The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-03-02
THAT EPISTLE TO A ROMAN
AND OTHER THINGS CONNECTED
WITH THE CAMPAIGN,
What Press and People Say About
the Race for Governor. Yari-
Gus Opinions Pungently
ETnrnNSpl

In piESStu-
With Colonel Gambler, Mr. Berner
and Judge Atkinson in the gubernato-
rial race, and very strong prospects
Of an early announcement Of Col
onel Garrard's candidacy, the cam
paign is rapidly growing IN interest.
Below are reproduced extracts from
many Of the papers of the state, which
show how the contest is viewed:
Put the People on Guard.
From the Savannah News.
Colonel Gambler found out that Gov
ernor,Atkinson' friends were planning
to defeat him and, so he put his own
friends on guard. and hO did il in such
way as to arouse the whole state. At
ter his letter to Mr.. Meyerhardt was
made public still hunt campaign was
NJ longer possible. His opponents
were forced to come out in the open
and let the people know what they
were doing. There is no such division
in the Georgia democracy as the Ev-
ans party and Atkinson party. But
the governor ever since he took office
has been fighting every man that he
thought was against HIM, and has seen
an Evans man. in every democrat
who refused to believe "Bill" Atkin-
son was a great man and hurrah for
him. 1t was this condition or affairs
which Colonel Gambler wanted to un-
cover He did not want to bring up
old issues, but he wanted the people
to understand that others were doing
so. Governor Atkinson has run his
administr ton on the idea that there
is an Evans man in every bush, and he
has treated as good if not better demo-
Gratis than he is as republicans or pOpu-
lists, not because they opposed his
nomination but because they have not
enrolled themselves among his admit
ers. Colonel Gambler did not propose
to conduct his campaign in silence
while his opponents were working in
the dark to defeat him, and SO he ut
tered a battle cry, as it were which
brought his foes out into the open. He
knows who they are now and can fight
them to much better advantage.
Berner Ran Off with the Bali.
From the Macon News.
There is no denying the fact that the
Atkinson forces are ratified. They
are in worse stew than they found
themselves when Governor Atkinson
returned from Mexico to Lean that
Joe Terrell had slipped the halter
Now, auOUher one OF their lead mules
has broken loose, and this one not only
proposes not to be brought into the
pen again but he threatens to kick the
stuttiEg out Of everything in sight if
they DOM mind. Bob Berner's Napo-
leonic political play has, beyond any
sort of doubt, surprised, perpIeXed and
ratified the whole gans. The express
sion already used in connection with
his announcement, she grabbed Judge
Atkinson's bait and ran off wit it, :"
fits the case to a dot. 1t may not gain
for Mr.. Berner the gOyeruOrship, but
it was the most brilliant political play
that has been made in Georgia in many
a day As some one expressed it, "He
addressed an audience that had gather
ed to hear Judge Atkinson" And if
all reports be true he spoke Judge At
kinson's speech-though just little
more to the point. 1t is not, then, TO
be wondered at that Judge Atkinson,
instead of publishing his letter of an
nOyncerQenU on Saturday, as was in
tended, hurried back to headquarters
with it, dnmbfOunded, chagrined and
disgufted. While he was putting the
finishing touches on his lOng-lOOked for
and much heraIded letter, and sub
hitting 1t to the censor uf Governor
Atkjnson's household, Bob Berner had
dashed off q meteoriC announcement
that fairly Int up the political iirma-
ment with ii briIiaucy,
An Atkinson Mans sensible View.
From the Dalton Argus.
81 was an Atkinson man in 1894, "
said Solicitor General Sam p. Maddox
to an Argus man, land | see nothing
in Colonel Candler's letter to offend an
honest Atkinson man whose methods
In 1904 were clean MINT q LOT of trick