The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-17


invest. l was bled numerically during
the fail in my campaign, and driven by a
contest later to employ lawyers and take
testimony-au this at the end of the year,
when have TO pay all my taxes and in
surance, amounting to about $1,000, that
IL took every available dollar had How.
in what manner, and by whom were You
'bled' in your campaign? If the eX-
penses of your campaign had been legit-
mate, would you have used the terms Un-
mercifully bled? This convicts you
of using money in your cam
paign, and makes serious
charge against somebody. Now, come
out in the open and Tell US who 'bled'
you, and how? Name the men, and let
US know the uses to which this money was
put by those who so numerically bled'
you. 1t seems to be a favorite campaign
dodge with you to charge unfairness and
fraud upon others.
You admit that you have no objection to
the national banking system. This Is
more candid admission than l had expect
ed of you; and yet you have not been en-
tirely consistent, l regret to say, even on
this question. In the same letter referred
TO above, dated at Washington, D. c.,
Feb. II, 1889, you say: I sincerely appre-
ciate your confidence and kindness in tho
matter of the national bank. In four
years work a a member of the bank com
mttee here l have learned much about
the national banking system, and am pre-
pared to say ours is the best in the world
If you regarded our national banking sys-
tenn as the best in the world in Febrn-
airy, 1889, why did you, in August of the
following. year, ask one of your friends
In the Ninth district to introduce a resolu-
ton written by yourself and forwarded
from Washington commencing your eff
forts to destroy the national bank monop-
oly?' This is a strange Inconsistency, to
put Ii mildly, and is calculated to raise
some doubt as TO the stability and sin
certify of your position on other questions,
If you allow the matter to go unexplained.
On the 10th of August 1890 you prepared
a set of resolutions TO be introduced at
a meeting in your district one of which
recited that in our present representative
in Congress, the Hon. Allen d. Gambler,
we recognize an able, faithful and fearless
representative, ever ready to do battle
for the rights of his people, without re-
gard to party, creed or class. Especially
do we commend his efforts to destroy the
national bank monopoly etc. The reso-
lutions are in your handwriting, as is the
letter which accompanied them. Whether
these resolutions failed of adoption be-
cause 1t was known that you had previous
ly Endorsed the national banking system,
or because the convention was disguised
a you writing resolutions eulogizing your
self, or both l leave you to decide. Thus
it appears that even as far back as 1877
you were engaged in trying to work up
Gambler ,boomr Is this the sort of old
fashioned Democrat you are? Shall we
attribute the late alleged uprising of the
common people in your behalf to these
tactics? -
In my letter TO you on March 25 said;
4 am informed upon reputable authority
that YOU have sent out a letter for the
purpose of securing the support of the
railway officials, in which you make strict
ures both upon Mr. Berner and myself.
This communication you have endeavored
to keep from the public eye by marking
it personal" l then called upon you 10
give this letter to the public, or consent
for the party TO whom 1t was addressed
to give il out for publication. In your
reply YOU eVade the issue by saying that
you have sent out no letter making strict
ures upon Mr. Berner or myself person
ally and that you have not sought by
this means 10 secure the support of rail-
way officials You will not deny that
such a letter was sent out by you, ana
YOU surely know to which letter 1 refer.
now call upon you again TO give to the
public this political letter, which you have
endeavored to beep secret by marking IL
personal l Will trouble you to cali TO
mind only the one you wrote to Augusta
and to give this letter to the public. Turn
the light on this letter, and fight in
the OPEN If you will publish the Au>
gusta letter, I will not trouble you about
any other Of like character in existence.
Give the people an opportunity to judge
whether / have fairly construed its con-
tents, and whether l have misjudged your
motive in sending it, This course will APP
peal 10 the Judgment of all candid, fair
minded men as the best and most effective
defense that you can offer. The fact that
you marked this political document per-
sonaP should not shield you from expos
ure, il its contents are such as 10 merit
condemnation.
you spoke Gin the legislature) in favor
of free money'-that is to say, you were
in favor of allowing money-lenders to
charge as much as they could get, with
out restriction or regulation; yet you know
at the time that the money-lenders were
charging from IS TO "A per cent. per an
mum. Not very good showing for a can
didate who processes to be the poor mans
friend-a champion of the common peo-
pie. With this record staring you in the
face, how could you have the hardihood
to claim in your letter to me that you IA
vored usury law, and desired to pass the
Senate bill restricting the rate of inter-
est? This attempt to deceive the people
is ineXcusable. Your record is now UNI
covered. and you must take the conse-
quences. -
You and your personal organ, the At
lanta Constitution, seem greatly perturbed
because 1 do not resign my office as rail-
road commissioner. l shall insist upon
"A more worthy precedent than you have
set in this matter before 1 consider the
proposition seriously. In truth, / have
ample precedent to guide me, in the course
pursued by eminent Georgians in every
part of the state during the past quarter
of a century Hon. Thomas w. Grimes,
while filling the Office of solicitor general
of the Chattahoochee circuit, made a race
for Congress in the Fourth district. Hon.
w. NJ. Howard, while holding a similar Of
flee In the Northern circuit, ran for Con-
gress In the Eighth district. Hon. John
w. Maddox ran for Congress in the Sew
enth district while holding the judgeship
of the Rome circuit Hon A. II. Colquitt
ran for United States senator
while holding the Office of Cover
nor. Hon. John b. Gordon did the
same Hon. B. II. Hill was a candidate
for United States senator while occupying
a seat in Congress. Hon. A. r. Stephens
ran for Governor without resigning his