The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-05-18
THEY CAN'T HEAD HIM OFF.
YOUR UNCLE ALLEN MAKING A
BEE LINE FOR THE MANSION

Ludierous Is - LAST f"V' VI '"'
-,On to Stampede His
Forces. Accuse Him of
''Cussing."
The sixth of June is nov less than a
month off, and yet the combination forces
have utterly failed to disturb your Uncle
Allen, or in any way cause a revolt in
his ranks. 1t was the latter thing they
counted in doing, hence the several Dies
perate attempts at stampeding, which,
after the dust cleared away, showed only
few political mavericks making off
Colonel Gamblers forces haven't STAN
peded worth a cent. First, there was
the Rome letter; it was played for its full
value, and a little more, bit it only caus-
ed a temporary futter of excitement.
The only definite result, so far as we
have seen, was to so disgust Judge Mey-
erhardt (the man to whom it was writ
tep) with the methods of those who at
tempted TO use it against Colonel Cand-
Ter as to make of him an avowed Cand-
lerite at once.
Then cate the Augusta letter: it, too,
proved to be a political boomerang, and
since that time the allied forces have
quit looking up Colonel Gamblers letters.
He has, no doubt, written a great many
Others, but the opposition doesn't care
to make public any one Of them. They
have found out that the trouble with
them is the people believe them.
), they dropped the letter game aud
went to work TO pick flaws in Colonel
Gamblers record. They would have
been better engaged had they been stud-
wing his record as a guide for themseve
and other politicians of less worthiness.
After sitting his entire record Of forty
years they could find absolutely nothing
against him except thar he helped to
build a railroad in north Georgia for the
development Of that section and the inn
poVerishment OF himself, and was made
president Of the company Therefore.
he must be railroad mOnopohst and
the friend and ally of railroad monopo-
lists. This was all they had 1t wasn't
much, but they had to have something.
And they have been trying faithfully %
palm it off on the people. But the
trouble is, the people won't have It.
They know good deal about Allen d.
Gamblers record themselves They
know what his neighbors think of him
and that is pretty good criterion. They
know that he has a record for honesty
aud political integrity. They hear him
talk, they look into his rugged, honest
face and say to themselves: That
mans al right; if we can't trust him
there's no one else we can trust"
They don't see anything in the records
or words or faces of Candidates Berner
or Atkinson that makes them more en-
titled to confidence. On the contrary.
they say to Mr.. Berner, when he tells
them what he is going to do to the rail
road monopoly that is violating the laws
of Georgia: "Why didn't your" They
recall that he was in the senate, even the |
president of that body, and that a stat
legislator is better qualified than even
the governor himself to call a halt on an |
unlawful monopoly by simply bringing
about legislative action. And they say
TO Mr., Atkinson, "Who sicked you on?"
They don't like the name on his collar. |
It's his own name, to be sure, but it's al
SO another's. And the people have had
quite enough of thtt sort Of thing, thank
you.
And SO the campaign has waged until
now, as last resort, they have gone to
telling it on Colonel Gambler that he
''cusses.' They have practically aban-
doned every other issue, and are now re-
viewing Your Uncle Aliens vocabulary
fof choice and expressive adjectives, adj.
verbs, etc. They are practically agreed
that this is all they can say against him,
aud they are using it as vote maker
among the sanctified. They allude to
him as the ''cussin candidate" And If
be isn't, he ought to be. If to be TIE
victim of such pusilauimous political
methods as have been attempted in Geor-
gia this year doesn't justify a man in
making record for "cussin" all we
have to say is, what do it?'
But even this will avail them naught.
From Glyhn to Dade the cry is the same
-"Cander and a general clean up )"
And God knows we need both. Macon
News.