The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
CHARGES AGAINST GOBER AND
GRIGGS THUS CHARACTERIZED.
The Macon Telegraph Sharply Criti-
cised for Its Conduct. Is Its
Motive Personal!

The Macon Evening News thus Wig
orously comments upon the attitude
of the Macon Telegraph toward Judge
Gober and ex-Solicitor Griggs in the
charge of judicial corruption that has
crown out of the Nixon case:
some of the side issues of Senator
Carriers attempted exposure of Judi
ciaI corruption in Georgia was a refer
pncp TO certain occurrence in the
Randolph superior court, Judge Gober
nrpsiding. whereby sentence was
changed in the case OF a prisoner who
had pleaded guilty, but about whose
unusually bad character the presiding
Judge did not know until informed by
SolicitOr-General James M. Griggs.
For some reason, we are at a loss to
know just what, the Macon Telegraph,
almost completely ignoring the other
and more serious charges brought out
by the popuIisU, has attempted to
magnify the above occurrence into an
Offense greatly out of proportion to
what it really appears to be. In this
effort the Telegraph does not seem to
have the aid of even Senator Carter
himself, or Mrs. FELTON, or any of the
others, whose primary object, we doubt
not, is to make political capital out Of
the matter.
"The Telegraph is authority for the
statement that it's editorial arraign-
ment of Judges Gober and Griggs was
a chief topic of discussion among the
public men at the state capital on Sat-
urday, and we are quite prepared to
believe the statement. Indeed, the
Telegraph's constant arraignment of
the party whose cloak it wears has
been chief topic, not only among the
public men of the state, but among all
those good citizens of Georgia who
hold democracy with any financial
plank preferable to republicanism
with better financial plank.
1--WE DO not mean to say that the Tel
egraph has any direct partisan motive
IN attempting to eXaggerate charges
against democratic iudges-for, not
outstanding the source from which
theSe charges emanated, we think all
democrats are agreed that they Should
eYentIlated-but we submit that IFS
present course is not out of harmony
with It's ayoWed policy of finding fault
with everything that wears a demo-
cratic button.
"ihe objection to the Telegraph's ed
IloflaI utteFances concerning Senator
'arterS charges are not that they
urge an Investigation, but that one
may read between the lines the as
L sumption that the charges are all true.
anu worse, still, that the least, the
uioSt uhlmpOrtant of the charges. is
eagerly caught up for the purpose of
auulng to the sensation which Senator
carter mas succeeded in creating. AS
~ Ihe charge against Messrs. Gober
ala u. riggs, there is probably no more
III II Ilah what Senator Carter and his
4 poPuuIiSJ standbys have brought out
~ n an pFooaDlllty not so much. But if
aII tIat Senator Carter urges is true
an unprejudiced mind would not
no!4 elOner Messrs. GOber or Griggs
guilty OF anything more serious than q
" m ,a@l"he' ana mistake, if 1T be one,
+h"ie III Che conscientious discharge of
t tl,e,r uoty, and prompted by a desire
ffo oilinr' aImistake previously made in
r"tilns 10 Tx punishment c0mmensu-
~" SIe WIN the crime committed.
oui - senator Carter and his populist
" "liteS were able to make more than this
guy VI III, IL they would not hesitate to do
a. J, lhat they have not is the hest ev-
,uTuce mat the Telegraph's aid will
tionod V al, connection 1T might be men
G ilUneu mat the Randolph county Incl
his inv Twas was used against Judge Griggs in
ond diStI n! race Tor congress in the sec
ppctod 't f,lSI 1t was, as might be ex-
mnc6 July aired and subjected TO as
Tim" e11aggeratiOn as possible at that
Taloc.nN we really do not think that the
moeeSraph, no matter how wiling IL
that was Off ofFo improve upon the article
ond d dist ;G4ered the people of the sec
pie electad TO W pass upon. Those peo-
by an en or Judge Griggs to congress
eating inS+ nous ,,yI majority, thereby indi-
charge and md wi a, they thought of the
W. dnu OF the man.
has heo W not think the charge since If
& vice m hioGLgadimped and made to do SER
prove amy JeHall OF the populists- will
GriooSe "y more injurious to IND no
AGO IMAM it did some mon+5e
I'm ino oiEHator Carter meutionad If o Sr,'
lust bboor,ulentaily, thereby indicotino
but tho tho" ~ nlqch stock he placed in Il
siciousIv np rlfigraph proceeds to gnaW
er and ~ oil II, to the exclusion of OH
Oartpurss vastly more serious feasu y, oOl If
Il nofbis attempted sensation 9 fftbou Vi
gratuitn5ss political in the Teleo o. Snfie
thin,, pons AID can it be there 3 " ~
. personal? We hope not, any
COrbbett Sions wv,