The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-04-29
NOT A CANDIDATE |
YOUR UNCLE LON.
THE PICTURESQUE GEORGIA con.
GRESHAM.

a Ihorn In the Side of the Atlanta PO.itI.
clans His One Redeeming Trait.
Smiles at theNews of New Com.
petitOr for His Place.
Here's to ''your uncle Lon''- Colonel
Leoni las Livingston, representative OF
the fifth Georgia district in congressl
He's daisy!
Whatever else may be said of him, it
must be said that your uncle Lon is the
shiftiest politician in Georgia today.
And more-he's learning-growing in
knowledge day by day.
He's the one man in the fifth cougres-
sioDal district, outside of Atlanta, who
can hold his own with the Atlanta poll
ticians and beat them at their own gam.
and even rout them in their own strong
hold. He's the thorn in the side of the
Atlanta body polite, and when the At
lanta body polite wliggles and wvithes
your uncle Leonidas smiles. The At
lanta body polite wants to cast out the
thorn, but it can't.
Regularly every two years the AUanti-
ans trot out one of their strongest men
and try to beat your uncle Leonidas for
congress, The last one who was put on
the track against him was Col. Milton A.
Gambler. But your uncle Leonidas met
him in STINT debate" in Atlanta and
turned him down even in his own coun
ty.
Now Col. Branan has announced his
candidacy for your uncle Ions place,
and the goldbugs are talking about put
ting Mr.. S. M. Inman in the field.
The news of the Inman boom reached
Washington a few days ago, and the
| Washington correspondent of the Jour
nal, paper which never loses an oppor-
tunity to deal your uncle Lon a blow,
gets in his work at the Washington end
of the line as follows;
The suggestion of Mr.. S. NJ. Inman, of
Atlanta, for Congressman, finds healthy
response in Georgia circles at the capt
toll.
Mr.. Iamans sterling personal qualities
are the pride of the entire community in
which he lives, and there are many who
hold to the belief that in congressional
capacity he would be as influential and
potential as he has always been in a per-
sonal way. There is only favorable
comment on his proposed candidacy.
asked Colonel Lon Livingston this
morning what he thought of Mr.. In
mans proposed candidacy. The Allan
ia representative was simply killing in a
new gray Prince Albert coat, the creation
of one of Washington's SWEETEST tailors.
He had spring-lke fluffy tie and his
shoes were ferocious in their redness.
"Well," said the colonel, 81 am here
attending to my duties. There are great
public questions up which absolutely
necessitate my being at the capital of
the nation. Tell the people for me,
though, that they have perfect right to
send t0 congress ANYBODY they want. But
tell all corners into the field that before
the bell taps and the flag falls 7 will be
Q the political turf and the people can
pass upon our relative feetness Of
foot"
So on did Colonel Lon speak, smiling all
the while complacently at bis spring
suit as if thinking, ~ wonder If Inman
looks as good as / do, anyhow"
Then he sighed as if in contemplation
of the near future, when he would haYe
O disrobe himself of his fine feathers
and put on his Georgia jeans and ingeni-
ously turn himself into farmer fol, po-
litical purposes.
New Woman Terriaes the Town.