The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-06-28
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ANUTHER CARD FROM MR. HOLLAND

ANUTHER CARD FROM MR. HOLLAND
HoN. JOHN E. MozLEY-DEAR Sir You
have unintentionally misconstrueG my kind
and courteous letter addressed to you in
the Marietta JOURNAL Of June I4th. It
was worded N such language as one gems
tleman should use to another. In reply
you allowed yourself to become excited
and say things that your cool Judgment
would not approve OF. | will briefly and
mildly answer your statements.
LIST. The proposition made was one that
concerned the public and they had a right
to know what 1t contained. For this reason
it was proper that it be put in a public
journal and not in a private "envelore,'
End. do not hold that either of us has
any claim to public favor by reason of be-
ing lawyers or OF being residents CT MARS
/. eta District" Neither did say so in nv
letter.
3rd. You misunderstood the spirit of my
proposition entirely. At the time it was
made there were only two candidates from
the Marietta District. A large number of
our mutual friends over the county had
expressed themselves as desiring the mat
ter settled by US in our home district.
With desire for harmony, made you the
proposition. To show my desire to do
whatever was right in this matter, / also
publicly at Roswell proposed to You to
agree that il you and | received the two
| highest votes in the primary on August
| 18th, if you received more votes than /,
| then Iwould retire from the,race. IF I
received the highest number ftheu you to
retire and let the candidate receiving the
next highest number of votes be the nomi.
nee Both OF these propositions you re~
fused. Now you come forward with a
proposition to have the Executive Com
mittee to call primary for our special
benefit. | decline this for the following
good reasons
In the first place, it would be asking too
much Of our fellow citizens to cause them
to 20 to the trouble and expense of coun-
ty primary solely for us AS there are
tour other candidates each two would have
the same right to demand primary from
the Executive Committee on different DAYS
and we would have the absurd and ridicu>
lous spectacle OF the people going 10 a
primary every few days. II it is your de-
sire to do thing Of that kind, l beg to be
excused from participating. Necessarily
our people will be somewhat wearied this
year with numerous primaries. even when
they are restricted to their proper limit.
You having rejected both my PROPOSITIONS
and since then another candidate having
announced from this district, we will let
the matter be decided at the general pri.
mary.
4th. deny most emphatically that use
the machinery OF growing city TO further
political designs or selfish purposes"
| was not aware that there is any machin>
cry. 1t seems to me that spirit of kind
ness would keep you from making such a
serious charge against your fellow demo>
Gratis of Marietta. AS matter of fact they
are good and true men incapable of com-
posing machinery" to be manipulated by
any man or set OF men, and you do them
great injustice to so intimate.
9th. l regret that you have seen fit to
make a personal attack upon me as there
was nothing in my letter TO justify it. /
will not descend to so low plane, but
will! simply. answer your inquiry as to
whether will resign my Office of Mayor.
In reply would say that this is matter
entirely with the people Of this city. If
they request Lie to resign, | will do so,
otherwise / will not. | cannot imagine
why you dragged this issue in our race
unless it was an attempt to make political
capital. The Office is purely "a local one
and is not state or county Office in any
sense of the word, except ex>office Justice
of the Peace to the extent OF binding over
offenders Tor state offenses to the Superior
Court. The effect OF your position and
argument would be to shut off every Jus.
tice of the Peace in the county from seat
in the General Assembly. You are too
good lawyer to insist on that point as
you well know the Constitution of our
state guarantees to them that right. The
salary OF my Office is not paid by this
county or state, but is paid absolutely by
the Taxpayers of the corporate limits of
Marietta. The mayor pro tenn is here to
preside over the city's affairs in my 40.
sence, just as he did during my recent
absence of five weeks duration in the
West. In addition to this should / be
honored by nomination and election the
schedules of trains are so arranged / could
be here morning and evening to be con-
suited in reference to any o! the city's
affairs.
Ia conclusion, let nue. suggest to you net
to use your energies in trying to array one
section OF our county against another.
1t is wrong. AS q citizen of Cobb county
reared like you, farmer lad within her
borders, | an proud alike of her beautiful
feds and her thrifty towns. The
prosperity OF one means the prosperity Of
the other Very respectfully,