARY.

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! mentioned, although he citizen Of tie Dis
triet during The first two, we believe Was il Re
was fully appreciated in seventh Distriet9n Since
Judge Lester Is nOt citizen OF the eth District and
| the Journal knows he cannot be elected from the
IN District, our esteemed contemporary can we'll
afford 10 say iii he in the 9TH nov We wou id
elect him" But he Is not in the 7th your honors
have been toe long deferred-untii the object whom
you would now Grown has become DISTINGUISHED
IRON receiving them at your hands.
Jsdge Lester has claims upon she sth District
Whfeh We say the 9TH should have long since recog
| nized, but he has upon the 9th, not more at
leas: than any other citizen, an hardly as much
as SOM Really the It'll shouid have given Judge
Lester al pportunity to show a. shlity as a Cen
gresham and not have left il for TO pay
debt OF gratitude they owe TO him. OF cours~ dear
journal, you should want 70 pay this debt you
Judge Lester but ''your day in court Is passed,
for the present, and your advice TO the 9th is i'll
timed.-Cdntoa AduoHee.
controversy is always very dstasteful
to the JOURNAL, and we had no idea few
weeks ago when we casually indited small
item expressing friendly wishes for Judge
Testers success in the 9th district for Con
gress that we would thereby invoke upon
our devoted head the 'jioes and jeers" of
an unfeeling pen. But the placidity o. the
current Of politics in the ninth was disturb
ed thereby and sevela al papers vented their
feelings. The main cause of our offending
our good brother of the Cherokee Advance
appears to be because we had an opinion :
and that opinion didn't coincide with the
opinion of the Advance. This is to be re-
GREETED Of course, because we always like to
be in harmony with our friends That
opinion" was to the effect that Judge Les
ter as a Congressman would be an improve
ment on the present member, Col Can
dler. To differ with the Advance was great
presumption on our part it is true, but the
world will differ in politics and religion and
personal preferences but that difference OF
opinion on our part was an honest one, and
we have no apology to offer to appease the
perturbed mind Of the esteemed Advance.
1t may have been an egregious and mex
cusable bluuder on our part to place high
er estimate on the acknowledged ability of
Judge Lester than we did that of Col Can
dler, and it may be possible that the perfec
ton which Col Gambler has reached. as
gagged BY the Advance, is beyond all posi-
bility Of improvement" We hesitate to
entertain the thought of human perfection
yet it may be so. Others may believe with
the divine scribe that one star differeth from
another in brightness and glory; but as for
Gambler must we believe the impression
that the Advance makes 2--that he is sus-
ceptible of no added Drlliancy; that he is
the bright and morning sta" or in other
words that he has passed from the flicker
ing gaseous effulgence OF the street lamp
and is now the Edison electric light of the
halls OF Congress, respondent, peerless.
matchess, admitting of no improvement
The mental culture, the religious charac-
ter and craftsmanship of Nat Hammond,
Joel Billups, Gov. Gordon, A. O. Bacon,
Geo. N, Lester and other lesser lights, are
all susceptible of improvement" and are
frequently matched in efficiency and in the
forum Of reason; bur improve on A. d
! Gambler! Never Perish the thought
Avaunt, We shades of Ben Hill, Alex Stoph
ems and Hiram Warner and let the memo
~ Of your grand and lofty intellects pale
into Intellectual fires in comparison to the
incompatible member of the ninth
But in answering our article, the Advance
erected a man of straw and then proceeded
to demolish him with great gusto. Childish
sport to be sure, bat then it gave he Ad
vance amusement.
The Advance prefaces its article, by say
ing: The Advance has no fight 20 max,
upon Judge Lester AS the Congressional
race proceeds, we shall watch The hdvanc
to see whether it strictly adte its wor,
or not, or observe when "Simou sass wig
wagH if it doesn't respond Bu TO con
sistency of this statement is vio.ats by tn
Advance disparaging Judge Lester cand
dacy, when it says thai Judge Lester ha
no claims upon the atn, MOI 900 at leas
than any other citizen sDc nn~at
There's richness for you
the cocoanut Lester -
himself than he grants
does feel that as free born Anne
zen that he has the inalienable right, EMO,
, ed by Gambler, to ask for the suffrage of HI
fellow democrats, as there is no constitution
al provision granting Gambler life tim,
homestead on the Office
We note with pleasure that the editor o
the Advance processes high regard ant
personal friendship for Judge Lester whom
he has known from his earliest reeollec
ton. Tins warm expression of confidence
is no dorhr very assuring and soothing Il
Judge -tsr and especially so when he
tells him, Aus well, brother Les the
Advance has no fight to make upo, ,-u -
and then by depreeatiug remarks ana o9
kind insinuations thrust Joabs blade be
meath his fifth rib, trying to forestall handi
cap and prejudice his race. This, appears
to us, smacks of so gross unfairness, that il
ought to make the assertion that "Che Ad
vance has no fight to make upon Judge Les
ter hang its head in shame and blush fol-
the jewel of consistency.
And again, to intimate that the seventh
district and the JOURNAL treated Lester
oadly, ana thereby charge the Democrat
Of the seventh district with "iuglatitude'
because Lester was not mentioned in subse
queut races after his defeat, is to befoul tn,
nest in which the organized Democrats o
Cherokee county and the Advance wer,
nesting, Tor Cherokee county was part an,
parcel Of the 9TH district at the time Leste
ean III 1875 and also up to 1857, when tn,
coapty apporuonment was made pacin!
that county in the 9th If the Democrat
Of the 7th acted with 'ingratitude, the,
the Advance is responsible for charging tn,
same upon its own home people OF organic
ed Democratic faith, and the cap fits the
head of the Advance as much as any one
else, for all were in the same political boat
But we claim that this view of the matter
is without foundation. man Of straw. anC
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