People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-03-18
AN OPEN LETTER
To Rev. Sam P. Jones, Ex-Candidate. Linn
tied.

You declare yourself in favor of sun
adulterated, unpurchasable, unbuldoz
able, imperious, royal manhood" ST.
far so good, I am with you heart ant
hand, now, ever forever.
You declare in vigorous languag,
against bossism, chicanery and polit
cal. trickery and cite, in illustration
the corrupt and infamous method
1894, when the bosses and politica
demagogues, the heelers and pothous'
politicians ignored the wishes of tn,
people, manipulated the state conven
ton, def ating the nomination of al
honest upright man for governor ant
substituting a political mountebank
and with unpre eedented election frauds
in illegal voting, stufing ballot boxe,,
counting in and count ting out, as the
exigencies of the case required, fnall,
declaring man, having, as is believed,
minority of the legal votes cast
elected to the first Office in the gift
the people and seated him in the guber
material chair.
All this is matter of history ant
you do we'll to call the case to min(
and characterize the fraud in fitting
language. Rut then, with unaccount
able inconsistency you declare you
preference for man who as secretary
of state during the memorable cam
paign of 1894 must have been CONVEX
SAINT of the illegal and vile method
resorted to, to defeat the will of the
people and render possible the triumph
of the "men who control, and by his
silence become particeps criminis il
the outrage.
And yet you vouch for Allen D. Cand-
| Ter as an honorable man."
In his letter announcing his candida
cy for governor, we find this Language
"a venal vote is the destruction of 9
republic. Today we have 9
federal administration that owes its
existence to the use of money and 3
purchased vote. This evil constantly
grows in magnitude and it has reached
that point at which good man WIN
becomes a candidate for Office, however
much he may abhor such methods, is
often, from ne cessity, driven to resort
to them or go down in ignominious de-
| feat I"
Citizens of free ~ republic pause q
moment and contemplate the situation
Allen D. Gambler. ex-legislator of Geor-
gia, ex-member of congress, ex-secre-
tary of state of the commonwealth of
Georgia, when Sam P. Jones, the
great evangelist, and ex candidate,
limited, for governor, vouches for as
an honest, honorable man, justifying
the purchasing of votes rather than
'going down in defeat!"
What a spectacle for men and angels!
Is it any wonder that politics is at a
low ebb ? When men are held up as
models of political integrity. whose
honesty and honorable standing are
vouched for by the shining lights on
the towers of Zion, boldly declare that
dishonest methods are preferable to
defeat what are we to expect from the
Atkinsons and the Clays, the Coolers
and the Fites-the men who manipu-
late the wires and run the machine
When these things occur in the green
tree what will happen in the dry.
Further on you say ''if were to run
a thousand races, every sentence from
my lips as well as every inspiration of
my heart would furnish but levers ge
to lift humanity up and make men of
our boys and princely characters Of
our men," Very good; but how about
our girls and our women?
In the dark ages of the past woman.
has been the toy, the plaything of man
Her grand, her angelic, divine woman
hood, never once recognized or &C
knowledged; and in the nineteen Chris
tian centuries has her inalienable
right seldom been conceded in church
or state, and so far as I am advised
that prince of evangelists and model
ception to the rule.
The politics of the state and nation
are confessedly in bad way. The
traffic in Intoxicating beverages that
lead to moral depreciation and utter
ruin. is legalized and patronized by
our law makers. Gambling hollis aud
brothels hold high carnival in our great
cities, and yet woman, with her high
moral and spiritual endowments is de-
MED the franchise, to the end that hui
man debauch@ry az spiritual degreda-
tion NAV coptinue to the end of time
Why is it that in the closing hours of
the nineteenth century some moral,
high toned aspirant for political honors
has not the mauliness aud innate sense
of right to declare for impartial justice
as regards the finer and purer half OF
the human race?
AS yet the darkness fingers the slow
dark hours of night enshroud the re-
ligious and political horizon; aud even
the self-constituted apostle of political
regeneration hath not the eyes to see
or the moral courage to proclaim the
way out of the wilderness of political
corruption in which the race is wan
dering. 1t is amazing what blindness
overshadows the leading members of
church and state, while Gods provi-
dence and the immutable laws of the
universe point sure way to human
redemption, like bats and moles we
grope in darkness all unmindful of the
divine truth that in absolute and per-
feet justice aud in that alons lies the
cure for human ills.