The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-04-27
WAS II ONLY A JOKE?
GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN HOT UNDER
THE COLLAR ABOUT HOWELL'S
HUMOROUS INTERVIEW.


and LiVingStOn--DO They Repre-
sent Georgia Entirely.
Washington Cor. to the Atlanta Journal.
was just thinking about Captain E.
P. Howell's very funny statement of the
summons which recently brought him to
Washington.
The captain was always great joker,
and in this case he oversteps even his
own seldom-matched reputation in that
line.
In an interview published on the edi-
tOrial page of last Sundays Constitution,
he said:
Il went to Washington in answer to
Geographic summons to take counsel with
the Georgia delegation in congress in re-
gard to state politics"
4 After few patriotic fiou1ishes caused
by sudden effervesceDce of democratic
sentiment, he continued:
II answered the call made by men
who hold seats in congress at the favor
of Georgias dem cratic votes etc.
l.
This suggestion to grave crisis which
caused the great Georgia jester to be hur-
ried to Washington, with electric haste,
aroused feeling of opposition in the in
dependent spirit of gentleman who was
quoted as "a democrat in the Journal
This gentleman asked the question:
What right has the Georgia congress
men to dictate to the people of Georgian"
Then he went on to strike the delega-
ton few gentle blows, basing his strict
ures upon Captain Howel's statements
That statement, in the most parlia-
mentary language by which it can be
characterized, was conspicuously inexact.
No one objects to Captain Howelrs
visiting Washington as often as hepleases
and to his comforting with whom he
pleases. He is nice, jolly man, and
those of us who know him are usually
glad to see him.
NEVER HEARD OF THE TELEGRAM.
But there is objection to his rejecting
on tho Georgia delegation by attributing
to them kilograms of which they never
heard There is no object on to his plac-
ing them in the attitude of having select
ed him among the hundreds of thousands
of good democrats in Georgia to come
up here and advise with them as to how
the state should be run.
There is really very great objection to
this assumed polite advisership. And
it is only natural that there should have
been slight uprising Of indignation 1t
the captains suggestion, in the patriotic
bosoms of those true congressman who
are looking after the interest OF their
constituents.
IT WAS ALL NEWS TO THEM.
After seeing the sapyain's statement,
went diligently to work to ferret out the
doings of this mighty conference to
which he was called. Ihaye interviewed
every accessible member of the Georgia
delegation both about the telegram and
about the conference. Only one of them
had heard of he telegram and not one of
them knew anything about the confer
ence.
Colonel Blount, who has been here for
twenty years and who certainly deserves
voice in a conference Of the Georgia
delegation, only incidentally spoke to
Captain Howell and knew absolutely
nothing about any meeting of the dele
CATION.
Judge Turner, who is often referred to
as the ablest man on the democratic side
of the house and whose presence would
likely form part of a Georgia delega-
tion conference, did not see Captain
Howell at all.
Judge Lester, who, with Blount and
Turner, is sometimes said to form the
old guard of the delegation did not know
that Captain Howell had been to Wash
ington until after the captain was safely
back in Atlanta.
Judge Lawson, who boards at the Me-
tropolitan where Captain Howell was
registered, only met him by accident and
had but few words of conversation with
him.
Mr. Everett, whose answering demo
cratic principles, taken in connection
with his badly mixed district would
certainly have entitled him to whatever
good there was to arise from putting to-
gether of heads, did not even have the
pleasure of seeing Captain Howell.
WYNN, HE SAW THE CAPTAIN.
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