The age-herald., 1897-11-07
ATLANTA GOSSIP
 FROM 4 FACILE PEN The Contest For Governor Of Georgia
 Will Be an Interesting One. AN ALABAMIAN MAY ENTER Constitutional Convention Wanted Badly,
 Bat No Chance of Getting It. TOO MUCH INFRINGEMENT, THE CRY At the Capitol Salaries Are Too Snlall-At- kinson's Views on Convict Lease Opposed
 Also His Ideas as to Lynching
 Small Industries Wanted. 
AN ALABAMIAN MAY ENTER
TOO MUCH INFRINGEMENT, THE CRY
Special to The Age-Herald.

Special to The Age Herald.
 Atlanta, Nov.,6.-If the Georgia legisla- ture does not make anything else, it makes news-soms thing to talk about and there is always a crowd about the Kimball discussing the men and meas ures of the hour.
 The statesmen and their friends are busy with the gub :Gnatorial campaign which does not come off until next au- tumn Du Bignon, Gen. Evans, Senator Berner J. Pope Brown, A. D. Candler and Attorney-General Terrell are the most promin mt candidates, but there are others.
 Ex-Mayor Porasr Kink, of Atlanta, an Alaba mlan by the way. may be in the mace, and Mayor Collier is also men, tioned.
 The point has beenl made that as the Georgia custom is to always re-elect a governor, thus kslaping Him in office four years, next year will be the last opportunity that any prominent ex-con- fede1ate veteran will have of securing that high office.
 The man who was old enough in the war to hold a responsible place, will be too old four years hence to make an &C., tive governcr.
 TtIs idea is gaining ground, and the approach of the big confederate reunion 1lere rext year is reviving such a strong confederate sentiment that it will sur prise nobody to see all the youngsters thrust aside and some gray-haired old soldier thought to the front.
 The commanders of the confederate camps of the state met fsre yesterday and decided to make the reunion one of the biggest events in the history of the state.
 1.-The town will ba turned over to the veterans" said Gen, Evans, 'tand if they want to burn it down. let 'em do it. They ought to have as fair a show ling as the Yankees had a generation ago."
 This voices the sentiment of the peo- pie, and as Atlanta always goes to ex- tremes, it is safe to say that in July next year she will maks more fuss than she did during her famous siege.
 The legislature has done nothing as yet.
 A constitutional convention is pro- posed and is really needed, but the dem- agogues raise the cry that it would be expensive, and that objection will proba- bly kill it.
 The present constitution handicaps progress. It prevents the state from providing adequately for it's institutions; makes the governor a mere clerk in his regular business and a supreme judge In criminal cases, and for this work and responsibility he gets $S,OOO a year.
 All of the officials and their clerks are paid beggarly salaries, and at the state house they are afraEd to use good quality of paper for fear of being called down by an Investigating committee.
 The Blalock committee reported, the other day, in favor of reducing some of these already low salaries.
 The committee also wants to abolish tha geological department, and smash the state agricultural college, upon the ground that it is not making any farm CTS.
 One good thing the committee has done. It has drawn attention to the fact that the books in the state agricultural departmsnt do not show how many fer tilizer tags are purchased or how many are sold.
 The methods of that department are very loose and unsatisfactory.
 The prohibition bill has just been de- featsd in the senate, and similar meas ure in the house will meet the same fate.
 Times have been so hard for years past that people have given up drinking, as rule. and the prohibitionists have had very few horrible examples to talk about.
 The fight is still to occur over the question of uniform school text books
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